Saturday, March 9, 2024

Warthog He'd Raised From Birth Turned Murderous (Newser Deep Dive)

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March 9, 2024
 
 
Austin Riley has spent years on his family's ranch in the Texas Hill Country, caring for and spending time with the animals. In 2017, when a warthog piglet's mother died in childbirth, Riley immediately took over, bottle-feeding the newborn and letting it sleep inside the family home until the weather got warm enough to move the animal outside. Keep reading
 
In the three-stoplight, agricultural town of Waimea on Hawaii's Big Island, more than 600 acres of land have been scooped up by billionaire Marc Benioff. And while tech tycoons buying vast tracts in Hawaii isn't a new story (or if it is to you, please meet Mark Zuckerberg's doomsday bunker), NPR's Dara Kerr decided to find out what Benioff plans to do with all this valuable property. Keep reading
 
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If you want to start a surefire online debate, mention the idea of "Disney adults." You know, those who regularly visit the parks sans children or remain superfans of the movies, merchandise, and characters well past childhood. Keep reading
 
A few simple clicks online, no human needed on the other end. That was how Sophie Elmhirst's experience of buying contact lenses online was supposed to go. Keep reading
 
From the Archives
It is, declares the headline of a lengthy story at ProPublica, "the murder Chicago didn't want to solve." And as Mick Dumke writes, the killing of Black politician Ben Lewis in 1963 does indeed remain unsolved after nearly six decades. Keep reading
 
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