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Jackie Flournoy's succulent suddenly grew a 25-foot stalk

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Jackie Flournoy was leaving her home in Luthersville, Ga., one morning, when she spotted a strange-looking stalk poking out of one of her plants on her front lawn. She had never seen anything like it before. “What in the world is that?” Flournoy, 80, recalled saying out loud that day in late March. “I didn’t know what it was.” Upon further inspection, she realized that the mysterious five-foot stalk had grown out of the succulent her daughter had given to her 36 years ago. Read More...

Opinion | Trumps nonsense on Otto Warmbier is mind-numbing and outrageous

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If he were alive today, Mark Twain might say the following: “There’s lies, damned lies — and Donald Trump.” The president of the United States not only lies routinely, but he believes other people’s lies without a modicum of skepticism. This week, the liar in question was North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, who claimed to have known nothing about what appears to have been the torture and, ultimately, murder of American college student Otto Warmbier. Read More...

The Life and Legacy of Whitney Houston

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GORDON CHAMBERS: Well, I'll tell you her influence on me. When I was actually producing her Christmas song, she — there was a note I wanted her to hit in the bridge and to take it a little bit more to church, take it a little higher. And she looked at me and she said, "Gordon, I think you want to do what I do, baby. I think you want to do what I do. Read More...