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Homeless woman was living inside Michigan rooftop store sign with computer and coffee maker
Contractors curious about an extension cord on the roof of a Michigan grocery store made a startling discovery: A 34-year-old woman was living inside the business sign, with enough space for a computer, printer and coffee maker, police said. “She was homeless,” Officer Brennon Warren of the Midland Police Department said Thursday. The woman, whose name was not released, told police she had a job elsewhere but had been living inside the Family Fare sign for roughly a year, Warren said.
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Hawaii tourist dies on Maui beach, and wife alleges state failed to warn her about snorkeling danger
Patti Johnson believes her husband Ryan Johnson's snorkeling death off the coast of Maui could have been prevented if he had known about Rapid Onset Pulmonary Edema.
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Houston police chief retires suddenly after questions raised about more than 260,000 suspended investigations
Houston’s police chief unexpectedly retired from the force Tuesday night amid questions about a department policy that allowed hundreds of thousands of cases to be suspended, including sexual abuse cases, according to the mayor’s office.
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2 climbers reported missing on California's Mount Whitney are found dead
Two climbers reported missing this week on California's towering Mount Whitney have been found dead, officials said Thursday. A friend who had been with the climbers called authorities Tuesday night after they failed to arrive as planned at their campsite, the Inyo County Sheriff's Office said in a statement. The friend said the pair had planned to ski or snowboard from the “notch,” a flat area where climbers often stop to rest, down to their camp at Upper Boy Scout Lake.
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Strapped down, blindfolded, held in diapers: Israeli whistleblowers detail abuse of Palestinians in shadowy detention center
At a military base that now doubles as a detention center in Israel’s Negev desert, an Israeli working at the facility snapped two photographs of a scene that he says continues to haunt him.
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“This is Hiroshima and Nagasaki on steroids”: Lindsey Graham rails against U.S. pausing shipments of bombs to Israel.
Would you have supported dropping the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, General Brown, in World War II? Well, Senator, I think it's based on the situation where they... Well, we know. I mean, it's happened. We know. I'm not asking that they did it. Do you think that was disproportionate? It was definitely... In hindsight, do you think that was the right decision for America to drop two atomic bombs on the Japanese cities in question? Well, I'll tell you, it stopped the World War. Okay, wel
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VideoHillary Clinton on protests: Many young people “don't know very much at all about the history of the Middle East.”
I have had many conversations, as you have had, with a lot of young people over the last many months now. And you're right. They don't know very much at all about the history of the Middle East or, frankly, about history in many areas of the world, including in our own country. But with respect to the Middle East, they don't know that under the bringing together of the Israelis and the Palestinians by my husband, the then-Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, the then-head of the Palestinian Libera
