Back in the 60s, surfers weren't just dreaming up what would ultimately be recognized as the birth of the modern surf culture. They were practically making up their own language as they did it. Along with terms like the tube, gnarly, humpback and the now ever-present dude, surfers also started calling young surfers gremmies, a [&]

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Peter Strzok's new book, COMPROMISED, is published next week. In an interview with Politico, the former FBI agent says it's unlikely the FBI was able to do a thorough and complete counterintelligence investigation into Donald Trump's widely reported business links to the Russian government and Russian organized crime, and that those financial mysteries, like Trump's [&]

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At least 4 boats sank, no injuries reported as of late Saturday

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“It's more about the survivors of gender violence. That's really what it's about.” — Anita Hill

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Tennessee Highway Patrol trooper Harvey Briggs, 52, went face-to-face with a man filming an arrest, handled his firearm while threatening him, then ripped the man's facemask off. It was all caught on camera; Briggs' actions first lost him his job and now his freedom. Briggs, 52, was booked into the Metro jail about 9 p.m. [&]

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Hear us out on this&but there's a case to be made that the telescoping ladder may be one of mankind's most ingenious inventions. For all of recorded history, man has used some form of ladders and scaffolding to scale any heights over 10 feet&and that usually meant toting a big, cumbersome, hugely inconvenient ladder around. [&]

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At The Washington Post, Daniel Drezner notes that a lot of gas was wasted last week on the idea that Biden was suddenly losing ground to Trump. This speculation was dashed on the rocks of the latest polls, which show the race tightening only by a hair and Biden still commanding double-digit national leads. Morevoer, [&]

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Yikes.

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To be able to perform the feat of "floating into the sky with a cluster of balloons," David Blaine had to first gather a team of experts, jump out of a plane 500 times (to get a pro skydiver rating), earn a hot air balloon pilot's certificate, and earn another one that gives him the [&]

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American Cyanamid was a leading fertilizer company whose success broadened its horizons to a vast range of industrial and chemical products. It fell to pieces in the 1990s under the weight of patent lawsuits, corporate reorganizations and decades of environmental pollution. Here, a team of urban explorers takes a look at its huge abandoned research [&]

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On Thurday, a rally for Donald Trump was held in Fred Roger's hometown of Latrobe, Pennsylvania. His 92-year-old widow Joanne made it clear in an interview with The Daily Beast that she's not a fan. "Fred tried to stay pretty quiet about politics, basically because his program was for children," Joanne Rogers said.  She is [&]

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To say your home is your castle is particularly noteworthy right now. Since most of us barely seem to leave the house anymore, its battlements, towers and overall security have never been more important. Most of us don't use moats anymore (although it's an interesting idea…), but safeguarding the perimeter of your castle from outside [&]

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On September 5, the Burning Man Project is hosting Burn Night: Live From Home, "a worldwide, around-the-clock Burn Night extravaganza." Pre-recorded and live burns will be live-streamed for a full 24 hours. To encourage participation, they've created a detailed blueprint so at-home Burners can build (and later burn) a simplified two-foot Mini Man. Timing Your Burn Night [&]

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I have not heard this in years. Packed with the best.

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When you're the king, someone is always coming for your crown. Nowhere is that more true than in the tech sector, where a perennial favorite like Adobe and their insanely popular Creative Cloud app suite have to keep innovating to stay on top of the digital media creation software game. Keeping abreast of changes and [&]

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• Liberty University hires forensic accountants to investigate "all facets" of Falwell's tenure, including school's financial and real estate operations When you're in a whole lot of trouble, a dumb thing to do is threaten journalists. But Jerry Fallwell Jr. is not the smartest man. He was forced to resign from Liberty University, the Christian [&]

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The president has called fallen U.S. service members “losers."

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Shouldn't surprise anyone at this point that Trump is just straight up repeating Vladimir Putin's talking points, and placing the interests of Russia before America. Impeached and manifestly unfit President Donald Trump said the United States must look "very seriously" into the poisoning of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, but that the White House has [&]

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I have a few different LED headlamps, but this one is by far my favorite. It features a band of LEDs that throw light in a wide area in front of you. It lights up the entire area around you, as opposed to LED headlamps that illuminate just a spot. It uses 3 AAA batteries and [&]

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