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Diver pinned under water by an alligator figured he had choice: Lose his arm or lose his life
Out of air and pinned by an alligator to the bottom of the Cooper River in South Carolina, Will Georgitis decided his only chance to survive might be to lose his arm. The alligator had fixed his jaws around Georgitis' arm and after he tried to escape by stabbing it with the screwdriver he uses to pry fossilized shark teeth off the riverbed, the gator shook the diver and dragged him 50 feet (15 meters) down, Georgitis told The Post and Courier. The alligator attacked Georgitis on April 15 as he
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Minnesota Sen. Nicole Mitchell arrested on suspicion of burglary after being found in home
Democratic Sen. Nicole Mitchell was arrested after being found inside a home in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota. She was booked into Becker County jail.
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Opinion: I’d rather live in the ‘world’s most dangerous place’ than America
What do Taiwanese think of the US 2024 election? Clarissa Wei gives the view from Taipei, where she feels safer than in America and part of a new generation turning away from the American dream.
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Russia warns Europe: if you take our assets, we have a response that will hurt
An ally of President Vladimir Putin warned Europe on Tuesday that Russia has already drafted legislation to retaliate if nearly $300 billion of Russian assets were seized by the West and used to help Ukraine. After President Vladimir Putin sent troops into Ukraine in 2022, the United States and its allies prohibited transactions with Russia's central bank and finance ministry, blocking around $300 billion of sovereign Russian assets in the West. The U.S. House of Representatives passed legisla
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70-year-old Uber driver brutally beaten by passenger in Los Angeles
An Uber driver from Southern California is looking to spread the word on the potential risks associated with being a rideshare driver after he was violently assaulted by a passenger over the weekend. The driver, 70-year-old Peter McNulty, told KTLA that he comes to the L.A. area from his home in the Antelope Valley on […]
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Celebrity handbag designer sentenced to 18 months in prison for smuggling crocodile handbags
A leading fashion designer whose accessories were used by celebrities from Britney Spears to the cast of the “Sex and the City” TV series was sentenced Monday to 18 months in prison after pleading guilty in Miami federal court on charges of smuggling crocodile handbags from her native Colombia. Nancy Gonzalez was arrested in 2022 in Cali, Colombia, and later extradited to the U.S. for running a sprawling multiyear conspiracy that involved recruiting couriers to transport her handbags on commerc
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Tennessee's GOP governor says Volkswagen plant workers made a mistake in union vote
Tennessee Republican Gov. Bill Lee said Monday that he thinks workers at a Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga made a mistake by voting to unionize under the United Auto Workers in a landslide election but acknowledged the choice was ultimately up to them. Ahead of the vote, Lee and five other Southern Republican governors spoke out publicly against the UAW's drive to organize workers at factories largely in the South, arguing that if autoworkers were to vote for union representation, it would jeop
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