Mar. 15, 2025
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It’s that time of year — Fat Bear Week!
On Wednesday, Alaska’s Katmai National Park and Preserve began itsannual bear-centered competition, a tournament where anyone can vote for the hibernator they think deserves the title of fall’s fattest bear.
Fat Bear Week uses a March-Madness-inspired bracket to pit the park’s bears, who have been putting on mass in preparation for hibernation, against each other to vie for the public’s favor — and votes.
Mar. 15, 2025
Fat Joeis the latest to take a stand against the lack of price transparency in healthcare.
“To every elected official and politician in America… the people stand united, desperate for you to listen,” Fat Joe says in the PSA. “If you’re not advocating for prices and transparency in healthcare… you are compromising every single American across this country."
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Power to the Patients is a nonprofit founded in 2021 dedicated to creating a more affordable healthcare system via price transparency.
Mar. 15, 2025
Fat Joe.Photo:Johnny Nunez/GettyFat Joeis coming clean about his song lyrics.While speaking withGayle Kingand Charles Barkley on the premiere ofCNN’sKing Charleson Thursday aboutYoung Thug’s currentRICO trial, the “What’s Luv?” musician, 53, came his defense as he called the use of the musician’s lyrics against him in his trial “horrible” and “a travesty."“I’ve been rapping professionally for 30 years — I’ve lied in almost 95 percent of my songs,” Joe (whose real name is Joseph Cartagena) told King and Barkley.
Mar. 15, 2025
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A man was found in a New York City subway station early Thursday morning with fatal lacerations to the torso, according to the New York Police Department. The death, asFox 11 reports, marks the 11th killing in the New York subway system this year.
At around 12:12 a.m., police responded to a call of an unconscious man at the West Fourth Street and Sixth Avenue station in Greenwich Village.
Mar. 15, 2025
Aerial view of Marathon Key, Fla.Photo:Getty
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On Tuesday, Aug. 13, a 47-year-old Miami man and his 9-year-old son were riding a Yamaha personal watercraft when they crashed into a seawall in the Middle Keys city of Marathon shortly before 7 p.m. local time, a Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission spokesperson told PEOPLE.
Sheriff Rick Ramsay of Monroe County told theMiami Heraldthat the father hit the seawall “head on” and that there was “no slowing down,” as the pair traveled full speed in a residential canal’s no-wake zone — a section where watercraft must travel at slow speeds.