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This Menacing Police Robot Perfectly Shaped Like a Soccer Ball Definitely Won’t Be Vandalized by Angry Locals
As the amount of high-tech police gear skyrockets across North America and much of Europe, one company isn’t betting on robo-dogs or egg-shaped sentry-bots. Instead, Estonian-based startup Rollo Robotics came up with a roving sentinel in the shape of a juicy rubber kickball, dubbed 1Rollo, as New Atlas reports — and we can’t shake the…
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WeHo’s newest resident enjoys A/C, Sunset Strip views … from inside a billboard. Why he’s there
Los Angeles residents and tourists alike flocked to Sunset Boulevard and Selma Avenue in West Hollywood Friday morning. Instead of coming to catch a glimpse of the storied Chateau Marmont, the historic hotel beloved by celebrities and New Yorkers alike a block away, people were there to take photos of and see one particular billboard…
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What Loss Teaches Us About Living
—Atichart Amatyakul—Getty Images The morning my brother Harry was airlifted from I-81 to the trauma center, I drove toward the hospital barely able to breathe. At a stoplight I noticed the people in their cars around me—a man checking his hair in the rearview mirror, a child kicking his legs in his car seat. Ordinary…
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Iran has made our most urgent national-security priority painfully clear
During the 1979-1981 hostage crisis, a defiant Iran starkly demonstrated the limits of American power. Forty-five years later, it is doing the same thing, although in vastly different circumstances. Back then, a time when the post-Vietnam military was at a low ebb, we didn’t strike Iran and a long-shot rescue operation ended in abject failure. …
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Spokane Shows What the New Era of Wildfires Looks Like
Betsy Robertson was standing in the center of the Spokane Convention Center on Monday afternoon, but she wasn’t there for a gala or a conference. Instead, the event space in the middle of Washington state’s second-largest city had been transformed into a Red Cross emergency shelter as a trio of wildfires, just a few miles…
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San Francisco dad questioned by park rangers for teaching his own kids tennis at public court
A California father says he simply wanted to spend an afternoon playing tennis with his children but instead found himself being questioned by park rangers who believed he was illegally teaching lessons without a permit. Sam Dogen, a San Francisco father of two, told Fox News Digital he was practicing with his 6-year-old daughter and 9-year-old son…
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WhatsApp Gets a Handy @all Feature for Group Chats
The group chat is the last truly heavyweight institution of modern life. It’s one of the most reliable means of daily communication, used for just about anything from planning to catching up. WhatsApp is counting over 3 billion users, and it’s a fair bet most of them are in at least one group chat; the…
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Senate confirms Todd Blanche as Trump’s attorney general in 50-49 vote
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche was narrowly confirmed by the Senate on Saturday to lead the Justice Department on a permanent basis under President Trump. Blanche’s nomination was approved in a 50-49 vote, with two Republicans, Sens. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) and Susan Collins (R-Maine), voting with all Democrats against his confirmation. “Mr. Blanche is nominated…
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‘The Simpsons’ actress Nancy Cartwright predicts when hit show will end
“The Simpsons” could have an end date in sight — at least according to one of its longtime stars. Nancy Cartwright, who has voiced Bart Simpson since 1987, revealed that the animated sitcom may wrap after Season 40, during an appearance on Michael Rosenbaum’s “Inside of You” podcast on Tuesday. Asked how long she thinks…
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Kellogg to remove artificial dyes from cereals by end of this year
WK Kellogg said Thursday that it will remove artificial colors from all its cereals by the end of this year. The change comes a year ahead of schedule. Kellogg said last August that it would remove synthetic dyes from its cereals by the end of 2027. But the company said Thursday it has identified fruit- and vegetable-based…