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Storm chasers get engaged next to a raging tornado: ‘Couldn’t have asked for a better proposal’

A pair of adrenaline junkie storm chasers got engaged Sunday afternoon as an EF-3 tornado bore down on them in the distance. The storm chasing lovebirds were following tornadoes during a rash of violent weather in South Dakota when Bryce Shelton got down on one knee and popped the question with the “perfect tornado” swirling…
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The Democratic party we knew died the same way it lived – with fear and hate

Zohran Mamdani’s primary win marks the end of the Democratic Party as we once knew it.
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Jason Kidd ‘expected’ to sign extension with Mavericks after Knicks coaching interest

Jason Kidd is “expected” to sign an extension with the Mavericks before next season, according to Hall of Fame writer Marc Stein.
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Reputation and defamation fears may deter childcare abuse reports, Queensland paedophile inquiry finds

Review into man dubbed Australia’s worst paedophile also warns of ‘false sense of security’ from working with children check

Concerns about reputation or legal risks may deter individuals from raising concerns within the childcare sector, a review of the worker dubbed Australia’s worst paedophile has found.

An interim report into Queensland childcare worker Ashley Paul Griffith, who was sentenced to life in prison last year for sexually abusing 73 young girls in Brisbane and Italy, also said the state’s system for protecting children from abuse “may result in a false sense of security”.

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20 states sue after the Trump administration releases private Medicaid data to deportation officials

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House Committee probing Columbia University leadership’s ‘troubling’ statements on campus antisemitism

The lengthy memo, which included the troubling texts, was sent to the embattled institution Tuesday.
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Deluded Bryan Kohberger fans insist he’s innocent despite guilty plea deal: ‘Reeks of a coverup’

“Proberger” supporters of the accused University of Idaho student killer are standing behind their man despite agreeing to confess.
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Mexico police discover 381 neglected corpses ‘thrown indiscriminately’ around private crematorium

Garcia added that the bodies were largely “just thrown like that, indiscriminately, one on top of the other, on the floor.”
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Lindsey Graham gets GOP primary challenge from André Bauer, South Carolina’s former lieutenant gov

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Frustrated woman argues for more childfree businesses — but not for the reason you’d expect

The 31-year-old woman raises a good point.