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Reels, Instagram’s short-form video platform designed to rival TikTok, has become a key driver of both Instagram and Meta’s growth since its rocky launch in 2020.The feature, which has drawn criticism for the large quantity of reshared or cross-posted TikTok content, has grown more sophisticated over time as the Instagram algorithm has shifted from prioritizing photo-based content to video.Reels offers many of the same video tools as TikTok — such as video effects, an audio library, and other ed…
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Elon Musk’s secretive and futuristic brain-chip company, Neuralink, has begun implanting its devices in human skulls — and like many of Musk’s ventures, the new technology has been met with both fanfare and skepticism.The US Food and Drug Administration granted Neuralink approval in 2023 to begin testing the implant in humans. The company inserted a chip into its first human patient in January of 2024, and Musk said the early results showed “promising neuron spike detection.“Musk, who also runs…
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An Alabama prisoner is scheduled to be executed by nitrogen gas on Tuesday — an experimental form of capital punishment that has prompted a global outcry from human rights organizations.Kenneth Eugene Smith survived a lethal injection attempt in September 2022, when officials from Alabama’s Department of Corrections tried and failed for four hours to find a vein to insert an IV line. A federal judge then ruled that an execution by nitrogen hypoxia can go forward.The UN High Commissioner for Huma…
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Authorities in South Carolina have arrested the father and stepmother of a 5-year-old boy who was strangled to death in 1989.The Berkeley County Sheriff’s Office announced January 10 that Victor Lee Turner and Megan Renee Turner are charged with murder in the death of Justin Lee Turner, whose body was found by his tearful father in a scene that authorities now say was staged.Archival footage shot on March 5, 1989, by the local NBC affiliate WCBD showed Victor Lee Turner emerging from a camper an…
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The National Transportation Safety Board, which is investigating Friday’s Alaska Airlines in-flight blowout, is seeking the public’s help in locating a portion of the fuselage that fell some 16,000 feet from an airborne Boeing 737 Max 9.Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 was carrying 171 passengers and six crew members from Portland, Oregon, to Ontario, California, on Friday when suddenly a mid-cabin door plug flew off, leaving a massive hole in the side of the plane and immediately depressurizing the…
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An experienced hiker in New York’s Adirondack Mountains recently survived a harrowing night trapped just above a cliff, in frigid temperatures, after sliding hundreds of feet from the summit of South Dix Mountain.“She had fallen several hundred feet down steep snow and a rockslide before grabbing a small spruce tree, which prevented her from going over a vertical cliff face,” the Department of Environmental Conservation Forest Rangers said in a statement. “The conditions were treacherous with po…
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A recent spate of “swatting” incidents across the country — largely targeting Republican politicians — has flummoxed police departments and endangered victims this holiday season, prompting lawmakers to call for stronger legislation against swatting and harsher penalties.Swatting involves making a false report to a law enforcement agency, usually claiming that a violent crime or hostage situation is unfolding at the address of the swatter’s intended victim. Typically, a heavily armed SWAT team w…
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Colorado wildlife officials have now released 10 gray wolves — four males and six females — as part of a voter-backed effort to reintroduce the predator to the state’s wilderness after roughly 80 years.Wolves were eradicated from Colorado in the 1940s, according to Colorado’s Wolf Restoration and Management Plan. The 10 wolves reintroduced this month were released onto state-owned land in Grand County and Summit County.The goal is “to recover and maintain a viable, self-sustaining wolf populatio…
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London police have made two arrests after a new Banksy artwork was stolen off the street barely an hour after it was first revealed.The Metropolitan Police told the BBC they arrested one man in his 20s on Saturday and a second man in his 40s on Sunday. Both men were charged with theft and criminal damage, according to The Guardian. Police have not yet recovered the artwork and have asked the public to come forward with any information on its whereabouts.The infamous street artist Banksy revealed…
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When 84-year-old Wilma Mobley was found dead in her Idaho home in August of 1995, investigators looked into three possible suspects, including her neighbor, Danny Lee Kennison. But no conclusive evidence emerged, and the case grew cold. Mobley had been strangled and attacked with an “axe type instrument,” and her death remained a mystery until December 18, 2023, the Jerome Police Department said in a press release this week.Idaho State Police Lab technicians who analyzed the nearly three-decade-…
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After a grueling 19-hour operation on a San Diego cliffside, rescuers successfully extricated a man who was trapped from the waist down inside a crevice.The San Diego Fire Department said in a statement that rescuers were first alerted to the trapped man on Thursday at 3:40 p.m., after two passersby heard noises and called 911. The man told rescuers he had been stuck in the hole for “a couple of days.“The fire department said the crevice’s diameter was only approximately 12 to 18 inches in diame…
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Donald Trump announced Sunday he will not testify, as had been expected, in his $250 million civil fraud trial in Manhattan on Monday.“I HAVE ALREADY TESTIFIED TO EVERYTHING & HAVE NOTHING MORE TO SAY OTHER THAN THAT THIS IS A COMPLETE & TOTAL ELECTION INTERFERENCE (BIDEN CAMPAIGN!) WITCH HUNT, THAT WILL DO NOTHING BUT KEEP BUSINESSES OUT OF NEW YORK, I WILL NOT BE TESTIFYING ON MONDAY. MAGA!” Trump wrote on TruthSocial.Instead, one more defense witness is expected to testify on Tuesday: New Yor…
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A pair of filmmakers who spent two years shooting footage for a documentary about invasive mussels in the Great Lakes accidentally discovered a 128-year-old shipwreck that vanished in 1895.The wreck is believed to be the Africa, which was carrying coal — along with 11 doomed sailors — from Ohio to Ontario in October of 1895 before disappearing into Lake Huron amid an early season snowstorm, according to the filmmakers.Over a century later, Yvonne Drebert and Zach Melnick received a tip from scie…
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Moments before an off-duty pilot tried to pull two red fire handles and cut off fuel to the engines during an Alaska Airlines flight in October, he made an admission. “I’m not OK,” he told the two stunned pilots in the cockpit. Joseph David Emerson, who was arrested upon landing in Portland, Oregon and is now charged with 83 counts of attempted murder, told authorities he was depressed, hadn’t slept in 40 hours, and was having a nervous breakdown, according to court records. Emerson denied takin…
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In late 2018, around the time Nadine Arslanian fell in love with the “very, very hot” US senator she met at a New Jersey IHOP, she found herself in need of a new car. Her previous vehicle was wrecked when she hit Richard Koop, a 49-year-old father, killing him almost instantly on a darkened Bogota, New Jersey street. Koop “jumped onto the hood of the car,” she told police at the scene, before they let her go. After the crash, she complained in text messages about not having a car to drive. Some…
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When authorities launched a task force early last year to solve the decade-old Gilgo Beach serial killings case, investigators took just six weeks to resurface a vital clue that would eventually help pinpoint a suspect in four of the 11 killings that have haunted Long Island’s South Shore.The witness who last saw victim Amber Costello in September 2010 described the suspect and his vehicle to police: A dark, first-generation Chevrolet Avalanche driven by a tall, dark-haired, heavyset man. Accord…
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A veterinarian is suing over the death of a police dog named Spike, who was trapped for hours in a hot patrol car, and what she alleges was a cover-up within the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department that involved fabricating her medical opinion about the dog’s death.Yolanda Cassidy, a veterinarian with expertise in “tactical K9 casualty care” for working police dogs, alleged in her lawsuit filed July 6 that the LA County Sheriff’s Department destroyed her reputation by creating a memo that fa…
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A stepfather and stepson died on Friday after hiking through “the hottest part of Big Bend National Park” in Texas, where temperatures reached 119 degrees Fahrenheit, the National Park Service said in a press release.The fatalities occurred along the Marufo Vega Trail, a 14-mile loop that weaves through the Deadhorse Mountains. The park service said the 31-year-old stepfather was hiking the trail “in extreme heat” with his two stepsons, when the younger one, who was just 14, fell ill and lost co…
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A group of Texas nuns have sued a bishop and the Fort Worth Diocese in a dispute over an allegation that one of the nuns — who is seriously ill and uses a wheelchair and a feeding tube — broke her vow of chastity with a priest.The Discalced Carmelite Nuns of Arlington have accused Bishop Michael Olson and the Fort Worth Diocese of waging an overzealous investigation into the alleged chastity vow violation, confiscating the nuns’ phones and personal devices, “spying” on their texts and even perso…
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Two people were killed and 11 were injured after a pickup truck collided with a group of bicyclists while they were riding across a bridge in Goodyear, Arizona, police said Saturday
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A 33-year-old man froze to death in custody at an Alabama jail after being held in a walk-in freezer for hours, according to a new lawsuit filed against multiple jail officials by the man’s mother.Anthony Mitchell was pronounced dead on January 26 after being incarcerated for 14 days “under hellish conditions” in the Walker County Jail, according to the lawsuit brought by Margaret Mitchell on Monday. By the time Mitchell was transported to a local hospital, his internal body temperature was 72 d…
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