Kristine Phillips

A dog puts his head in the water during 47 degree Celsius heat, 117 degrees Fahrenheit, on Jan. 16, 2019, in Louth, Australia.

As U.S. freezes, it’s so hot in Australia that snakes are taking refuge in people’s toilets

August 22, 2019 at 3:23 p.m.

When it gets too hot and dry, they seek places with moisture, as some Australians are quickly learning. Luke Huntley, a snake catcher in Queensland, East Australia, had to remove...

United Airlines planes are parked at George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston on July 8, 2015. A lawsuit claims a Nigerian woman and her family were removed from a United flight at the Houston airport after a passenger complained about a 'pungent' odor.

Nigerian woman kicked off United flight after white man complained she was ‘pungent’: lawsuit

August 22, 2019 at 8:51 a.m.

An African woman and her children were kicked off a United Airlines flight after a fellow passenger complained that she had a "pungent" odor, according to a racial discrimination lawsuit...

Two dogs mauled their owner to death during a walk in Virginia woods, sheriff says

August 22, 2019 at 7:02 a.m.

Bethany Lynn Stephens had been gone for about a day since she left to walk her dogs. So her father went out to look for her at the area she...

This October 2013 family photo shows Carrie DeKlyen and husband Nick DeKlyen in Grand Rapids, Mich. Carrie DeKlyen sacrificed the chance to prolong her life to give birth to her sixth child. Doctors removed Carrie's feeding and breathing tubes on Thursday, Sept. 7, 2017, a day after her daughter, Life Lynn, was born at University of Michigan Hospital in Ann Arbor, Mich. DeKlyen chose to forgo clinical trials and chemotherapy to treat her brain cancer, since it would have meant ending her pregnancy. Their daughter was born prematurely, at 24 weeks and five days into the pregnancy and weighing 1 pound, four ounces.

Michigan mom who refused chemotherapy so she could give birth has died

June 2, 2018 at 6:09 p.m.

The headaches began sometime in March. They didn't think much of them, other than that they were possible migraines - until she started vomiting. An initial scan showed a mass...

Woman’s stomach pains caused by something she swallowed — a decade ago

June 3, 2018 at 5:45 a.m.

Doctors at a hospital in Australia were bewildered when a 30-year-old woman showed up with intense stomach pains. Her heart rate was faster than normal, and the membrane lining her...

12 inmates escaped an Alabama jail using peanut butter; 1 is still on the loose

June 3, 2018 at 7:48 a.m.

A dozen inmates escaped from an Alabama jail not by cutting through steel bars, drilling through walls or ripping off a toilet from a wall. They used peanut butter. Walker...

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C. addresses constituents during a town hall meeting March 25, 2017, in Columbia, S.C.

Graham, constituents shout over each other in latest town hall debacle

August 22, 2019 at 3:43 a.m.

Inundated with boos from a raucous town hall crowd, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., snapped back, lashing out at one attendee for asking a "garbage" question and slamming many for not...

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