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2,554-pound pumpkin sets new US record

A 2,554-pound pumpkin grown in upstate New York has set a new U.S. record for the heaviest. State and national records fell over the weekend at the Great Pumpkin Farm in the Buffalo suburb of Clarence, when Scott Andrusz’s entry broke the previous national record of 2,528 pounds, The Buffalo… Read More

California braces for brutal winter amid megadrought

The past three years have been California’s driest on record and state officials said Monday that they’re preparing for the streak to continue. The official water year concluded Friday, marking an end to a period that saw both record rainfall in October and the driest January-to-March period in at least… Read More

Bombshell report warns of fraud on Zelle

Incidents of fraud and scams are occurring more often on the popular peer-to-peer payment service Zelle, according to a report issued Monday by the office of Sen. Elizabeth Warren, giving the public its first glimpse into the growing problems at Zelle. The report also found that the large banks that… Read More

‘Bulls**t’: What Obama said about Hillary Clinton stuns in new leak

When former President Barack Obama was leaving the White House in January 2017, the Democrats were still performing an autopsy on former State Secretary Hillary Clinton’s failed campaign for president. From the White House, Obama privately posited some theories about Clinton’s downfall. Earlier this month, the Justice Department finally released… Read More

Nobel season: Swedish anthropologist wins for Neanderthal discovery

Swedish scientist Svante Paabo won the Nobel Prize in medicine Monday for discoveries on human evolution that unlocked secrets of Neanderthal DNA that helped us understand what makes humans unique and provided key insights into our immune system, including our vulnerability to severe COVID-19. Techniques that Paabo spearheaded allowed researchers… Read More

Supreme Court to hear blockbuster terrorism case

The Supreme Court said Monday it will hear two cases seeking to hold social media companies financially responsible for terrorist attacks. Relatives of people killed in terrorist attacks in France and Turkey had sued Google, Twitter, and Facebook. They accused the companies of helping terrorists spread their message and radicalize… Read More

Kim Kardashian settles with SEC over big crypto scandal

Kim Kardashian has agreed to pay $1.26 million to settle Securities and Exchange Commission charges that she promoted a cryptocurrency on Instagram without disclosing that she’d been paid $250,000 to do so. The SEC said Monday that the reality TV star and entrepreneur has agreed to cooperate with its ongoing… Read More

Hillary Clinton lying about presidential run?!

Hillary Clinton — the former senator, former secretary of state, and twice-failed candidate for president — has sworn off all future runs for president. “No, out of the question,” Clinton told the Financial Times in June. “First of all, I expect Biden to run. He certainly intends to run. It… Read More

Supreme Court begins new term Monday… with a new justice

The Supreme Court is beginning its new term, welcoming the public back to the courtroom and hearing arguments for the first time since issuing a landmark ruling stripping away women’s constitutional protections for abortion. Monday’s session also is the first time new Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the court’s first Black… Read More