A Pennsylvania woman who was attacked by a bear while she let her dog out said it’s a miracle she survived the backyard encounter Tuesday night. “I just kept thinking: ‘I can’t believe this is happening. This can’t be happening. I’m being attacked by a bear,’” Lee Ann Galante, 55, said Wednesday from Allegheny General … Read more
When Israeli military leaders said in 2021 that a $1 billion revamp of the long-standing barrier along the Gaza Strip would prevent incursions from Hamas, people living in the nearby Kfar Aza kibbutz trusted them. “They build a big wall, they said to us,” resident Israel Lender, 65, said in an interview for a collaboration … Read more
A federal judge on Tuesday denied Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s (R-Ga.) request that a New York man convicted of threatening her pay the roughly $65,000 cost of a fence the congresswoman installed at her home. Joseph Morelli was sentenced to three months in prison after pleading guilty to three counts of transmitting interstate threats over … Read more
Racing’s most famous contest, the Randox Grand National at Aintree, will be reduced from 40 runners to 34 from next year as part of a focus on horse welfare. Grand National runner Hill Sixteen died after sustaining an injury in the race, leading to criticism from animal rights activists Animal Aid. The race was also … Read more