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He Hired 2 Men to Kidnap His Wife. They Ended Up Drowning.

Lawrence Handley, 53, a business executive from Lafayette, La., pleaded guilty this week to three criminal charges after a plot to kidnap his estranged wife went badly awry.

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The Best and Worst Cities to Live Without a Car

Want to help the environment? Going carless is an excellent start.

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What’s Ripping American Families Apart?

The U.S. seems to be in the middle of a pervasive psychological decline.

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Gloria Vanderbilt’s Beekman Place Apartment Is for Sale

Anderson Cooper is selling his mother’s perpetually reimagined two-bedroom, where she lived for nearly 25 years, for $1.125 million.

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Israel tells UN it aims to cut global warming gases by 27% until 2030

Goals commit state to slashing net global warming gas emissions by 85% by 2050, relative to 2015; Greenpeace: Unambitious aims ‘a disgrace’

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New Zealand Apologizes For 1970s Immigration Raids That Targeted Pacific Islanders

Almost 50 years later, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has formally apologized for the early morning operation that came to be known as the Dawn Raids. (Image credit: Mark Mitchell/AP)

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Police reprimanded rape victim for violating quarantine to go to hospital

An unvaccinated woman who was raped on vacation in Sinai returned to Israel and went to the hospital; she says policemen who came there treated her aggressively, fined her friend

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Anthony Fauci Warns on Covid-19 That ‘Things Are Going to Get Worse’ – The Wall Street Journal

Anthony Fauci Warns on Covid-19 That ‘Things Are Going to Get Worse’  The Wall Street Journal Fauci says unvaccinated Americans are “propagating this outbreak” as Delta spreads  Face the Nation Fauci warns ‘things are going to get worse’ with COVID  ABC News Fauci

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Unicorns are ready for a haircut

The digitization of your haircut may not have been on your 2020 bucket list, but 2021 has an even more surprising line item: Tech-powered barbershops are now a business proposition valued at nearly a billion dollars. Squire is a back-end

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How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend?

Beat the heat indoors: “Behind the Music” is back, as is “The Wine Show.”

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