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People were forced to leave their pets behind during Hurricane Katrina, creating an unprecedented animal welfare crisis that has shaped the country's disaster response ever since.
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Mitzi Gaynor, the effervescent dancer and actor, starred as Nellie Forbush in the 1958 film of "South Pacific" and appeared in other musicals with Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra and Gene Kelly. -
At a hospital in Kentucky, a man who had been declared dead after a drug overdose was moving and visibly crying as he was prepped for surgery to donate his vital organs. The surgery was stopped, and the man is alive three years later. -
The Archdiocese of Los Angeles has agreed to pay $880 million to victims of clergy sexual abuse in what an attorney said was the largest single child sex abuse settlement with a Catholic archdiocese. -
Payne, who came to fame as a teen in the massively popular British boy band One Direction, died in Buenos Aires after falling from his hotel balcony, according to a statement by local officials. -
KPBS caught up with Pelosi to talk about next month’s presidential election and America’s current divide. -
Former One Direction singer Liam Payne was found dead after falling from a third-floor hotel balcony in Buenos Aires on Wednesday, local officials told Argentine media. He was 31. -
Justice Clarence Thomas dissented while two other conservatives wrote that they may be sympathetic to the case were it to be brought after a lower court ruling. -
Nebraska’s highest court ruled against top state officials as it upheld a law providing felons with a path to register to vote after completing their sentences. -
Robert Telles, a former Las Vegas-area official, was sentenced for killing Jeff German, who wrote articles critical of his conduct in office and exposed an intimate relationship with a coworker. -
A judge temporarily blocked Alabama’s voter removal program after finding the state violated federal law by systematically purging voters too close to this fall’s election.
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