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The question of who blew up the Nord Stream pipelines is likely to remain an unsolved mystery for some time.Even as new details surface from European investigators, one of the most intriguing clues to recently emerge comes not from official probes but via a 29-year-old open-source analyst based in Denmark. Oliver Alexander spent months analyzing data from the maritime Automatic Identification System, or AIS, from vessels that passed near the site of three out of the four pipeline ruptures shortly before the damage. He noticed that the Minerva Julie, a 600-foot Greek-flagged tanker, was headed east from Rotterdam when, on...

Erin Christensen was arrested after she brought her pet Raccoon into a bar, according to The Bismark Tribune. Authorities raided Christensen's home and killed the Raccoon on the spot, collecting his body to test for diseases, she said. According to the fundraiser, Christensen found the animal on the side of the road in June. On September 6, police said that Christensen brought Rocky into a local bar in Maddock during happy hour, according to the Tribune. Cindy Smith, who was bartending at the time, said that there were about ten people in the bar, and Rocky never bit anyone in...