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Sailing from Oregon to Hawaii after quitting his job turns a man with a cat into social media starMay 17, 2025 6:32 pm - HONOLULU — Midway while sailing across the Pacific with just his cat named Phoenix, Oliver Widger reflected on why he thinks his many followers — more than a million on T...
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Big U.S. cities grew in 2024, reversing covid-era population declinesMay 17, 2025 6:29 pm - Populations in major American cities have bounced back from pandemic-induced drops, with New York, Houston and Los Angeles leading the way, according to new data from the...
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Like it or not, the Like button has changed the worldMay 17, 2025 6:28 pm - SAN FRANCISCO — The internet wouldn't be the same without the Like button, the thumbs-up icon that Facebook and other online services turned into digital catnip. Like it...
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Watching Trump from afar, Israel fears being left out of a new Middle East it helped createMay 17, 2025 6:26 pm - As U.S. President Donald Trump jetted from one sprawling palace to another, embracing Arab leaders and heralding a new Middle East this week, many in Israel worried that ...
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Big Tech takes a harder line against worker activism, political dissentMay 17, 2025 6:25 pm - Five years ago, Microsoft divested its stake in an Israeli facial recognition startup after thousands of employees and activists protested the company’s suspected role in...
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On a remote Australian island, the birds are so full of plastic they crunchMay 17, 2025 6:24 pm - On a remote Australian island renowned for its natural beauty, researchers have made a grisly discovery: Seabirds have ingested so much plastic they crunch when touched. ...
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Caitlin Clark receives flagrant foul for hacking Angel Reese in Fever’s blowout win over SkyMay 17, 2025 5:49 pm - The Indiana Fever blew out the Chicago Sky in the teams’ WNBA season opener, and the margin was so big that the postgame talk was on a flagrant foul by Indiana’s Caitlin Clark on Chicago’s Angel Reese.
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Lawmakers seek to reverse Illinois law penalizing companies that boycott IsraelMay 17, 2025 5:35 pm - A growing number of state lawmakers are moving to repeal a 2015 Illinois law penalizing companies that boycott Israel to protest its policies toward Palestinians.
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Softball: Woods outduels Gould as Kaneland tops DeKalb 3-1 in extra inningsMay 17, 2025 5:27 pm - Both Kaneland and DeKalb were struggling to get runs across the plate Saturday in the final game of the Barbs’ Strike Out Cancer round-robin. Natalie Naab came through wi...
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After 150 years, Mary Lincoln’s ‘madness’ still haunts American psycheMay 17, 2025 4:41 pm - The subject of Mary Lincoln’s mental health has long been the subject of public debate. Now, 150 years after her commitment, a newly rediscovered collection of correspondence between the widow of the former president who had been assassinated and her friends and family shed new light on the nature of her illness as well as the nature of her relationships with the few friends and family she had left by that time.