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A pug beagle dressed as a Tudor gentleman. A colorfully rendered cockatoo. Sculpture. Stained glass. Cross stitch. We asked you to share artwork inspired by your pets, and you all outdid yourselves.
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Kristi Lecoq and Micah Walk are the musicians behind the Tater Tots, a musical duo which plays music for kids. They shared how teaching music led to the formation of their two-person band. They also explained how they educate and enterain kids with their fun music, which includes original songs and parodies.
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Lt. DeWayne Smith served as a supervisor on the now-deactivated SCORPION unit — the specialized police unit responsible for conducting the traffic stop that ultimately lead to Nichols' death.
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It's President Biden's first trip to Canada as president. He and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau are expected to discuss their concerns about the security crisis in Haiti.
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Not everyone who was part of rap's ascent gets included in its story. MC Sha-Rock, of the original Funky 4 and the Funky 4 + 1, reaffirms her role in hip-hop's formative years as the first woman MC.
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Powerful artificial intelligence tools that can create video, audio, text, and pictures are raising fears the technology will supercharge disinformation and propaganda by bad actors.
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This year is expected to set a record for the number of book bans by public school libraries, so many people are finding creative ways to make banned books available to young readers outside schools.
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The bill would ban several common ingredients used in processed foods, such as Red Dye No. 3, which has been linked to cancer in animal studies.
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A new U.N. water report warns the world is headed toward a global water crisis if human-caused climate change and population growth aren't addressed.
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State agents say Smith was murdered. Interest in his case has spiked in part because of where he died: about 8 miles from where Maggie and Paul Murdaugh were shot to death.
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At Wednesday's argument, the justices struggled to reconcile their own previous decisions enforcing the nation's trademark laws and what some of them saw as a potential threat to free speech.
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The Park County coroner said the body found Wednesday was Austin Lyle, the student who was accused in the shootings of two administrators of the Colorado high school that he attended.
The Federal Reserve raised its benchmark interest rate by a quarter percentage-point in an effort to curb high inflation. Some had called for the Fed to wait after two recent bank failures.
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