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Influencer to criminal: the rise and fall of Instagram star Hushpuppi

Sat, 19 Sep 2020 23:21:57 GMT

How Instagram star Raymond “Hushpuppi” Abbas scammed his way into a high life of private jets, designer threads, fancy sports cars — and a shocking arrest.

Dolphin swept 9 miles inland from Gulf of Mexico by Hurricane Laura — and survived

Sat, 19 Sep 2020 22:55:52 GMT

A female bottlenose dolphin got the break of her life after Hurricane Laura. The hurricane’s storm surge swept the mammal from the Gulf of Mexico to a Louisiana pond — 9 miles inland. The Audubon Coastal Wildlife Network, Texas Marine Mammal Stranding Network and National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration worked together to rescue the dolphin, New...

Killed in WWII, these New York City brothers were buried side by side

Sat, 19 Sep 2020 19:15:23 GMT

Alan Cahn was a young boy living in Forest Hills, when his cousins, Ferdinand and Alfred Lebrecht, were killed in combat during World War II. “It is kind of a biblical story,” the 80-year-old Cahn told The Post. The brothers were German Jews who had escaped Nazi Germany and settled on the Upper West Side...

ER doctor’s memoir reveals the carnage — and courage — from the front lines

Sat, 19 Sep 2020 16:48:07 GMT

In more than 25 years of working in trauma medicine and emergency rooms, Dr. Frank Huyler, 55, has seen gunshot wounds, Iraq War veterans with PTSD, bank robbers, addicts, animal attacks, murder victims, a woman who inserted a sewing needle into her own heart, and a patient who lied about being a rock star from...

The best new books to read: 6 top new releases, updated weekly

Sat, 19 Sep 2020 13:29:34 GMT

Divided We Fall David French (nonfiction, St. Martin’s Press) The country is divided, and the polarity will only continue if left unchecked, says French, who presents a vision for how the country can come together again and embrace national unity. These Violent Delights Micah Nemerever (fiction, Harper) Two college students meet on a college campus...

Meet the only senator with a full-time job outside politics — as a farmer

Sat, 19 Sep 2020 13:20:13 GMT

Jon Tester is the only senator who manages a full-time job outside of the Senate. A third-generation farmer on his family farm outside of Big Sandy, Mont., Tester grew up on the farm and is acutely aware of its rhythms, its demands, even its dangers (he lost the middle three fingers on his left hand...

Danish TV show that pairs kids and naked adults slammed as depraved

Sat, 19 Sep 2020 00:48:49 GMT

"Some people are like, 'Oh, my God, they are combining nakedness and kids,' " said "Ultra Strips Down" host Jannik Schow. "But this has nothing to do with sex."

48,000-year-old Neanderthal tooth unearthed in Italy

Fri, 18 Sep 2020 21:44:31 GMT

The discovery of a baby tooth belonging to an adolescent Neanderthal in northern Italy's Veneto region is shedding light on the doomed hominid's final days.

Alligator sucking on helium wins parody Ig Nobel Prize

Fri, 18 Sep 2020 20:48:35 GMT

But they couldn't convince it to sing the "The Chipmunk Song."

This Army-backed research could unlock ways to combat sleep deprivation

Fri, 18 Sep 2020 20:39:06 GMT

New discoveries uncovered by Army-backed scientists may help future soldiers better combat the ever-present problem of sleep deprivation. Researchers at the University of Rochester Medical Center in New York recently published a study that shows how a complex set of molecular and fluid dynamics that clear waste from the brain during sleep my be affected...

Bolsonaro downplays Amazon fires, accuses NGOs of blocking land titling

Fri, 18 Sep 2020 20:27:53 GMT

BRASÍLIA – President Jair Bolsonaro said late on Wednesday Brazil was being “disproportionately” criticized for fires in the Amazon rainforest and Pantanal wetlands, at a time when many places around the world were seeing a surge in blazes. The number of fires in the Amazon, the world’s largest rainforest, likely hit a 10-year high in...

This app lets you spy on your neighbors through your phone

Fri, 18 Sep 2020 20:26:47 GMT

If you've got a smartphone, you've got a PI in your pocket.

Stunning new Jupiter photo shows 9,800-mile mega storm bigger than Earth

Fri, 18 Sep 2020 19:54:06 GMT

NASA has revealed a stunning photo of Jupiter showing its 9,800 mile Great Red Spot along with a brand new storm. NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured a close up image of the new storm when it was taking a shot of Jupiter and its icy moon Europa. The newly spotted storm is a bright white...

Courtroom sketch artist remembers 40 years of legendary bad guys

Fri, 18 Sep 2020 19:30:14 GMT

Jane Rosenberg has been at the trials of the century, meticulously capturing the likes of Bernie Madoff, Bill Cosby and Mark David Chapman, John Lennon’s assassin, throughout her 40 years on the job.

Florida bar owner bans masks, will eject patrons who wear face coverings

Fri, 18 Sep 2020 18:46:59 GMT

The owner of a bar in Florida has outright banned any patrons from wearing masks or face coverings amid the COVID-19 pandemic, saying he doesn’t “agree” with the idea. Gary Kirby, the owner of Westside Sports Bar and Lounge in West Melbourne, told Fox News that he’s been getting death threats for prohibiting masks at...

Coronavirus clusters at French universities teach Europe a lesson

Fri, 18 Sep 2020 18:29:54 GMT

PARIS — Can mandatory masks offer enough protection in lecture halls so packed that late arrivals have to sit on the floor? That’s what worries many students at the centuries-old Sorbonne University in Paris as the coronavirus is on the rebound across France. At least a dozen COVID-19 clusters have emerged since French campuses and...

This man started a 20-mile-long gum-wrapper chain in 1965

Fri, 18 Sep 2020 18:25:27 GMT

This is a gum-believable amount of wrappers — and his wife is not exactly thrilled.

Malaysia’s battle against plastic waste spans beaches and city shops

Fri, 18 Sep 2020 18:13:09 GMT

TIOMAN, Malaysia – Every weekend, a team of volunteers comb the coastline of the Malaysian resort of Tioman to collect plastic trash that washes up on the white-sand beaches of the island lapped by the South China Sea. But rather than burn or bury the trash, it is being recycled into plastic pellets so that...

Estée Lauder to film ad campaign from space, NASA confirms

Fri, 18 Sep 2020 18:09:55 GMT

One step for man, one giant leap for skincare.

Over half of coronavirus-infected pregnant women showed no symptoms

Fri, 18 Sep 2020 18:01:21 GMT

While data is limited around birth outcomes and COVID-19, two new federal reports found that more than half of pregnant women infected with the virus were asymptomatic, or showed no symptoms. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Wednesday published an early release for two reports relating to pregnancy and COVID-19. One report...