Dead bodies litter Mount Everest because it's so dangerous and expensive to get them down — and 2023 could be the most deadly season yet

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Mountaineers are seen making their ascent of Mount Everest on May 12, 2021.

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A friend of a 25-year-old woman filmed begging militants not to kill her says no one can escape the videos and firsthand accounts of Hamas' attacks

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Left: Yan Gorjaltsan and Noa Argamani / Right: Noa Argamani

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Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California is dead at 90

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Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., is seen in the U.S. Capitol subway on February 15, 2023. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., is seen in the U.S. Capitol subway on February 15, 2023.

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Family sues Google, saying it's responsible for a man's death after Maps told him to drive over a bridge that collapsed 9 years ago

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A view of the broken bridge at Hickory, North Carolina, where Philip Paxson died.

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A worker was killed after being hit by a remote-controlled train in Ohio. Now, unions are calling for change.

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A railway worker was killed by a remote-controlled train Sunday, the third time an incident like this occurred, unions said.

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Influencers have partaken in spicy food challenges for years, but a teen's death raises questions about their safety

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The One Chip Challenge was circulating social media, but an investigation has been launched following a 14-year-old's death.

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What planning my digital afterlife at age 27 taught me about my millennial FOMO

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Screenshot of the goodbye message playing on my MyWishes profile

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Snack company behind 'One Chip Challenge' pulls its extra-hot tortilla chip from stores following the death of a 14-year-old

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The Paqui 'one chip challenge' tortilla chip in its red, black and blue coffin-shaped box, decorated with a skull.
The Paqui 'One Chip Challenge' tortilla chip.

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Russia is charging families of dead soldiers $1,500 to get their bodies back, human-rights group claims

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Russian marines during the International Army Games at the Khmelevka firing ground in the Kaliningrad region on August 17, 2022.

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27-year-old Goldman Sachs analyst died by drowning after Brooklyn concert, father says

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