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Banker allegedly told his longtime friend about a secret $8.1 billion takeover; friend bought $53 million of stock and made $18.5 million

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Lake America? Trump's latest salvo against Canada takes ties to uncharted waters

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3-yr-old's rape-murder near Bihar border fuels death penalty debate in Nepal

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Israeli military sent US universities millions for weapons research: Report

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World - / Aug 25, 2026 - Ohio student pitched nonprofit helping seniors use technology, wins AI leadership award - Hannah Joseph, a sophomore at Indian Hill High School in Ohio, attended Cincy AI Week through the school's Experienceships programme and its partnership with Cincinnati AI Catalyst. Instead of staying quiet among hundreds of professionals, she introduced herself, asked questions, met speakers and pitched her nonprofit, Seniors Go Digital. Her initiative earned her the 2026 AI Next Generation Award, part of the Cincinnati AI Leadership Awards.

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World - / Aug 25, 2026 - Fortescue suspends senior executive during workplace misconduct probe - Fortescue is facing renewed scrutiny over workplace conduct as an external investigation into allegations involving a senior executive runs alongside separate legal action brought by former employees. The mining company has confirmed that law firm

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A New Jersey artist bought a 600-square-foot cabin in 1989 and kept adding to it; 37 years later, Luna Parc is a 5,000-square-foot home, studio and living artwork still being built

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Lindsay Clancy trial: Judge rejects mistrial plea after psychologist's Catholic faith remarks

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'Where to kill Barron Trump?' Iranian video targets US prez's son; Secret Service probes footage

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A Tennessee company is breaking down retired wind turbine blades instead of sending them to landfills, recovering glass fibre at 99.9% purity that can be reused in concrete, car panels and 3D-printing filament

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In 1934, a gun club opened on 9.5 acres beside San Francisco's Lake Merced; 81 years later it closed, contaminated soil was cleaned up and the lakeside land is now being opened for public recreation

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Mass cancellation of nonimmigrant US visa appointments triggers panic: State Department says it's for training

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Married NYC lawyer getting fired after his video of smooching 29-year-old colleague in Central Park goes viral

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In 1932, an Ohio foundry worker lost his job and began building a rock garden; he spent 12 years creating hundreds of structures, and his wife preserved it for another 53 years

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In 2014, a Texas coalition bought a 17,351-acre coastal ranch for $37.7 million, much of it using Deepwater Horizon restoration money; 15,000 acres later became a wildlife area protecting wetlands, prairie and endangered whooping crane habitat

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A Kansas cowboy put 50 wind turbines on his 7,000-acre ranch and turned the wind into his most reliable cash crop, selling electricity to thousands of homes

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In 1993, Minnesota turned 5,000 acres of abandoned iron mines and 15 flooded pits up to 525 feet deep into Cuyuna Country; today the former mining landscape has 50+ miles of bike trails and 25 miles of shoreline

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Five labourers gunned down at construction site in Pakistan's Balochistan

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Pakistan army officer pulls gun, fires in air amid student protest at Peshawar university- video

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'CTA intentionally prevented': PTI alleges negligence over Imran Khan's hospital visit

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'You are powerful, but remember 1971?' Pakistani politician takes fresh swipe at Army

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Pakistan: Security official killed by unidentified gunmen; 5 cops injured in separate grenade blast

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Destroyed in Operation Sindoor, JeM's Bahawalpur terror base fully operational again

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Pakistan power crisis: Karachi residents riot amid outages lasting hours, block major roads

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'India could use water as weapon': Pakistan minister as Indus Waters Treaty remains in abeyance

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'In contempt for gathering people': Pak blames ex PM Imran Khan's party for hospital transfer

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Big crisis brewing in Rawalpindi? Pakistan deploys army for 'sensitive duties'

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'Repeatedly tortured': Imran Khan's sister alleges abuse in jail as ex-Pakistan PM returns to prison

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Imran Khan's kin say Pak govt violated court order for not taking ex-PM to private hospital

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Ex-Pakistan PM Imran Khan returns to Adiala Jail after medical examination at Islamabad hospital

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Ex-Pak PM Imran Khan moved to private hospital from prison after SC order

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Red-faced Pakistan summons top diplomat over US envoy Gor's J&K remark in Srinagar

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Pakistan govt to challenge SC order to move jailed ex-PM Imran Khan to hospital

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Balen gets medical pass to wear trademark dark glasses in parliament

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'Myanmar's human rights crisis has hit new low': UN flags atrocities against Rohingya

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From Gen Z wave to heat in 150 days: Balen faces street anger, parl pressure and party unease

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'Their faces burnt': Disturbing details emerge in Bangladesh Hindu family murder

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Will not compromise national interest for PM's India visit: Bangladesh

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'Attackers took bath, ate dates': Chilling details in Bangladesh Hindu family case

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Hindu family of four found dead in locked home in Bangladesh's Rangpur; strangulation suspected

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'Positive approach': Bangladesh ministers on possibility of joining Mecca pact

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Gas runs dry: Bangladesh factories shut, homes go dark

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Mentmore Towers, Batman Begins' Wayne Manor in Buckinghamshire, could be seized as owners face deadline to repair crumbling mansion and conduct bat surveys to save historic property

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UK PM Andy Burnham likely to meet Trump at UN summit amid Ukraine missile plea

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British man dies fighting for Russia in Ukraine, first UK national killed in war

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Nathan Cofnas, scholar who exposed Jason Arday's plagiarism, says he had no ill will towards him: "This was about DEI"

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Birmingham weather forecast: sunny intervals, light showers expected, 22°C high

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London weather forecast August 25 2026: sunny skies, mild temperatures, low rain chance

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Liverpool weather forecast: Sunny intervals and 20.5°C average on August 25, 2026

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Manchester weather forecast: Sunny intervals today, showers expected later in the week

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Leeds weather forecast: Sunny intervals today, rain expected later in the week

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A West Sussex widow transformed £57,000 fly-tipped wasteland into a dream mini-farm with pigs, chickens and 2,000 plants; now she has been ordered to tear it down after losing a planning battle

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Prince Harry steps down from African Wildlife Charity Board following human rights abuse probe

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12 people arrested in connection with UK A66 crash that killed 7, including 2 police officers

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A British metal detectorist thought he'd found a bull's nose ring; it was actually a Bronze Age gold bracelet, and then two more appeared

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'I was living paycheck to paychek': Woman says coming back to India from UK after 4 years not happiest decision but right one for nervous system

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UK woman whose life was 'saved' by a cancer trial cycles 186 miles to thank the hospital that gave her hope

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Scottish athlete won her country a medal at the Commonwealth Games, but had to return to her McDonald's job days later

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Who was aboard mystery US aircraft that landed in Russia? Report reveals

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Archaeologists found a 7,000-year-old pit packed with beaver bones; it reveals how Europe's first farmers used animal fur

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Record heatwaves kill more than 35,000 across Europe, toll expected to rise: Report

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One key opens hundreds of cabins stocked with food across Norway, where no roads, staff or reception exist, only trust

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'UK participating in Ukraine war': What triggered Russia's 'outrageous threat' to Britain

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The Danube has fallen so low that a 1,600-year-old Roman bridge is emerging from the river, revealing a piece of history hidden underwater for centuries

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Hungarian Gripen fighter jet crashes: Pilot ejects safely, probe launched

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Quote of the day by Plato: "Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in..."

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Planes, helicopters, crews: How Europe is scrambling to contain a record wildfire season

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Pay €25,000 for Schengen visa: Indian company BLS under probe after Spain's Algerian migration crisis

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Ukraine drone attack kills 2 children in Russia's Krasnodar, sets logistics hub ablaze

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'Misguided actions', Trump episode: Zelenskyy breaks silence on rift with sacked defence minister

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Despite contactless payments, euro banknotes in circulation have risen from about €1 trillion in 2016 to €1.6 trillion as Europeans keep emergency cash ready for crises and cyber outages

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'Could destroy Ukraine': Zelenskyy's big warning as calls grow for fresh elections amid ongoing war

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A tiny owl flew 70 miles out to sea and collapsed on a yacht, exhausted and too weak to fly, she found an unlikely group of rescuers who refused to leave her behind

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'Wrong-side' driving trend: 12 deaths in Britain, Ireland linked to social media buzz

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China warns US of retaliation if Trump's 'Economic D-Day' sanctions hit their Iran oil trade

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Ajit Doval's China visit: NSA, Chinese VP Han Zheng discuss border peace, bilateral ties

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'Did not meet launch conditions': China's unmanned moon mission delayed last minute

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In 1953, a Hong Kong imam brought eight date palms from Mecca; one survived and later officials changed a road route rather than cut it down

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NSA Doval to visit Beijing for 25th round of India-China border talks

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Before Xi-Trump talks, US Navy flies through Taiwan Strait, puts China on notice

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Residents in China found three king cobra nests; scientists saw two cobras guarding one with 72 eggs

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China's 16.18-km undersea high-speed rail tunnel completes 21-day cutter replacement under extreme pressure

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In China's Nizhuhe village, a 945-foot cliffside elevator has cut a dangerous 3-hour school journey to about 30 minutes

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China puts AI 'robocops' on traffic duty; one 'Superman' robot claims to be faster than Usain Bolt

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'Jailed or killed': How Iran is silencing citizens as internal tensions mount

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Iran used mosques to surveil, shoot at January protesters: Report

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US removes Syria from terrorism list after 46 years - what it means for the Middle East country

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Mojtaba Khamenei seen, heard in rare video amid health concerns

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'US not in economic position to further restrict, no one buys their bombast': Iran

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'Must correct its tone': Iran's Pezeshkian warns US against 'coercion and bullying' in Munir meet

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'Iran tried to murder my son': Netanyahu makes big claim against Tehran

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Trump tightens Iran squeeze, hurting China and India in the process

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Pakistan Army chief Asim Munir spoke to Donald Trump ahead of Tehran visit: Report

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Israel accuses Gaza of launching drones, balloons and kites; responds with two airstrikes killing four-year old

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'Entering endgame': US turns to 'economic D-Day' against Iran; Tehran raises Gulf oil blockade threat

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Iran invited to join Mecca pact by Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Pakistan: Report

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Cafes, shops shut over 'violation of norms': Iran's hijab crackdown returns as women defy veiling rules

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Iran discovers over 7.5 trillion cubic feet of gas reserves as US blockade squeezes energy sector

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Pakistan army chief Asim Munir to visit Iran amid push to revive stalled US talks

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Quote of the day by Michael Schumacher: "I've always believed that you should never..."

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In 2008, Czechia began flooding the lignite mine created after the old city of Most was demolished for coal; by 2014 the pit held 70.5 billion litres of water, forming a 309-hectare lake up to 75 metres deep

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Ghost in PM office? When cockroaches left Japan's Sanae Takaichi screaming

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1,000 people in Japan join forces to pull a 400-ton castle keep back toward its original position after it was moved 78 meters for repairs

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Colombian drug gangs recruiting children through social media to pilot explosive drones: Report

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Overnight raid near Haiti capital kills around 50 - here is what happened

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In 1997, a horse jumped a fence and joined one of France's prestigious cycling races; it ran through the peloton and reached the front before leaving 20 kilometres from the finish

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In 2009, Iceland drillers hit 1,000°C magma by accident, unlocking a geothermal source that could produce nearly 10 times more power

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In 2012, a 67-year-old Chinese duck farmer refused to leave his five-storey home; officials built a highway around it before paying him 260,000 yuan to move

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In 1999, the Azores protected forest for the endangered Azores bullfinch; two decades of restoration later, surveys estimated about 1,300 birds in suitable habitat

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In 1952, a retired Canadian undertaker began saving empty embalming-fluid bottles: Around 500,000 bottles and 250 tons of glass later, he had built a castle-like home

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In 1912, New Zealand released wallabies near Rotorua; they now occupy more than 200,000 hectares and, if left unchecked, could spread across a third of the country by 2065, causing $84 million in damage a year

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In 2025, Mowi launched Chile's first floating solar salmon farm; now it supplies 57% of its power and saving 36,750 gallons of diesel a year

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He lived alone in the wild with wolves for 12 years; Spain's famous 'wolf boy' Marcos Rodríguez Pantoja dies at 80

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A goat herder searching for his missing animal uncovers gold worth $280 in Kenya; now 10,000 prospectors have arrived chasing the same discovery

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'We are under attack': US military aircraft lands in Russia, sparks wild theories

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In 1959, Vermont bought Snake Mountain land but the seller kept timber rights; 67 years later the state plans to secure 949 acres of those rights and add 256 acres

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A British artist collected more than 100,000 plastic bottles and built an artificial island with a house, ponds and a waterfall

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Cavers heard wind roaring from beneath a rubble-choked pit in New Mexico; after years of digging they broke through in 1986, and more than 145 miles of Lechuguilla Cave have since been mapped

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Scientists planted 133 portable seismometers around Yellowstone's Old Faithful for two weeks; tiny ground vibrations revealed an underground hot-water reservoir holding about 79 million gallons

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In 1998, Costa Rica spread 12,000 tonnes of orange waste over degraded pasture; 16 years later, tree diversity had tripled and forest biomass was 176% higher

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Meet Finley Holz, the Minnesota student who studied 10 years of wolf-tracking data and found deep snow can make wolves move less

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In the early 2000s, Mark Magura bought a 272-acre Indiana farm; after a 3-year restoration, 200.6 acres came back as wetland, prairie and forest for wildlife

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In 1995, a retired British bus driver began covering his modest home with empty beer containers; around 75,000 cans later, it was known as the Can House

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In 1900, JP Morgan bought 117 acres including Maine's Sand Beach as a wedding gift; his granddaughter later donated about 100 acres to Acadia National Park

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In 1999, an American teacher donated $5,000 to a Chinese woman fighting desertification; with his support, she planted a 50,000-tree forest, and 27 years later, they reunited in tears

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'Lake America': Trump floats plan to rename Lake Ontario amid escalating US-Canada trade row

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In 2022, CaseOh was mowing lawns and making TikToks after work; two years later, he won Content Creator of the Year

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Blueface's livestream takes shocking turn as police detain rapper at gunpoint days after son's birth

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IShowSpeed's $10,000 challenge goes viral after participant lifts 20kg cube in under 5 minutes

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Four teens charged after stolen G-Wagon crashes into car, kills US couple

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H-1B proposed fee could face legal challenge as immigration lawyers question DHS authority

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US diplomats heading back to Middle East as immediate Iran war risk recedes: Report

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In 1972, Lyndon and Lady Bird Johnson gave the Texas White House and about 600 acres to the US but kept lifetime rights; she continued living there until 2007

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JD Vance backs $103,265 H-1B fee, policy groups push back

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