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A former Google employee sprinkled his CV with absurd claims to check how many red flags recruiters ignore as long as a candidate has worked for a prestigious company. New York-based Jerry Lee conducted this social experiment of sorts to figure out how far his Google credentials would carry him in his job search. Hidden in his largely straightforward resume, Lee added outlandish ‘achievements’ like “expert in Mia Khalifa” and “set the fraternity record for most vodka shots in one night.” He then sent the CV out to recruiters and waited. What he found Lee, who spent three years at...

More than 80,000 birds have died over the past 2½ months at a network of wildlife refuges on the Oregon-California border. The deaths, linked to a rare combination of botulism and avian flu, increased sharply since the... ..wetland habitat continues to shrink, forcing birds into smaller patches of water, and climate change dries up what’s left of the habitat, the toxin has infected many more birds. Competition for water in the Klamath Basin makes the situation worse.

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Tensions along Israel’s northern border continue to ramp up as the IDF readies its troops for a ground operation in Lebanon. The Israeli military is currently entering Hezbollah tunnels, as the Middle East braces for war. What will the Iranian regime in Tehran do to aid its beleaguered, yet most valuable and deadly proxy? What prophetic implications does this impending cross border war carry? Join us today at 5:20pm Eastern time on our YouTube channel as we break down all the latest news out of Israel and what comes next.

The mystery of the Hindenburg disaster, the destruction of the largest aircraft ever constructed by mankind, on May 6, 1937, in Manchester Township, New Jersey has baffled scientists for decades. The airship Hindenburg was nearing the end of a three-day voyage across the Atlantic Ocean from Frankfurt, Germany before it went up in flames. Merely watching the gigantic airship making its way across the skies was a newsworthy spectacle, and onlookers and news crews gathered to watch the 800-foot-long behemoth touch down. Suddenly and horrifyingly, in less than half minute, it was all over. Flames erupted from the airship’s skin,...

Israeli airstrikes pounded areas across the Gaza Strip on Monday killing 12, including a journalist and her family, medics said, although the intensity of the ground offensive has subsided as Israel steps up its fight with Hezbollah in Lebanon. Palestinian health officials said Wafa Al-Udaini, who wrote articles about the war in English advocating the Palestinian viewpoint, was killed when a missile struck her house in the central city of Deir Al-Balah, also killing her husband and their two children. Udaini's death raised the number of Palestinian journalists killed in the Israeli offensive since Oct. 7 to 174, the Hamas-run...

Military officials have released new video of a startling encounter between a Russian fighter jet flying near Alaska and a U.S. Air Force F-16 sent to intercept it. In the video released Monday, the Russian plane comes from behind the camera and swoops by the U.S. jet, just feet from the aircraft. The video release of the close encounter Sept. 23, with the U.S. pilot under the direction of the North American Aerospace Defense Command, comes after a series of Russian incursions into the Alaska Air Defense Identification Zone just beyond U.S. sovereign airspace. The interaction drew condemnation from NORAD’s...

Israeli soldiers have entered Lebanon in an unprecedented escalation of events which global leaders fear could lead to a wider war in the Middle East. The southern suburbs of the capital Beirut are also being bomarded by warplanes, with thousands told to evacuate, as soliders began their ground invasion of the country’s southern border in the early hours of Tuesday morning local time...

Major League Baseball legend Pete Rose has died at the age of 83, the medical examiner in Clark County, Nevada, confirmed to ABC News on Monday.

MLB legend Pete Rose has died at the age of 83, TMZ Sports has learned. Rose, Major League Baseball's hit king, passed away earlier today at his home in Las Vegas. Pete's agent, Ryan Fiterman of Fiterman Sports, confirmed the news, saying, "the family is asking for privacy at this time." Pete was one of the greatest baseball players to ever grace a diamond, earning 17 All-Star Game nods, winning three World Series and the 1973 N.L. MVP.

The City of Okeechobee, Florida adopted an illegal ordinance shortly before Hurricane Helene made landfall last week, which banned the sale of guns and ammunition and prohibited firearm possession in public by anyone other than law enforcement or members of the military. Donald C. Hagan, the Chief of the Okeechobee Police Department, signed the illegal ordinance, copies of which quickly rebounded around the internet. Chief Hagan did not immediately return calls or emails seeking his comments for this story.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A convicted murderer who was run out of several Texas cities when he was released early from prison in 1993 pleaded guilty Monday to two new murder charges in a deal that allows him to serve life in prison and avoid the death penalty, over the objections of the victims' family members. Raul Meza Jr., 63, served about a decade in prison for killing an 8-year-old girl in 1982 before he was released under laws at the time that gave him credit for good behavior behind bars. He was charged in 2023 with killing 65-year-old Gloria...

A Minnesota artist was gunned down last Wednesday while painting her street mural in an attack police are calling 'random' and 'cold-blooded.' Carrie Shobe Kwok, 66, of St. Paul, was kneeling over a colorful art project she'd been working on to brighten the community when surveillance footage showed the moment she was shot and killed. The gunman, later identified as 29-year-old Seantrell Murdock, was found at an address in Belle Plaine, which is about an hour from St. Paul.

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Zachary Levi has offered a public endorsement of Donald Trump. The Shazam actor had been supporting Robert F Kennedy in his bid to be the Republican candidate for the upcoming presidential election, but after he dropped out last month, the 44-year-old star has now given his backing to the controversial former president, who previously held office from 2017 to 2021. He appeared at a campaign rally in Michigan over the weekend and told the crowd: "I'm not gonna take too much time, but I did just wanna just give you a little context about why Shazam is sitting here talking...

California has changed since 2008 when it comes to attitudes about same-sex marriage, and that’s all to the good. Despite voting overwhelmingly for Barack Obama for president that year, the state’s electorate also passed Proposition 8, a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage.Of course, those were different times. Even Obama said at the time that marriage was between a man and a woman. It didn’t take long for him and the California electorate to acknowledge that marriage is a right that is fundamental to all people. A district judge ruled in 2010 that Proposition 8 was unconstitutional and in 2013, the...

The Biden-Harris administration has yet again shown its complete inability to effectively manage disaster responses. From its appalling handling of the tragedy in Lahaina, Maui, to its blatant indifference toward the people of East Palestine, Ohio—and now the failure to properly aid the victims of Hurricane Helene, especially in Asheville, N.C.—the pattern is clear. Time and time again, we've witnessed an administration incapable of stepping up when it's needed most.

At a 2014 congressional hearing held to mark the 25th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre, Tim Walz, then a congressman representing Minnesota’s first district, recalled being in Hong Kong when the Chinese Communist Party crushed the student protests that had roiled the country since mid-April of 1989. The unforgettable crackdown came on June 4 of that year."I was just going to teach high school in Foshan in Guangdong, and was in Hong Kong in May of ‘89," he said. "And as the events were unfolding, several of us went in. And I still remember the train station in Hong...

In March, a Wharton professor who studies artificial intelligence and start-ups claimed on X, “The modern economy rests on a single road in Spruce Pine, North Carolina. The road runs to the two mines that are the sole supplier of the quartz required to make the crucibles needed to refine silicon wafers.” Ethan Mollick noted at the time, “There are no alternative sources known” if supply disruptions were seen in Spruce Pines.

Dikembe Mutombo, the Hall of Fame center whose playful finger-wags after blocking shots — which he did 3,289 times in his career — became iconic, has died at the age of 58 due to brain cancer, the NBA announced. Mutombo died surrounded by his family, according to the league. His family had announced a couple of years ago that the legendary Congolese big man had a brain tumor. Mutombo played 18 NBA seasons but made a bigger and more meaningful impact off the court, where he had worked tirelessly for years to help people back in his native Democratic Republic...