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World - / Oct 8, 2026 - New lawsuit against Green Card rules: Why separate family members by sending the applicants out of country - Unions of immigrant workers came together to challenge two new Green Card rules proposed by the Trump-Vance administration, saying that these policies will make it almost impossible for eligible immigrants who are already living in the US to get

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World - / Oct 8, 2026 - California father builds 180-foot backyard roller coaster after son asks for one - A California father constructed a 180-foot roller coaster for his son after the child expressed interest. They spent six weeks working on the project, which cost around $3,500 to complete. The father used the project as an educational opportunity to teach his son about physics and mathematics throughout the construction process. Neighbors became curious and followed the project as it progressed in their backyard.

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Democrats Turn On Mamdani! NYC Mayor's Oct 7 'Genocide' Remarks Spark Fury Within Party

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Nana Patekar, a legend passes away

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Gen Z is making Indian textiles cool again: 5 heritage weaves that are having a fashion comeback

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7 things you should always have in your office bag: These everyday essentials can come in handy if you're in a meeting that runs long or your day takes an unexpected turn

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In 2016, Barack Obama expanded that Hawaiian ocean refuge by 442,781 square miles, creating a protected area nearly the size of the Gulf of Mexico

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In 1994, Bill Clinton signed a desert-protection law that impacted nearly 9.2 million acres of California, creating Mojave National Preserve and expanding Joshua Tree and Death Valley

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A Texas physician spent 40 years restoring family land; $10M property is now a 2,178-acre wildlife area filled with deer, wild turkeys and black-capped vireos

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In 1928, supporters had raised $5 million for Great Smoky Mountains National Park but rising land prices stalled the effort; a Rockefeller memorial fund matched it with another $5 million, helping make the park possible

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Patrón co-founder John Paul DeJoria turned a 96-acre Texas ranch into a home for more than 120 exotic animals; when it sold for $6.93 million, the buyer inherited the herd and a 2,700-square-foot underground shelter

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Meet Advay Jain: Indian-American kid who made Guinness record as the youngest person to publish a book. He was 3 when he wrote 'Dino Learns Not To Waste Food'

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Meet John Reznikoff, the US collector who owns $1 million worth of hair from Abraham Lincoln, Marilyn Monroe and Einstein

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How FBI tracked an ISIS-linked teen, stopped him from carrying out Mall of America mass shooting

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Marriage fraud, duplicate identity: 4 Pakistani men to lose US citizenship in largest denaturalization move by the Trump administration

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A Maryland DoorDash driver's brakes failed and his car was totalled during a delivery, yet he still told the customer where to collect the food; the video went viral and his fundraiser later climbed past $15,000

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On a 160-acre Nebraska farm parcel, one wind turbine and its equipment use about 1 acre; the developer says a typical 30-year lease averages $10,000 to $12,500 a year, versus about $600 for top-dollar corn on that acre

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Jon Stewart and his wife Tracey paid $4 million for a historic 45-acre New Jersey farm in 2016; the property now grows crops and cares for rescued cows, sheep, goats, pigs and chickens through their sanctuary foundation

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A 2,600-acre South Carolina timber property at the rivers where Revolutionary War commander Francis Marion hid from British forces has been transferred to the state, advancing a 7,600-acre conservation project with 60+ miles of riverfront

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East Hampton wants to spend $36.3 million to buy 38.3 acres of a former New York sand mine once slated for a 50-lot commercial subdivision; 33.3 acres would instead become open space

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Pak army chief Munir bypasses PM Sharif, moves to deploy more military assets to Saudi Arabia

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Pakistan bets on electric vehicles as Middle East war sends petrol prices soaring 54%

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Pakistan-Afghanistan conflict: A clash of unequals, but why is Islamabad relying on air power instead of ground offensive

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Pakistan forces accused of quadcopter blast that killed 2 children in Balochistan

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Nearly 3 in 4 Pakistan inmates await trial amid prison overcrowding in country: Report

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'Come to your senses': What is Pakistan PM Shehbaz Sharif's condition for talks with Imran's party

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Pakistan successfully test-fires extended version of Fatah-4 cruise missile

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Another showdown brewing in Pakistan? Imran Khan supporters hit streets after talks fail

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Pakistan braces for showdown as talks collapse, Imran Khan's party pushes ahead with march

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India slams Pakistan at UN, says 'so-called' civilian governments serve at army's mercy

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Pakistan kills 5 TTP militants as violence escalates on Afghanistan border

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Pakistan logs over 1.2k rebel attacks in 9 months of '26, security crisis deepens

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Shehbaz govt, Imran Khan's PTI hold talks as Pakistan braces for protests

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'Vague and broad': UN experts slam Pakistan's counter-terrorism laws, demand release of lawyer couple

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Policeman killed in gunmen attack in Pakistan's khyber pakhtunkhwa

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Pakistan forces kill 7 TTP militants in North Waziristan amid rising violence along Afghan border

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Nepal flood surged at 163kmph, seismic waves detected 19k-km away: Study

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Who is Shiranthi Rajapaksa? Sri Lanka's former first lady arrested over alleged misuse of hospital funds

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Antonio Guterres sidesteps Kashmir question, flags UN Security Council's 'crisis of legitimacy'

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'Tarique hasn't ruled out India visit': Dhaka

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Nepal ends flood search with over 5,000 still missing, including 189 Indians

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After 40 days, Nepal ends flood search with 5,285 still missing

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India's political will needed to extradite Sheikh Hasina: Bangladesh

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US carrier George HW Bush arrives in Thailand after Middle East deployment: Key points

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Accepted her as she was still PM: Indian envoy on Hasina's flight

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Bangladesh extends official Durga Puja holidays to 3 days, steps up security

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A British collector paid under £100 for a damaged wooden pendant at a provincial auction; experts identified it as rare Rapa Nui jewellery and it later sold for £75,800 including fees

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A bronze cup made near Hadrian's Wall was found in Spain nearly 1,900 years later; researchers think a Roman soldier may have carried it home as a souvenir

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Royal Navy sailor charged under UK National Security Act of spying for Russia

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A trainee solicitor broke a 14-year-old marathon record held by Dracula; Archie Hunt ran 2:27:41 dressed as Captain Underpants

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Prince William launches Amazon partnership to protect Indigenous defenders; partner reaches 110 million hectares, with DiCaprio's video support

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Prince William's charitable foundation funded homes on Duchy land in Cornwall; in August, the first phase was handed to a charity, providing accommodation and support for 16 people facing homelessness

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Birmingham council sold a £395,000 house in 2013; 11 years later, it discovered a primary school had accidentally gone with it; now it is going to court to get it back

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In 2016, Cumbria began trialling waste-plastic roads; a year later, an A7 project reused 500,000 bottles or 800,000 bags; five years later, the trials were deemed successful

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Two runners completed the London Marathon inside one giant inflatable elephant in 4:15:40; they set a world record while raising money for type 1 diabetes

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An Oxford professor ran the London Marathon dressed as an academic in 2 hours 55 minutes; he broke a Guinness record and raised money for a children's hospice

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Queen Elizabeth II opened London Zoo's Lion Terraces in 1976; 40 years later, she returned to open a new home for endangered Asiatic lions

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UK's oldest Indian restaurant in a soup, owner accuses Crown Estate of not valuing curry traditions

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Rolling Stones bassist Bill Wyman took up metal detecting after workers found a medieval jug at his Suffolk home; his searches later uncovered more than 200 Roman coins and a previously unknown farmstead

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Billionaire Chris Rokos gets Wiltshire Council green light for 40-acre solar farm at Savernake Estate after neighbour objections; panels to generate 794,600 kWh for 100-bedroom Tottenham House

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Two UK neighbours fought over whether a hedge boundary ran through the middle or outer edge; after losing her appeal, one must pay £108,402 upfront toward 70% of the other's costs

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A man ran 26.2 miles in a giant inflatable chicken costume; he broke a Guinness World Record while raising more than £2,200 for vulnerable children

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Italy passes Meloni's electoral reform, sets 42% threshold for parliamentary majority

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From France to Italy, Belgium to Greece, student protests spread across Europe

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Over 33 killed as Russia's glide bomb attack targets two civilian buses in Ukraine

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Canadian author Anne Carson awarded 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature

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Stun grenades, shattered jaw, severed hand: France's student protests put police under scrutiny

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Three rare snake species bred at Prague Zoo for the first time; two groups of young descend from animals seized from smugglers

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'Maricarmen lives, the fight goes on': 87-year-old dies after becoming symbol of Spain housing crisis

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Trump as 'orange plague': Gold-covered naked statue of US president unveiled at European Parliament

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France suspends stun grenades after teen loses hand during student protest in Lille

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Knife attack at Polish school leaves 7 injured; 19-year-old student arrested

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'Russia pursuing deliberate strategy of terror': EU chief sends €1.24 billion to Ukraine

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'Birthday gift to Putin': Russia launches massive strikes on Ukraine; energy sites hit

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'Islam wanting to take over': Donald Trump reacts to France school protests

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Ukrainian drone attack sets fire to oil tanker carrying 23 Indians off Russia's Black Sea coast; crew rescued

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The Netherlands built two 210-metre gates to hold back the North Sea; they can close automatically when storm surges threaten Zuid-Holland

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Lithuania ready to cover cost if US establishes military base; parliament votes to host foreign arms

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From fishing nets to grey-zone tactics: Chinese militia boat enter Taiwan's sensitive east coast - report

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K-8 attack jets, military vehicles spotted at new China-Laos air base: Report

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China's Fuman Oilfield, largest desert oilfield, extracts 26.86 million tons of oil and gas from below 6,000 metres; engineers recover 500-million-year-old rock core from record 8,080-metre depth in Xinjiang

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'Blatant lie': China slams US panel's 'genocide' claim after Starbucks opens first Xinjiang stores

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China's Zijinshan gold mine turned its own waste into haul-road material; test roads carried 100-ton trucks and resisted deformation

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Xi Jinping unwell? Chinese officials sought unusual long breaks during the US visit

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China's gold-copper mine built a road from mining waste; one section showed 97% lower deflection after 28 days

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China tests 800-passenger flying-wing aircraft model with 85-metre span, showing how new aerodynamics could improve range and efficiency

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Chinese hackers impersonate ex-White House official to target US AI experts, steal emails: Report

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Bombs without brakes? Why the US-China AI race may be harder to control than the nuclear one

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Israel-Britain ties hit new low as Jerusalem consulate loses its diplomatic status

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Syria considers sending troops to Saudi Arabia to fight Houthis

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Iran sends Hezbollah $200 million to aid displaced Lebanese: Report

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Tanker attacks in Strait of Hormuz highest in a week since Iran war began: Report

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The backstory: From the 'Promised Land' to October 7 - the origin story of Israel-Palestine conflict

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Turkish opposition stronghold falls in Erdogan's hands as Izmir mayor defects

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05:40 - F-35s, F-15s, Reapers: US loses 81 aircraft as Iran war bill hits $3.3 billion

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Houthis hit Yemen's Aden airport, claim attacks on Saudi Arabia

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Omani pilot had failed airline stints, flydubai hired him in post-pandemic spree: Report

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Netanyahu govt rejects flydubai bid to resume Israel flights after cockpit attack

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3 years after October 7, Israel remembers its dead amid election heat

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EU ready to send observers for first Palestinian parliamentary vote in nearly two decades

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Pak, Saudi Arabia and Turkiye agree to deploy forces in Gulf country amid Houthi attacks

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'Efforts underway to hide costs of Iran war': US senator alleges Pentagon denied him access to Al Udeid base in Qatar

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In 2024, Sydney laid a road using fibres from discarded coffee cups and a petroleum-free binder; 15,600 heavy vehicles crossed it in 75 days as tests indicated improved durability

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In 2016, Serena Williams helped fund and build a school in Jamaica alongside charity partners and volunteers; the Salt Marsh project was designed to give 80 preschool children access to free education

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Who is 'cybercrime specialist' Daniel Robson? Canadian publications pulled down his articles after two years because he is possibly AI

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M23 guerrilla war's shadow economy: How Congo's militias turn guns, gold and tolls into profit

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AI may raise homework scores but weaken actual learning, World Bank warns

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Egypt arrests 6 journalists from fact-checking website over 'terrorism', 'fake news' charges

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The backstory: Che Guevara's final hours - 'You are only going to kill a man'

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UN-doing the United Nations: Can its next chief fix a system under severe strain?

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NSW and Australian governments buy 74,000-hectare outback station, protecting state's first pink lakes and habitat for 70+ threatened species, including brolga, pink cockatoo and slender darling pea

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Seoul successfully test-fires first hypersonic missile, days after North Korea

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UK court blocks appeal in diesel emissions lawsuits against carmakers

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Istanbul building collapse kills two; rescuers race to reach trapped child

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Malaysia bets on AI boom with 2,300-acre Silicon Island

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A shopper paid C$5 for a small painting at an Ontario landfill donation centre, then spotted David Bowie's name on the back; after experts authenticated the 1997 work, it sold at auction for C$108,120

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A Nova Scotia man lost his wallet as a teenager in 1975; 51 years later, a carpenter found it under floorboards with his birth certificate, student ID, $1 bill and a Hamlet ticket still inside

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Russia rejects second plague scare as WHO demands answers over Siberian lab deaths

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'Last warning to global airlines': Houthis attack Riyadh airport, warn over Saudi airspace

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In 1984, Patrick Swayze bought a 4.5-acre ranch outside Los Angeles and built it into an Arabian-horse retreat with a 16-stall barn, two arenas and a dance studio; after his death, it sold for $2.9 million and later listed for $4.5 million

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Robert Redford bought 2 acres in Utah for his family in 1961; he later bought a canyon and turned it into Sundance, an arts and conservation retreat

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A Maine woman recorded the weather almost every day for 60 years; at 96, she finally stopped sending her observations to NOAA

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In 2025, Swiss startup installed 48 removable solar panels between active railway tracks; today, 11,000 trains have passed over the 100-metre plant, generating more than 16,000 kWh

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Jim Belushi bought 13 acres beside Oregon's Rogue River and expanded his retreat to 93 acres; years later, the actor described a sanctuary with a sweat lodge, 50 cows and 50 newly born calves

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In 1962, South Africa built road sections from Kalahari sand instead of crushed rock; 55 years and 1.5 million truck-equivalent loads later, all remained in service without reported structural problems

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In 2021, Arnold Schwarzenegger donated $250,000 to help homeless veterans in Los Angeles; before Christmas, 25 tiny shelters were installed with beds, climate control and doors residents could lock

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Indian students' American dream hits a $ 70,000 toll

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A Florida woman rode 7,000 miles through 48 states in six days, then donated $17,560 to the house that supported her when her 2-pound newborn spent nearly three months in intensive care

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In 1976, Kirk and Anne Douglas paid $400,000 for a Beverly Hills home and turned its garden path into a private walk of fame with more than 40 celebrity autographs; 45 years later, the estate sold for $9.015 million

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A New Hampshire groundskeeper lived in an empty trailer and mowed lawns; after his death, town discovered he had donated $3.8 million to support education, health and recreation

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'No excuse for victim blaming': Mamdani under fire from Democrats and pro-Palestinian left over Oct 7 message

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3 years after October 7 Hamas attack: A scarred Israel, a devastated Gaza and a Middle East no longer the same

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After visiting 20 African countries, IShowSpeed launched a football fund in 2026 supporting grassroots groups from Ghana and Kenya to Namibia and Rwanda

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