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Peter Cullen also voiced the alien hunter in 1987's Predator and Eeyore in Winnie the Pooh.

CNN found more than a dozen brain-injury cases tied to the 76 mph ride. One rider, Hawley, collapsed after getting off and died within 10 hours; his brain swelled during emergency surgery. Others said they were thrown around like rag dolls.

California's cannabis market was meant to be the global model for legalization. A lieutenant governor candidate, Fiona Ma, now calls it "a complete failure," as the state's June sales slipped just below Canada's $374.5 million.

The Giants' new betting partner is Kalshi, a site that lets people bet on the weather. An executive's answer to concerns about addiction and marketing to kids: it's going to happen with or without you, so better to control the narrative.

The gash in Menkaure's pyramid has long been blamed on an eight-month treasure hunt described in a 12th-century account. The historical record doesn't back that up. The real damage came much later, and for a far dumber reason.

The chase behind Stoll's book The Cuckoo's Egg ran a full year across networks, modem banks, and international borders, tracing to German hackers who also worked for the East German Stasi.

Longtime substitute Garratt posted on her personal Facebook that pro-Trump students at an on-campus rally harassed classmates and used racial slurs. Six days later, an assistant superintendent told her the district didn't want her coming back.

The playlist comes from the Bureau of Lost Culture podcast, whose episode interviews author James Riley about his book The Bad Trip: Dark Omens, New Worlds and the End of the Sixties. The films run from The Graduate to Eraserhead.

The EPA admitted it has no idea at what level these chemicals turn acutely lethal, yet cleared them for import and immediate use anyway. Much of its own paperwork is redacted, apparently to shield the multinational corporations that make them.

Snoop plays Dr. Cyrus Cane, whose edible empire is the setting: Agent 47 infiltrates a commercial shoot for the fake brand.

His U.S. work authorization card reads valid through February 2029, yet the Department of Homeland Security called him a "Venezuelan illegal alien" whose permission expired in 2018, adding that "being in detention is a choice.

Ahead of the expansion, CD Projekt Red is releasing a free remaster of The Witcher 3 for all current owners in late September. The DLC drops a new region and pulls Geralt out of retirement for a monster mystery set off by a festival gone wrong.

Tim Curry, gone at 80. When Princess Diana met him in a receiving line and admitted she'd seen The Rocky Horror Show, she added: "Oh, yes, it quite completed my education.

The registry even forecasts which Microsoft brands have gone too long without a rename and are due for recycling. One entry, Azure AI Search, was formerly Azure Cognitive Search, and before that simply Azure Search.

Judge David Hittner found Senate Bill 12 so broad it could bar provocative cosplay, swimming athletes, and stage impersonators of Dolly Parton and Elvis. He also noted Gov. Greg Abbott had touted the law as a "drag ban" despite its careful wording.

That's roughly 8% of a single year's revenue. Meta must add age verification and parental controls—a system that also makes its user tracking more accurate and its platform less private, while doing nothing to make it safer.

The bird is the capercaillie, and it's on the IUCN Red List of at-risk species. The Royal Mint's own director, Rebecca Morgan, puts it plainly: more of these coins will enter circulation than there are capercaillies left in the wild.

Even the transistors are pneumatic. Each of the 64 cavities dimples when a vacuum forms behind the rubber, and soiboi soft demonstrates the whole thing by playing a game of Snake on it.

She wrote "I Will Always Love You," later a Whitney Houston hit, won 11 Grammys, and donated $1 million toward Moderna's COVID vaccine research. Her Imagination Library has delivered hundreds of millions of books to children.

Army of Shadows is Zwigoff's favorite film ever. He once screened it for his friend Robert Crumb, who dismissed it minutes in over a wrong-period haircut in an early scene. Crumb, it turns out, lets a single mistake ruin an entire film.

SSX360's day job is field notes on logistics, defense, finance and climate risk, so this self-playing loop machine reads like a side project that got away from them. Press play and it starts; hit Reroll for an entirely new one.

The cover can be opaque because replica Flock cameras have no lenses, unlike the real automated license-plate readers. The maker posted the design files free so anyone can 3D print their own.

Target's rollback of DEI programs already triggered boycotts led by pastor Jamal Bryant, which the company says helped wipe $12 billion off its market value. Now its own Hyde & Eeek!

Melted plastic Perler beads on a pegboard, fused with an iron. Swedish artist Johan Karlgren makes video game pixel art and tiny album cover replicas, filming his process as stop-motion animations where the beads slide into place.

Cat in the Hat guy is pure fake, one Glasgow woman told her son who insisted he was in Drumchapel. Then she checked her driveway camera the next morning and found him standing in it. The Wexford Gardai had already debunked the whole thing.

American offered the family a $600 travel voucher, but Gary Leff says that doesn't cover what the DOT requires — a refund of the fare difference. The wrinkle: they paid in miles, and American won't publish how it prices award seats.

The New York Times reports the two met in recent weeks in a New York space offered by a mutual friend, discussing housing, immigration and the cost of living.

Guard members deployed to Washington for a year say the "crime emergency" used to justify it was declared during a 30-year low in violent crime. One was even ordered to patrol the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool after its botched renovation.

Usha Vance gave him an ultimatum: he could be vice president, or they could have a fourth child. Vance recounted the exchange, then added, "I must be pretty persuasive, because I got both.

The race is the Freedom 250. Melania stands right next to him at the line while Natalie is placed all the way in the back.

The three-year renewal runs $13 million a year and reaches 460,000 students and 63,000 staff across all 23 campuses. An SF State professor says the school can neither mandate the AI's use nor ban it.

At its fastest, S301 could cover the distance from Earth to the Moon in about 14 seconds. Its lopsided 8.7-year orbit suggests it was once half of a binary star, torn apart and captured by the black hole at the Milky Way's center.

The new battle frames it as one stuntman against another, and the production team went so far as to recreate Cruise's odd middle tooth. Epic Rap Battles of History averages about two videos a year, roughly three minutes each.

The affected berries are branded GreenWise and carry best-by dates as far out as February 9, 2028. So far the contamination has caused at least 12 illnesses and 4 hospital visits across 8 states, from Alabama to Virginia.

Mike McMahan (Star Trek: Lower Decks) and Joe Chandler (American Dad!) created it, animated by Titmouse. Warriors Ax Battler, Tyris Flare and Gilius Thunderhead reunite to stop Death Adder, joined by underprepared newcomer Hampton Squib.

Death Valley is not being coy about any of this.

A May White House medical report put the 6-foot-3 president at 238 pounds, leaving him just 0.3 BMI points below the obesity threshold.

The color was suggested by Faber Birren, who once painted his own bedroom vermilion to test whether it would drive him mad.

Cedric Lodge, the former morgue manager, got eight years for shipping brains, skin, hands and faces to private buyers. In one case he provided skin that a buyer tanned into leather and bound into a book. His wife and six buyers were also convicted.

The Shibuya crossing opens every two minutes, and there are livestreams from several vantage points — street level, overhead, even a 360-degree version. Mark leaves one running while he works.

Loren Davie's essay 'The New Puritanism' says the objection to AI writing rests on an old idea that effort equals morality, the same panic that once met washing machines. The EU now requires AI text to carry a watermark as proof of suffering.

His brother says Pirela's work permit was valid through 2029. He entered legally, sought asylum, and remains in ICE custody as removal proceedings continue — apart from his wife and two children, ages 9 and 4.

The promotion only runs in the US, so players abroad are locked out. One Redditor offered to buy meals for them and give the food to unhoused people, and commenters confirmed the codes worked.

Anti-AI fonts get defeated by real AI platforms fast, Andrew Yaros argues, while screen readers and OCR stay stuck. Any accessible fix needs machine-readable metadata, which drags you toward centralized identity checks and lists of disabled people.

The plan hinges on eliminating tariffs on cheap imported beef and routing 300,000 metric tons of someone else's ground beef to US consumers. The National Cattlemen's Beef Association is furious about it.

Nathaniel Rai survived a near-drowning in the ocean, then had to sit through a White House meet-and-greet where the president said this straight to his face. The boy's expression during the exchange did the talking.

A new CSS corner-shape property draws bevels, notches, scoops, and squircles from an existing border radius without masks, and Firefox has finally added auto-resizing textareas, retiring another JavaScript shim.

Graft one by strapping a cut tomato stem to a cut potato stem and letting the wounds heal. The tomatoes are ready about 12 weeks later in summer; the potatoes wait until early fall, after the tomato leaves start to die back.

Speaking at the council meeting, Vader said the surveillance has been great for following children to playgrounds and stalking his ex-girlfriend, freeing up time to hunt Rebel Scum. Matt Novak of Paleofuture captured the clip.

Two retired detectives, Ruud Schoenmaker and Nel Schep, traced him to a Buddhist community and a soup restaurant where staff knew him as "Chris the Canadian." He also answered to Louis, Lee, John, Ponytail and Sonny, always carrying a suitcase.