Two dead sharks were found stranded on North Carolina beaches during Spring Break, and researchers aren’t sure what killed them.
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Mark Price,
Charlotte Observer,
7 Apr. 2026
The quarter-ton bears, apex predators who are revered by some Native American tribes but also feared for their attacks on livestock and sometimes humans, became locally extinct in California in 1924, the same year that the last California gray wolf was captured and killed.
For decades, visitors have been spray-painting the 10 vintage Cadillacs at the site and mulling the transitory nature of time as Bruce Springsteen did in his 1980 song of the same name.
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Susan Montoya Bryan,
Los Angeles Times,
8 Apr. 2026
Graham said Trump stood with Israel in a way no other American president did in the past.
Floorboards were milled from walnut trees felled at a construction site in North Carolina.
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Adriane Quinlan,
Curbed,
2 Apr. 2026
Sliced from a tree felled by loggers in 1891, the cross-section was annotated with historical events that marked its 13 centuries of life, from the beginning of Chinese book printing to the Crusades to the invention of the telescope.
Vanessa Van Helsing wakes up from a coma to discover that a volcanic eruption has blotted out the sun, letting vampires prey 24/7.
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K. Thor Jensen,
PC Magazine,
27 Mar. 2026
During her first bombing, Ginny had run for shelter into a perfume shop, where the proprietress methodically moved each bottle from the streetfront vitrine into a neat line on the floor as the dust from the percussive bombs blotted out the sun.
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