Feds Bust Man With 51 Turtles in His Pants

Feds Bust Man With 51 Turtles in His Pants. THEY SPOTTED 'IRREGULAR BULGES' A Canadian man caught at a border crossing with 51 turtles taped to his body pleaded guilty Tuesday to smuggling or attempting to smuggle more than 1,000 of the reptiles out of southeastern Michigan. Kai Xu, 27, would order turtles online, travel to the US to pick them up, and then ship them to China or bring them...

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Matthew Jackson, Oceanside: 'Pay It Forward' Inspired By Good Samaritan Who Died Days After Good Deed

Matthew Jackson, a generous stranger paid for a mother's groceries, but when she went to track him down, Jamie-Lynne Knighten discovered he had passed away. A "pay it forward" movement has begun in his memory. A California man's good deed is inspiring thousands after a woman he had helped tracked him down only to discover that he had died in a car accident, according to ABC News. Matthew Jackson,...

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Mark Zuckerberg Vows to Donate 99% of His Facebook Shares for Charity

SAN FRANCISCO — Mark Zuckerberg, the co-founder and chief executive of Facebook, announced on Tuesday that he and his wife would give 99 percent of their Facebook shares “during our lives” — holdings currently worth more than $45 billion — to charitable purposes. The pledge was made in an open letter to their newborn daughter, Max, who was born about a week ago. Mr. Zuckerberg and his wife,...

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Man Lost Job And Could Face Jail Time For MeMe Comparing Turkey's President to Gollum

TURKEY — Ah, the decisions that judges must make.  A Turkish judge must decide if Gollum, the character from "The Lord of the Rings" films, is a good guy or a villain. A man's freedom hinges on that decision, The Telegraph reported. Bilgin Ciftci, a Turkish doctor, stands accused of sharing a meme that compared Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to Gollum, The Telegraph reported. (function(d,...

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'Ghost ships' with corpses on them appear off the Japanese coast.

'Ghost ships' with corpses on them appear off the Japanese coast.  Nearly a dozen wooden boats carrying decomposing bodies have been found in the waters off the coast of Japan over the past two months. Inside the 11 vessels were at least 25 bodies, according to Japanese broadcaster NHK. Two bodies were headless, and one boat contained six skulls, Singapore's Straits Times newspaper...

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Sneak-peak at ‘Nemo’ sequel, ‘Finding Dory’

Dory, voiced by Ellen DeGeneres. The character, first introduced in "Finding Nemo, " returns for the sequel, "Finding Dory.” AP Photo/Disney Pixar Disney has released the video trailer for “Finding Dory,” a sequel to the 2003 film “Finding Nemo.” Ellen Deneres, who voices the blue fish, tweeted Tuesday that she’d been waiting for 10 years to show viewers the sneak-peek. In...

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Terminally Ill 'Star Wars' Fan Dies Days After Seeing 'The Force Awakens'

LOS ANGELES —Terminally ill "Star Wars" fan Daniel Fleetwood has died, four days after Disney and Lucasfilm granted his wish and allowed him to see an early cut of "The Force Awakens" before its release in theaters. Fleetwood, who suffered from an aggressive form of cancer known as spindle cell sarcoma, feared he wouldn't live to see the film's official debut on Dec. 18, after being given...

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