News | Catch of the day They don’t call boat captain Matt Potter “Mako
Matt” for nothing. On June 3 Potter and his crew caught a
1,323-pound mako shark off the coast of California, quite likely a
record size catch from…
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MAY 30: Scripps National Spelling Bee winner Arvind Mahankali
stands under a shower of confetti after winning this year’s Bee in
National Harbor, Md.
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Guilty U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales pleaded guilty on June 5
to the premeditated murder of 16 Afghan civilians during a rampage
last year. Bales told a…
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‘Everything is sort of built in a way that to me suggests
intelligent design.’ Novelist Stephen King, in an interview with
National Public Radio, on…
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June 10 Egypt’s quest to repatriate artifacts originally discovered
near the Pyramids of Giza will be highlighted as Berlin’s Egyptian
Museum holds its…
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‘This evacuation is obligatory; it’s not voluntary.’ Chilean
Interior and Security Minister Andres Chadwick on the evacuation of
2,240 people within a…
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Walled treasure If he had Superman-like vision, David Gonzalez of
Elbow Lake, Minn., might have noticed it sooner. But it wasn’t
until he was remodeling his…
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Awarded President Barack Obama signed a bill May 24 to posthumously
award the Congressional Gold Medal to four African-American girls
killed in a 1963 bombing…
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Pocket pet It’s not what police say John Jacobson stole that
surprised investigators. It’s what they found in his pocket.
According to Washington County,
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May 26 Rafael Nadal of Spain enters the 2013 French Open as an
underdog due to his world ranking. But the three-time defending
champion’s status—as well…
