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There are certain zodiac signs that most people are careful with because of their fiery and low tolerance levels. You can hardly mess with individuals with such signs without getting a backlash. Whether they are in work environments or family settings, they do not hesitate to set boundaries and protect them.

5 Zodiac Signs You Don't Mess With

Missouri State

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CJ Coombs

The first time my family walked into a Ponderosa Steakhouse was in the late 1960s. It was new and the experience was great. Like other new restaurants, if the management doesn't stay on top, the quality of service can decline. The location we went to did change through the years, but in the beginning, it was great.

The 1960s: the Ponderosa and Bonanza Steakhouses are still around in some states

War History Online

The loss of the USS San Diego (ACR-6) during WWI baffled historians for a century - that is, until a groundbreaking discovery in 2018.

The Mystery of USS San Diego's (ACR-6) Tragic End Was Finally Solved 100 Years After Sinking

LiveScience

The baked clay tablet tells the tale of an epic flood.

Gilgamesh flood tablet: A 2,600-year-old text that's eerily similar to the story of Noah's Ark

Connecticut Public

Back here in the U.S, for most people, the cost of making a phone call has never been cheaper. But for many people who are incarcerated and their families, staying connected can become a huge financial burden. So how did prison phone calls get so expensive? Darian Woods and Adrian Ma are with our podcast The Indicator From Planet Money. They're going to explain.

'Planet Money': The movement to make prison phone calls free

Anika Jindal

A subtle sign of low intelligence is an inability to understand or appreciate complexity. People with low intelligence may have difficulty understanding abstract concepts or thinking outside the box. They may also be more likely to believe simplistic explanations or conspiracy theories.

12 Subtle Signs Of Low Intelligence

We look at the songs from fresh, female artists that are making this summer's best bops. Ayesha Rascoe is a White House correspondent for NPR. She is currently covering her third presidential administration. Rascoe's White House coverage has included a number of high profile foreign trips, including President Trump's 2019 summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Hanoi, Vietnam, and President Obama's final NATO summit in Warsaw, Poland in 2016. As a part of the White House team, she's also a regular on the NPR Politics Podcast.

This summer's music charts are dominated by pop girl underdogs

Virginia State

Margaret Minnicks

Many new laws become effective in Virginia on July 1, 2024. However, a law has always existed in Virginia, but some residents might not be aware of it. According to WSET, leaving grass clippings and other debris on Virginia roads is illegal.

It is illegal to leave grass clippings and other debris on roads in Virginia

A federal bankruptcy judge on Thursday stopped an effort by the parents of a boy killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting to begin collecting on some of the $50 million they won in a lawsuit against conspiracy theorist Alex Jones over his false claims that the massacre was a hoax.

Judge stops parents' effort to collect on $50M Alex Jones owes for saying Newtown shooting was hoax

New Jersey State

You think politics bust up our families? It’s hard to believe that, like us, politics could fracture a Founding Father’s family. Ben Franklin was incredibly close to his son William, then NJ’s royal governor, until he declared his allegiance to the king.

The Backstory: Do it my way: Politics bust up a Founding Father’s family

“We’ll start the war from right here!” Brig. Gen. Theodore Roosevelt Jr. purportedly declared as his Higgins landing craft drifted about a mile from its target destination on Utah Beach the morning of June 6, 1944. At the age of 56, Roosevelt, the son of President Theodore Roosevelt,...

The officer who stormed Normandy with nothing but a cane and pistol

Louisiana State

BATON ROUGE, La. — Even as a legal challenge is already underway over a new Louisiana law requiring the Ten Commandments to be displayed in classrooms, the details of how the mandate will be implemented and enforced remain murky. Across the country there have been conservative pushes to incorporate...

How will Louisiana's Ten Commandments classroom requirement be funded and enforced?

He kept a cool head during the American Civil War, but a heatwave proved too much for his statue. A wax effigy of President Abraham Lincoln has melted as temperatures soared over the weekend in the nation's capital. The head went first, then one of his legs dripped off its...

Abe Lincoln wax sculpture melts in brutal DC heat

Time now for our regular science news roundup with our friends at NPR's Short Wave podcast, Regina Barber and Berly McCoy. Good to have you both back. REGINA BARBER, BYLINE: Hey, Ari. BERLY MCCOY, BYLINE: Hi, Ari. SHAPIRO: So the way this works is you bring us three science stories...

This week in science: a new dinosaur, a lynx revival and an looming star explosion

Massachusetts State

Hinsdale, NH

Cases of fireworks called "Mad Dog" are among the best-sellers of explosives and fireworks at TNT Fireworks in Hinsdale, New Hampshire. Fourth of July celebrations are coming up and some residents are buying fireworks to celebrate even if it’s illegal. In Massachusetts, the possession, use, and sale of fireworks...

Massachusetts residents are still buying fireworks, even though it’s illegal in the state

Insider

John Belgrave, a 60-year-old retired pensions consultant, came across a sword, valued at $21,500, when he got lost during a treasure hunters' rally.

A man paid $25 to look for buried treasure. After getting lost, he stumbled upon a Bronze Age hoard.

Military.com

Admirers of Gen. Alfred Gray, the gruff, straight-shooting Mustang who rose in the ranks to become the Marine Corps' 29th commandant, have the chance to own a piece of his personal property as it goes up for sale at auction in mid-June.

Colt Pistol, Ka-Bar Knives, Luxury Watch: Marine Corps Commandant Al Gray's Belongings Up for Auction

NBC News

SAINT-ELLIER-LES-BOIS, France — It’s almost 80-years on, but Marie Bastien said the memory of the American fighter plane being shot down near her village in northern France remains as vivid as ever. “I still see it, as if it was yesterday,” Bastien, 94, told NBC News in French...

She was 14 when a U.S. pilot was shot down near her home in France. 80 years later, she’s keeping his memory alive.

South Dakota State

West Yellowstone, MT

WEST YELLOWSTONE, Mont. — In a gathering near a picturesque lake outside Yellowstone National Park, hundreds of people cheered Wednesday as a Native American leader spoke the name revealed on a painted hide for a rare white buffalo that was born in the park earlier this month: Wakan Gli, which means "Return Sacred" in Lakota.

Tribes honor the birth of rare white buffalo and reveal its name: Wakan Gli

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Sunday Puzzle: Word pairs that start and end the same

On-air challenge: Every answer today is a pair of related words that start with the same letter and end with the same letter. Ex.] Name two...

Sunday Puzzle: Word pairs that start and end the same

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