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World famous physicist Stephen Hawking dead at age 76

In his final years, the only thing connecting the brilliant physicist to the outside world was a couple of inches of frayed nerve in his cheek. As slowly as a word per minute, Stephen Hawking used the twitching of the muscle under his right eye to grind out his thoughts… Read More

Students walkout across the US to protest school safety

From Maine to Hawaii, students planned to walk out of school Wednesday to protest gun violence in the biggest demonstration yet of the student activism that has emerged in response to last month’s massacre of 17 people at Florida’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. In nearly 3,000 protests nationwide, students… Read More

Thousands facing power outages after 3rd nor’easter

Storm cleanup and the restoration of power to the tens of thousands of residents and businesses without electricity was the focus Wednesday, one day after a fierce nor’easter lashed the Northeast with hurricane-force winds and heavy snow. With spring tantalizingly close after the switch to daylight saving time, many were… Read More

Revealed! Texas bomb victims’ families knew each other

Families of two people killed by package bombs left on their doorsteps in Austin knew each other and were connected through local activism in the black community, a civic leader said Tuesday. But it was not clear how they might be tied to a third household where a package bomb… Read More

ABC star apologizes for nasty anti-Christian comments

by Kylie Handler, editor ABC’s “The View” star Joy Behar is apologizing for comments she made for equating people’s claims that Jesus Christ talks to them to mental illness. During his appearance on Fox’s “Hannity,” Vice President Mike Pence announced that Behar called him to give a “sincere” apology and he… Read More

TRAGIC! Deadly Disney World bus crash reported

A bus carrying high school band members home to Texas from Disney World ran off a highway and plunged into a deep ravine Tuesday in Alabama, killing the driver and injuring many passengers, authorities said. First responders used ropes to rappel down the 50-foot ravine in the middle of Interstate… Read More

Bride arrested on her wedding day for… WHAT!?

Police say a bride in southern Arizona was arrested on suspicion of impaired driving after she was involved in a car crash on the way to her wedding. Amber Young was wearing an open-back dress when she was handcuffed and put into a police cruiser Monday in Marana, 30 miles… Read More

Here’s who won the strange battle for Charles Manson’s remains

A grandson of cult leader Charles Manson won the bizarre California court battle Monday over the killer’s body. Kern County Superior Court Commissioner Alisa Knight ruled that Jason Freeman can retrieve Manson’s remains, which have been on ice in the Bakersfield morgue since he died in November. Freeman didn’t immediately… Read More

Passengers leap from plane after emergency landing [video]

A Dallas-bound flight made an emergency landing at Albuquerque International Sunport, sending panicked passengers leaping from a wing onto the tarmac after crew members screamed at them to get away from the aircraft, passengers and officials said. Southwest Flight 3562 took off from Phoenix on Sunday night and was headed… Read More

[Weather alert] Northeast prepares for 3rd nor’easter

Winter-weary New Englanders are preparing for blizzard conditions, a foot or more of snow and high winds as the third major nor’easter in two weeks bears down on the Northeast. The National Weather Service on Monday issued a winter storm warning for much of New England and a winter weather… Read More