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1. Nevada GOP Freaks Out Over Giant Naked Trump Statue

 ‘PORNOGRAPHIC’ 

The 43-foot, 6,000-pound statue towered over a Las Vegas highway this weekend as part of an art installation reportedly titled “Crooked and Obscene.”

POLITICS

2. Maggie Smith Jokingly Told Off Teens Days Before Passing

 ‘NO ONE LIKE HER’ 

Smith “slipped into character”—approximating her roles as intimidating authority figures—“and ticked off some teenagers who were laughing noisily,” according to a report.

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3. Region Made Famous From ‘Dirty Dancing’ Decimated by Helene

 HEARTBREAKING 

One local in the town of Chimney Rock said the town is “now a river.”

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4. Airport Shut Down After 737 MAX Tire Explosion on Runway

 TIRED OUT 

Local newspaper Prima Bergamo reported that the jet’s tires left damage across nearly 1,500 feet of asphalt.

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5. Jimmy Carter Is the First U.S. President to Live to 100

 HAPPY BIRTHDAY 

Carter’s grandson said his hospice care has allowed “the rest of the country and the world to really reflect on him. That’s been a really gratifying time.”

POLITICS

6. Man Buys Taylor Swift’s Signed $4K Guitar to Smash It

 BAD BLOOD 

The Texas man reportedly paid $4,000 for the instrument in an auction before promptly smashing it with a hammer in what was believed to be a politically motivated act.

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7. Hillary Clinton Gets Candid About Biden Dropping Out

 ‘DID THE RIGHT THING’ 

The former 2016 Democratic nominee praised Biden’s decision after his “disastrous debate” with former President Donald Trump in June.

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8. Woman Gored to Death by Bull at Spanish Festival

 TRAGIC 

A 60-year-old woman was killed after a bull gored her during a festival in a small Valencian town, local Spanish news reported.

WORLD

9. Georgia Judge Strikes Down State’s Six Week Abortion Ban

 NO HANDMAID’S TALE 

Judge Robert McBurney sensationally ruled that “It is not for a legislator, a judge, or a Commander from The Handmaid’s Tale to tell these women what to do with their bodies.”

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10. Help Arrives for NASA Astronauts Stranded in Space

 RIDE SHARE 

The SpaceX capsule that will bring the astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams home has docked at the International Space Station.

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11. Green Day Banned on Vegas Radio for Calling City ‘Sh*thole’

 CENSORED 

“I hate Las Vegas,” said frontman Billie Joe Armstrong, an Oakland. “It’s the worst sh*thole in America.”

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12. WATCH: Hurricane Helene Flooding Sends Tesla Up in Flames

 FIRE HAZARD 

Public safety officials are warning that saltwater damage can cause electric vehicles to catch fire amid the hurricane’s fallout.

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13. Tom Brady Claps Back at Successor’s ‘High-Strung’ Comment

 DIFFERENT STROKES 

“This wasn’t daycare,” said Brady, now a freshly minted analyst for Fox Sports. “If I wanted to have fun, I was going to go to Disneyland with my kids.”

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