"You can't top this! She is Ben Franklin!"

CNN interviews the black woman who won the Benjamin Franklin lookalike contest in Philly:

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Me whenever the VAR ruins my World Cup bet

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WARNING : The end is near for the stock market, warns Michael Burry

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Fire breaks out on Brooklyn Bridge following fireworks display

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This is the entire Gulf of America in Florida right now. Fireworks everywhere and families all over the beach celebrating America’s birthday

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There’s no way

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Only in America!

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: Heat maps show men look straight ahead; women scan periphery

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Happy baby cows

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This style of communication is absolutely f&cking everywhere.

When women have an innate advantage, it's championed as such. When men have an innate advantage, its sheepishly admitted but simultaneously rebutted with sophist "nuance".

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A child shouldn't have to ask her dad why nobody loves him at home

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America burned Japan's first gift of cherry trees. All 2,000 of them, on President Taft's direct order.

The 1910 shipment arrived in DC crawling with insects and nematodes. Agriculture inspectors condemned the lot, Taft signed off on the bonfire, and the State Department braced for a diplomatic disaster. Tokyo's mayor, Yukio Ozaki, responded by sending 3,020 more, grafted from the famous grove along the Arakawa River.

Those trees have spent a century paying the friendship back.

Four days after Pearl Harbor, vandals chopped down four of them. Park officials renamed the survivors "Oriental" cherry trees for the rest of the war to protect them from axes.

Then came the twist. By 1952 the original Arakawa grove in Tokyo, the parent stock, had nearly died from wartime neglect. Japan asked Washington for help. The Park Service shipped budwood from DC's trees back across the Pacific and restored the grove that created them. When a flood wiped out more Japanese trees in 1982, horticulturists took 800 fresh cuttings from the Tidal Basin.

These 250 new trees solve a real problem too. The Tidal Basin is sinking, and a $133 million seawall rebuild forced crews to rip out roughly 150 trees. Japan offered replacements before anyone asked, timed to America's 250th birthday.

So the genetics run in a loop. Tokyo's grove seeded Washington's. Washington's saved Tokyo's. The saplings going in this spring descend from both.

114 years of diplomacy, running on grafted branches.

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You have one day until Fable becomes API only.

The last possible day to escape the permanent underclass.

Godspeed.

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A military pilot flying an F-22 fighter jet shared a cockpit view while soaring over the nation’s capital during flyovers marking America’s 250th anniversary

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FOLLOWUP (0.77, took 0.3s):

Trump opens his speech for the Salute to America celebration after weather delays: "If we have to speak in front of one person at 4 o'clock in the morning, I'm gonna be here, there's no way we can be deterred."

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BREAKING: Smoke and flames were seen on part of the Brooklyn Bridge as the NYC America250 fireworks show continued along the East River.

ScooterCasterNY

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