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Tennessee Air National Guardsman applied to be a hitman online, the FBI says. It was a spoof website and now he’s facing charges
A Tennessee Air National Guardsman is facing charges after applying to be a hitman on a spoof “rent-a-hitman” website, according to the Department of Justice. Josiah Ernesto Garcia, 21, was charged Thursday after submitting an employment inquiry to the website rentahitman.com, which is a parody site that includes “testimonials” from purportedly satisfied hit-man customers. The
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Even when wives make as much as husbands, they still do more at home
New York — Few women will be surprised to learn that even when wives earn about the same as their husbands or more, a new Pew Research Center study finds that they still spend more time on housework and child care, while their husbands spend more time on paid work and leisure. “Even as financial
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Look of the Week: Blackpink headline Coachella in Korean hanboks
Editor’s Note: Featuring the good, the bad and the ugly, ‘Look of the Week’ is a regular series dedicated to unpacking the most talked about outfit of the last seven days. Bringing the second day of this year’s Coachella to a close, K-Pop girl group Blackpink made history Saturday night when they became the
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‘I was up to my waist down a hippo’s throat.’ He survived, and here’s his advice
Paul Templer was living his best life. He was 28 and conducting tours in his native Zimbabwe, with a focus on photographic safaris. He had been away for a few years, including a stint in the British army. But he had returned to Africa’s bush country “and fell back in love with it. The wildlife
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Margins of Error
special Margins of Error Look closely at almost anything and you’ll find data—lots of it. But when you push past the calculations, what are all those numbers really saying about who we are and what we believe? CNN’s Harry Enten is on a mission to find out. Harry teases out big ideas like what accents
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MLB News: Union Exec Says MLB Salary Cap Proposal Means a $500M Paycut
As Major League Baseball and the MLB Players Association continue early discussions regarding a new collective bargaining agreement, the union is digging in its heels on the thing owner want most: a salary cap. Bob Nightengale of USA Today reports that, according to MLBPA interim executive director Bruce Meyer, “players would actually be taking a
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