Homemade exploding Ukrainian drones are carrying bombs held on with zip ties and tape — and can't even be landed safely once launched

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A Ukrainian soldier loads dummy grenades on a drone for target practice in the region of Dnipro, Ukraine, on April 18, 2023.
The makeshift drones are small in size but cheap, easy to make, and deadly.

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Kellyanne Conway is now caught up in Clarence Thomas' latest ethics scandal

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Kellyanne Conway (left) in 2020 and Clarence Thomas (right) in 2009.

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A Ukrainian farmer stripped pieces off wrecked Russian tanks to make an armored, remote-controlled, mine-sweeping tractor

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Remote controlled demining machine made of tractor and armoured plates from destroyed Russian military vehicles is seen in a field near the village of Hrakove.
The remote-controlled de-mining machine proudly displays painted Ukrainian flags.

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The COVID-19 global health emergency is over, even as 1 person dies from the disease every 3 minutes, World Health Organization says

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A health worker takes a swab sample from a woman to test for the Covid-19 coronavirus in the Huangpu district in Shanghai on December 19, 2022.
A health worker takes a swab sample from a woman to test for the Covid-19 coronavirus in the Huangpu district in Shanghai on December 19, 2022.

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A federal immigration judge rated female colleagues and lawyers by which ones he wanted to have sex with, shocking lawsuit alleges

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Justice Scales and wooden gavel

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Proud Boys chairman Enrique Tarrio was convicted of seditious conspiracy, but the extremist group he ran is still alive and well

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Former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio in Miami, Florida, on May 25, 2021.

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The same year Clarence Thomas sent a child to a private boarding school on Harlan Crow's dime, a parent testified that the academy used children for free labor

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Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas

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Twitter is hiding who paid for a blue check mark while users keep dunking on Elon Musk

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Elon Musk acquired Twitter on October 27.

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Jeffrey Epstein and Woody Allen planned to hang out nearly every month for two straight years after Epstein pleaded guilty

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Woody Allen (left) and Jeffrey Epstein (right).

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Trump accuser Jessica Leeds testified that he called her the c-word after running into her years after the alleged sexual assault

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Former President Donald Trump.

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