Category: news
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North Carolina before and after the storm
More than 150 deaths have been confirmed in the days since Hurricane Helene made landfall in Florida as a Category 4 storm, including dozens in flood-stricken North Carolina. “Communities were wiped off the map,” said North Carolina’s Gov. Roy Cooper. Entire communities in that state are underwater, with dozens dead in Buncombe County. Follow live…
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New Mexico attorney general says internal Snap documents show the company allowed spread of sextortion on Snapchat
The New Mexico attorney general said Tuesday that internal documents from Snapchat released as part of an ongoing lawsuit show how the platform failed to manage and notify users about sextortion on the platform. The suit, which Attorney General Raúl Torrez originally filed in September, includes the text of some of Snap’s internal correspondence. He…
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As floodwaters engulfed a Tennessee hospital, panic set in for those stranded
Angel Mitchell was in knots Friday morning at the eastern Tennessee hospital where her 83-year-old mother had been admitted days earlier for pneumonia. While Mitchell and her brother visited their mother, who was undergoing tests at Unicoi County Hospital, she could hear urgent conversations among the nurses to evacuate the small facility in Erwin, nestled…
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Drone footage of gray whales offers new insight into how they eat
Drone footage of gray whales captured over seven years off the Oregon coast has revealed new details about how the giant marine mammals find and eat food. The findings, described in two studies published over the summer, include that gray whales rely on different swimming techniques to collect food based on their size and age,…
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PepsiCo to buy tortilla chip maker Siete Foods for $1.2 billion
PepsiCo said Tuesday that it’s buying Mexican American food company Siete Foods for $1.2 billion, marking the company’s first food acquisition in roughly five years. Like many food companies, Pepsi has been trying to shift its portfolio to include healthier options in recent years, usually through acquisitions. Recent additions include Bare Snacks, Health Warrior and PopCorners.…
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Texas man says he smashed Taylor Swift-signed guitar he bid $4,000 on at auction as ‘a joke’
There were more splinters than teardrops left on a Taylor Swift-autographed guitar after a Texas man smashed it apart as “a joke” — after paying thousands for it at auction, the man said Tuesday. Gary Estes, 67, says he paid $4,000 for the instrument at the Ellis County Wild Game Dinner in Waxahachie, an annual…
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Tumbler knife sharpener review: Does it actually work?
As someone who cooks at home regularly, I stand by the idea that the most dangerous tool in a kitchen is a dull knife. Regardless of your experience level, a dull knife makes it easy to accidentally cut yourself when you’re dicing things like onions or tomatoes. And while a super sharp knife also requires…
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As extreme weather forecasts get better, warnings struggle to cut through
Before Hurricane Helene began ravaging swaths of the southeastern U.S., Amanda Wright had expected a little rain and maybe some flooding to hit the area around Knoxville, Tennessee, where she lives. It wasn’t until friends more than two hours away in Asheville, North Carolina, started posting warnings to Facebook that Wright realized how dangerous the…
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Los Angeles’ LGBTQ history comes alive at Circa: Queer Histories Festival
This Saturday in Los Angeles, a particularly eager queer history aficionado could join a walking tour of downtown’s LGBTQ heritage, listen in on a conversation with Radical Faeries co-founder Don Kilhefner, catch a preview screening of a docuseries about feminist trailblazers, attend a talk about Long Beach’s LGBTQ past, and cap off the day at…
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California bans legacy admissions at private colleges and universities
California is banning legacy admissions at private colleges and universities, ensuring that some of the country’s most selective schools will not favor applicants with familial or monetary connections to the schools. Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday signed AB 1780 into law, prohibiting legacy and donor preferences in admissions at private, nonprofit institutions. The new rule…