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World - / Sep 4, 2026 - Mariners raised an American flag after clinching their division days after 9/11; 25 years later... In a celebration of unity and triumph, a new bronze statue honors a pivotal moment in Seattle Mariners history. It features two former players hoisting the American flag, capturing the spirit of their victorious 2001 division title. This monument is situated in a modern plaza that includes interactive components and fundraising initiatives, with proceeds dedicated to restoring youth baseball and softball fields across Washington state.

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World - / Sep 4, 2026 - US automakers urge Congress to ban sale of Chinese cars in America - A major US auto trade group is calling Congress to permanently ban Chinese vehicles in the country, warning that growing competition could threaten American auto production and raise data-security concerns. The Alliance for Automotive Innovation

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JD Vance Under Fire for 9/11 Jab; First Responder's Brother Calls It a 'Cheap Shot'

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Germany Defense Company Targeted In Molotov Cocktails Attack, Investigation Underway

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Russian Foreign Minister Launches Brutal Attack On West In Global Showdown | Watch

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Houthis Unleash 'Explosive Drones' On Gulf Army; Casualties Feared

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Elon Musk's SHOCKING Defeat? How Trump's 'Human Printer' CRUSHED Tesla Boss In BIG Oval Office War

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Elizabeth I's secret tribute to Anne Boleyn? The story behind the mysterious 'Chequers Ring'

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How Metro 13 could transform Mumbai's east-west connectivity

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Inside Ranveer Brar's luxurious Mumbai home: From a stylish living room to a lush balcony garden with hundreds of plants and more

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A 7,000-square-foot vacant California lot has become a community refuge where residents can cool off during heat waves, charge phones during blackouts, and prepare for disasters

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A Baltimore shopping centre opened in 1947 and declined for decades; 200 local residents became its co-owners, and 3 years later it has 10 new leases and a project expected to bring 100+ jobs

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In 2023, fire destroyed a Michigan school built in 1867, leaving only its brick facade; 3 years later, the site has reopened as a $175,000 public park

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Meet Kiran Reddy, the 18-year-old Georgia teen who became the first Indian American to win Miss Teen USA

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An Oakland woman answered a frantic call from someone claiming to be Charles Schwab security; minutes later, her entire $12,145 investment account had been wired away

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In 1905, a Maryland stone mansion was built on nearly 9 wooded acres; after John Harbaugh bought it for $3 million in 2013, the former Ravens coach has now sold it for $6 million

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A Las Vegas crossing guard steps in front of speeding car as it bears down on mother, 2 children; came within 10 feet

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Three women were caught in a deadly Grand Canyon flash flood and clung to a rock ledge for 5 hours; after briefly believing each other had been swept away, a helicopter found them alive

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In 1999, scientists spread about 40 tons of calcium mineral over a New Hampshire forest damaged by acid rain; maple-seedling survival rose from 10.2% to 36.6%

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In 1945, he walked out of Hiroshima alive after the US bombing, 3 days later he was in Nagasaki when the second atomic bomb fell; the story of the only survivor of both atomic bombings

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In 1965, scientists cut every tree in a New Hampshire watershed to determine how removing forest cover changes water supply; first-year streamflow rose about 40% and second-year nitrate topped 50 mg/L

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A $5.5M Portland power project could remove 400 trees from Forest Park while powering over 55,000 homes; the deal has split conservation groups

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Grumpy Old Men star Walter Matthau and his wife gave a Roxbury hayfield to a land trust in 1997; nearly 30 years later, the Connecticut preserve still keeps its views open

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In 1875, a one-room schoolhouse taught generations of American children; 151 years later, it was donated to a nonprofit as a new restoration fight begins

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'Growing differences between military, Asif Zardari': Self-exiled Pakistani politician Altaf Hussain makes big claim

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25 Pakistani military personnel killed in Balochistan attacks, BLA claims

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'6ft by 8ft cell, brown drinking water': What Imran Khan's jail cell is like

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Pakistan: Imran Khan's sister files fresh contempt plea over denied jail visits

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Pak pleads for dialogue after India stands firm on suspending Indus Water Treaty

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Leadership gaps cloud Pakistan's human rights oversight system

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Imran Khan, wife Bushra Bibi get slight relief as Pak HC bars solitary confinement

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Pakistan power crisis deepens as Karachi reels from 24-hour blackouts

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Pakistan court allows Hindu woman to return home after alleged forced conversion, marriage

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Watch: 'Driverless' car crashes into police van after internet outage in Islamabad

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Pak PM scrambles for damage control after his office edits leaders out of SCO summit photo

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100-year-old Hindu temple demolished in Pakistan's Punjab

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Lahore inflation squeezes household budgets as food, rent and utility costs rise

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Kabul, Kashmir, Mumbai, Pahalgam: Hafiz Saeed's deadly four-decade terror trail

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Pakistan hospital fire: 8 officials suspended over deaths of 14 newborns

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Pakistan: Three missing men found dead with alleged torture marks in Balochistan

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'I chanted Hare Krishna for 9 days': Nepal worker rescued from tunnel on Janmashtami

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WhatsApp group, engineers and a race against time: How 2 workers were rescued from Nepal tunnel

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Watch: 2 workers make it out alive 9 days after Nepal floods hit hydropower tunnel

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Nepal estimates $2.56 billion flood damage, faces $52.6 million recovery cost

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Experts fear Nepal-Tibet flood toll could cross 2015 quake of 8.8k

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Flood-swept vehicle plugs tunnel mouth, saves 40 workers

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Tougher than Everest rescues: Inside Nepal's biggest airlift

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'Never seen destruction like this': Even seasoned relief workers shaken by scale of Nepal disaster

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Nepal floods: No bodies to cremate, kin burn kusha effigies as hopes fade for missing

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'Diversity is true beauty of society': Bangladesh PM Tarique Rahman extends Janmashtami greetings

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Bank of Canada unveils new $20 banknote featuring King Charles III

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Indian-origin London cop Prakash Patel charged with 5 counts of sexual assault

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London weather: Overcast skies and moderate temperatures to start September

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Liverpool weather forecast: Rain expected today, warmer conditions ahead

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Birmingham weather forecast: Heavy rain and cool temperatures expected Friday, warmer weekend ahead

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Manchester weather: Sunny intervals and 95% chance of rain today, September 4

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Leeds weather forecast: Sunny intervals with high chance of rain on September 4

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British trekker found dead in Pakistan after disappearing during mountain descent

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British ex-lecturer pleads guilty to killing Indian-origin couple in drink-drive crash after Christmas party

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Indian-origin British Airways manager convicted of sexually assaulting colleague at his home

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Birmingham weather forecast: Cloudy skies, chance of rain, and mild temperatures today

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Liverpool weather forecast: Sunny intervals, rain chance, and brisk winds today

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London weather forecast: Sunny intervals today, warming trend ahead

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Leeds weather forecast: light rain and moderate temperatures today, sunny intervals ahead

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Manchester weather forecast: Overcast skies, mild temperatures, and high humidity today

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UK NHS boss: Britain should learn from India's healthcare system

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Russian strike damages WHO warehouse in Ukraine; second such attack in weeks

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Estonia minister quits after €70-million Ukraine shell deal involving Indian firm

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WWII hospital shipwreck in Albania now hosts devil firefish, squid eggs and a rare monk seal 80 years after sinking

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In 2017, George Lucas bought a 115-hectare French château; he later restored its historic buildings, vineyards, olive groves and surrounding forest

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Homeowner discovers 18.5 kg Viking silver hoard in Denmark after garden fork strikes buried treasure while digging for a new terrace

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Tit-for-tat: Russia to close German cultural centres after Berlin's move over airport attack 'plot'

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In Italy, some restaurants let diners take their plates home: The 60-year tradition that turned plates into souvenirs

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Watch: Over 50,000 protesters gather in Madrid over Spain's handling of Cueta migrant crisis

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Russia strikes Ukraine injuring 8 as Moscow, Kyiv trade threats

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10 feared dead as Turkish cargo ship sinks after collision with tanker off Istanbul

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Nearly 2,000-year-old vessel with two snake heads found at a Roman villa in Spain; archaeologists link it to the secretive cult of Sabazios

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Germany blames Russia for drone attack attempt at Leipzig/Halle airport

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Two injured in explosion at railway station in Germany's Augsburg

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Meet Crown Princess Ingrid Alexandra: The 22-year-old Norway's first adult heir as King Haakon takes oath, could become first reigning queen in over 600 years since Queen Margaret

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$4 million diamond necklace stolen in daylight heist at Vienna museum

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From grasslands to GPUs: Why China is building its AI engine in Inner Mongolia - explained in 5 charts

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Watch: Flash floods in China destroys 3-storey building in an instant; 2500 stranded inside school

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Magnitude 5 quake hits Tibet amid ongoing search for hundreds missing after deadly floods

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China's Xi Jinping tells Middle East to be 'masters of their own destiny' amid Iran war

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Quote of the day by Li Ka-shing: "You can believe in Fung Shui if you want, but ultimately people control..." - a timeless lesson on effort and self-improvement

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Hong Kong's pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong pleads guilty to association with foreign entities

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China warns of "consequences" as Taiwan attends Pacific Islands Forum

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China punishes 10 for spreading 'fake' flood toll

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Galwan, Doklam general axed by Xi: Zhao Zongqi removed from China's top advisory body

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Chinese rescuers manage to reach core disaster zone 50 hrs after flood

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'Habibi, come to Iran': Tehran mocks Uncle Sam with Minesweeper game post over Strait of Hormuz

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Too many allies? Why Netanyahu's far-right partners are hurting him in upcoming Israel polls

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US struck 60 targets as 40 vessels, 18mn barrels of oil crossed Hormuz in record day: Report

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China's Xi Jinping tells Middle East to be 'masters of their own destiny' amid Iran war

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Trump suggests renaming Strait of Hormuz 'Trump Strait' amid escalating US-Iran conflict

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US-Iran war flares up again: How far can Tehran go in retaliation?

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Four dead, over ten injured after car crashes into crowd of government supporters in Iran

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Watch: US strike hits wedding in Iran, leaving child among four dead

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'We can resist US unilateralism': Iran president tells Putin on sidelines of SCO summit

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'If my security woke me up, it would not have happened': Netanyahu's big October 7 claim

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Saudi tanker stopped at Hormuz as vessels entering the strait fall below 10-day average

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JD Vance says Donald Trump's dramatic Kharg Island post was meant as a signal to Iran

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Pakistan to lead 'Islamic Nato' for 3 years; Mecca pact members hold first meet

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UAE fuel prices rise from September 1: Check new rates for petrol, diesel

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Did US military warn Hegseth over Iran war strain before latest escalation? What report claims

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After weeks of calm, US strikes Iran's Larak Island; Tehran retaliates by hitting American bases in Jordan

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'No free cake': Vancouver bakery owner calls out NBA star's family over collaboration request, asks how an NBA legend can't afford a birthday cake for his kid

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Why Putin's first visit to disputed Kuril Islands has rattled Japan

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Japan has thousands of abandoned homes; one hillside town named Onomichi is turning century-old empty houses into places where people live, eat and create

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Philippines court orders arrest of VP Sara Duterte over 'assassin' remarks targeting President's family

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37 dead in oil theft attempt after inhaling toxic fumes in Nigeria

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Indian-origin man convicted of manslaughter for fatally stabbing man who asked him to stop smoking at Starbucks

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Quote of the day by Aristotle: "Man is by nature a political animal."

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In 1987, scientists added radioactive cadmium to Ontario's Lake 382 to track metal pollution; in six years, sediments trapped 90% to 95% of everything added

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In 2021, British sculptor Jason deCaires Taylor submerged six giant faces off Cannes; the degraded seabed became a free museum later linked to Posidonia seagrass restoration.

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In 1995, Canada eradicated rats from British Columbia's Langara Island; by 2004, ancient murrelet pairs had nearly doubled to 20,000–30,000

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In 1973, former Army diver Eric Shaw began dropping donated boats off Gibraltar; over 30 vessels later, the sandy seabed had become a fish nursery

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In 2002, professor Ian Giddy and librarian Jenny Giddy bought a Costa Rican cattle farm to restore its cloud forest; 50,000 trees later, more than 300 bird species had been recorded

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In 2023, Portuguese street artist Vhils turned coal-plant remains into 13 underwater sculptures; transplanted corals now shelter octopuses, crabs and urchins

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In 1988, diver Todd Barber watched a Cayman reef die, then invented hand-launched Reef Balls; his foundation's modules now create habitat in over 70 countries

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2,000 sick after Indonesia school meals; rights body seeks probe

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Thai ice cream founder has put his 27-year-old business up for roughly $6 million after deciding to become a monk

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Hawaii put 195,000 plastic bottles' worth of recycled plastic into Fort Weaver Road in 2022, but the experiment came with a hidden environmental question

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Two friends bought a 225-acre overgrazed Texas ranch that could support little beyond cattle; after restoring 100+ acres of prairie, planting 3,000 sand plums and adding a 5-acre wetland, wildlife returned

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In 2002, Idaho buried nearly 300 tons of crushed waste glass beneath Highway 75; the material formed 8 to 12 inches of fill under a 200-foot road section

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In 1967, astronaut Vance Brand bought 160 acres beside Rocky Mountain National Park for $32,000; decades later, his family gave 40 acres to the park and Congress changed its boundary to accept it

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At 15, Jim Bishop bought 2.5 Colorado acres with $450 he earned mowing lawns and delivering papers; 10 years later, he began a stone castle that he spent 50 years turning into the world's largest one-man project

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

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In 1964, a couple bought 535 acres in North Carolina and built a summer home there; decades later, they donated the entire property to Great Smoky Mountains National Park in its largest land gift since the park was created

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After their brother died, two siblings inherited 20.66 acres beside Zion National Park; they gave up development rights so it can never be built on

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On the day his mother died, a Wyoming rancher promised their family land would never be developed; 8 years later, he protected the 2,506 acres forever

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Australia planted eucalyptus trees to fight rising soil salinity; decades later scientists found the plantations were changing groundwater but not the soil nature

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A Virginia mountaintop was scarred by coal mining; it now holds a 200,000-square-foot high school bringing students from four schools onto one campus

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'Operation Economic Outcast': EU joins Donald Trump's campaign to squeeze Iran

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In the 1980s, Michael Jackson put his 2,700-acre California ranch under an agricultural preservation programme; years later, officials found an amusement park, a zoo and other unapproved developments

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A Florida man moved $300,000 into his checking account after a caller said he had missed jury duty; his wife tracked him on Find My iPhone and a police officer stopped the wire

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Meet Nithya Ravuri, the California high-school student whose nonprofit has grown to more than 500 members across 15 chapters while supporting neurodivergent children and families

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Meet Jiya Patel, the 17-year-old from Columbus, Georgia who turned restaurant leftovers into a 40-chapter network donating over $100,000 worth of food

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"You guys were the issue": FaZe Banks drops explosive truth about FaZe Clan's end

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Streamer MoistCr1TiKaL drops first look at Godslap animated movie coming in 2028

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Vermont taxes 2.4 million acres of private forest on what it grows rather than what a developer would pay; owners who break the deal repay a decade of the difference

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Ed Leedskalnin spent nearly 30 years cutting and moving 1,100 tons of Florida limestone mostly alone at night; he died in 1951 without fully revealing his methods

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Johnny Carson quietly left $156.5 million to his foundation after his 2005 death; by 2026, it was still funding Nebraska scholarships, arts and humanities

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In 1989, Batman star Kim Basinger and her partners agreed to buy 1,700 acres of a Georgia town for $20 million; financial trouble later forced a sale for just $4.3 million

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In 1989, NBC anchor Tom Brokaw bought into a 4,000-acre Montana ranch; habitat work later helped upland bird populations return.

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In 2020, the US removed 69 dams, reconnecting 624 miles of rivers and restoring habitat for salmon, steelhead and native fish species

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US House passes bill to stop federal funding of universities boycotting Israel

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Jaws director Steven Spielberg protected 7.46 East Hampton acres with conservation easements in 2011; all 3 marsh and forest parcels are closed to development

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Take Me Home, Country Roads singer John Denver bought 957 Colorado acres in 1979; Windstar later sold, but 927 wildlife-habitat acres stayed protected

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Texas mom says school told her staff caught her 5-year-old son; she later learned a stranger found him crying two blocks away

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A retired North Carolina repairman built giant wind-powered sculptures from scrap; after 30 were moved downtown, the park drew 194,300 visitors and generated $5.3 million in regional sales

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At 22, Theodore Roosevelt bought 155 acres in Oyster Bay; today, Sagamore Hill is a National Historic Site open to visitors

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