'Hot felon' whose mug shot went viral walks runway at NY Fashion Week
Jeremy Meeks' icy blue eyes enticed the internet in 2014 — via his police mug shot — in a rags to riches narrative that not even Lifetime could have created. It continued this week on the runway.
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Russian spy ship cruised near U.S. Navy Submarine Base
It was detected 30 miles off Connecticut's coast.
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'Firefall' phenomenon wows visitors to Yosemite's El Capitan
Mother Nature is again putting on a show at California's Yosemite National Park, where every February the setting sun draws a narrow sliver of light on a waterfall to make it glow like a cascade of molten lava.
'It's about time': Etan Patz's dad finds justice in verdict
Nearly four decades after 6-year-old Etan Patz vanished on the way to his school bus stop, a former convenience store clerk was convicted Tuesday of murder in a case that influenced American parenting and law enforcement.
Officials: Russian cruise missile, deployed secretly, violates pact
The new Russian missile deployment presents a major challenge for President Trump, who has vowed to improve relations with Russia and to pursue future arms accords.
Lawyer to panel: No promises to 'Making a Murderer' inmate
State attorneys tried to persuade a panel of federal appellate judges that a Wisconsin inmate featured in the Netflix series "Making a Murderer" made a voluntary confession and was properly convicted.
Mar-a-Lago becomes open-air situation room after missile fired
President Trump brought Japanese PM Abe to his Florida club for dinner, and when North Korea test-fired a ballistic missile, club members watched staffers surround and brief the two leaders.
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Storm wallops Northeast, where 'Stay home' is message
Plow trucks and shovelers in the Northeast attacked the region's latest winter storm, which dumped 30 inches of snow on a Maine town, made roads unsafe and immobilized millions of residents Monday.
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Police seek landscaper they say engaged in sex act with dog
Police in an Atlanta suburb are seeking a man they say engaged in a sex act with a dog while working as a landscaper.
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U.S. turned to psychics to gather info on Americans held hostage in Tehran
After Iranian students seized more than 60 Americans in 1979, the U.S. was desperate.
Sweeping immigration enforcement raids occur in at least 6 states
Immigrant advocate groups said more than 100 people were taken into custody by federal immigration officials in Southern California on Thursday.
Warm ocean water triggered massive seabird die-off, experts say
A year after tens of thousands of common murres, an abundant North Pacific seabird, starved and washed ashore on beaches from California to Alaska, researchers have pinned the cause to unusually warm ocean temperatures that affected the tiny fish they eat.
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Northeast hit by its biggest snowstorm of the winter
The biggest storm to hit the Northeast this winter dropped a foot or more of snow along the New York-to-Boston corridor Thursday, turning roads treacherous, grounding flights and giving millions of people weather whiplash a day after temperatures soared into the 50s and 60s.
Postal Service says it lost $200 million over holiday season
The U.S. Postal Service said Thursday it lost $200 million during the year-end holiday season, despite a strong quarter of package shipping and expanded use of vote-by-mail in the November presidential election.
Trump criticism of Nordstrom raises conflict concern
Where the White House saw a father standing up for his daughter, an ethics expert saw an implicit threat.
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Wells Fargo says it's obligated to see Dakota pipeline finished
"We are one of 17 banks providing a credit facility to one of our customers to build the pipeline," CEO Tim Sloan said. "We thought it made sense."
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Threat of Zika virus likely to return this spring
Virus is now showing up from Asia to South Pacific.
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