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Throughout the past week, we've seen record breaking frigid weathers across the midwest, even getting as low as -20 in certain areas. It is expected to last a week longer with more snow on the way.

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Wind Chill Advisory is in place for our area starting midnight tonight through noon on Friday. Our wind chill has consistently been below 0, but how low does it have to be for something like this to be issued?

In this case, about -15 to -25 wind chills are expected. That's going to be the case for several hours Friday morning.

That's cold enough for you to get frostbite in half an hour or less. Keep these conditions in mind and check on anyone who doesn't have the best access to heat over the next few days.

Here are some types to keep your body temperature up:

Cover all exposed skin outside, even wearing mittens over gloves

Stay hydrated to help increase blood volume

Avoid caffeine and alcohol

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NFL increases salary cap minimum to $180 million. It had got lowered to $175 million because of covid but is now up to $180 million.

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The NFL has increased the salary cap to a minimum of $180 million for the 2021 season.

In a memo sent to clubs Thursday and obtained by The Associated Press, the league says a decision to increase the floor by $5 million came after discussion with the union about 2020 revenues and projected attendance for 2021.

The final cap number will be determined following further review of revenue figures for 2020 and other accounting. The cap was $198 million last season.

Total attendance was 1.2 million, down from 17 million in 2019. Thirteen teams didn't allow fans in the regular season and other clubs limited crowd size to provide social distancing in compliance with health and safety regulations in their state.

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The NFL has increased the salary cap to a minimum of $180 million for the 2021 season. In a memo sent to clubs Thursday and obtained by The Associated Press, the league says a decision to increase the floor by $5 million came after discussion with the union about 2020 revenues and projected attendance for 2021.

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Senator Ted Cruz is under scrutiny after taking his family on a trip to Mexico while Texas is dealing with the effects of a major ice storm. Senator Cruz required police assistance as he returned to the airport in Texas.

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The Texas Senator requested police assistance at Houston airport.

Sen. Ted Cruz has acknowledged flying to Mexico with his family, saying he made the trip to please his daughters, even as his state reels from a historic storm that has left hundreds of thousands of people without power and safe drinking water.

The Houston Police Department confirmed to ABC News that Cruz's staff contacted police personnel on Wednesday requesting assistance upon the senator's arrival at the George Bush Intercontinental Airport, though they did not specify what type of assistance.

Police said he arrived at Terminal E and officers "monitored his movements" through the terminal.

Cruz was headed to Cancun, Mexico, for a long-planned family vacation, various media outlets had reported, including CNN and Fox News.

Cruz's office did not respond to multiple requests for comment from ABC News Thursday. However, the Republican lawmaker defended himself in a statement Thursday afternoon saying he went to Mexico to take his two daughters, Caroline and Catherine, on a trip with friends.

"This has been an infuriating week for Texans...Like millions of Texans, our family lost heat and power too,' Cruz opened his statement.

"With school cancelled for the week, our girls asked to take a trip with friends. Wanting to be a good dad, I flew down with them last night and am flying back this afternoon," he said.

"My staff and I are in constant communication with state and local leaders to get to the bottom of what happened in Texas. We want our power back, our water on, and our homes warm. My team and I will continue using all our resources to keep Texans informed and safe," Cruz added.

Critics slammed the senator on Twitter after photos emerged on social media of a man who appears to be Cruz aboard a plane.

The Lone Star state is in the midst of a crisis in the wake of a powerful storm that started Sunday, creating widespread power outages and burst pipes. Nearly 500,000 customers in Texas remained without power Thursday morning.

On Tuesday, Cruz acknowledged the devastation tweeting, "A blizzard strikes Texas & our state shuts down. Not good."

Texas Democrats called on Cruz to resign for seemingly abandoning his constituents in the midst of the storm.

Texas Democratic Party chairman Gilberto Hinojosa said, "Ted Cruz jetting off to Mexico while Texans remain dying in the cold isn't surprising but it is deeply disturbing and disappointing."

"The Texas Democratic Party calls on Ted Cruz to resign or be expelled from office... We must restore ethics, competence, and a government that works for the people," the group said in a statement.

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Sen. Ted Cruz responds to media reports of flying to Cancun amid brutal Texas weather, said he wanted to be 'good dad'

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NASA's Perseverance rover is expected to land on the surface of Mars on Thursday, February 18, around 3:55 p.m. ET. The agency is sharing multiple ways for people to expereince the landing.

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With almost a year of struggling with covid, many people are over this virus. Experts say it is not going anywhere, may even became a season virus just like the flu.

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Millions of people around the globe are hoping that between lockdowns and vaccines, the virus that causes COVID-19 might soon be eradicated from our lives. Now, experts are warning that the virus might be with us forever -- but it won't always be a deadly plague.

"This coronavirus is going to be here to stay," explained Dr. John Brownstein, chief innovation officer at Boston Children's Hospital and an ABC News contributor. "Eradication of this new coronavirus is basically impossible."

Dr. Paul Offit, director of the Vaccine Education Center and professor of pediatrics in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, concurred, adding that he is also "not sure we're ever going to really eliminate this virus. ... It's not like measles, where you get life-long sterilizing immunity."

But even if the virus sticks around, new vaccines and new drugs to fight the virus mean it's unlikely to cause severe illness in the future. Offit predicts "that eventually, it will cause fewer deaths than influenza."

It is possible, experts say, that COVID-19 could become a seasonal illness, like the flu. Virologists call this an "endemic" disease -- one that is constantly circulating among us. In the years and decades to come, many people will be exposed to it in childhood and develop some immunity, which would protect them later in life against serious disease.

A child wears a coronavirus protective mask while being carried in Los Angeles, Feb. 10. 2021.

Meanwhile, current vaccines have shown great success preventing symptomatic and severe disease, which will help save lives even if the virus continues to transmit at low levels.

"The hope is that with enough natural immunity and immunizations, this becomes part of the natural cycle of cold season, but doesn't have the same impact," Brownstein said.

"I think it will become seasonal. All acute respiratory viral infections are," added Sarah Cobey, an epidemiologist and evolutionary biologist at the University of Chicago.

Whether this coronavirus does become endemic depends a lot on our behavior, Stephen S. Morse, professor of epidemiology at Columbia University, told ABC News. "Early on, when the virus was much more limited in distribution, it might have been possible to stop the pandemic ... if the world had acted earlier in a coordinated way."

However, given how the pandemic has been handled so far, it is likely that it will become endemic, with the virus probably taking a similar route to the four existing "human" coronaviruses that are already in circulation and cause upper respiratory infections, Morse said.

"We dismissed the human coronaviruses as a 'common cold' or 'flu-like illness,'" Morse said. "But they've been with us for a while" and evolved into endemic coronaviruses. "I suspect we're probably seeing the same process repeating itself with this virus, eventually perhaps a fifth 'human coronavirus.'"

"I'd say it's already endemic," Cobey said. "The "endemic" flu is also a pandemic in the sense that it sweeps the globe every year. However, she continued, recurring epidemics of the virus will probably not be as severe as the first.

People should not rely on achieving "herd immunity" as a way to curb COVID-19 infections, according to Jennie Lavine, a postdoctoral fellow at Emory University and lead author of a study conducted by researchers from Emory and Penn State University.

"Based on our analysis, we do not expect herd immunity to arise in the case of COVID-19," Lavine said. That is because if the immunity that prevents transmission wanes, people will continue to have periodic reinfections.

Experts say it is still unclear as to how long immunity lasts after a COVID-19 infection, though evidence seems to suggest that, unlike some viruses, COVID-19 is unlikely to give you lifelong immunity. But even if you are infected again, the second infection will likely be less serious and probably won't make you as sick as the first.

Due to uncertainty around immunity after receiving a vaccine, it is still a bit too early to determine if people will need a yearly COVID-19 shot, according to experts, who add that they also don't know how quickly the virus will continue to evolve.

"If CoV-2 experiences antigenic evolution at rates that are similar to influenza, annual shots for vulnerable populations may well be necessary. This is something we will need to continue to measure in the coming years," Levine added.

A Covid-19 test is administed at a mobile clinic in the Brooklyn borough of New York Jan. 27, 2021.

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Brownstein predicted that as more and more adults develop immunity through vaccination or natural infection, "the virus will naturally gravitate to younger age groups, because essentially that becomes the natural pool of people that are susceptible."

Immunizations have been shown to reduce rates of severe cases and thus hospitalizations and deaths. If the virus continues to mutate and evade vaccines, scientists may have to adapt vaccines to more closely match the dominant strain.

"[We] will have to be nimble to be able to adjust readily, to make versions of the vaccine that actually are specifically directed towards whatever mutation is actually prevalent at any given time," Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation's top infectious disease expert said in a White House briefing Jan. 29.

Although experts said it's impossible to predict the future, they agreed that the virus that causes COVID-19 is unlikely to be completely eradicated by current vaccines and prevention measures. Rather, it will likely transform into a milder illness that can be managed seasonally, like the annual flu.

"We may have to think about rewiring our brains around how we view this virus," Brownstein said. He said everyone should prepare for a yearly evolutionary arms race, similar to the one against the seasonal flu, and ultimately acknowledge that COVID-19 is here to stay.

In addition, if we can curb transmission as much, and as rapidly as possible, with inoculations as well as by staying vigilant with "non-pharmaceutical interventions," such as masks, distancing, hand hygiene and ventilation, we could prevent or slow down the emergence of new variants, Morse told ABC News.
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Oxford Univeristy is launching one of the first studies to see how children react to the COVID-19 vaccine. The ages range from 6-17 years old.

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The trial will show if kids have a good immune response to the shot.

Oxford University is extending its COVID-19 vaccine study to include children -- some as young as 6.

Previous trials of the vaccine have shown that it is safe, but this phase 2 trial -- funded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) and AstraZeneca -- will show if kids have a good immune response to the shot.

Oxford said in a press release that 300 volunteers will be enrolled in the study -- 240 of them will receive the ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine and the remainder a control meningitis vaccine, "which has been shown to be safe in children but is expected to produce similar reactions, such as a sore arm."

"While most children are relatively unaffected by coronavirus and are unlikely to become unwell with the infection, it is important to establish the safety and immune response to the vaccine in children and young people as some children may benefit from vaccination," Andrew Pollard, a professor of paediatric infection and Immunity, and the chief investigator on the Oxford vaccine trial, said. "These new trials will extend our understanding of control of SARS-CoV2 to younger age groups."

The news comes as school districts across the country battle with reopening schools due to the risks associated with the virus.

"The COVID-19 pandemic has had a profound negative impact on the education, social development and emotional well-being of children and adolescents, beyond illness and rare severe disease presentations. It is therefore important to collect data on the safety and the immune response to our coronavirus vaccine in these age groups, so that they could potentially benefit from inclusion in vaccination programs in the near future," Rinn Song, a paediatrician and clinician-scientist for the Oxford Vaccine Group, said.

Grace Li, a paediatric clinical research fellow for the Oxford Vaccine Group, said the trial will play an important role in protecting children from the virus.

The trial will begin Saturday, according to Oxford's statement, and the first shots are expected to be given sometime this month.

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Mitch McConnell, although having blamed Trump for the inssurection on the 6th of Jauary, voted not guilty during his second impeachment.

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Next time you are in Algebra class and get the correct answer to a problem think again, because you're now a white supremacist. According to The Oregon Department of Education there is a list of ways "white supremacy culture" allegedly "infiltrates math classrooms." Those include "the focus is on getting the 'right' answer," students being "required to 'show their work,'" and other alleged manifestations. According to them "Upholding the idea that there are always right and wrong answers perpetuate objectivity as well as fear of open conflict." 2+2=5 if you don't agree you're racist and dislike "open conflict".
To some people this is seen as counterproductive, "Aren't liberals themselves supporting white "supremacy" by constantly saying blacks aren't capable of the same learning, constantly pointing out their inequities due to underperforming in jobs, schools, testing, etc? Basically saying they are inferior and must have a lower bar... they are pushing supremacy."

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The Oregon Department of Education (ODE) recently encouraged teachers to register for training that encourages "ethnomathematics" and argues, among other things, that White supremacy manifests itself in the focus on finding the right answer.

An ODE newsletter sent last week advertises a Feb. 21 "Pathway to Math Equity Micro-Course," which is designed for middle school teachers to make use of a toolkit for "dismantling racism in mathematics." The event website identifies the event as a partnership between California's San Mateo County Office of Education, The Education Trust-West and others.

Part of the toolkit includes a list of ways "white supremacy culture" allegedly "infiltrates math classrooms." Those include "the focus is on getting the 'right' answer," students being "required to 'show their work,'" and other alleged manifestations.

"The concept of mathematics being purely objective is unequivocally false, and teaching it is even much less so," the document for the "Equitable Math" toolkit reads. "Upholding the idea that there are always right and wrong answers perpetuate objectivity as well as fear of open conflict."

The ODE, led by Colt Gill, confirmed the letter to Fox News. ODE Communications Director Marc Siegel also defended the "Equitable Math" educational program, saying it "helps educators learn key tools for engagement, develop strategies to improve equitable outcomes for Black, Latinx, and multilingual students, and join communities of practice."
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An associated "Dismantling Racism" workbook, linked within the toolkit, similarly identifies "objectivity" -- described as "the belief that there is such a thing as being objective or 'neutral'" -- as a characteristic of White supremacy.

Instead of focusing on one right answer, the toolkit encourages teachers to "come up with at least two answers that might solve this problem."

It adds: "Challenge standardized test questions by getting the 'right' answer, but justify other answers by unpacking the assumptions that are made in the problem."

It also encourages teachers to "center ethnomathematics," which includes a variety of guidelines. One of them instructs educators to "identify and challenge the ways that math is used to uphold capitalist, imperialist, and racist views."
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The newsletter surfaced amid a broader uproar over critical race theory and diversity training sessions in government entities. For example, a media frenzy erupted last year after a controversial graphic on "whiteness" surfaced from National Museum for African American History and Culture.

The museum's graphic broke the "aspects and assumptions of whiteness" into categories such as "rugged individualism" and "history." For example, under "future orientation," the graphic listed "delayed gratification" and planning for the future as ideas spread by White culture.

The training promoted by Oregon references a 2016 workbook titled "Dismantling Racism."
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"We do not claim to have 'discovered' or to 'own' the ideas in this workbook any more than Columbus can claim to have discovered or own America," the workbook reads in one section.

It's unclear to what extent, if at all, teachers would be involved with this particular workbook, created by the group DismantlingRacism.org, but it appeared to form part of the foundation for the course's material.

"The framework for deconstructing racism in mathematics offers essential characteristics of antiracist math educators and critical approaches to dismantling white supremacy in math classrooms by visualizing the toxic characteristics of white supremacy culture," the toolkit reads before linking to both the workbook and a paper on "white supremacy culture."

The toolkit adds that "building on the framework, teachers engage with critical praxis in order to shift their instructional beliefs and practices toward antiracist math education. By centering antiracism, we model how to be antiracist math educators with accountability."

In one section of the "Dismantling Racism" workbook, the argument is made that "only white people can be racist in our society, because only white people as a group have that power." Another section seems to justify anti-cop sentiments.

"In some cases, the prejudices of oppressed people ('you can't trust the police') are necessary for survival," it reads.

That particular workbook seems to take a decidedly anti-capitalist tone as well.

"We cannot dismantle racism in a system that exploits people for private profit," it reads. "If we want to dismantle racism, then we must build a movement for economic justice." One of the graphics includes protesters calling for taxes on corporations. Quotes are also featured from Howard Zinn, a self-described socialist, and Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara, although the quotes are more generally about activism rather than economics.
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Anti-racism curricula have received an array of criticism and support.

For example, political scientist Carol M. Swain told Fox News' Laura Ingraham last week that certain curricula "put forth by Black Lives Matter and being embraced in too many places is really destructive of the Black community and the Black family and racial justice."

Angela Onwuachi-Willig, an expert on critical race theory at Boston University School of Law, told the Boston Globe that critical race theory helped people understand the complexity of race - beyond "simple" narratives that they may have been taught.
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"Racism is not extraordinary," she continued. "Race and racism are basically baked into everything we do in our society. It's embedded in our institutions. It's embedded in our minds and hearts."

Attorney M.E. Hart, who has conducted these types of training sessions, told The Washington Post that the training helped people live up to "this nation's promise - 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.'"

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Nikki Haley has stop defending Donald Trump from his impeachment trail. She has said that he let us down and that the Republican party shouldn't of listened to him.

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Nikki Haley has turned on her former boss Donald Trump as he stands trial in the Senate, saying the ex-president "let us down" and arguing the Republican Party should never have "listened to him."

The former ambassador to the U.N. told Politico: "He went down a path he shouldn't have, and we shouldn't have followed him, and we shouldn't have listened to him. And we can't let that ever happen again."

Speaking about the GOP and its relationship with Trump, she said: "I can tell you that the love they have for him is still very strong. That's not going to just fall to the wayside.

"Nor do I think the Republican Party is going to go back to the way it was before Donald Trump. I don't think it should. I think what we need to do is take the good that he built, leave the bad that he did, and get back to a place where we can be a good, valuable effective party."

Her comments came as Trump's attorneys prepared to make their defense of the former president, who is accused of inciting the riot at the U.S. Capitol on January 6.

Haley, 49, has been tipped as a future candidate for president and is second favorite to secure the GOP ticket in 2024, according to one bookmaker.

The former governor of South Carolina has already announced a new political action committee called Stand for America, which aims to make GOP gains in the House and Senate in 2022.

Just last month, Haley said those hoping to convict Trump should "give the man a break."

She told Fox News she was "proud of the successes of the Trump administration," but did not agree with his refusal to accept the 2020 election result.

"They beat him up before he got into office. They are beating him up after he leaves office. I mean, at some point, I mean, give the man a break. I mean, move on," she said.
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"If you are truly about moving on, move on. The idea they are going to do impeachment, that's not going to bring our country together, that's only dividing our country."

Haley then dodged a question on a future White House bid, replying: "Nobody wants to think about another presidential election."

Last month she also sought to put some distance between herself and Trump, reportedly telling members of the Republican National Committee that his actions after the election would be "judged harshly by history."

UK bookmaker Betfair has priced Haley at 11-2 (a 15 percent chance, according to the company) for the 2024 GOP ticket-second only to Trump, who has odds of 4-1 (20 percent).

In third, fourth and fifth place respectively were Mike Pence (6-1, or 14 percent), Donald Trump Jr. (10-1, or 9 percent) and Ivanka Trump (also 10-1), Betfair said.

According to political analyst Jake Novak, Haley has made herself an "early front-runner."

"Haley's position perfectly straddles a difficult set of prerequisites that are emerging for any ambitious Republican today," he wrote in an opinion piece for CNBC.

"Haley's pro-Israel track record, both before and during her U.N. tenure, will likely endear her to the key evangelical demographic in the Iowa GOP caucuses and the many southern states in the Super Tuesday primaries."

He said she still had "significant hurdles to clear ... but for now, Haley has carved out a very strong position."

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The United Kingdoms economy took a big hit in 2020. As it shrunk by 9.9%. This loss can be blamed on the reoccurring lock downs and closed businesses across the densely populated Kingdom. There are positive signs though as the economy recovered 1% in the final quarter.

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Britain's economy suffered its biggest decline on record last year as the coronavirus pandemic closed shops and restaurants and devastated the travel industry

But even as the Office for National Statistics said Friday that gross domestic product shrank 9.9% in 2020, there were signs of a rebound. The economy expanded 1% in the fourth quarter, a second consecutive quarter of growth.

Andy Haldane, chief economist for the Bank of England, said the rapid vaccination of people across the U.K. would ease COVID-19 restrictions and unleash an economic recovery.

"A decisive corner is about to be turned for the economy, too, with enormous amounts of pent-up financial energy waiting to be released, like a coiled spring," Haldane wrote in the Daily Mail.

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Tia Mowry speaks out about learning to love her natural hair. She reflects back on when her and her twin sister were children. She says they would get praised and complemented for their natural curls. But then into their teen years they would straighten their hair. Tia said "If I had my hair curly, I was told, 'Can you pull that back?' On auditions, I was told, 'It's distracting.'"

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Past beauty standards almost made Mowry fall out of love with her hair.

Tia Mowry is speaking out about how beauty standards during her "Sister, Sister" days almost made her fall out of love with her natural hair.

In an essay for Elle magazine, the 42-year-old actress reflected on how comments about her "distracting" hair chipped away at her and twin sister Tamera Mowry's confidence.

"When we were younger, it was wonderful being able to wear our natural hair. People were always like, 'Oh, you're so cute. We love your curls,'" wrote Tia. "But as we went into adulthood-you could see that when we became teenagers in the show, we ended up straightening our hair. It was such a pivotal moment in the series because it was also a reflection of what was being pushed as 'beautiful' in society."

The "Game" alum said the process "damaged my hair and it damaged my natural curls" but she continued to do it because, "If I had my hair curly, I was told, 'Can you pull that back?' On auditions, I was told, 'It's distracting.'"

"We didn't understand that we were experiencing all of this kickback," she wrote. "What that rejection did was create a lot of insecurity."

"It made us feel like we weren't valuable in that space. Like we weren't valuable at all," the actress furthered.

Tia credits her mother, Darlene Mowry, for inspiring her and her sister to embrace their natural beauty, which she said stopped them from "falling into the pit of childhood stardom."

Now, she celebrates her curls and wrote, "Black beauty to me is being unapologetic. It means strong. It means bold. It means confidence. It means beautiful."

"When you are a minority, you have to see the lack of diversity being pushed in beauty and you have to have those qualities of being unapologetic," she expressed.

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A dog in Tennessee's owner passed late last year, and with that the owners will stated that the dog inherits all his money for it's care. The dog inherited 5 million dollars for its care. He loved the dog and the dog will be in great care now.

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- It won't be a dog's life for a Tennessee canine whose owner recently died.

Lulu, an 8-year-old border collie, will be living the good life in Nashville after inheriting $5 million in her owner's will, WTVF-TV reported.

Martha Burton, Lulu's caretaker, told the station Lulu's owner, Bill Dorris, was a successful businessman who wasn't married and died late last year. His will states the money should be put into a trust for Lulu's care. It allows for Burton to be reimbursed for reasonable monthly expenses in the care of Lulu.

"He just really loved the dog," said Burton, who was friends with Dorris and would take care of the dog when he traveled.

She says she doesn't know if she could ever spend $5 million on Lulu.

"Well, I'd like to try," she said with a smile.

Dorris owned land along Interstate 65 where a controversial statue of Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest is located. The fate of the statue and the rest of the estate may be determined in probate court, the news outlet reported.

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A Tennessee canine won't have to worry about living a dog's life after its owner recently died

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- It won't be a dog's life for a Tennessee canine whose owner recently died.

Lulu, an 8-year-old border collie, will be living the good life in Nashville after inheriting $5 million in her owner's will, WTVF-TV reported.

Martha Burton, Lulu's caretaker, told the station Lulu's owner, Bill Dorris, was a successful businessman who wasn't married and died late last year. His will states the money should be put into a trust for Lulu's care. It allows for Burton to be reimbursed for reasonable monthly expenses in the care of Lulu.

"He just really loved the dog," said Burton, who was friends with Dorris and would take care of the dog when he traveled.

She says she doesn't know if she could ever spend $5 million on Lulu.

"Well, I'd like to try," she said with a smile.

Dorris owned land along Interstate 65 where a controversial statue of Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest is located. The fate of the statue and the rest of the estate may be determined in probate court, the news outlet reported.

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Tennessee man leaves $5 million to pet border collie

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A Tennessee canine won't have to worry about living a dog's life after its owner recently died NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- It won't be a dog's life for a Tennessee canine whose owner recently died. Lulu, an 8-year-old border collie, will be living the good life in Nashville after inheriting $5 million in her owner's will, WTVF-TV reported.

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Lawmakers in Mississippi have introduced a bill that would ban transgender athletes from competing in girls' and womens' sports. Supporters of the bill argue that the athletes are physically larger and stronger, making competition unfair, and people who oppose it say that it was created just to perpetuate fear and hate against these people.

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Five of the victims of Thursday’s Fort Worth crash that involved more than 100 cars and killed at least six people have been identified. All of the victims died between 6 a.m. and 6: 15 a.m., according to the medical examiner’s office. Causes of deaths for the victims are still pending. Thursday’s pileup was the most staggering of the crashes that dotted ice-slicked roads across Dallas-Fort Worth throughout the day.

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On Tuesday, February 9, at the Detroit Zoo a male polar bear killed a female bear during a breeding attempt. Anana, 20 year old female polar bear, and Naku, 16 year old male polar bear had been living together in 2020 without any problems. The zoo staff says they are devastated and shocked by what took place on February 9th.

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Male polar bear kills female bear during breeding attempt at Detroit Zoo

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A female polar bear was killed by a male bear during an attempt at breeding at the Detroit Zoo on Monday, according to a news release.

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An Emu was captured this week while running through Britain. The Emu was captured by an employee from a nearby motorcycle dealership. The Emu was nicknamed Dave.

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Feb. 8 (UPI) -- Employees at a motorcycle dealership in England captured an emu spotted running loose in a busy road and the bird will now be returned to its owner.

Fareham Police said the emu was taken into custody after running loose on the A32, near Wickham Road in Fareham, England.

The emu was captured by Drew Lee, 23, an employee at nearby motorcycle dealership Destination Triumph Solent.

"My boss came running into the shop saying 'you're not going to believe this but there's an emu on the road outside,'" Lee told the Daily Echo.

Lee led the emu back to the business and held the bird until police arrived.

Police said the bird, nicknamed Dave by officers, was taken to the Birdworld sanctuary in Farnham. The sanctuary said the emu's owner has been in touch with officials and the bird will soon be headed home.

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Emu captured after running loose in traffic in Britain

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Feb. 8 (UPI) -- Employees at a motorcycle dealership in England captured an emu spotted running loose in a busy road and the bird will now be returned to its owner. Fareham Police said the emu was taken into custody after running loose on the A32, near Wickham Road in Fareham, England.