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US - Sep 3, 2026 - Is Texas accepting gold, silver as payment from September 1? Here's what you need to know

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A Wisconsin farming family fought a 2016 tax change as nearly 2,000 floodplain acres became harder to farm; 10 years later, the land is being permanently protected

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'Dad, I'm not feeling OK': Haitian student who apparently ended his own life over 'ankle monitor' entered US legally in 2024

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US - Sep 3, 2026 - In 2005, Gateway co-founder Ted Waitt left the computer business and turned his fortune toward the oceans; his foundation has invested $70 million in marine conservation

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In 2018, California Governor Gavin Newsom bought a $3.7 million Fair Oaks mansion; now he lists the 8.2-acre estate for $7.5 million with 7 bedrooms, 12 baths and luxury amenities

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Indian-origin CEO says it's pathetic victim mentality to blame H-1B for not getting jobs: "I saw the same incompetence in school when I worked hard"

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In 1947, Houston opened a 700-plus-seat Art Deco theater; 79 years later, after demolition was planned, supporters raised $2.8 million toward saving the $7.1 million property

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Meet Carter Grandbois, the 18-year-old who started hauling junk at 16; his Colorado business now bills up to $15,000 a month

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Meet Tamir Lewis, the 12-year-old Staten Island student who sells drinks at basketball games and is now organising his own backpack giveaway for local children

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US nurse found dead with 2 sons in suspected double murder-suicide

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Indian H-1Bs hiring other Indians, giving them best assignments, running grocery stores: American CEO claims a Fortune 500 company VP told him this

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In 1986, Houston bought 1,400 acres for an airport that was never built; 40 years later, the land is becoming parks and flood-control space

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California condo owners were suddenly handed a $26,000 HOA bill each; an 81-year-old resident says she may have to leave the home she worked hard to keep

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Meet Sir Darius Brown, the 19-year-old who has made 7,000 bow ties for shelter pets and helped raise more than $500,000 to help animals find homes

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Trump's $1 coin is here: Gold-finish coin featuring US president's likeness to go on sale

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In 1941, US Steel built a summer camp lodge at Indiana Dunes; after about 50 years closed, it has reopened and workers found an original time capsule hidden in its walls

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In 1989, teacher Gary Greff returned to his shrinking North Dakota hometown and learned to weld; his plan to lure travelers became a 32-mile highway of giant sculptures, including a Guinness world record

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Vanessa Trump spotted at court as Tiger Woods loses license for five years in DUI case

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'Important step in pursuit of justice': Erika Kirk reacts as Charlie Kirk's murder case heads to trial

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Six months of Trump's Iran war: America won battles, but where is the victory?

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A former eBay CEO bought a 1,530-acre California fishing ranch for $12.6 million; seven years later, she sold it for $17.9 million

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'Silicon Valley bodyshops specialize in faking up resumes': Trump aide Harmeet Dhillon on H-1B, PERM abuses

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CNN founder Ted Turner's New Mexico ranch helped save North America's rarest large tortoise, growing its population from 30 to about 800

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From 1886 to 1968, more than 20 million fish were stocked in waters that became Rocky Mountain National Park; in 2026 crews treated 14.3 miles to remove non-native fish and restore threatened greenback trout

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In 2008, heavy rains caused a 20-foot steel-wall road repair in California to fail; in 2009 crews rebuilt the slope using 330,000 waste tyres and saved $300,000

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In 1929, a fisherman built a wooden boat beside the home where he was raising 13 children; nearly a century later, $1.5 million is being raised to restore it

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Woman arrested after allegedly filming jurors in Lindsay Clancy triple-murder trial

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'I was weeping like an old woman for an hour': Milo Yiannopoulos says he is ashamed of supporting Trump, claims his 'Green Card was canceled' without informing him

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In 2013, Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen put $7 million into counting Africa's elephants; the two-year survey found just 352,271 across 18 countries and exposed a devastating decline

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A 50,000-square-foot Gilded Age mansion was bought for $26 million by a convicted fraudster; now the estate is being sold to help settle a $1 billion bankruptcy

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In the 1970s, actor Robert Stack owned California acreage that included a private game preserve; his unusual landholding offered a glimpse into Hollywood's forgotten ranch culture

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'Tingling, numbness, pain': Man recalls what it felt like to be struck by lightning

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Quote of the day by Jim Carrey: "You can fail at what you don't want, so you might as well take a chance on doing what you love" — a powerful lesson on fear and failure

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'November is a priority': Donald Trump aides push to contain Iran war until midterm elections

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USCIS can now seek credit information of a green card sponsor from agencies

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Meet Connor Gibson, a 22-year-old Tennessee engineer using 3D printing to make free dentures for Americans who are not able to afford them

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US couple kept 4 kids captive in truck for over 6 years, sexually abused them: Authorities

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161-acre California racetrack closes after nearly 90 years of horse racing, now a $175 million plan could turn the site into a major waterfront park with $125 million in state funding

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Quote of the day by Richard Simmons: "Number one, like yourself. Number two, you have to eat healthy. And number three..." - a simple lesson in self-love and healthy living

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After 286 days at sea, USS Abraham Lincoln arrives in Thailand; authorities raid sex workers

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34,000 cans stolen: US company offers reward to recover 40,000-pound beer load

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In 2010, Texas researchers injected dyes into 6 caves to map the Edwards Aquifer; groundwater crossed faults at up to 5,300 metres per day, revealing rapid flow paths

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During 2019-20, scientists dried Arizona's Biosphere 2 rainforest; below 19% soil moisture, its soil switched from absorbing VOCs to releasing them into the air

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Clint Eastwood bought a 134-acre California artichoke ranch in 1995; he and Margaret Eastwood later donated land that now forms a 128-acre floodplain restoration site

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In 1991, Harvard Forest buried heating cables 10 cm deep to warm Massachusetts soil by 5°C; after 26 years, warmed plots had lost 17% of carbon stored in the top 60 cm 2. redundancy

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Duke University began exposing North Carolina forest plots to elevated CO2; after 10 years, loblolly pines produced about 20% more biomass

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An Iowa priest vowed to build a shrine if he survived pneumonia; after recovering, he spent 42 years using over 100 train carloads of stone to create it

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A California man spent nearly 30 years hand-building Salvation Mountain from adobe, straw and thousands of gallons of paint; Leonard Knight's landmark rises near Niland

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In 2015, Florida scientists poured 5 gallons of red dye into Silver River to study how water moved as its clear waters were turning algae-green; they found it took roughly 11.5 hours to travel 5.1 miles.

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New Mexico man shoots cousin dead after argument over which enchiladas had hotter green chile

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In 2006, Beyoncé donated $2 million to build 42 apartments for people experiencing homelessness in Houston; the project became one of her earliest major housing initiatives

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In 1996, USGS released an 8-day Glen Canyon flood at 1,275 cubic metres per second to track sediment; 120 cross sections measured how the flood changed the Colorado River channel

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In 2022, North Carolina finished turning 80,000 tons of demolished Bonner Bridge concrete into eight reefs; the state's largest artificial reef project

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In 1940, Nazis seized a 3-inch painting from a Jewish collector in Vienna; 86 years later, Austria returned it to his heir in Minnesota

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In 1998, Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek donated 74 Hollywood Hills acres worth $2 million, nearly doubling local parkland and protecting trails and a wildlife corridor for deer and coyotes

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In 2008, a Texas couple bought an overgrazed ranch and removed its cattle; 19,300 restored acres later, its turkey population had climbed from fewer than 50 to more than 500

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In 2015, Paul Allen launched a global shark survey across 58 countries; cameras later found sharks missing from nearly 20% of reefs

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Pennsylvania police shooting: Officer charged in death of college student

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