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Shiver me timbers! Pirate’s island hideaway for sale

The notorious pirate Black Sam Bellamy’s island hideaway, renowned for its historical significance during the Golden Age of Piracy, is now on the market. The island, priced at US$50 million, offers a unique blend of luxury and a storied past, situated off the coast of the Florida Panhandle, according to TopTenRealEstateDeals.com. Black’s Island, once the

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Several crew members injured in crash on Georgia set of Eddie Murphy film

Several crew members were recently injured in a crash on the Georgia set of an Amazon MGM Studios film starring Eddie Murphy, the Associated Press reported on Tuesday. The studio confirmed to the AP that the accident happened Saturday while shooting a sequence that “did not go as planned.” Two of the injured crew members

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Bullying over weight drove Jelly Roll offline, wife Bunnie XO says: 'It hurts him'

“It hurts him.” That’s what Jelly Roll’s wife, Bunnie XO, says in a promo clip for this week’s episode of “Dumb Blonde.” In text overlaid on the clip, she promised: “This week I go off on the podcast.. def going to ruffle some feathers & I didn’t stutter.” She’s about to “go off” about bullying,

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Unprecedented images reveal jaw-dropping features of Jupiter’s ‘tortured moon’

Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. Close flybys of Io, one of Jupiter’s moons and the most volcanically active world in our solar system, have revealed a lava lake and a towering feature called “Steeple Mountain” on the moon’s alien surface. NASA’s

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Luke Bryan didn't slip on a cellphone onstage: 'I was kind of hamming that up'

It wasn’t a cellphone that did Luke Bryan in, it was a slick spot on stage, the country star explained. The “Play it Again” and “That’s My Kind of Night” singer cleared the record about his weekend wipeout onstage during his Coast City Country show at B.C. Place in Vancouver, Canada, which he initially chalked

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Comic Elayne Boosler can't talk her way out of handbag at Dodger Stadium. She was handcuffed

Comedian Elayne Boosler says she was arrested and held in handcuffs for two hours Sunday at Dodger Stadium after arguing with an employee who would not let her enter with a purse that violated the stadium’s clear bag policy. In a 3 1/2-minute video posted to Boosler’s YouTube channel later that day, the 71-year-old said

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The Ghostwriter in the Machine

A new history of writing and artificial intelligence. By Matthew Kirschenbaum Illustration by The Chronicle; iStock // for full bleed half split – figure’s parent container shouldn’t calc max-height // and should be set to 100% instead – querySelector === baseClassName let parent = document.querySelector(‘figure.FullBleedFigureHalfSplit’).parentElement parent.style.maxHeight = “100%” A new history of writing and artificial

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Kid Cudi is 'hoping' his Coachella broken ankle will be healed in time for Insano tour

Kid Cudi is just chilling since he busted his ankle on the final night of the Coachella music festival in Indio last weekend. And he’s keeping it positive, even though the injury might affect his upcoming tour. “Layin n bed w my moms like when I was a kid,” the rapper — born Scott Mescudi

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Scientists say USDA is sharing too little data too slowly on H5N1 flu

When the US Department of Agriculture announced late Sunday that it had publicly posted new data from its investigation into a bird flu outbreak in cattle, scientists eagerly searched a well-known platform used globally to share the genetic sequences of viruses. The sequences weren’t there. As of Tuesday morning, they still aren’t. Researchers looking to

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