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Chicago Transit Authority service was up and running Friday morning after a Yellow Line train derailed on the city’s Far North Side during the evening rush hour Thursday, according to the city agency.

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The entire source code for Anthropic’s Claude Code command line interface application (not the models themselves) has been leaked and disseminated, apparently due ...

The blue whale that washed up on a southern Oregon beach in 2015 was in rough shape. Scientists couldn’t determine exactly how long the 200-ton, nearly 70-foot-long male had been dead, but several ...

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Four other skeletons were similarly found in upwards positions, all facing westward Lexi Lane is a weekend banking writer at PEOPLE. She first joined as a member of the PEOPLE App team in 2025. Her ...

Heads are rolling in a Massachusetts town after a massive skeleton’s head went missing from a local park. “Missing: Kevin’s Head,” Medway Parks and Recreation wrote on Facebook. “We’re not joking… and ...

Camille K. Manaois got a job by mailing her resume to companies she wanted to work for. With an envelope and a stamp. In 2025. At a time when many job seekers liken the search to hurling applications ...

Jack Schlossberg, the grandson of John F. Kennedy, has a skeleton that wears his grandfather’s robe and hat. Schlossberg, 33, who is currently running for Congress in New York's 12th District, ...

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