Hawkish tech critics have labeled San Francisco 'lawless' following the stabbing death of Cash App creator Bob Lee. The city's crime rate tells a different tale.

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San Francisco police officers and F.B.I. agents gather in front of the home of U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) on October 28, 2022 in San Francisco, California.
San Francisco police officers and F.B.I. agents gather in front of the home of U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) on October 28, 2022 in San Francisco, California.

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See inside a facility that freezes people and pets after they die and stores their preserved remains upside down in cryostat chambers

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Automatic CPR machine is attached to a body while on standby.
Thousands of people are signed up to be frozen after they die in the hopes that they can wake up in the future.

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My family and I are going to pay $28K each to freeze our bodies in liquid nitrogen tanks after we die. We hope to wake up in the future.

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Dennis Kowalski has signed up to be preserved in a chamber that reaches freezing temperatures after death.

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This tech founder used ChatGPT to mourn the death of his grandfather. It helped him uncover a Bible verse he'd spent years trying to find.

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Ian Panchèvre and his grandfather, Lionel Panchèvre.

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The body collectors recovering Ukraine's war dead

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Black Tulip exhumes bodies from a mass grave in Yampil, Ukraine, near Sloviansk.

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Human Composting Is Changing the Landscape of Death Care—and It May Soon Be Legal Near You

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When Howard Fischer eventually dies, he is going to be composted in Seattle. He’ll be wrapped in cloth, placed on a bed of wood chips, and then his family will cover him in alfalfa and flowers. After a ceremony, his body will go into a hexagonal vessel with an internal structure similar to that of a honeycomb, where…

Turkey and Greece have a centuries-long feud that has come close to war. But when earthquakes hit, they still come to each other's aid.

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A woman sits on the rubble as emergency rescue teams search for people under the remains of destroyed buildings in Nurdagi town on the outskirts of Osmaniye city southern Turkey, Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2023.
A woman sits on the rubble as emergency rescue teams search for people under the remains of destroyed buildings in Nurdagi, southern Turkey, on February 7, 2023.

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A former GOP congressman says many MAGA Republicans are secretly hoping for Trump's 'mortal demise'

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Donald Trump.

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Tyre Nichols' death has reignited the debate around police brutality. Here are 5 proven ways to reduce it - and 2 strategies that don't work.

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Protesters rally as Philadelphia Police officers and Pennsylvania National Guard soldiers look on, June 1, 2020.

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A man died after being crushed by a pop-up street urinal in central London

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A police tent is erected at Cambridge Circus on the junction between Shaftesbury Avenue and Charing Cross Road in London, after a man died after being crushed by a telescopic urinal.
A crane lifts the street urinal police at Cambridge Circus in central London, after a worker was crushed to death.

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