Mich. teachers joked about students and killing co-workers. First outrage, then resignations.; Forget eggs. 245 million years ago, this long-necked sea creature gave birth to live babies.; Howard Stern sued after airing private call between IRS agent and taxpayer; Anti-Semitic jokes cause YouTube, Disney to distance themselves from PewDiePie; Armyworm pests invade southern Africa ‘like one of the 10 plagues of the Bible’; Louisville officials receive 52 overdose calls in 32 hours as country’s addiction epidemic explodes; ‘Warm, charismatic woman’: Tom Cruise’s mother, who inspired him to act, dead at 80;
 
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Flynngate? Kremlingate? Russiagate? The gate’s out of the gate.
With Michael Flynn's resignation, the inevitable gate construction is underway.
Mich. teachers joked about students and killing co-workers. First outrage, then resignations.
"It's disturbing to know that these are our educators,” one parent said to a local news affiliate.
 
Forget eggs. 245 million years ago, this long-necked sea creature gave birth to live babies.
The rare fossil embryo was the first evidence of live births in a vast group of species previously thought only to lay eggs.
 
Howard Stern sued after airing private call between IRS agent and taxpayer
Judith Barrigas didn't know her conversation was being aired until she received a barrage of texts and calls from strangers.
 
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Anti-Semitic jokes cause YouTube, Disney to distance themselves from PewDiePie
Popular Swedish comedian will not lose his YouTube channel, which has more than 53 million subscribers, and he can continue to monetize his videos.
 
Armyworm pests invade southern Africa ‘like one of the 10 plagues of the Bible’
African armyworms eat in hordes as dense as 1,000 caterpillars per square meter.
 
Louisville officials receive 52 overdose calls in 32 hours as country’s addiction epidemic explodes
In January alone, Louisville saw 695 overdoses from these substances, a 33 percent increase from last year.
 
‘Warm, charismatic woman’: Tom Cruise’s mother, who inspired him to act, dead at 80
Cruise and his mother, Mary Lee South, remained close throughout his life — from the poverty-stricken years when he was young through his career as a Hollywood star.
 
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