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Tropical Storm Harvey is turning out to be one of the most powerful storms to hit the U.S. since 2005, and you don't have to sit on the sidelines as it continues to inundate parts of Texas

As Tropical Storm Harvey beats down on Houston, good Samaritans throughout the area are showing up for one another in whatever ways possible. 

Congrats, you just made $178,041!

Well, that is, if you're Floyd Mayweather, standing in the ring against Conor McGregor on Saturday night — and you took one second to read that sentence.

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In what has to be the biggest single payout in sports history, the 40-year-old Mayweather stands to make a total of $300 million for his win over 29-year-old MMA superstar McGregor. (He'd have made the same win or lose... Читать дальше...

Social media is helping track down the white supremacists responsible for brutally assaulting a counterprotester in Charlottesville.

The National Weather Service is pulling no punches when it comes to Hurricane Harvey. 

As Tropical Storm Harvey causes catastrophic floods and torrential downpours across the Houston area, Apple is stepping up to aid storm relief. 

As Hurricane Harvey continues to dump staggering amounts of rain over Houston, KHOU-TV, 11 News, one of the city's local TV news broadcasting stations, was forced to evacuate as flood waters surged in.

Just three days into her comeback, Taylor Swift is breaking records.

Spotify announced Saturday that Swift's newest single "Look What You Made Me Do" broke the streaming service's record for same-day streams with 8 million plays, reports the Associated Press. 

The musician also broke a YouTube record for the 19 million same-day views on the single's lyric video.

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Swift's Spotify record comes... Читать дальше...

Hello. I’m the paleontologist who keeps finding out more and more lame shit about dinosaurs, and I’m here to ruin your life.

Sometimes Game of Thrones theories are less theory and more straight up hype. And, in one case, the hype is just too real.

Acclaimed horror filmmaker Tobe Hooper, who is perhaps best-known for his genre-defining 1974 classic, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, has died at the age of 74.

The cargo ship Foylebank under construction at the Harland & Wolff shipyard. The ship was later renamed Patroclos.

Donald Trump woke up early on Sunday morning to grim news out of Texas: a flash flood emergency had been declared in and around Houston after 2 feet of rain fell in 24 hours, with more to come.

Weather forecasters' worst fears regarding Hurricane Harvey are being realized in Houston, the nation's 4th-largest city, as a historic deluge pounded the city overnight and into Sunday morning, with no signs of relenting. Widespread, "catastrophic" flooding is occurring, with emergency responders struggling to rescue people from rapidly flooding homes.

According to Paris Hilton, "If somebody ever asks you to do something, do it really bad so you never have to do it again." 

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Floyd Mayweather Jr. will retire a perfect 50-0 — but hey, Conor McGregor made him work for it.

A dog named Otis wasn't about to go hungry during Hurricane Harvey. 

As the hurricane made landfall, a dog was spotted wandering around Sinton, Texas carrying a full bag of dog food. 

The German shepherd mix wasn't a stray—he just got loose from a screen porch. 

"I kept yelling his name and yelling his name and he wasn't around," his caretaker Salvador Segovia told the Houston Chronicle. 

The dog belongs to Segovia's 5-year-old grandson, who had evacuated in anticipation of flooding. Читать дальше...

By now you've seen a good number of impressive augmented reality demos using Apple's ARKit, but you haven't seen anything like this—sculpting in AR with the Apple Pencil. 

Everyone's pumped for the music video for Taylor Swift's new single, "Look What You Made Me Do," to arrive. 

Part of the fun of Stranger Things is looking for how many retro takes the show gets spot-on. Now the show's exercise in pop culture symbology offers yet another take—this time, on old-school movie posters that used to adorn the bedrooms of the '80s kids the show depicts. 

Please enjoy the best thing to ever happen on Fox News.

Reporter Casey Stegall received a surprise treat during his extremely wet coverage of Hurricane Harvey on Friday—a six-pack of local beer from a scene-stealing local.

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In the clip, which was later tweeted by Fox News, Stegall is mid-sentence when a woman darts into the frame. "Brought you guys some Galveston beer!" she says (well, shouts).

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