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The annual switch from standard time to daylight saving time yesterday renewed debate about the potential harms of switching the clock twice per year, such as increases in car crashes, hospital visits, and heart attacks in the week after…

NEW YORK—In a breakthrough study with a stark prediction about present meteorological trends, a team of scientists at Columbia University warned Monday that the sky was rapidly running out of the good puffy clouds. “Based on the current…

LAS VEGAS—Following a longstanding team tradition, members of the Kansas City Chiefs celebrated their Super Bowl LVIII win Sunday by pouring a vat of hot fryer grease over head coach Andy Reid. Sources confirmed that Reid, who has now led…

BOSTON—Praising the 43-year-old’s lengthy record of misconduct and exploitation, local nursing home Sunrise Living reportedly hired manager Carl Strasberg Monday after discovering he had two decades of elder abuse experience. “Once we saw…

Close on the heels of the deadly storms currently crossing the U.S., meteorologists are predicting a bomb cyclone blizzard in the Midwest, an arctic blast across 88% of the U.S., thunderstorms across the Southeast, and an East Coast…

TAPETHOK, NEPAL—Beaming with delight as he was carried down the south face of the Kangchenjunga mountain in a torrent of snow, ice, and rocks, alpinist Herman Stelling reportedly noted Thursday that the first few seconds of being swept up…

According to the National Transportation Safety Board, the Alaska Airlines plane that lost a piece of its fuselage in midair had a pressurization warning light go off during three recent flights, and work to determine the cause of the…

KHAN YUNIS, GAZA—In a brutal scene of death and destruction that claimed the lives of countless innocent bystanders, reporters confirmed Friday that a dozen Palestinians had been killed in a recent operation by the Israel Defense Forces to…

WASHINGTON—In an attempt to protect travelers from the dangers of secondhand smoke, a new federal law went into effect this week requiring flight passengers to go at least five feet out on the plane’s wing if they want to smoke.…

KEARNY, NE—Hearing tell of vast deposits of liquid gold free for the taking, California prospectors faced with drought in their state reportedly began rushing to the Midwest this week to pan for water. “Well, I’ll be damned—we’ve hit the…