After 15 hours (and counting), this Seattle man refuses to get down from iconic 80-foot tree; Hulk Hogan bodyslams Gawker in first interview after destroying it in court; Rob Ford, Canada’s Trump and a self-avowed ‘racist,’ was beloved by immigrants; ‘Top Chef’ winner Paul Qui charged with assault after alleged cocaine use, fight with girlfriend; Obama administration’s ‘continuous resistance’ in IRS targeting case slammed by federal appeals court; Refugees rescue anti-refugee German politician after car crash; Paul McCartney takes battle for Beatles songs to copyright office; W. Va. teenager playing dangerous game dies after being accidentally shot in the head with a bow and arrow; Flight attendant flees LAX, leaving nearly 70 pounds of cocaine and Gucci heels in her wake; Finally free from guilt over Challenger disaster, an engineer dies in peace; Why a family fights over their ‘healthy and beautiful’ daughter, legally dead since 2013; ‘Curse’ recalled after virtuoso pianist’s wife charged with killing their 2 daughters;
 
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He escaped the Holocaust because of the kindness of strangers. Now he’s watching Europe turn refugees like him away.
Leo Goldberger, one of some 7,000 Jews who were smuggled out of Denmark by their countrymen, says that Europe can do more to help today's refugees.
After 15 hours (and counting), this Seattle man refuses to get down from iconic 80-foot tree
The "issue appears to be between the man and the tree," police said.
 
Hulk Hogan bodyslams Gawker in first interview after destroying it in court
"I’d love to see these guys do a 180 and just do good stuff and just get legit," the Hulkster said of Gawker's staff.
 
Rob Ford, Canada’s Trump and a self-avowed ‘racist,’ was beloved by immigrants
"Number one, he's a money-saver. The rest is whatever," an immigrant supporter of Ford said in 2013.
 
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‘Top Chef’ winner Paul Qui charged with assault after alleged cocaine use, fight with girlfriend
"The show revealed Qui as curious, daring, playful, earnest, passionate and grounded," a review of Qui's restaurant said last year.
 
Obama administration’s ‘continuous resistance’ in IRS targeting case slammed by federal appeals court
The unusually severe tongue lashing by the appellate judges followed a similar rebuke of the government in an unrelated but even more sensitive case involving a Freedom of Information Act request directed at the State Department.
 
Refugees rescue anti-refugee German politician after car crash
"I cannot confirm that it was a Syrian refugee who pulled me out of the vehicle," the politician said.
 
Paul McCartney takes battle for Beatles songs to copyright office
A recent filing with the U.S. Copyright Office is the latest move in a decades-long battle.
 
W. Va. teenager playing dangerous game dies after being accidentally shot in the head with a bow and arrow
Police say the boy and two friends was playing a game called "dodging arrows." It's not clear who came up with the game, or why the kids decided to play it.
 
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Flight attendant flees LAX, leaving nearly 70 pounds of cocaine and Gucci heels in her wake
The airline worker was still on the loose Monday.
 
Finally free from guilt over Challenger disaster, an engineer dies in peace
Bob Ebeling, who died Monday at age 89, was one of the few engineers who warned NASA not to launch the Challenger space shuttle on that fateful day in 1986.
 
Why a family fights over their ‘healthy and beautiful’ daughter, legally dead since 2013
Jahi McMath has been brain-dead since 2013, but her family has fought to keep her on life support, maintaining that she's merely "asleep" as her brain heals from an injury sustained after surgery to remove her tonsils.
 
‘Curse’ recalled after virtuoso pianist’s wife charged with killing their 2 daughters
"We wanted to be together ... to be a family," she said.
 
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