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YouTuber turns hobby into Helene recovery

SWANNANOA, North Carolina (WLOS) -- One way that Swannanoa firefighter Larry Pierson likes to spend his free time is surfing YouTube for videos on topics he finds interesting.Naturally, Pierson turned his love of repairing things into a YouTube channel of his own called “Larry Does Schtuff."On the channel, Pierson shows video of him digging ditches with his backhoe, repairing engines or hydraulic snow plows, and even spreading salt and scraping snow during the winter months.Pierson eventually discovered an unexpected benefit from posting videos on his channel.“I re

Tow truck driver returns abandoned vehicles to families after ICE arrests

Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Pablo Guanipa freed after 8 months in prison

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Israel tightens grip on West Bank ahead of Netanyahu’s visit to US

Ahead of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to Washington, DC, this week, Israel has taken a series of sweeping steps to tighten its grip on the occupied West Bank.On Sunday, Israel’s security cabinet approved measures that expand the country’s enforcement powers and allow the state to buy land for the expansion of settlements in a way that far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said would “fundamentally change the legal and civil reality” in the West Bank. The territory is held by the United Nations and the international community for a future Palestinian state.T

GOP leaders fret as Trump sits out the party’s nastiest primary battles — with Senate control on the line

‘We must get through the next few days’: Ukrainians face bitter cold without power

FBI concluded Jeffrey Epstein wasn’t running a sex trafficking ring for powerful men, files show

The FBI pored over Jeffrey Epstein’s bank records and emails. It searched his homes. It spent years interviewing his victims and examining his connections to some of the world’s most influential people. But while investigators collected ample proof that Epstein sexually abused underage girls, they found scant evidence the well-connected financier led a sex trafficking ring serving powerful men, an Associated Press review of internal Justice Department records shows. Videos and photos seized from Epstein’s homes in New York, Florida and the Virgin Islands didn

Voters are worried about the cost of housing. But Trump wants home prices to keep climbing

Japan’s Takaichi tightens grip on power with stunning victory in snap election

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ICE chief counsel in Minnesota retires amid growing number of immigration cases

The top lawyer for Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Minnesota has left the agency, the same week an ICE attorney was removed after telling a district judge that “this job sucks” and that the Trump administration is “overwhelmed” with immigration cases.Chief Counsel Jim Stolley retired after 31 years of service, Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin told CNN. McLaughlin said Stolley’s retirement was scheduled to occur but did not provide additional details.Stolley said in an automatic email response, “I have retired from public service,” and directed

Investigation continues a week after Savannah Guthrie mother was reported missing

The urgent investigation into the apparent kidnapping of 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie continued Sunday, a week after the mother of “Today” show host Savannah Guthrie was reported missing in Arizona. Savannah Guthrie solemnly told the potential kidnappers in a social media video released Saturday that the family was prepared to pay for her safe return. Flanked by her siblings, Guthrie said “we received your message” and that: “This is the only way we will have peace. This is very valuable to us, and we will pay.” An FBI spokesman said Savannah Guthrie was r

Washington Post publisher Will Lewis abruptly steps down, days after massive layoffs gut the newspaper

A teen allegedly killed 4 people at his Georgia high school. Now his father is going on trial for murder

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Ohio man charged with threatening to kill Vice President JD Vance and possessing child abuse files

An Ohio man has been charged with threatening to kill Vice President JD Vance while he was visiting his home state last month. But the man's lawyer said his health makes it unlikely he would have been able to carry out the threat. In addition to the charge for threatening Vance, prosecutors also charged Shannon Mathre with possessing digital files depicting child sexual abuse that were discovered during the investigation. That second charge carries a much stiffer potential penalty of up to 20 years in prison. The charge related to the threats could lead to a maximu

Lindsey Vonn breaks leg in downhill crash at Winter Olympics, in stable condition after surgery

Lindsey Vonn 's defiant bid to win the Winter Olympic downhill at the age of 41, on a rebuilt right knee and a badly injured left knee, ended Sunday in a frightening crash that left her with a broken leg and saw her taken to safety by a rescue helicopter for the second time in nine days. Vonn lost control within moments of leaving the start house, clipping a gate with her right shoulder and pinwheeling down the slope before ending up awkwardly on her back, her skis crisscrossed below her and her screams ringing out soon after medical personnel arrived. She was treated for long

JD Vance and Jake Paul watch U.S. women's hockey team together at the Winter Olympics

Falcons rookie Pearce arrested after what police said was a domestic dispute with WNBA player

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The last time she spoke to her son was in a FaceTime cooking lesson. The next day she was the victim of a deadly scam

Mario Hall last saw his mother on the other end of a FaceTime call, teaching him how to make pepper steak.She’d propped her phone near the stove in her kitchen in Dublin, Ohio, so he could see the pan. From his home in Columbia, South Carolina, he watched and followed along as she added peppers and seasoned the beef.“I’d told her I wanted some pepper steak, but I didn’t know how to make it. And that was one of the meals she used to make for me when I was younger,” Hall told CNN this week. “So she was like, ‘well, get on FaceTime and let’s just walk through it.’ ”By the time

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Lindsey Vonn's legend was built on pushing the limits. Her brief time in Cortina was no different

Lindsey Vonn was over the limit. Beyond it, really. Because of course she was. There is only one speed for maybe the fiercest competitor to ever snap into a pair of skis and point them down the side of a mountain: as fast as she possibly can, for as long as she possibly can, as relentlessly as she possibly can. For many days during Vonn's nearly 25 years in the spotlight, that kind of relentlessness leads to glory. Other times, like a sun-splashed Sunday in a place that's long felt like a second home, at an event that has long served as her own pers

Is India about to make Ozempic-like weight-loss drugs a whole lot cheaper?

Families in hiding and defiant observers: This is Minneapolis in the wake of the so-called ICE ‘drawdown’

Italian police fire tear gas as protesters clash near Winter Olympics hockey venue

Italian police fired tear gas and a water cannon at dozens of protesters who threw firecrackers and tried to access a highway near a Winter Olympics venue on Saturday. The brief confrontation came at the end of a peaceful march by thousands against the environmental impact of the Games and the presence of U.S. agents in Italy. Police held off the violent demonstrators, who appeared to be trying to reach the Santagiulia Olympic ice hockey rink, after the skirmish. By then, the larger peaceful protest, including families with small children and students, had dispers

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A Super Bowl starting at 12:30 a.m.? Welcome to an Olympic-sized problem for fans in Italy

USA Luge men's doubles slider Zack DiGregorio is a New England Patriots fan. Makes sense: He's from Massachusetts, his mother has worked for the Patriots for more than two decades and the Patriots are about to play in the Super Bowl for the 10th time since he was born. He doesn't miss games. Especially not big games. And games get no bigger than the Super Bowl. Welcome to a Super-sized Olympic dilemma: What does one do when football's biggest game collides with the Milan Cortina Games? In Italy, the game between the Patriots and the Seattle Seahawks kicks off Monda