Florida has taken the nation's top spot in population growth. The Sunshine State had the fastest-growing population in the United States in 2022, according to Forbes. Florida's population grew by 1.9 percent in 2022, surpassing Idaho at 1.8 percent. The state was on track to end the year with a...

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This mind-boggling optical illusion may baffle you, even after you learn that you didn't see what you thought you did. Experimental psychologist Akiyoshi Kitaoka often amuses her Twitter followers by sharing images that can make you question your own sanity. One mystifying illusion shows two rotating rings made up of...

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Two men have shot and killed each other at their shared business in Lakeland, Florida, according to reports. Citing the Polk County Sheriff's Office, Fox News notes that Akeido Bennett, 31, and Xavier Figueroa, 39, business partners, got into a dispute that escalated to a gunfight Thursday. The sheriff's office...

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Meet Toco, the Japanese man who tried to turn himself into a giant dog. In May, the Deccan Herald brought us the story of the Twitter user who loved dogs so much that he spent over $15,000 on a giant collie costume. According to the Mirror, he said that he...

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Two New York police officers have been hospitalized after being attacked in a New Year's Eve assault by an unidentified assailant who was armed with a machete. According to local news outlet WPIX, three officers were patrolling in Times Square about 10 p.m. when the 19-year-old male charged at them...

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A Massachusetts high school basketball player is facing a criminal charge after allegedly attacking a referee mid-game. The Excel High School player is facing a count of assault and battery after "sucker punching" a referee in a Wednesday game against Cohasset Middle-High School, according to Fox News, citing the Cohasset...

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New details have emerged regarding the investigation of a suspect arrested in the killing of four Idaho college students. According to KYW-TV in Philadelphia, a team of FBI agents and local police had quietly set in motion Bryan Kohlberger's arrest four days before it took place on Friday by monitoring...

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With the apparent goal of protecting American wetlands, the Biden administration has revised the legal definition of the term "waters of the United States," or WOTUS, bringing the ire of many congressional Republicans. This move by Biden's Environmental Protection Agency comes while an important case regarding the EPA is being...

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Many Americans are unaware that buried in the Democrats' 2021 infrastructure bill is a measure to take just a little more of our freedom away from us that liberals have been trying to force on car manufacturers for years. With President Biden's signature on bill in November of 2021, they...

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An Oregon woman has been charged after an incident in which a 3-year-old child was pushed onto the tracks at a Portland commuter train station. Brianna Lace Workman, 32, who is listed as homeless but living in Portland, faces multiple charges, according to Oregon Live. She faces charges of first-degree...

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An Alaska police chief has been indicted on multiple charges over a September incident that left a Washington state man injured. A grand jury on Thursday indicted Ketchikan Police Chief Jeffrey Walls on one count of third-degree assault, a felony, three misdemeanor charges of fourth-degree assault, and two misdemeanor counts...

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After CNN issued a memo to ensure its New Year’s Eve hosts did not foul up their shows for on-air drinking, CNN host Don Lemon missed the boat on ushering in 2023. Lemon was hosting a live show in New Orleans aimed at welcoming 2023 in America’s Central Time Zone....

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Dr. Anthony Fauci has left the building. The polarizing now-ex head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, as well as ex-Chief Medical Advisor to President Joe Biden, had previously announced that he would be stepping down at the "end of" December. That would mean he is no...

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Was terrorism targeting the Times Square New Year? New York City police and the FBI are investigating Saturday night's machete assault on three NYPD officers as a potential jihadist attack, according to news accounts that cited law enforcement sources. The suspect in the attack has been identified as Trevor Bickford,...

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A Colorado man was arrested last month after allegedly trying to break into a police station. According to a Colorado Springs Police Department probable cause affidavit, Carlos Alberto Trejo, 36, had a confession to make. “I just woke up and shot my friend in the chest … I shot him...

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A nurse is facing charges of physical abuse of an elderly person and causing great bodily harm and mayhem, after she allegedly cut off a patient's foot for her own purposes. Mary K. Brown, 38, worked at a nursing home in Durand, Wisconsin, when she allegedly performed the unauthorized amputation...

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Police in Moscow, Idaho, believe they have finally caught the man responsible for the brutal murders of four young college students. On Friday, 28-year-old Bryan Kohberger, the man believed to be responsible, was arrested and charged with four counts of first-degree murder and felony burglary. Since Kohberger's arrest, one detail,...

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In the aftermath of an arrest in the November murders of four college students in Idaho, at least one parent of a victim thinks he can see some connections between his daughter and the man arrested. On Friday, Bryan Kohberger, 28, was arrested at his family’s home in Pennsylvania and...

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Bill Cosby indicated last week on a radio talk show that he might begin touring in the year to come. Cosby made his comments Wednesday during an interview with “WGH Talk” host Scott Spears. Cosby, who is 85, was convicted of sexual assault in 2018 and spent three years in...

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It is often said that how you spend your New Year's Eve represents how your new year will be. So what in the world does that mean for the more than 60 amusement park riders who had to be rescued from The Wheel at Orlando's ICON Park on New Year's...

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Singer Anita Pointer, whose voice thrilled millions as part of the Pointer Sisters, died Saturday surrounded by her family members. The cause of death was cancer, her publicist Roger Neal said, according to Reuters. She was 74. The Pointer Sisters -- Anita, June and Bonnie -- debuted in 1973 with "The...

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