Mar. 15, 2025
About 300 couples gathered together at a Chicago church on Sunday to celebrate an incredible milestone: 50 years of marriage.
Each of the happy couples married in 1972 — when disco was in,Pongwas popular, and the internet was nonexistent.
“Two thousand, six hundred and thirty two. Those are the number of games Carl Ripkin Jr. played in a consecutive row,” the cardinal said. “And he was honored for that as a man who always showed up.
Mar. 15, 2025
Photo: The Sato Project
Hundreds of homeless animals from Puerto Rico wereflownon “freedom flights” to the U.S. on Saturday.
Pet welfare groupsThe Sato ProjectandWings of Rescueteamed up with Tito’s Handmade Vodka to save 165 dogs and 135 cats from the streets of Puerto Rico and the island’s overcrowded animal shelters.
“We are thrilled to be the main transportation link in this impressive one-day rescue effort to save 300 lives and bring happiness and joy to countless families and individuals,” said Ric Browde, President of Wings of Rescue.
Mar. 15, 2025
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More than 300 dogs were rescued and 20 people are in custody after South Carolina authorities executed what is said to be the largest dogfighting raid in the state’s history.
In areleaseshared on Monday, the DOJ announced that more than 60 federal agents and state police officers carried out dozens of warrants over the weekend.
On Saturday, authorities stopped a dogfighting match in Richland County and on Sunday, they executed 23 search warrants on properties that had “known dogfighting kennels” or were “associated with dogfighting.
Mar. 15, 2025
A lifeboat from the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.Photo:John Giles/PA Wire
John Giles/PA Wire
More than 30 people were saved after an oil tanker and a cargo ship collided and caught fire in the North Sea off the coast of East Yorkshire, England, on Monday, March 10, authorities said.
The tanker involved in the incident was the U.S.-flaggedStena Immaculate, while the other was the Portuguese-flagged container shipSolong, according to Sky News.
Mar. 15, 2025
Jason and Travis Kelce in 2023.Photo:Ryan Kang/Getty
Ryan Kang/Getty
For these ball players, the NFL is a family business.
“I think it’scool as hell,” Buffalo Bills' Stefon Diggs told theWall Street Journalof playing in the league with his brother, Trevon. “It’s a small group of guys with siblings. It’s probably not as cool for me as it is for my mom. She’s got a special womb or something, she’s pushing out the athletes.