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New Records Reveal the Mess RFK Jr. Left When He Dumped a Dead Bear in Central Park

1+ day, 3+ hour ago   (962+ words) This story contains graphic imagery. On August 4, 2024, when now-US health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was still a presidential candidate, he posted a video on X in which he admitted to dumping a dead bear cub near an old bicycle in…...

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Arkansas Hosts the Planet’s Only Public Diamond Mine

Arkansas Hosts the Planet’s Only Public Diamond Mine4+ mon, 2+ week ago   (675+ words) In southwest Arkansas, the state government runs what might be the world's most unusual diamond mine. For the price of a movie ticket, anyone can dig for diamonds at Crater of Diamonds State Park'and keep whatever they find. The 37-acre…...

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wired.com > story > whites-only-community-arkansas

Inside the ‘Whites Only’ Community in Arkansas

Inside the ‘Whites Only’ Community in Arkansas4+ mon, 3+ week ago   (1043+ words) Video footage shared by the group on its social media accounts show a bucolic setting with animals and children running around their 160-acre site, while members of the community build timber-frame homes, churches, and other facilities. A "few dozen" people…...

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It Looks Like a School Bathroom Smoke Detector. A Teen Hacker Showed It Could Be an Audio Bug

It Looks Like a School Bathroom Smoke Detector. A Teen Hacker Showed It Could Be an Audio Bug5+ mon, 5+ hour ago   (593+ words) A couple of years ago, a curious, then-16-year-old hacker named Reynaldo Vasquez-Garcia was on his laptop at his Portland-area high school, seeing what computer systems he could connect to via the Wi-Fi'using the school network as a lab," as…...