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Lisala Folau (wearing blue printed shirt) says he swam for more than 24 hours after getting swept to sea by Saturday's tsunami, sits with other people of Atata island in Nuku'alofa, Tonga, on Wednesday in this picture obtained from social media.

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  • World

A Tongan man says he swam for more than 24 hours after a tsunami swept him out to sea

Lisala Folau told a local broadcaster about his swimming journey, which lasted more than a day and took him to three islands. Social media users hearing his story are calling him "real-life Aquaman."

January 20, 2022
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By:
  • Rachel Treisman
Reporter Chloe Veltman reacts to hearing her digital voice double, "Chloney," for the first time, with Speech Morphing chief linguist Mark Seligman.

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  • Arts & Life

Send in the clones: Using artificial intelligence to digitally replicate human voices

Thanks to advances in artificial intelligence, it's never been easier or more affordable to make a perfect facsimile of a human voice: a celebrity, a world leader or even a public-radio reporter.

January 18, 2022
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By:
  • Chloe Veltman
Jessica Gerson-Neeves and her wife have been mired in a standoff for weeks with their three cats over a Vitamix blender.

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  • Animals

3 cats have outmaneuvered their 2 humans to hold a blender hostage for weeks

Jessica and Nikii Gerson-Neeves don't want to end the standoff that has brought joy to so many people. But they also want to use their blender, which has been in a box in their kitchen since December.

January 14, 2022
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  • Rachel Treisman
A lunar eclipse viewed from California's Trona Pinnacles Desert National Conservation Area. Scientists believe there may be more moons in the galaxy than planets.

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  • Space

Scientists think they've found a big, weird moon in a far-off star system

Scientists have found many planets orbiting distant stars, but so far no proof that any have moons. Now, researchers have detected signs of a large exomoon orbiting a Jupiter-like world.

January 13, 2022
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By:
  • Nell Greenfieldboyce
In this Nov. 1, 2017, file photo traffic along Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington streaks past the Federal Bureau of Investigation headquarters building.

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  • Law

A man who allegedly stole hundreds of unpublished book manuscripts now faces charges

For nearly five years, Filippo Bernardini allegedly impersonated people in the book publishing industry, stealing unpublished manuscripts and notes, including from a Pulitzer Prize winner.

January 06, 2022
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  • Deepa Shivaram
French videogame giant Ubisoft's Montreal office is seen on July 18, 2020 in Quebec, Canada.

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  • Business

How subsidies helped Montreal become "the Hollywood of video games"

For decades, Montreal has used generous tax subsidies to boost its video game industry. The policy has succeeded, but the city may need to keep the subsidies in place to keep companies from leaving.

January 04, 2022
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  • Corey Bridges
Sheep and goats stand together on Monday in Schneverdingen, Germany, as they form an approximately 330-foot syringe to promote vaccinations against COVID-19.

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  • Animals

700 sheep and goats were arranged in the shape of a syringe to encourage vaccinations

A shepherd in Germany arranged her animals into a 330-foot syringe to encourage people to get vaccinated.

January 03, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden took calls to the NORAD Tracks Santa Operations Center on Christmas Eve.

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  • Strange News

Man who said 'Let's go, Brandon' to Biden on Christmas Eve says he was only joking

"I am being attacked for utilizing my freedom of speech," Jared Schmeck told The Oregonian.

December 27, 2021
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  • Matthew S. Schwartz
The Muskogee Public Schools posted this image of Davyon Johnson last week to its Facebook page. The Muskogee Police Department and Muskogee County Sheriff's Office presented the 6th-grader with a certificate naming him as an honorary member of their force.

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  • National

This 6th-grader gave a classmate the Heimlich and saved a woman from a fire in one day

An 11-year-old boy from Oklahoma is being honored for his heroism after he saved a choking classmate and rescued a woman from a house fire in one day.

December 23, 2021
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  • Rachel Treisman
Dan Gebhart surveys some of the haul of chanterelle mushrooms.

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  • Food

These mushroom foragers hit the jackpot. Then they got creative

A pair of fungus foragers in California's Humboldt County recently pulled in more than 200 pounds of chanterelles. Rather than cash in, they donated and got creative.

December 23, 2021
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  • Mia Venkat
Zebras are seen at the La Ponderosa Adventure Park in Guanacaste, Costa Rica.

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  • Animals

Two zebras who escaped from a Maryland farm are back after months on the run

The zebras had been on the loose since August 26. A third escapee was found dead in September. Officials are conducting an investigation of the zebras' owner.

December 14, 2021
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  • Jonathan Franklin
Producers plan to tap 7 million more maple trees to meet syrup demand.

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  • Food

Canada taps into strategic reserves to deal with massive shortage ... of maple syrup

While high gas prices have pushed President Biden to tap into the US's strategic oil reserves, America's neighbor to the north is also dealing with a shortage of another so-called "liquid gold".

November 26, 2021
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  • Michael Levitt

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  • Business

The Conglomerate Paradox: As GE splinters, Facebook becomes Meta

GE announced it's breaking into three. Meanwhile, tech companies continue to take over a wider swath of industries.

November 23, 2021
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  • Greg Rosalsky
The California Highway Patrol is looking for motorists who stopped to grab cash from the freeway after piles of bills spilled out of an armored car Friday morning.

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  • Strange News

Cash scattered across a Southern California freeway sent drivers into a frenzy

Traffic in northern San Diego County came to a standstill Friday after an armored car accidentally spilled $1s and $20s across the I-5, prompting people to flee their vehicles and grab wads of cash.

November 20, 2021
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  • Dustin Jones
A scorpion is pictured at the Scorpion Kingdom laboratory and farm in Egypt's Western Desert, near the city of Dakhla in the New Valley, in February 2021.

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  • Animals

3 dead, hundreds injured after storms rouse scorpions in Egypt

The city of Aswan has been dealing with an influx of scorpions and snakes, thanks to a recent rash of heavy storms disturbing their hiding places.

November 14, 2021
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  • Sharon Pruitt-Young
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