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Girl Shoves Bear

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  • Animals

A Teen Shoves A Bear To Save Her Family's Dogs

Video of the terrifying encounter in a Southern California backyard shows Hailey Morinico using both hands to push the bear off a wall and break up the bear vs. dog confrontation.

June 01, 2021
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  • Vanessa Romo

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  • Economy

Is There Really A Truck Driver Shortage?

The nation's big trucking employers have been arguing for decades that there's a trucker shortage. Is it really a shortage or something different?

May 26, 2021
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  • Greg Rosalsky
Periodical Cicadas spend 17 years underground feeding on tree sap. Now, billions of cicada nymphs are once again preparing to emerge from the earth and take to the treetops of 15 states across the East Coast and Midwest.

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  • Science

Here Come The Cicadas

People in D.C. and other cities are starting to see periodical cicadas. The red-eyed flying insects known as Brood X emerge every 17 years.

April 28, 2021
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By:
  • Jacob Fenston
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  • Strange News

There Can Only Be One: Battle Of The Joshes Brings Hundreds To Nebraska

Armed with pool noodles, hundreds of people who share the first name Josh gathered Saturday in Lincoln, Neb., to vie for the right to their name.

April 25, 2021
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By:
  • Chloee Weiner
The National Weather Service Tampa Bay said its Geostationary Lightning Mapper captured the bright meteor that shocked Floridians late Monday as it burned up off the coast.

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  • Space

'What Is That In The Sky?' Floridians Catch Meteor's Close Brush With Earth

Dashcam footage and home surveillance video captured the fireball that lit up the night sky on Monday.

April 13, 2021
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By:
  • Jaclyn Diaz
The carriage carrying the mummy of Queen Tiye, wife of Amenhotep III advances as part of the parade.

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  • History

Royal Mummies Paraded Through Downtown Cairo In Museum Move

The remains of 24 pharaohs, 18 kings and four queens, were relocated to the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization on Saturday in an elaborate event designed to attract tourists to the new museum.

April 04, 2021
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By:
  • Dustin Jones
French police arrested suspected Lego thieves. And last month, a man in Oregon was arrested after local police suspected he stole $7,500 worth of Lego toy sets.

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  • World

People Are Stealing Legos. Here's Why

Lego theft may be on the rise, with French police investigating an international ring of alleged Lego thieves. Lego expert Gerben van IJken says there could be a Lego black market.

April 03, 2021
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By:
  • Farah Eltohamy and
  • Peter Breslow
Spotted Trunkfish collected in the US Virgin Islands in 1871.

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  • Science

Scientific Specimens Are Going Online, But Much Remains Hidden In Storage

From fish in jars to rare seeds and microbes, hundreds of millions of biological specimens are stored around the U.S., and caretakers are trying to make them accessible for future research.

March 29, 2021
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By:
  • Nell Greenfieldboyce
A boat navigates in front of a massive cargo ship that sits grounded after it turned sideways in Egypt's Suez Canal, blocking traffic in a crucial East-West waterway for global shipping. An Egyptian official warned Wednesday it could take at least two days to clear the ship.

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  • World

Massive Container Ship Runs Aground In Suez Canal, Halting Traffic

Traffic through one of the world's busiest waterways was stalled after the Ever Given ran aground and blocked the Suez Canal.

March 24, 2021
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  • Jaclyn Diaz and
  • Scott Neuman

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  • Economy

The Data On Legalizing Weed

It's been close to a decade since the first states legalized recreational marijuana. And the data is coming in.

March 16, 2021
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  • Greg Rosalsky
A small porcelain bowl, pictured in a photo provided by Sotheby's, cost $35 at a yard sale but was later identified as a rare, 15th-century Chinese artifact worth between $300,000 and $500,000.

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  • Strange News

Yard-Sale Bowl Revealed To Be Rare Chinese Artifact Worth Up To $500,000

A Connecticut man bought the small porcelain bowl for $35, then asked Sotheby's experts to appraise it. They say it's a rare 15th-century Ming dynasty piece worth between $300,000 and $500,000.

March 03, 2021
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  • Rachel Treisman
A skeleton of an <em>Allosaurus</em> on display at Drouot auction house in Paris in October. A new theory says the dinosaurs were killed by a comet fragment that originally came from the edge of the solar system.

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  • Space

Dinosaur-Killing Impact Came From Edge Of Solar System, New Theory Suggests

Harvard researchers say a comet from deep space — not an asteroid from the belt past Mars — was responsible for the mass extinction. Others are skeptical.

February 17, 2021
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  • Matthew S. Schwartz

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  • Animals

Lucy Cooke: How Did Slowness Become The Sloth's Secret To Survival?

It's easy to see why sloths have become icons of laziness. But zoologist Lucy Cooke says behind their leisurely pace is a marvelous evolutionary advantage that is the secret to their survival.

February 05, 2021
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  • NPR/TED Staff
Steven Brandenburg at the Ozaukee County Sheriff's Office Monday, in Port Washington, Wis. Brandenburg agreed to plead guilty to two charges of of attempting to tamper with consumer products with reckless disregard for the risk that another person will be placed in danger of death or bodily injury, prosecutors say.

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  • Investigations

Pharmacist To Plead Guilty To Ruining Hundreds Of Doses Of COVID-19 Vaccine, DOJ Says

A pharmacist in Grafton, Wisc., is accused of tampering with supplies of the Moderna vaccine in December. He faces a maximum of 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine for each of two charges.

January 26, 2021
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By:
  • Dustin Jones

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  • Economy

Is Your 401(k) Colluding To Make Cereal More Expensive?

A new study investigates whether common ownership of cereal makers by institutional investors is leading them to become a kind of stealth monopoly.

January 26, 2021
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By:
  • Greg Rosalsky
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