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World - / Nov 9, 2026 - Meet Leo Toake, 16, who turned potato peels into weedkiller and restored 15 acres in New Jersey - At just 16 years old, Leo Toake from New Jersey is on a mission to create a revolutionary herbicide sourced from food scraps. Through his nonprofit, Re:Imagine Inc., he's mobilized over 70 volunteers for habitat restoration and invasive species removal. Early trials of Toake's S.A.F.E. clearly show an 82.5% effectiveness against Japanese stilt grass, all while repurposing over 500 pounds of food waste and contributing to a cleaner environment.

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He walked 7.6 km at 55, but his heart rate barely rose: Hyderabad doctor explains how low-intensity walking benefits heart health and overall fitness

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An Oregon couple in their 70s were wrongly said to have moved out of their own home, which was sold at foreclosure in 2022 though they never left; a jury has now awarded them over $8 million against the firms involved

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World - / Nov 9, 2026 - 'Anybody believe this was honest?' Trump revives fraud claims after midterm results - In a turn of events, US president Donald Trump has questioned the legitimacy of the midterm election results, reviving claims about electoral fraud that he repeatedly made after losing the 2020 presidential election. In a post on Truth Social made on

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Trump Offers To Ease Hormuz Blockade In Major Iran War U-Turn; Tehran Demands Written Guarantees

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'JD Habibi!': Abdul El-Sayed Takes Swipe At Vance, Crowd Erupts; Then Comes The Cap Moment

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The Kapil Sharma Show fame Rajiv Thakur gets emotional recalling childhood poverty: 'Our Home Felt Like a Public Toilet'

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An Alabama neighborhood went nearly 70 years without a grocery store, so residents turned urban gardens and $30,000 in grassroots contributions into a $1 million community market that opened this weekend

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White House under lockdown as car crashes in secure area; Trump was inside residence

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A Kentucky father named as sole owner of the family home tried to evict his two adult sons after his wife died in 2025; a November 6 court refused to override protective orders keeping him 500 feet away

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Between the chip and the slip: Honeytrap suspicions further sours ties between US and China

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In 1981, New Mexico moved bighorn sheep into the Peloncillo Mountains; after contact with Arizona sheep, every transplanted Red Rock animal died of pneumonia

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After falling for his family's Ontario farm, William Shotyk spent 50 years restoring it, planting 25,000 trees; now, 145 bird species and bald eagles live there

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A North Carolina divorce involved three Bitcoin valued at $180,000 and Pokemon cards worth $1,800; an appeals court upheld the crypto valuation and property division but overturned orders for legal and accountant fees

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'There is only the United States of America': Erika Kirk slams Abdul El-Sayed's 'Arab America' remark after historic Senate win

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In Washington, Bob Barker spent 25 years planting 30,000 trees across 71 acres after buying land to putter around in after retiring; his former pasture is now home to endangered frogs and cougars

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In 1905, New Jersey received mosquitofish from North Carolina to fight mosquitoes; the species are now considered harmful to resident aquatic wildlife

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As a boy, Richard Childress sold popcorn and peanuts at a North Carolina track; he later built a NASCAR team that won 14 national-series titles

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Snoop Dogg founded a youth football league in 2005; more than 60,000 children have participated in its programmes during its first 18 years

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A North Carolina father sought $3,000 or extra custody days before agreeing to let his ex-wife take their two children abroad; an appeals court upheld a procedure allowing disputed travel requests to be reviewed

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Lashkar terrorist Hafiz Saeed's political outfit loses Pakistan's parliamentary bypoll

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Pakistani TV anchor Rabia Ahsan shot dead at home; police probe husband's claim of accidental firing

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Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa plans faceless anti-terror courts: Report

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Balochistan Parties call statewide shutdown in mid-November as crisis deepens in troubled province

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'If he wishes to come': Pakistan open to considering visa for Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann's Lahore visit

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Pak cracks down on protests in POK against rising cost of living, around 20 feared dead

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Pakistan's forex rises by record $ 110 million in just a week despite West Asia crisis

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How deep is Pakistan's debt dependence on China? The numbers tell the story

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11 dead, 33 injured in devastating bus-truck collision in eastern Pakistan

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Where Is Bashir Zeb Baloch? Mystery mounts after BLA announces leadership change

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Asim Munir flags growing Hindu-Jewish ties threat to Pakistan and Muslim world, reveals Iran

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'America taking its place': Shehbaz's rival Fazlur Rehman accuses Asim Munir of sabotaging ties with China

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Pakistan's confidence crisis: Government officials plan to move families abroad for secure future

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Pakistan gas crisis: Families return to firewood as LPG prices soar ahead of winter

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India should arm Afghan Taliban against Pakistan: Sushant Sareen

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'Koi sharam hoti hai': Pak lawmaker mocks Khawaja Asif after Munir's Iran visit

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'This is New Delhi': Chinese vloggers pass off Bangladesh slums as India in bizarre videos

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'Merely political posturing': Bangladesh says Hasina has no intention of returning from India

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Bangladesh appoints Salahuddin Noman as new foreign secretary; envoy Siam to join Delhi Mission

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'Threat to heritage': Buddhist monks protest in Sri Lanka against religious site redevelopment

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'Sheikh Hasina is convicted criminal': Bangladesh law minister sends extradition request to India

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Malaysia ex-PM Najib wins home detention after $12.3 million pardon payment

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50 years after Nepal banned cannabis, top court orders regulated cultivation

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50 years after Nepal banned cannabis, SC orders regulated cultivation within 3 months

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Indian national killed as helicopters collide near Mount Everest in Nepal

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Supreme Court seeks Centre's response on whereabouts of Barman from Bangladesh

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Russell Brand sentenced to 10-and-a-half years in prison for rape and sexual assault

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Indian-origin woman shot dead at London home, man charged with murder

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Princess Margaret received a 10-acre Caribbean plot as a wedding gift; the secluded Mustique villa she built there now welcomes guests for up to $50,000 a week

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A cleaner became a stamp collector's closest companion, inherited most of his £250,000 estate and bought his disputed £200,000 stamp collection for £1

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Meet Jacob, the 14-year-old from England who started selling tomato plants from a small cart and now grows 7,000 plants, with customers ordering from overseas

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Richard Scott's son lost High Court challenge over farm promises and 2016 wills; judge also dismissed his stepmother's claim that his tenancies were shams

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Greenford unveils thousands of orange poppies honouring Indian soldiers on Remembrance Sunday

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A Renaissance landscape acquired by a Swiss collector's father in 1957 vanished from public view for nearly 70 years; experts have identified it as a rare Altdorfer worth up to £5 million

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Queen Elizabeth II's final days at Balmoral Castle: Inside the 53,000-acre Scottish estate where she found peace, made cherished family memories and spent her last moments surrounded by nature and loved ones

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In the UK, a developer and four linked firms have been ordered to pay £46.5 million towards fire-safety work on seven Manchester buildings, following a landmark tribunal ruling that cut the government's claim

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A 58-year-old UK father who once won only a dead goldfish as a child has won a mortgage-free £4 million Yorkshire mansion with a lake and £250,000 cash from a £30 Omaze entry, after struggling to build a business

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A Hertfordshire couple used an inherited Chinese brush pot as a doorstop for 40 years; experts identified the late 18th- or early 19th-century carving, which sold for a £150,000 hammer price

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DNA evidence revealed one brother was not the biological son of a millionaire businessman; a High Court judge ruled he could still inherit from the family's £14.5 million trust

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Emma Watson donated $1 million to a UK fund fighting sexual harassment; its impact report later recorded 46,100 women and girls reached, over 20,000 professionals trained and 59 grants awarded

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A Dundee transport manager with 24 years at his company was fired after it questioned about £21,000 in pothole repair bills he had been told to arrange; a tribunal has ruled it unfair and awarded him £34,326

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A £1.8 million estate was left in dispute after a London property developer married two women in Las Vegas five years apart without divorcing his first wife; the legal battle began after his death

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Iran, Ukraine and an uneasy Europe: G7 weighs fallout of Trump's election blow

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Odyssey cruise ship that left 200 passengers stranded, impounded in Singapore

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Guns, money and neutrality collide as Switzerland prepares for crucial vote

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Russia-Ukraine peace talks: From territorial disputes to Nato - key issues on Abu Dhabi agenda

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39 dead as migrant boat capsizes off Senegal on perilous route to Spain's Canary Islands

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Finland is pouring 100 million gallons of water into a 66-foot-deep basin to create world's largest pit heat storage; one charge holds 18,000 megawatt-hours of heat and could supply water to around 20,000 people at a time

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Fake claims & terror scares: Russia, MAGA and Israel-linked networks exploited France riots - report

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Krakow shooting: Gunman who killed six people dies in hospital

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12 migrants found dead in boat off Greece's Crete as hundreds arrive from Libya

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Chancellor Merz backs Ilse Aigner as Germany's first female President

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Turkey's message as COP31 opens today: Electrify, recycle, skip coal

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Massive Amsterdam march challenges Dutch government's response to Israel's war in Gaza

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'Cannot compromise own defence': Germany rules out further Patriot supplies to Ukraine

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Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant loses power again, relying on generators for electricity

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A woman bought an unremarkable black lamp for just €20 at a French flea market; her daughter spotted a hidden signature and the rediscovered ceramic piece sold for €251,000

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'Cynicism and brutality': Russia targets Ukrainian rescue workers at site of Zaporizhzhia bombing that killed 55

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'A baseless smearing': China denies spying charge targeting Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang

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China high-rise building fire kills 14 in Shanxi province

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China's using clean tech to shape global climate fight, growth

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China to release Japanese pharma employee jailed for espionage after 3.5 years

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Ahead of summit, Beijing tells Quad: Don't rake up South China sea row

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Chinese automaker's electric hypercar sets new speed record, whizzes past 500 kmph

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US intelligence believes Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang had romantic ties with Chinese spy : Report

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Macau pro-democracy activist Au Kam San sentenced To 12.5 years in jail

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Earthquake of magnitude 5.0 jolts China's Xinjiang region

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Hong Kong democracy activist Joshua Wong jailed for 10 more years

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Trump seeks exit, Iran defiant: Key issues holding up peace deal as Qatar brokers talks

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Iran's hidden oil network in China: Leaked letter details Tehran's strategy to bypass US sanctions

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Israel politics: Eisenkot likely to lead change bloc in Knesset, meets Lieberman today

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'Is it unreasonable?': Iran defends 2-day peace proposal after US calls it 'outrageous'

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Saudi turns to Syria for help to fight Houthis

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'They're a failing nation': Trump says fresh Iran strikes 'highly unlikely' if Tehran signs 'strong agreement'

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Israel releases reporter held for five days over 'foreign agent' suspicion

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IRGC dubs new US 'Iron Gate' plan as 'wordplay', dismisses economic pressure warning

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Gadi Eisenkot officially gets first chance to form Israel's next government

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Israel deports journalist, 77-year-old activist among 14 on Palestinian solidarity mission

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Houthi attacks target Aramco facilities in Saudi Arabia as explosions rock Riyadh

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Weeks after flydubai incident, 'hostile aircraft' alert triggers panic in Israel

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Iran executes 3 men accused of carrying out operations for Israel, US during protests

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70,000 tents flooded in 12 hours as heavy rain batters displaced Palestinians in Gaza

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Is Netanyahu's time up? 10 things to know as rival Gadi Eisenkot gets shot at power in Israel

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'Enemy will no longer dare attack': Iran's navy issues warning to US forces

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An amateur prospector who had spent several days swinging a metal detector on an outback station near Tibooburra, New South Wales, dug up a 1.2-kg gold nugget worth about A$150,000 from a faint signal

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AI's growing energy appetite revives market for ageing turbines, jet engines

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A Canadian ranch family's two-decade effort to protect native prairie now covers more than 55,000 acres; auditors have verified its first grassland carbon-credit issuance under a national protocol

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Canada hits Russia with fresh sanctions targeting missile tech, cyber networks

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12 dead in latest migrant boat tragedy off Crete; more vessels head towards Greece

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Actor Chris Hemsworth became a patron of an Australian children's charity; after 40 years, it has supported more than 50,000 children and young people

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A Canadian woman bought a sofa for $25 at a thrift shop; four years later, while retrieving her dropped phone, she discovered a rare Rolex hidden in the cushions that went on to fetch $191,000 at auction

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Russell Brand faces sentencing after conviction for raping, sexually assaulting four women

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From Nestlé to Astronomer: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's spy row puts spotlight on scandals that cost CEOs their jobs

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In 1981, a Cessna with five men aboard radioed 'we're losing a hell of a lot' over Australia's Barrington Tops and vanished; 45 years later, it remains the only civilian plane lost on the mainland without a trace

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Egypt train crash: How a collision with a stationary train left 7 dead, 125 injured

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New Zealand faces political uncertainty as special votes could reshape election result

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Egypt train collision: 7 dead, several injured as passenger train derails after hitting another train in Giza

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'Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha' actress Shin Min-a quietly donated over $2.7 million in 15 years to help burn victims, underprivileged children and vulnerable families; charity officials initially mistook her recurring contributions for an error

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Australia planned to sell 67 military sites to raise $1.8 billion, but public protests over Sydney's 166-year-old Victoria Barracks prompted a November 8 reversal that will keep four historic sites publicly owned

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At least 21 dead after migrant boat sinks off Senegal's northwestern coast

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Whiskey dates & billion-dollar deals: How Nvidia boss Jensen Huang landed in Chinese spy scandal

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After more than 400 trees were cut at Trump's Washington golf course, a federal judge names a former prosecutor to investigate whether government lawyers misled her about plans to continue redevelopment

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North Dakota parents gave a son an option to buy farmland for $100 an acre if he returned and farmed; after an inheritance fight, the Supreme Court ruled he failed the condition and ordered rent damages reconsidered

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'Always found her way to the finish line': Family releases obituary for NYC Marathon runner Rachel Apa who died from rhabdomyolysis

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Australia releases 6 captive-bred broad-headed snakes into the wild in a world first, after building a breeding population from just 17 wild-sourced adults

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Who is Alice Huang? Chinese businesswoman at centre of Nvidia spy scandal

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A Texas family's decision to donate its historic bat cave ensures four million female Mexican free-tailed bats retain a protected place to give birth and raise their pups

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In 1943, U.S. Army Air Corps Captain David Fransen mailed his five-year-old daughter a coconut from the Philippines; he carved a smiling face on it and wrote her address on the shell

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In 2021, Ryan Reynolds took control of Wrexham as its historic Kop stand lay derelict; five years later, a £70 million rebuilding project has approval for up to 7,750 seats, with opening planned for 2027

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A North Dakota woman spent more than $110,000 on purchases for a house she built with her partner on land held by his family trust; after they split, a court rejected her claim for the home's improvements

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King cobras struggle to move freely through Thailand's agricultural landscapes, with researchers identifying forest fragments and canal-side vegetation as important habitat

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Meet Donovan Atkinson, the 5-year-old who turned cucumbers from his family's garden into a pickle business and sold more than 500 jars from his roadside stand

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Harrison Ford and Calista Flockhart are set to receive their first joint philanthropy award on November 18; the charity honouring them has raised over $70 million for hospital programmes in Los Angeles

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Meet Indian-origin Anjali Sud, the new CEO of SiriusXM, succeeding Jennifer Witz

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An iron mine worked in North Carolina from the 1820s to the 1930s now shelters five bat species; a conservancy has bought 320 surrounding acres to protect the tunnels and the recovering forest above them

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In his memoir, Biden says Jan 6 Capitol attack will follow Trump to his grave

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A dog found wandering in Connecticut had bullet fragments lodged in her face; rescuers named her Gracie, vets say she is improving, and animal advocates have offered a $6,000 reward for information

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Guide dog Eddie has won the 16th annual American Humane Hero Dog Award for helping handler Luis Rodriguez navigate daily life; their partnership has also inspired advocacy for people with vision loss

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Blue Angels mystery deepens: Officer Danielle Cribb's profile disappears from Navy website after her mentor Scott Laux's dismissal

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Louisiana landowners said canals dug for a gas pipeline, first authorised in 1952, had widened and eaten into their land; a November 6 appeals ruling left their 2018 damage lawsuit dismissed as too late

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Martin Luther King Jr was born in this two-storey Atlanta house in 1929 and spent his first 12 years there; visitors can now explore the family home on free ranger-led tours

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After Christmas, 875 unwanted trees were donated by Illinois businesses instead of being thrown away; conservation crews sank them in Rend Lake to create shelter for young fish and improve habitat

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Four wealthy businessmen guaranteed a $29 million loan tied to a fuel-investment venture that became a Ponzi scheme; on November 6, a Texas appeals court upheld a verdict awarding the bank no damages

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Who is Lori Huang? Meet Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's wife of 41 years, the low-profile philanthropist now in spotlight for being cheated on

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Harmeet K Dhillon says she couldn't protest the Sikh hatred she faced when she was with Trump administration; reveals one of the last messages she exchanged with her late husband

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Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce donated $26 million to 20 charities in 2026; their gifts supported food banks, children's hospitals and education programmes across the US

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In 2022, a rotten oak on a Florida property fell onto the house next door after tenants allegedly warned the owner about falling branches; a November 2026 appeals court has now revived the homeowner's negligence claim

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