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- U.S. climate envoy John Kerry warned the United Nations Security Council today that leaders' collective inaction on the climate crisis "is almost tantamount to a mutual suicide pact."
- Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the influential Beat poet, publisher, and owner of San Francisco's beloved City Lights bookstore, has died at 101.
- First responders used the "jaws of life" to extricate golfer Tiger Woods from a car crash in Los Angeles today; he is undergoing surgery for leg injuries.
- A new study of a coronavirus variant spreading rapidly in California has found that the current vaccines may be less effective against it.
- Read all about Rudy Giuliani's farcical week-long effort to avoid being served with a $1 billion lawsuit from Dominion Voting Systems over his baseless allegations of election fraud.
- Police in Karachi, Pakistan have formed an armed rollerblading unit.
- Archeology magazine presents "the amazing true story" of Nathan Harrison, "a formerly enslaved man who became a California legend" regaling hikers who passed by his cabin at the base of a mountain in San Diego.
- An Arizona man is in trouble with the law after allegedly binding his own wrists and gagging himself in order to fake his own abduction and create an excuse for missing work.
- And finally, watch Lake Michigan ice break up.
Published Feb 23, 2021
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