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Isela Anali Santiago Morales dances during her 15th birthday party at a stadium in Axtla de Terrazas, Mexico, Saturday, Aug. 23, 2025, organized by the community after her father's social media appeal drew support following her first sparsely attended party. (AP Photo/Mauricio Palos)
16 hours ago

From empty party to an all-night stadium bash, a Mexican teen’s 15th birthday goes viral

Read full article: From empty party to an all-night stadium bash, a Mexican teen’s 15th birthday goes viral
Vice President JD Vance, left, fishes with Britain's Foreign Secretary David Lammy in a lake in the grounds of Chevening House in Kent, England, Friday, Aug. 8, 2025. (Suzanne Plunkett/Pool Photo via AP)
3 days ago

UK's top diplomat gets a warning for illegal fishing with US vice president

Read full article: UK's top diplomat gets a warning for illegal fishing with US vice president
Milo Tivy, 16, and Shari Tivy, 75, look at a display of human skulls at the Mtter Museum on Thursday, Aug. 21, 2025, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Mingson Lau)
3 days ago

Medical museum in Philadelphia overhauls policies on human remains to meet modern ethical standards

Read full article: Medical museum in Philadelphia overhauls policies on human remains to meet modern ethical standards
A juvenile wood stork perches on a branch in the Mud Lake Wildlife Area in Columbia County, Wis., on Monday, Aug. 11, 2025. (Jeff Bahls via AP)

Deer hunter discovers rare subtropical wood stork in the wilds of Wisconsin

Read full article: Deer hunter discovers rare subtropical wood stork in the wilds of Wisconsin

A deer hunter has discovered a rare subtropical wood stork in the wilds of Wisconsin.

People leave the Supreme Court of Victoria in Melbourne, on Friday, Aug. 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Rod McGuirk)

Australian lawyer apologizes for AI-generated errors in murder case

Read full article: Australian lawyer apologizes for AI-generated errors in murder case

A senior lawyer in Australia has apologized to a judge for using AI-generated fake quotes and nonexistent case judgments in a murder case.

In this illustration provided by Ruairidh Duncan a Janjucetus dullardi is depicted chasing a fish. (Ruairidh Duncan via AP)

Scientists discover an ancient whale with a Pokémon face and a predator bite

Read full article: Scientists discover an ancient whale with a Pokémon face and a predator bite

Paleontologists have identified a new whale species from a 25-million-year-old fossil found on an Australian beach.

FILE - This June 26, 2013, image made from a video provided by Gunnar Boettcher shows a rabbit in Mankato, Minn., that Boettcher dubbed "Frankenstein," due to what looks like horns growing out of its head. (Gunnar Boettcher via AP, File)

Rabbits with 'horns' in Colorado are being called 'Frankenstein bunnies.' Here's why

Read full article: Rabbits with 'horns' in Colorado are being called 'Frankenstein bunnies.' Here's why

Some cottontail rabbits in Fort Collins, Colorado, have been drawing attention because they have wart-like growths on their faces that look like horns.

FILE A Martian meteorite, weighing 54.388 lbs. (24.67 kg), said to be the largest piece of Mars on Earth, at Sotheby's, in New York, July 9, 2025. was sold for just over $5-million at an auction of rare geological and archaeological objects. at Sotheby's, Wednesday, July 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

Why Niger is investigating the $5 million sale of the largest Mars rock found on Earth

Read full article: Why Niger is investigating the $5 million sale of the largest Mars rock found on Earth

A 54-pound meteorite from Mars has sold for over $5 million at a New York auction, setting a world record.

FILE - A customer shows a new Labubu doll to media during the opening of Germany's first shop for Labubu plush dolls in Berlin, July 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File)

$7K worth of Labubu dolls stolen from Los Angeles store, authorities say

Read full article: $7K worth of Labubu dolls stolen from Los Angeles store, authorities say

The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department is investigating an incident in which thieves stole about $7,000 worth of Labubu dolls, the agency said.

Meteor generic

A fiery meteor that punched through a Georgia home’s roof is older than Earth, a scientist says

Read full article: A fiery meteor that punched through a Georgia home’s roof is older than Earth, a scientist says

A scientist says fragments of a meteorite that punched through a Georgia homeowner's roof after blazing across the sky in a fiery streak is older than the Earth itself.

This photo provided by Flagler County Sheriff's Office in Florida shows Autumn Bardisa being taken into custody Tuesday, Aug. 5, in Palm Coast, Fla. (Flagler County Sheriff's Office via AP)

A Florida woman posed as a nurse and treated thousands of unsuspecting patients, officials say

Read full article: A Florida woman posed as a nurse and treated thousands of unsuspecting patients, officials say

Authorities say a Florida woman posed as a licensed nurse and provided medical care to thousands of patients.

Sandals known as "huaraches" are displayed for sale at a market in Oaxaca, Mexico, Friday, Aug. 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Luis Alberto Cruz)

Mexican authorities accuse Adidas of cultural appropriation in their sandal design

Read full article: Mexican authorities accuse Adidas of cultural appropriation in their sandal design

Mexican authorities have accused Adidas of plagiarizing Mexican artisans with a new sandal design similar to Indigenous huaraches.

One of four Barbary lion cubs, that were born recently at the Safari Park Dvur Kralove, rests with its parents Khalila, left, and Bart at their enclosure, Czech Republic, Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)

Czech zoo welcomes 4 rare Barbary lion cubs whose population is extinct in the wild

Read full article: Czech zoo welcomes 4 rare Barbary lion cubs whose population is extinct in the wild

Four Barbary lion cubs have been born in a Czech zoo.

This image taken from video provided by the Seattle Kraken shows a brown bear splashing toward the NHL Kraken sea troll mascot known as Buoy, left, next to a fishing guide during the filming of a promotional video in a river outside Anchorage, Alaska, June 25, 2025. (Seattle Kraken via AP)

Seattle NHL team's mascot has a close encounter with a brown bear during video shoot in Alaska

Read full article: Seattle NHL team's mascot has a close encounter with a brown bear during video shoot in Alaska

A Seattle Kraken ice hockey player and the team's mascot had a close call with a brown bear during a video shoot in Alaska.

FILE - In this Aug. 6, 2018 photo, crocodiles rest in water at a a farm in the Jordan Valley, West Bank. (AP Photo/Dusan Vranic, file)

Israel euthanizes crocodiles after repeated escapes and inhumane treatment

Read full article: Israel euthanizes crocodiles after repeated escapes and inhumane treatment

Israeli authorities have euthanized a group of crocodiles in a West Bank settlement.

An Intercity bus prepares to depart from Timaru, New Zealand on Oct. 14, 2022. (Aiman Amerul Muner/STUFF via AP)

New Zealand woman arrested after 2-year-old girl found alive in suitcase stowed in bus luggage

Read full article: New Zealand woman arrested after 2-year-old girl found alive in suitcase stowed in bus luggage

A New Zealand woman faces a child neglect charge after a bus driver found a 2-year-old girl in a suitcase.

Coconut is pushed through the breakers during the World Dog Surfing Championships Saturday, Aug. 2, 2025, in Pacifica, Calif. (AP Photo/Eakin Howard)

Who's the top dog? Wave-riding canines compete in the World Dog Surfing Championships

Read full article: Who's the top dog? Wave-riding canines compete in the World Dog Surfing Championships

About 15 to 20 canine wave riders are set to vie for top dog in the World Dog Surfing Championships outside San Francisco this weekend.

Rescue crews clean up a truckload of hot dogs that spilled out of a tractor-trailer on Friday, August 1, 2025, along Interstate 83 in Shrewsbury, Pa. (Shrewsbury Volunteer Fire Company via AP)

Hot dog spill shuts down highway in Pennsylvania commuters' wurst nightmare

Read full article: Hot dog spill shuts down highway in Pennsylvania commuters' wurst nightmare

A truckload of hot dogs has spilled across a Pennsylvania highway after a crash, clogging the road toward the end of the morning rush hour.

Tampa Bay Rays shortstop Jos Caballero watches as New York Yankees' Cody Bellinger gestures to teammates after hitting an RBI triple during the 10th inning of a baseball game Wednesday, July 30, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

A winner either way: José Caballero traded from Rays to Yankees while teams were playing each other

Read full article: A winner either way: José Caballero traded from Rays to Yankees while teams were playing each other

José Caballero turned an inning-ending double play for the Tampa Bay Rays in the fifth inning, then batted in the sixth.

LATEST NEWS HEADLINES


FILE - Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks during a news conference about a recent immigration enforcement operation, at the South Florida office of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Enforcement and Removal Operations, May 1, 2025, in Miramar, Fla. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell, file)
13 minutes ago

DeSantis criticizes increases in local budgets, says they should focus on ‘core functions’ and reduce property taxes

Read full article: DeSantis criticizes increases in local budgets, says they should focus on ‘core functions’ and reduce property taxes
Saharan dust storms regularly fertilize the Atlantic Ocean. Winds pick up fine dust from dry, sandy regions (like the Sahara) and carry it across oceans. When that dust settles on the water’s surface, iron particles dissolve and become available for phytoplankton.
13 minutes ago

Tiny plankton, big trouble for oxygen source

Read full article: Tiny plankton, big trouble for oxygen source
FILE - Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce, right, appears with singer Taylor Swift after the Chiefs victory over the Buffalo Bills in the AFC Championship game in Kansas City, Mo., on Jan. 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)
5 minutes ago

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce are engaged

Read full article: Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce are engaged
The River City Guide delivers a curated list of the hottest weekend events—ranging from live music and arts happenings to community gatherings and themed social experiences.
24 minutes ago

🔒River City Guide: Labor Day Weekend—Baseball, a Booze Cruise & Bingo Madness!

Read full article: 🔒River City Guide: Labor Day Weekend—Baseball, a Booze Cruise & Bingo Madness!
Archaeologist Jose Aliaga works at the site where city workers discovered ancient remains, from the pre-Inca Chancay culture, and artifacts as workers were digging a natural gas line for the company Calidda in the district of Puente Piedra on the outskirts of Lima, Peru, Thursday, July 31, 2025. (AP Photo/Guadalupe Pardo)

Utility workers in Peru unearth pre-Incan tomb with 1,000-year-old remains

Read full article: Utility workers in Peru unearth pre-Incan tomb with 1,000-year-old remains

Utility workers in Peru's capital have discovered two pre-Incan tombs while expanding underground gas networks.

FILE - Radioactive waste sealed in large stainless steel canisters is stored under five feet of concrete in a storage building at the Savannah River Site, near Aiken, S.C., Nov. 20, 2013. (AP Photo/Stephen B. Morton, File)

Radioactive wasp nest found at site where US once made nuclear bombs

Read full article: Radioactive wasp nest found at site where US once made nuclear bombs

Workers at a South Carolina site that once made nuclear bomb parts have found a radioactive wasp nest.

Cows stand in an enclosure at Michigan State University's new Dairy Cattle Teaching and Research Center on Monday, July 28, 2025, in East Lansing, Mich. (AP Photo/Mike Householder)

It’s moo-ving day for dairy cattle at Michigan State University

Read full article: It’s moo-ving day for dairy cattle at Michigan State University

Dozens of dairy cattle are on the move at Michigan State University.

FILE - Barcelona's head coach Xavi Hernandez watches before the Spanish La Liga soccer match between Sevilla and FC Barcelona at the Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan stadium in Seville, Spain, Sunday, May 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Fermin Rodriguez, File)

Emailed job application supposedly from Xavi was bogus, Indian soccer federation says

Read full article: Emailed job application supposedly from Xavi was bogus, Indian soccer federation says

Indian soccer officials say that a job application to coach their national team it apparently received from former Barcelona coach Xavi Hernández was fake.

This undated image, provided by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, shows a bull moose, near Tupper Lake, NY, that has been lingering around an Adirondack mountain trail, through this summer, forcing New York wildlife officials to keep hikers away as they keep watch and wonder why the majestic animal is not moving on. (New York State Department of Environmental Conservation via AP)

A bull moose is blocking a New York mountain trail. Wildlife researchers don't know why

Read full article: A bull moose is blocking a New York mountain trail. Wildlife researchers don't know why

New York wildlife officials have closed a trail in the Adirondack Mountains this summer due to a bull moose lingering around the area.

A lesser yellow-headed vulture that hatched three weeks ago is being fed by using a puppet that imitates a parent bird at the zoo in Prague, Czech Republic, Thursday, July 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)

Zookeepers in Prague turn into puppeteers to save baby vultures

Read full article: Zookeepers in Prague turn into puppeteers to save baby vultures

Zookeepers in Prague have become puppeteers to save newly born birds rejected by their parents.

In this photo provided by Helen North, laundry-stealing cat Leo poses on Sept. 25, 2024, with some of the socks it has found and brought to its home in Auckland, New Zealand. (Helen North via AP)

A cat named Leonardo da Pinchy doesn’t want your affection. He wants to steal your underwear

Read full article: A cat named Leonardo da Pinchy doesn’t want your affection. He wants to steal your underwear

A laundry-stealing cat with expensive taste has puzzled and delighted a neighborhood in Auckland, New Zealand, by committing an unstoppable wave of burglaries from clotheslines and even bedrooms.

Luxury cars cars bearing fake diplomatic number plates are parked outside a rented residential building in which a bogus embassy was running in Ghaziabad, outskirts of New Delhi, India, Monday, July 21, 2025. (Uttar Pradesh Police Special Task Force via AP)

Man posed as an ambassador and ran a fake embassy, Indian police say

Read full article: Man posed as an ambassador and ran a fake embassy, Indian police say

Indian police have arrested a man accused of running a fake embassy from a rented building near New Delhi.

A giant troll sculpture created by the Danish recycle artist Thomas Dambo and his team that's part of an installation of six sculptures called "Trolls Save the Humans" is seen on display at the historic estate Filoli, Saturday, July 5, 2025, in Woodside, Calif. (AP Photo/Terry Chea)

Giant trolls have a message for humans about protecting the planet

Read full article: Giant trolls have a message for humans about protecting the planet

Danish artist Thomas Dambo creates giant wooden trolls from recycled materials to promote environmental awareness.

FILE - A brain-scanning MRI machine is seen in Pittsburgh, Nov. 26, 2014. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic, File)

Man pulled into MRI machine after he walked into an exam room wearing a chain necklace

Read full article: Man pulled into MRI machine after he walked into an exam room wearing a chain necklace

A man was pulled into an MRI machine in New York after he walked into the room wearing a large chain necklace.

FILE - Felix Baumgartner of Austria gestures prior to speaking with the media after successfully jumping from a space capsule lifted by a helium balloon in Roswell, N.M., Oct. 14, 2012. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)

Felix Baumgartner, the first skydiver to fall faster than the speed of sound, dies in crash in Italy

Read full article: Felix Baumgartner, the first skydiver to fall faster than the speed of sound, dies in crash in Italy

Extreme athlete Felix Baumgartner, the first skydiver to fall faster than the speed of sound more than a decade ago, died in a crash Thursday along the eastern coast of Italy.

A Richardson's ground squirrel pokes up from its burrow on Monday, July 14, 2025, in a vacant lot in Minot, N.D. (AP Photo/Jack Dura)

Ground squirrels are taking over a North Dakota city and officials are not amused

Read full article: Ground squirrels are taking over a North Dakota city and officials are not amused

Ground squirrels have proliferated in Minot, North Dakota's fourth-largest city.

A Martian meteorite, weighing 54.388 lbs. (24.67 kg), said to be the largest piece of Mars on Earth, estimated at $2 - 4 million, is displayed at Sotheby's, in New York, Wednesday, July 9, 2025, part of their Geek Week auction, July 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Largest piece of Mars on Earth fetches $5.3 million at auction, but young dinosaur steals the show

Read full article: Largest piece of Mars on Earth fetches $5.3 million at auction, but young dinosaur steals the show

The largest piece of Mars ever found on Earth has sold for just over $5 million at a Sotheby's auction in New York.

Indian policemen rescue Nina Kutina, 40, a Russian woman, from a cave in forest area of Ramtirtha hills in southern Indian state of Karnataka, Wednesday, July 9, 2025. (Uttara Kannada District Police via AP)

Indian police find Russian woman and her 2 daughters living in an isolated forest cave

Read full article: Indian police find Russian woman and her 2 daughters living in an isolated forest cave

Police in India’s southern Karnataka state say they have found a Russian woman and her two young daughters living in isolation in a remote forest cave.

A woman searches through a dumpster looking for useful items, in Havana, Cuba, Tuesday, July 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Jorge Luis Baos)

Cuban labor minister resigns after her suggestion beggars were pretending sparked backlash

Read full article: Cuban labor minister resigns after her suggestion beggars were pretending sparked backlash

Cuba’s Labor Minister Marta Elena Feitó Cabrera has resigned after controversial comments she made about poverty in the island nation.

Residents in a Miami suburb used an ax, fire extinguisher and garden hose to rescue four people from a small plane that crashed into a tree in yet another mishap near a busy South Florida airport.

People in Florida neighborhood stop dinner, grab tools to rescue 4 people in plane crash

Read full article: People in Florida neighborhood stop dinner, grab tools to rescue 4 people in plane crash

Residents in a Miami suburb used an ax, fire extinguisher and garden hose to rescue four people from a small plane that crashed into a tree.

In this photo provided by Pannonhalma Archabbey, a restorer shows an old book with holes in its pages due to a drugstore beetle infestation, at the Pannonhalma Archabbey's library in Pannonhalma, Hungary, Thursday, July 3, 2025, as a beetle infestation threatens its ancient collection. (Pannonhalma Archabbey via AP)

Hungary's oldest library is fighting to save 100,000 books from a beetle infestation

Read full article: Hungary's oldest library is fighting to save 100,000 books from a beetle infestation

A medieval abbey in Hungary is battling a beetle infestation threatening its ancient book collection.

Geologist James Hagadorn closes boxes of core rock samples at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science on July 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Thomas Peipert)

A Denver dino museum makes a find deep under own parking lot. Like 'a hole in one from the moon.'

Read full article: A Denver dino museum makes a find deep under own parking lot. Like 'a hole in one from the moon.'

A dinosaur fossil has been found in an unlikely place, a hole drilled under the parking lot of a Colorado museum where dinosaur skeletons are on display.

Baby pygmy hippo Moo Deng eats fruit presented for her first birthday celebration at the Khao Kheow Open Zoo in Chonburi province, Thailand, Thursday, July 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

Thousands celebrate baby hippo Moo Deng's first birthday at a Thailand zoo

Read full article: Thousands celebrate baby hippo Moo Deng's first birthday at a Thailand zoo

Thousands of fans have flocked to a Thailand zoo to celebrate the first birthday of Moo Deng, the baby pygmy hippo that's become a social media sensation.

Vehicles drive over rumble strips that play Ludwig van Beethoven's Ninth Symphony on a highway in Fujairah, United Arab Emirates, Thursday, July 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Bassam Hatoum)

A classical drive: Road rumble strips play Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony in UAE emirate of Fujairah

Read full article: A classical drive: Road rumble strips play Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony in UAE emirate of Fujairah

A highway in Fujairah, UAE, now plays Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony as cars drive over special rumble strips.

ENTERTAINMENT HEADLINES


FILE - Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce, right, appears with singer Taylor Swift after the Chiefs victory over the Buffalo Bills in the AFC Championship game in Kansas City, Mo., on Jan. 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)
5 minutes ago

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce are engaged

Read full article: Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce are engaged
FILE - Exterior view of the Ernst Happel stadium in Vienna on Thursday, Aug.8, 2024. (AP Photo/Heinz-Peter Bader, File)
2 hours ago

German court convicts teen for supporting plot to attack Taylor Swift concerts in Vienna

Read full article: German court convicts teen for supporting plot to attack Taylor Swift concerts in Vienna
The red carpet is seen ahead of the Venice Film Festival in Venice, Italy, on Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2025. (Photo by Alessandra Tarantino/Invision/AP)
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Venice Film Festival set to begin as activists hope to shift the spotlight to Gaza

Read full article: Venice Film Festival set to begin as activists hope to shift the spotlight to Gaza
FILE - Devon Walker attends the SNL50: The Anniversary Special in New York on Feb. 16, 2025. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)
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Devon Walker exits 'SNL' as Lorne Michaels hints at more changes

Read full article: Devon Walker exits 'SNL' as Lorne Michaels hints at more changes
In thit photo released by The Snake Hunter, snake handler Mark Pelley lifts a a harmless 60-centimeter (2-foot) green tree snake in the cargo hold of a plane at Melbourne Airport, Tuesday, July 1, 2025. (The Snake Hunter via AP)

Snake on a plane delays a flight in Australia

Read full article: Snake on a plane delays a flight in Australia

An Australian domestic airline flight has been delayed for two hours after a stowaway snake was found in the plane’s cargo hold.

In this photo taken from video shows a bright object traveling in the sky in McDonough, Ga., Thursday, June 26, 2025. (Bryan Jennings Updyke via AP)

Residents express amazement after seeing fireball streak across the southern sky

Read full article: Residents express amazement after seeing fireball streak across the southern sky

More than 200 people across a half-dozen southern states have reported witnessing a fireball streak across the sky, and NASA has determined that it was a meteor.

In this photo taken from video shows a bright object traveling in the sky in McDonough, Ga., Thursday, June 26, 2025. (Bryan Jennings Updyke via AP)

What's that in the sky? We're not sure, but the fireball was very bright

Read full article: What's that in the sky? We're not sure, but the fireball was very bright

An object bright enough to be seen streaking across the midday sky has fallen across parts of the Southeast U.S. The National Weather Service in Peachtree City, Georgia, says the object was likely either a meteor or space junk.

In this image provided by the Lake Superior Zoo, Tundra, a 6-year old Alaskan brown bear, under goes a procedure for a new metal canine tooth, Monday June 23, 2025, at the zoo in Duluth, Minn. (Lake Superior Zoo via AP)

An Alaska brown bear has a new shiny smile after getting a huge metal crown for a canine tooth

Read full article: An Alaska brown bear has a new shiny smile after getting a huge metal crown for a canine tooth

An Alaska brown bear at the Lake Superior Zoo in northeastern Minnesota has a gleaming new silver-colored canine tooth after a first-of-its-kind procedure.

Festivalgoers sit outside a bar during the Glastonbury Festival in Worthy Farm, Somerset, England, Wednesday, June 25, 2025. (Scott A Garfitt/Invision/AP)

Glastonbury 2025, by the numbers, from the cows to toilets to pints to, yes, the music

Read full article: Glastonbury 2025, by the numbers, from the cows to toilets to pints to, yes, the music

Music lovers will flock to southwestern England this week for the Glastonbury music festival.

Recyclers lie on plastic bottles blanketing Plaza Bolivar in Bogota, Colombia, as part of a protest against what recyclers consider to be too low a price paid to them by companies that buy recycled materials, Tuesday, June 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

Colombian waste pickers inundate iconic Bogota square with plastic bottles to protest falling wages

Read full article: Colombian waste pickers inundate iconic Bogota square with plastic bottles to protest falling wages

Dozens of Colombian waste pickers have inundated one of Bogota’s most iconic squares with about 15 tons of recyclable goods.

A bear is recorded by a hunters' camera in the Pabrade forests calmly feasting on animal baits in Pabrade, Lithuania, Wednesday, June 18, 2025. (Paulius Peciulis via AP)

A wild bear enters Lithuania's capital. Hunters refuse a government request to shoot the animal

Read full article: A wild bear enters Lithuania's capital. Hunters refuse a government request to shoot the animal

Lithuanian hunters have refused to shoot a wild bear that was spotted roaming around the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius and criticized the government for issuing a permit to kill a member of the protected species.

In this image provided by the Michigan Department of Natural Resources, DNS staffers, from left, Angela Kujawa, Sherry Raifsnider and Miranda VanCleave work to remove a lid from the neck of an immobilized black bear near Hillman, Michigan, on June 3, 2025. ( Michigan Department of Natural Resources via AP)

A Michigan bear roamed the woods for two years with an awful lid on his neck. Not anymore.

Read full article: A Michigan bear roamed the woods for two years with an awful lid on his neck. Not anymore.

A Michigan bear is feeling much, much better.

In this image provided by Varsity Spirit, cheerleaders compete during a Varsity Spirit event in March 2025 in Dallas. (Varsity Spirit via AP)

Cheerleaders can now go pro: Varsity Spirit's new league offers pay

Read full article: Cheerleaders can now go pro: Varsity Spirit's new league offers pay

Varsity Spirit is starting a professional cheerleading league promising to pay athletes.

FILE - A man walks up the historical Spanish Steps, in Rome, Friday, Nov. 20, 2020. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, file)

An 80-year-old drives a luxury Mercedes sedan down Rome's Spanish Steps and gets stuck

Read full article: An 80-year-old drives a luxury Mercedes sedan down Rome's Spanish Steps and gets stuck

Police in Rome say an 80-year-old man drove a compact luxury Mercedes A Class sedan part way down the city's landmark Spanish Steps before getting stuck.

In this image provided by the Alpine Rescue Team, lamps are illuminated on a ridge as Alpine Rescue Team members take part in helping get two men struck by lightning off Torreys Peak in Colorado, Thursday, June 12, 2025. (Jake Smith/Alpine Rescue Team via AP)

Men hit by lightning plucked from mountain in record-high Colorado helicopter rescues

Read full article: Men hit by lightning plucked from mountain in record-high Colorado helicopter rescues

Two men who were struck by lightning on a Colorado peak were flown to safety in what is believed to be the highest helicopter rescues on record in the mountainous state.

FILE - This Sept. 16, 2016 file image made from a video shows the 18-karat toilet, titled "America," by Maurizio Cattelan in the restroom of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. (AP Photo, File)

Men who stole $6 million golden toilet from English mansion sentenced to prison terms

Read full article: Men who stole $6 million golden toilet from English mansion sentenced to prison terms

Two men who stole a $6.4 million golden toilet from an English mansion have been sentenced to more than two years in prison.

Fans gather in front of the O2 Arena prior to a performance by Pitbull on Monday, June 9, 2025, in London. (Photo by Scott A Garfitt/Invision/AP)

White shirts. Black ties. Bald caps. Pitbull’s fans party like clones worldwide

Read full article: White shirts. Black ties. Bald caps. Pitbull’s fans party like clones worldwide

Thousands and thousands of Pitbull fans dressed up for his London shows this week wearing bald caps, a white shirt, black tie and drawn-on facial hair, before swarming to the city’s O2 Arena.

A view shows the exterior of the Casa Pedro restaurant in Madrid, Spain, on May 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)

The world's oldest restaurant faces a challenge from another Madrid tavern that says its even older

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In the heart of Spain’s capital, the famous Sobrino de Botín restaurant proudly holds the title of being the world’s oldest restaurant.

FILE - Nicole Daedone, center, founder and former CEO of OneTaste, departs Brooklyn federal court on Tuesday, June 13, 2023 in New York. (AP Photo/Jeenah Moon, File)

Leaders of ‘orgasmic meditation’ women's wellness company OneTaste convicted in forced labor trial

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The leaders of a sex-focused women’s wellness company that promoted “orgasmic meditation” have been convicted of federal forced labor charges.

In this image taken from June 8, 2025, video by the Rutherford County Sheriff's Office in Rutherford County, Tennessee, shows the airlifting of a zebra named Ed that had evaded capture for several days after it ran away from its owner. (Rutherford County Sheriff's Office via AP)

A runaway pet zebra has been captured in Tennessee

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A runaway pet zebra has been captured in Tennessee.

A detail of 'Cornclave", a vegetable sculpture made by Dean Ramsey and Jess Copsey, part of the vegetable sculpture completion at Lambeth County show at Brockwell Park vegetable fair in London, Saturday, June 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Joanna Chan)

A quirky vegetable sculpture contest features a squash Donald Trump and a papal 'Cornclave'

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Vegetable likenesses of U.S. President Donald Trump and singer Dolly Parton and a papal “Cornclave” are on display at the Lambeth Country Show.

Artist Curtis Ingvoldstad touches up his 20-foot-tall pencil sculpture ahead of its annual sharpening on Wednesday, June 4, 2025 in Minneapolis, Minn. (AP photo/Mark Vancleave)

Why a Minneapolis neighborhood sharpens a giant pencil every year

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Throngs of people gathered Saturday in a scenic Minneapolis neighborhood for an annual ritual — the sharpening of a gigantic No. 2 pencil.

Lucy Trout, from Olympia, Wash., watches as an abandoned ship is transported to shore on Wednesday, June 4, 2025, in Olympia, Wash. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane)

Flying boats make for a rare sight as Washington clears an island of derelict vessels by helicopter

Read full article: Flying boats make for a rare sight as Washington clears an island of derelict vessels by helicopter

The Washington Department of Natural Resources has been using one of its firefighting helicopters to haul abandoned boats off an uninhabited island in the southernmost reaches of Puget Sound this week.

People look on as an adolescent loggerhead sea turtle named Dilly-Dally, whose front flipper was amputated after she was rescued in January suffering from predator wounds, crawls into the Atlantic Ocean after being released, on the beach in front of Loggerhead Marinelife Center in Juno Beach, Fla., Wednesday, June 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Dilly Dally the sea turtle returns to the ocean after flipper amputation

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An adolescent loggerhead sea turtle named Dilly Dally is back in the Atlantic Ocean, months after having a front flipper amputated at a Florida turtle hospital.

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