Sealand, an offshore platform off England’s coast, is the world’s smallest state. It has just one permanent resident and its own royal family.
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Ben Renick was found laying in a pool of blood inside his Missouri snake breeding facility — shot eight times in the back, once at close range.
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Former U.S. Ambassador to Russia John Sullivan says Vladimir Putin, and other authoritarians, may be emboldened to wrongfully detain Americans abroad if they can benefit from prisoner swaps in the future.
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The artist known as Jelly Roll is a 39-year-old former rapper whose songs tell of the troubled life he used to lead. He’s now one of the biggest names in country music, with two Grammy nominations this year. With correspondent Kelefa Sanneh, we go with Jelly Roll to one of the jail cells he lived in, where he wrote songs and hatched his plans to make it in music—eventually finding himself on the “holy ground” of Nashville’s Grand Ole Opry. (This story was originally broadcast on January 7, 2024.)
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American gymnast Suni Lee became a seven-time Olympic medalist on Sunday, winning bronze in the uneven bars final at the Paris Games.
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Puerto Rico takes on LeBron James, Bam Adebayo, Steph Curry, Jayson Tatum and Team USA at the Paris Olympics.
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Seventy-five hundred miles away from Paris, on the Big Island of Hawaii, another competition recently took place featuring the best hula dancers in the world, competing in the categories of traditional and modern hula. Correspondent Lee Cowan talked with teachers and students of the art of hula – an ancient form of storytelling that preserves the culture and grace of the Hawaiian people, as celebrated at the Merrie Monarch Festival.
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Sunday marks 80 years since Anne Frank’s family was arrested by the Nazis on August 4, 1944.
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The world’s best golfers are competing at the 2024 Summer Olympics, including Scottie Scheffler and Nelly Korda.
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In a sudden reversal, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Friday revoked a plea deal which was reached earlier in the week with three 9/11 defendants, including the alleged mastermind behind the attacks. The deal would have spared the men the death penalty. Michael George has the latest.
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