A 10-year-old boy who shot and killed his 44-year-old mother in Milwaukee is being charged
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San Francisco supervisors vote to allow police to deploy robots that kill
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Men’s desire to have kids has significantly declined. Between 2012 and 2018
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The normally 25-minute drive from Jean, Nev., to Mountain Pass, Calif., is taking motorists 90 mins
The normally 25-minute drive from Jean, Nev., to Mountain Pass, Calif., is taking motorists almost 90 minutes Sunday. The interstate is the only major thoroughfare between Las Vegas and Los Angeles, and when its three lanes fill up, there's nowhere to else divert to. As of 10:30 a.m. Sunday, the backup begins a little past tourist attraction Seven Magic Mountains and stretches past Primm on the Nevada border. It's been worsening by the hour, so if drivers aren't already on th
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A 37-year-old making $85,000 a year is struggling to find a place to rent or buy in California
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Taking 'selfies' is a mental disorder?
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China sentences Chinese-Canadian star Kris Wu to 13 years
Celebrities China sentences Chinese-Canadian star Kris Wu to 13 years The Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — A Chinese court on Friday sentenced Chinese-Canadian pop star Kris Wu to 13 years in prison on charges including rape. Beijing’s Chaoyang District Court said Wu was given 11 years and 6 months for a 2020 rape, and 1 year and 10 months for the “crime of assembling a crowd to engage in sexual promiscuity” in a 2018 event in which he and others allegedly assaulted two women
