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World - / Aug 9, 2026 - Scientists bred 39 surviving clams in Florida's Indian River Lagoon; they have since outplanted 65 million - Florida's Indian River Lagoon shows signs of recovery after decades of environmental decline. Scientists are restoring critical habitats like reefs, shellfish beds, seagrass, and wetlands. Efforts focus on reintroducing clams, which were nearly extinct due to overharvesting and algal blooms. Millions of juvenile and adult "super clams" have been released into the lagoon. Local governments are addressing runoff issues to support the lagoon's ongoing restoration.

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World - / Aug 9, 2026 - Four killed after helicopter crashes on steep hillside in Rio de Janeiro - Four people were killed after a helicopter crashed in Rio de Janeiro's Tijuca National Park on Saturday, Brazilian fire officials said. Brazilian media reported that three of those killed were Colombian tourists. The helicopter crashed in a

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Iran Drops SHOCK Hormuz Ultimatum; Trump Faces 3 Brutal Demands | 'US President And Army Should...'

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How Sridevi turned the chiffon saree into Bollywood's most iconic fashion statement

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Trump forces US oil billionaire to exit Venezuela

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US rejects China's Scarborough Reef measures, backs Philippines in South China Sea dispute

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Quote of the day on love: 'Find what you love and let it kill you'

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ICE arrests at airports: Immigration lawyers share these 6 tips if you are stopped, questioned or detained

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Donald Trump shoots from Senate shoulders to punish Russia, by making India and China pay

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Utah girl Emma Meline was diagnosed with severe aplastic anemia days before Christmas; her 2-year-old sister became her perfect bone marrow match

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Indian man on death row in the US for killing wife, in-laws in 2019 seeks retrial, says his previous lawyers were bad

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ICE to provide body cameras, but policy allows footage release only in agency's 'best interests'

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Florida dumped millions of tyres into the ocean to build a reef. More than 50 years later, it is still cleaning them up

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China controls about 80% of the tungsten market; a Nevada company says it has found 1.78 million tonnes, but NASA is blocking mining on part of the site

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Trumpiana: Citius, altius, fortius, hyperboleus!

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'Shouldn't be exclusive club': Pak minister seeks Nato-like Islamic military alliance

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'There needs to be accountability': UN warns Pakistan over crackdown on peaceful PoK protesters

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'Exercise restraint, act according to law': US urges Pakistan amid PoK crackdown

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Unknown gunmen kill Pakistani policeman, abduct another in separate incidents

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Pakistan's crackdown in PoK: How Islamabad is tightening information chokehold amid global scrutiny

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Imran Khan's three years in jail spark protests across Pakistan; over 100 held

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Peace talks abroad, protests at home: The many contradictions shaping Pakistan today

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Hand grenade explosion kills 3 in northwest Pakistan

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NOC to travel outside Islamabad, Lahore, Karachi - Pakistan restricts foreign journalists amid PoK crackdown

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Over 30 operatives killed by 'Indian agents' since 2020: LeT commander

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'Long history of unlawful violence': Global watchdogs condemn Pakistan's crackdown in PoK

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Indian agents killed over 30 LeT operatives in Pakistan since 2020, claims Lashkar leader

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'They'll arrest us at hospitals': PoK protesters risk death over electricity, flour demands

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'15-year-olds shot, only asked for basic rights': Inside the deadly PoK crackdown

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'Do not befriend Kaafirs': Pakistani general levels terror allegations against India

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India 'playing Hasina card', says Bangladesh home minister

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Exiled Bangladeshi cricket star Shakib Al Hasan willing to return, face murder trial if safety assured

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Clarify Dhaka policy: Bangladesh to India after Hasina's presser

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B'desh student party leaders accuse Hasina of trying to create unrest from Indian soil

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Bangladesh Chalo: Defiant Hasina says will return, not afraid of jail or death

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'Why December? She should come now': Bangladesh PM Tarique Rahman's aide challenges Sheikh Hasina

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Video shows petrol bomb attack on Shakib Al Hasan's home after Hasina's Delhi presser

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'May be jailed, but I'll return to Bangladesh this December,' says Sheikh Hasina

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'Tried to set it on fire': Shakib Al Hasan's house attacked after he attends Hasina's presser

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London weather forecast: Sunny skies and 32°C high on August 9, 2026

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Birmingham weather today: Sunny intervals and mild temperatures expected August 9

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Leeds weather forecast: Cloudy morning to sunny intervals, mild temperatures today

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Manchester weather forecast: Sunny intervals and mild temperatures expected August 9

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Liverpool weather forecast: Sunny skies and warm temperatures expected August 9, 2026

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Newcastle weather: Cloudy skies, 21°C high, 96% humidity on August 9, 2026

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Indian-origin trans MSP Q Manivannan under fire after calling rape a 'spectrum' in viral podcast clip

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Jason Arday denies plagiarism and lying about his achievements; Cambridge is now reviewing the process that led to his appointment

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Who is Sunder Katwala? Indian-origin writer appointed to UK community funding body

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Leeds weather forecast: Sunny skies and warm temperatures expected August 8, 2026

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Manchester weather forecast: Sunny skies and 27°C high on August 8, 2026

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Birmingham weather forecast: Sunshine and 26°C high expected Saturday, August 8, 2026

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London weather today: Sunny skies and 28°C highs expected August 8

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Liverpool weather forecast: Sunny skies and warm temperatures expected August 8-14

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Newcastle weather forecast: Sunny skies and 21°C highs today, August 8

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Quote of the day by Marco Polo: 'I did not write half of what I saw, for I knew I would not be believed', and how reality could be much larger than human imagination

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Spain replaces its India ambassador after controversy over use of funds for cultural events: Report

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Inside Portugal's 19th-century goat tower, where dwarf goats climb a spiral ramp to a three-storey home

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Eggs thrown at Kosovo PM in parliament; House suspended amid political crisis

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Greenland issues 'strong warning' as Trump-linked US oil firm pushes ahead with Arctic drilling

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Child among three killed as Russian missiles hit areas near Ukraine capital Kyiv

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Spain's blood-red Río Tinto river is as acidic as vinegar, and Nasa says it could help scientists find life on Mars

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'To test their resolve': Putin could launch limited attack on Nato, US intel warns

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Sanchez vs Meloni: Spain imposes Italy border checks as Ceuta migrant row escalates

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Quote of the day by Thomas Aquinas: 'Better to illuminate than merely to shine, to deliver to others...' and the case for sharing what you know before it dies with you

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Quote of the day by Blaise Pascal: 'All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone' and the $100 billion industry built to keep you from doing it

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Why Europe is turning against immigration

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Archaeologists uncover ancient Roman structure near the Colosseum with mosaics resembling firefighters' barracks

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A 2,400-year-old shipwreck found off Greece is still carrying hundreds of ancient amphorae beneath the sea

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Germany's oldest known tree identified as a 1,100-year-old yew growing in the Bavarian Alps

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Italian woman accidentally throws away her $1.1 million winning lottery ticket, then waste workers find it after searching more than 6 tons of garbage

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Typhoon Dolphin: Shanghai airports cancel 1,300 flights as China evacuates thousands

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Discipline industry in China charges $4k for 6 mths to 'fix' adults in forced detention

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Typhoon Dolphin nears China: Flights disrupted, ports shut as storm strengthens

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For centuries, China's hanging coffins had no known builders. Ancient DNA now points to the Bo people

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Patient dies in China biotech company's gene editing trial

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'Baseless accusations': Beijing protests Japan's assessment of China as 'greatest strategic challenge'

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Quote of the day by Jackie Chan: 'You don't get to do over parts or go back and change your path. Your life is decided by...' and how split-second choices reveal who you really are when there's no safety net

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China develops world's first tunnel boring and blasting machine

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World's oldest amber has been found in China, and it is 65 million years older than expected

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Egypt may join new defence alliance: Turkey expects Cairo to sign pact with Pakistan, Saudi Arabia

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'Critical' no more? Iran shares surprise video of Mojtaba Khamenei

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Strait of Hormuz standoff: What conditions have US, Iran set to reopen waterway

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Iran says deal on Strait of Hormuz is close but not enough to open the waterway

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'End this war': Senate Democrats turn up heat on Donald Trump, seek end to 'unauthorised' Iran hostilities

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Syrian spy chief accused of 2015 'Children's Massacre' hiding in Moscow: Report

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Iran hails Saudi-Pak-Turkey defence pact, calls for Muslim unity amid West Asia tensions

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Gravely injured, 'a voice in the dark', not in Iran: Where is Mojtaba Khamenei?

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'Airpower has its limits': Top US General looking for a way out from Iran

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Iran wants to bar US, Israeli ships from Hormuz in deal

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'Paper agreement will not bring security': Iranian lawmaker attacks Saudi-Turkey-Pakistan pact

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Iran officials 'would not be surprised' if Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei dies soon: Report

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Saudi Arabia, Pakistan & Turkey sign 'Mecca' pact for mutual defence; India reacts

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30 Yemen troops killed in Houthi attacks as tensions rise amid Strait of Hormuz talks

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Trump's Gaza Board moves ahead with first project - military base for Moroccan troops

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Iran President met a 'voice in the dark', isn't sure it was Mojtaba Khamenei: Report

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In 2024, Palau removed invasive rats from Ulong Island; one year later, fish biomass rose 183% and leaf nitrogen increased about 80% at one reef site

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Abdul Ghafoori arrested in murder of Indian-origin partner Himanshi Khurana in Toronto

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'Like a bomb going off': Canada's British Columbia wildfire triggers mass evacuations, emergency

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Colombia rocked by car bomb blast a day after new President Abelardo de la Espriella takes charge

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Dozens of Nigerians freed after six months in jihadi captivity

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Flight to Toronto canceled as child refuses seatbelt, stands on seat; passengers stranded for 24 hours: 'Parents should be fined'

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Quote of the day by Neymar: "Messi is a great player. Playing against him is not good, it is..." - a candid lesson that teaches about competition, pressure and respect

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Chinese grandmother Liu Defang, 71, learnt to swim only after retiring; years later, she rescued a man in his 30s from a river

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Korean proverb of the day and its lessons: 'If you don't walk today, you must run tomorrow'

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In 1998, a photographer and his wife returned to their family's barren cattle farm: 2.7 million native trees later, a 600-hectare forest had returned

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In the late 1960s, a Zimbabwean farmer transformed a dry hillside with rainwater-harvesting earthworks; his wells stayed productive through droughts

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At nine, a Florida island girl rowed alone across St. Joseph Sound to school; decades later, her family's 156-acre homestead became part of a state park

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In 2024, a Canadian study found salvaged boreal forest topsoil supported 61 plant species on reclaimed oil sands sites within three years

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Antarctica is covered in ice, yet its dry desert climate makes fire so dangerous that the US maintains a full-time professional fire department

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In 1969, an Australian pilot leased a coral island left barren by guano mining; he flew in drums of water for early plantings, helping begin a 50-year ecological recovery

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In 2008, Spain began filling a 300-metre-deep coal mine with 547 billion litres of water; four years later, it became one of the country's largest artificial lakes

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In 2011, New York painted its black rooftops white; monitoring found its average peak summer surface temperature was 43°F lower

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In 1982, an Arizona couple began building what became about 20,000 small rock dams across their desert ranch; one study found stream water increased 28% and flowed four weeks longer

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One Houston man began clearing illegally dumped trash alone; his daily cleanups grew into a 100-volunteer movement

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Thai teen kills 7 in rampage at home & school

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In 2006, 84-year-old Seattle homeowner Edith Macefield reportedly rejected a $1 million offer, so developers built a five-story complex around three sides of her house

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In 1910, a New York widow offered the state 10,000 acres and $1 million if it abandoned a planned prison and created a public park instead

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In 1857, Napoleon III ordered French towns to drain a swamp and plant pine trees; the result became a 10,000-square-kilometre forest

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China planted trees the Taklamakan Desert for nearly 50 years. Satellites now show the landscape is capturing more carbon than it releases

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North Carolina man worked 100-hour weeks for 58 years to save a bankrupt boat company, rejected a $400 million offer and gave it to charity

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Quote of the day by Michael Jackson: "You never know how long you have with someone, so don't forget to say..." - a heartfelt lesson on love, gratitude and cherishing every moment

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An English farming couple dug 11 forgotten 'Zombie' ponds out of their fields; the returning plants, newts, and dragonflies inspired nearby farmers to restore about 80 more

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North Carolina sank two F-4 Phantoms and two A-4s in 1992; divers later found grouper hiding beneath their wings

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In 1924, Hollywood brought 14 bison to Catalina Island for a movie; when the film crew left, the animals stayed and eventually multiplied beyond 500

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Meet Jo Nagai: 10-year-old Japanese student who discovered butterflies can remember their time as caterpillars

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Asmongold Twitch suspension: Tectone backs streamer's 'shoot whoever' border comments after explosive backlash

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MrBeast dragged into fresh TeamWater controversy as Adin Ross demands receipts for $40 million fundraiser

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"You nasty ass loser...": HasanAbi and Laura Loomer's explosive feud erupts as streamer faces fresh calls for prison

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"I am willing to defend": Candace Owens ignites fresh Charlie Kirk murder controversy with bold Tyler Robinson 'patsy' claim

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Kai Cenat challenges Minecraft Hardcore doubters as IShowSpeed duo faces one rule that could change everything

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In 1985, a Colorado hairdresser began rescuing entire beaver families; she later relocated more than 1,000 to streams where their dams could help rebuild wetlands

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In 2002, a Kansas landowner began restoring 320 neglected acres with winter burns; 20 years later, native tallgrass and wildflowers had returned

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Flesh-eating bacteria kill 5 in Louisiana, health officials warn beachgoers as all cases are linked to seawater

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