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Mark Carney's Defiant Message To Trump In Big Speech; 'We Have Everything'

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Satellite Images Reveal China's New Airbase in Laos: Runway, Taxiway & Growing Military Buildings

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World - / Oct 1, 2026 - Iowa developer buys Valley West Mall for $11M, but JCPenney lease complicates plans - Threshold Capital has acquired the Valley West Mall property for $11 million in West Des Moines, Iowa. This ambitious mixed-use development aims to blend residential, retail, and entertainment spaces. Yet, they must navigate a challenging lease agreement with JCPenney that could impede progress. City officials are contemplating up to $110 million in public funding for this expansive project, with hopes of commencing construction following city approvals and finalized site plans.

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World - / Sep 30, 2026 - UK sees 'strong indications' of Iranian role in RAF Fairford incident - British Prime Minister Andy Burnham stated there are strong indications of Iranian involvement in a recent incident. Five British men were arrested near RAF Fairford on suspicion of explosives and terrorism offenses. They were later released on bail after no explosives were found in the vehicles involved. The investigation is ongoing and authorities are collaborating with US officials for further clarity.

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Iraq Declares New Security Phase As US-Led Coalition Mission Against ISIS Ends

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'$1.2 Trillion... For What?': Mark Kelly Destroys Trump's Golden Dome With Brutal Russia & China Blow

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'Grow A Spine!': Patty Murray Erupts At Trump Over Iran War 'Disaster'; Warns No More 'Blank Checks'

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Anne Hathaway and Dakota Johnson serve Yin-Yang glamour at the 'Verity' premiere with gothic drama and crystal charm

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Meet Aditya Herekar and Karan Verma, the US students who built a biodegradable coffee pod and won $25,000

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Two Indian nationals found guilty in US cargo theft conspiracy; TVs, laptops, appliances worth $2m stolen

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Florida woman accused of firing at Rihanna, A$AP Rocky's home indicted on attempted murder, 13 other felony counts

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Texas artist Charlie Stagg spent decades building a domed house from bottles, cans and cement; his Glass Bottle House became a work of art

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US billionaire sent wife to Pakistan, secretly divorced her under Sharia law, paying only $50. 13 years later, Texas Supreme Court cancels foreign talaq

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US troops finally leave Iraq: 23 years after Saddam's fall, America closes a long chapter

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A Texas family has owned land in Freeport since 1940; after the port sought to seize it in 2020, a private fruit warehouse rose on the property, and the family is fighting another court defeat in 2026

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Trump's 'Monster Bash' brings AI titans to White House to police each other

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Christa Pike's Tennessee execution halted an hour before lethal injection; would have been first woman put to death in 200 years

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NYC mayor Zohran Mamdani unveils citywide strategy to combat antisemitism as hate crimes rise 8%

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Palestinian-born US mosque leader faces deportation after judge rules he is 'foreign policy threat'

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World's richest woman Alice Walton nears $120 billion after a $33 billion rise; her $250 million tuition-free medical school marks a new philanthropic chapter

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An Ohio farmer facing $1 million in medical debt hoped a solar lease would pay $540,000 a year; after officials blocked the project, he had to sell land and equipment from his sixth-generation farm

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Jail, isolation, crackdown: Why Pakistan's establishment has failed to break Imran Khan

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BLF's newly-formed female unit 'KAAD' attacks military convoy in Balochistan; claims nine killed

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'Technical issue': Pakistan blocks airspace for Russian flight carrying uranium for Bangladesh nuclear plant

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'Took mobile phones, cash': Karachi football team robbed at gunpoint on Balochistan highway

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Child, forced marriages of minority girls in Pakistan flagged at UN event

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Motorcycle-borne gunmen kill 3 cops in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

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20-year-old Azerbaijani woman allegedly drugged, gang-raped in Pakistan's Lahore

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'Don't go back like this': Pakistan minister's throat-cut gesture to Afghan journalist backfires - video

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At least 13 dead in suicide bomb blast near police post in northwestern Pakistan

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Pakistan govt puts Islamabad on lockdown as Imran Khan's party pushes ahead with march

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'No Muslim can even dare': Pakistan PM at UN condemns Houthi attacks, draws red line over Mecca

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Pakistan goes bananas over giant gorillas dancing to Bollywood songs

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Pakistan govt crackdown forces PTI retreat? Imran's party likely to postpone Sept 27 Islamabad march

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'Could endanger his life': Imran Khan's son warns against Adiala jail protest

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Watch: Pakistan PM runs away from questions on Hafeez Saeed at UN

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Fresh clashes erupt along Pakistan-Afghanistan border: Report

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Indonesia demolishes luxury prison for favoured inmates

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Nepal rains: 27 killed in rain-induced disasters, authorities say

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'Technical issue': Pakistan blocks airspace for Russian flight carrying uranium for Bangladesh nuclear plant

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Malaysia sends 1,476 Myanmar nationals home despite UN warnings over safety

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Watch: Government building collapses into river as heavy rains trigger fresh landslide in Nepal

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Two bodies recovered after deadly Himlung Himal avalanche; 10 remain missing in Nepal

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Nepal: 16 feared dead after avalanche buries Himlung Himal base camp under 15ft snow

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Nepal battered by severe rain: 21 dead, 5 missing as floods, landslides worsen

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28 'fighters', mostly former Afghan security personnel, killed after crossing from Pakistan: Kabul

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Avalanche strikes Nepal's Himlung Himal base camp, 10 missing

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UK warns universities to cut ties with China-linked firm after MI5 flags AI, cyber research espionage

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South West Water fined £7.8 million over hundreds of sewage spills across Devon and Cornwall after 18 charges, including 231 discharges at Harlyn beach and more than 336 illegal spills near Bodmin

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Henry Nowak murder: Sikh man who killed UK student granted permission to appeal 21-year sentence

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'Reckless': Prince Harry, Meghan's children targeted by 'European paparazzi' at UK school

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'More harm than good': Burnham reopens Brexit question, puts EU rejoin back on the table

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UK man arrested 12 times for blocking the same road since 2014, yet always refuses to explain why; known as the 'Silent Man'

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Mehul Choksi drops damages claim in London HC against govt, Hungarian woman he accused of kidnapping

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In 2002, a 3.5km sea wall was breached in five places at a 283-hectare Essex arable farm; seawater returned to the land, creating new habitat and helping double saltmarsh across the Greater Thames estuary

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Burnham's big reset: UK PM vows new social contract, closer EU ties

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An Essex family set aside its entire farm roughly 30 years ago; after farming resumed in 2014, 50 acres stayed wild, regenerated with oak and scrub, and helped inspire a 200-acre nature-recovery plan

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Since 1989, a Birmingham artist has spent 30-plus years turning a half-acre beside a cemetery into a walk-through history of Black America

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Who was behind RAF Fairford terror plot? 'Foreign actor' claim puts Iran link in focus

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At 17, British student Alex Chui scores a perfect 42/42 at the Maths Olympiad, winning his fifth gold medal in seven appearances

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UK to reopen refugee resettlement scheme as home secretary Shabana Mahmood promises capped, controlled routes

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NATO chief Rutte says alliance is defensive, urges Russia to end nuclear threats

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Russian strikes kill 7 in Kyiv as crumbling air defence pushes Ukraine towards a harsh winter

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Russia raises active troop numbers to 1.55 million as Zelensky accuses Kremlin of mass mobilisation

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Student protests rock France with over 400 detained: Why are schools protesting - explained

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In the 1960s, an Italian taxi driver covered his Rimini home with 12,000 seashells; his daughter still preserves it today

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How Russia's ballistic missiles, jet-powered drones have kept Ukraine under pressure

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Meet Ben O'Connor, the 16-year-old who sold 200,000 gift boxes before building an app to help farmers manage their work

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Eiffel Tower chief to step down after female staff excluded during Hindu group's visit

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In 1949, a Danish fisherman began covering his house with seashells, and 25 years later it became a folk-art landmark

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A London artist spent decades covering his home with thousands of broken dolls, false teeth and other discarded objects, turning it into a museum of found art

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Russia warns Nato of 'direct confrontation' if Kaliningrad is cut off from Russia

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Archaeologists uncover rare Roman-era workshop in Germany with pottery kiln and furnaces used to recycle Roman metal

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EU welcomes PM's peace message to Putin, says not against oil import but India's ties with Moscow may hinder defence collaboration

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In 1901, Germany opened a "flying train" above the Wupper valley; 125 years later, it carries over 80,000 passengers daily

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People jump from building windows to escape as Russian jet-powered drone hits Kyiv science academy - video

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Russian strikes on Kyiv kills 3 as Ukraine targets oil, military sites

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Bombs without brakes? Why the US-China AI race may be harder to control than the nuclear one

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Chinese AI agents display 'concerning' behaviour in safety tests, mirroring US systems

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Section of China's Great Wall damaged by two decades of illegal coal slag dumping

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In 1999, Pennsylvania teacher Ronald Sakolsky donated $5,000 to farmer Yin Yuzhen to fund her tree-planting efforts in Inner Mongolia; 27 years later, his contribution helped transform China's Maowusu Desert into a forest of 50,000 trees

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'Xi understands how I feel': Trump says Taiwan not a major point of friction

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'Stop using threats': China takes veiled shot at US over Cuba & Iran in sharply critical UN speech

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$30bn tariff cut, Iran and AI dialogue: Key points from Xi-Trump talks

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Trump-Xi bonhomie set to continue, leaders announce two more meetings

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China's coal mines generate billions of cubic metres of water; researchers say it could help cool data centres

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China's panda diplomacy: How Beijing uses exclusive animal to reinforce soft power

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'9/11 is happening again': Passengers recount scary moments on Flydubai flight

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'It was like a horror film': Israeli passenger recounts restraining Flydubai pilot with headphones after cockpit struggle

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'I grabbed the terrorist': Flydubai passenger tells Netanyahu how he subdued pilot, helped stabilise plane

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Flydubai flight drama: Rescue flight carrying passengers lands in Israel

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UAE planning to develop shipping alternatives, port that bypasses Hormuz

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Flydubai flight scare: Was it a terror plot? What we know and don't know

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Flydubai flight incident: Netanyahu says Israel preparing for other 'potential threats' - top developments

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US response to Iran's seven-day peace proposal delivered to President Pezeshkian

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Flydubai scare: Netanyahu orders tighter security on Israeli, foreign carriers

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'Thought they were going to die': Passenger's mother says pilot tried to kill co-pilot on Flydubai flight

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'Terrorist pilot planned to crash plane': Israel security minister on flydubai cockpit incident

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Pilot stabbed, chaos in cockpit & sudden plunge: How disaster was averted on flydubai flight, explained in 10 points

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'Reports of diversion erroneous': Second Flydubai flight to Tel Aviv continues as scheduled

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Watch: Screams, chaos onboard as Flydubai flight takes 17,000 ft roller coaster ride mid-air

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Flydubai flight incident: What we know about the pilot under investigation

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Pilot stabbed, blood in cockpit: Passengers recall harrowing ordeal on Flydubai flight that nearly crashed

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New Zealand returned 86 takahē to Rees Valley; the birds are now breeding and establishing a new wild population

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They married before World War II, raised 13 children and built a family of more than 120 descendants: The remarkable story of Brazil's couple who held the Guinness record for longest-married living pair

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Meet Serge Boghossian, the 16-year-old Canadian student who taught himself to code and built a job platform; hundreds of teens have already joined

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In 2020, five workers remained at a South Australian wildlife park as bushfires approached, choosing to defend the 700 animals in their care

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In 2019, staff ignored an evacuation order at Australia's Mogo Wildlife Park, moving vulnerable animals into homes and safe areas; not one animal was lost

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In 2022, Schiphol put 2,571 kilos of recycled plastic beneath an airport road, creating room for 43,200 litres of rainwater and an expected 30-year life

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In 2005, two Vancouver writers ate only food produced within 100 miles to reconnect with local farms; they held the rule for a full year, with salt as the one exception

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In the 1980s, a Swedish flea-market buyer paid just over SEK 20 for a small Buddha statue; four decades later, experts traced it to the Ming dynasty, and it sold for SEK 2.44 million at auction

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'Conspiratorial farce': North Korea denies planting land mines that injured 3 South Korean soldiers

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In 2009, two former Royal Marines rowed from Japan to San Francisco; 189 days and almost 7,000 miles later they set a Pacific record

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Australia replanted a former runway in the Daintree with 24,500 trees; the cleared land now reconnects a wildlife corridor

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Punjabi man stabbed to death in Canada after intervening in racist altercation; sister alleges police delay

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Meet Zhang Zhanshuo: The 19-year-old who won seven golds at the Asian Games; from a kid who 'couldn't swim' to a Chinese swimming star

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Military aircraft crashes in Russia due to 'fuel explosion'; 6 dead

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Meet Anna Luísa Beserra, a Brazilian scientist whose teenage idea turned dirty water into drinking water using just sunlight; used by 40,000 in 2024 alone

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In the early 1970s, a South Carolina contractor began casting famous buildings in his backyard; by 1998, his 33-piece Concrete City had been rescued by a state museum

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A Nashville man paid $2.48 for a rolled-up document at a thrift store in 2006; it proved to be a rare 1823 copy of the Declaration of Independence and sold at auction for $477,650 the following year

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CNN founder Ted Turner bought 113,000 acres in Montana in 1989; decades later, wolves, bears and bison roam the former cattle ranch

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A Michigan woman entrusted with managing Social Security benefits for her elderly disabled uncle allegedly took nearly $121,000 over seven years while prosecutors say he lived without running water, electricity or heat

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In 2021, billionaire Orlando Bravo paid $39.25 million for Phil Collins's 1929 Miami Beach mansion; months later, he won approval to demolish it for a flood-resilient home with tropical gardens

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Father left $21 million in a charitable fund; son sought a $1 million donation but his access was cut off by the foundation

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A Pennsylvania dairy farmer spent 70 years watching bears and turkeys on his 170-acre farm; in 2026, after turning down two lucrative offers, he permanently protected the land from development

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UK PM Burnham says may rejoin EU if 'pros outweigh cons'; France, Spain say 'welcome back'

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Biggest ever university donation: Ken Griffin gives $3 billion to Carnegie Mellon, will become member of board of trustees

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A Colorado rancher spent $50,000 fighting oil infrastructure he did not want on his 7,000-acre ranch; after nearly a decade, officials approved a wind project that lets his family finally earn from energy on its own land

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A Virginia woman paid $3.99 for a vase at Goodwill; after experts identified it as a rare 1940s Carlo Scarpa Murano work, months later, the rare vase sold for $107,100

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US man who tried to travel to Syria to join and fight for IS sentenced to over 7 years in prison

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In 2021, Michael Jordan and Jordan Brand gave Morehouse College over $1 million to support education; now students have a new multimedia centre they have used for award-winning work

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Nikki Haley's son attacks Vivek Ramaswamy, says Hinduism and Christianity are not the same: Hindus don't wanna be...

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Harvard's Museum of Natural History cares for 26 million specimens; new exhibition brings dodo, extinct toad and 300-million-year-old fern into view

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South Carolina will combine a 102-acre nature preserve with 50 affordable homes on Johns Island; hundreds of acres of green space are protected

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In 2021, New Jersey deployed 400 donated gravestones at Barnegat Light Reef; 60 tons of material now provide habitat for fish and lobsters

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October 2026 visa bulletin 'most disappointing': EB-2 is back for India but stuck in 2013; overall no good news

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'Super Intelligence' AI safety accord signed by tech CEOs carries 'Unites States' typo under Trump's name

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Bombs without brakes? Why the US-China AI race may be harder to control than the nuclear one

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Kurt Cobain's Olympia apartment, where he lived from 1989 to 1991 and wrote some of Nirvana's best-known music, is now an Airbnb; fans can stay inside a preserved piece of rock history for $250 to $300 a night

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