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Grand Teton National Park’s famous grizzly bear, known by wildlife photographers around the world, died after being struck by a vehicle Tuesday in Wyoming.The 28-year-old bear named Grizzly Bear 399, because of the identity tag attached to her ear, was identified by her ear tags and microchip, according to a press release from the park.”People from around the world have followed grizzly bear 399 for several decades. At 28 years old, she was the oldest known reproducing female grizzly bear in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem,” said Hilary Cooley, Grizzly Bear Recovery Coordinator for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. According to the park, the bear, who has had 18 cubs over the years, was not traveling alone and “had a yearling cub with her, whose whereabouts are currently unknown. At this time, there is no evidence to suggest the yearling was also involved in the incident, but the US Fish and Wildlife Service is monitoring the area,” according to the release.A Facebook group ‘Team 399’ dedicated to the bear has thousands of comments and outpourings of love and personal stories about their connection to the beloved bear.WASHINGTON CATTLE PRODUCER NEIL KAYSER: GRIZZLY BEAR RELOCATION IS A DANGER TO OUR FAMILIES AND LIVESTOCK | FOX NEWS VIDEO”So saddened by this loss.  Iconic & will be missed.  Hopefully you sill(all) will find cub.  This is so personal for many.  For me, she was my comic relief during Covid & her march through Jackson w her quads & police escort.  While we were locked down & fearful … she was doing her thing w her quads w freedom.  I purchased a graphic from Thomas Mangelson & have it hung in my sunroom & smile every day I pass it.  Will miss her!!!,” said one commenter.”This wasn’t supposed to happen. She was supposed to go to her den and sleep into eternity. I am gutted,” said another fan.”I thought this was a hoax until I read the article. Not at all what I was expecting to see today. I always prayed she would die of natural causes and not this. She was the Queen of the Tetons and always will. I never got to see her on my 3 trips. She was a beauty and will be missed. Tears are a falling. She was an ambassador for grizzlies everywhere. RIP Queen. I pray Rowdy survives on his own,” said yet another.IDAHO GRIZZLY BEAR ATTACKS HUNTER IN ‘SURPRISE ENCOUNTER’The park said that these types of accidents are not uncommon. “Wildlife vehicle collisions and conflict are unfortunate. We are thankful the driver is okay and understand the community is saddened to hear that grizzly bear 399 has died,” said Angi Bruce, Wyoming Game and Fish Department Director.  The release went on to provide background information on grizzly bear/vehicle collisions from the Interagency Grizzly Bear Study Team:  “The grizzly bear is an iconic species that helps make the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem so extraordinary. Grizzly bear 399 has been perhaps the most prominent ambassador for the species. She has inspired countless visitors into conservation stewardship around the world and will be missed,” said Grand Teton National Park Superintendent Chip Jenkins.  The circumstances of the crash were unclear, and no additional information is available at this time.  



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Elizabeth Francis, the oldest person in the U.S., died peacefully at the age of 115 on Tuesday.Francis was the third-oldest person in the world at the time of her death, according to LongeviQuest, a database on the world’s oldest people.”Ms. Elizabeth was a Houstonian icon and a cherished member of the community,” a news release from the database said.Francis was born on July 25, 1909, and lived through 20 US Presidents, with her first being former President William Howard Taft.TEXAS WOMAN TURNS 115, MAKING HER THE OLDEST LIVING PERSON IN THE USWhile born in Louisiana, Francis was a long-time Houston, Texas resident. She lived with her 95-year-old daughter, Dorothy Williams, and her granddaughter, Ethel Harrison.TEXAS WOMAN CELEBRATES HER 114TH BIRTHDAY, ATTRIBUTING HER LONG LIFE TO GOD: ‘JUST THE LORD KEEPING ME HERE’Francis first moved to Houston after her mother died when she was 11, and she and her five siblings were sent to different homes. She was raised by her aunt and has lived there since.She never drove a car, but she worked outside the home, running the coffee shop at a TV station in Houston during the 1970s and 80s.Ben Meyers, the CEO of LongeviQuest, previously told Fox News Digital that Francis was sustained by her family and her community.”One thing that she really is an example of more than almost anybody else I’ve met is just family and community,” he said.For more Lifestyle articles, visit www.foxnews.com/lifestyle.Francis attended the same church for years and was an active member.”She lives at home, and she’s the oldest person in the world to live at home. It’s really pretty extraordinary. Also, the community that she has through her church. So there [are] really active families and communities. It’s very difficult for people to reach that age in isolation,” Meyers added.Francis has three grandchildren, five great-grandchildren and four great-great-grandchildren. Fox News Digital’s Gretchen Eichenberg contributed to this report.



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A fifth-grader has been expelled from one of Los Angeles’ most prestigious private schools for sending a friend a squirt gun emoji and rap lyrics, prompting a lawsuit from the boy’s parents.The lawsuit filed Thursday in Los Angeles Superior Court came after the 10-year-old was expelled from the Curtis School for an email exchange with his friend containing squirt gun emojis and the lyrics to the YNW Melly rap song “Murder on My Mind.”The Curtis School is an elite private independent elementary school in Los Angeles and has taught children of celebrities, including David and Victoria Beckham. The elementary school, according to The Hollywood Reporter, costs $28,760 per year.MISSING TEEN HIKER IN CALIFORNIA REUNITED WITH FAMILY AFTER SPENDING NIGHT IN SUB-FREEZING TEMPERATURESThe lawsuit, obtained by KKTV, alleges that the Head of School Meera Ratnesar unfairly disciplined the boy “without evidence that his email exchange broke a school policy.”The parents of the 10-year-old seek to reverse the expulsion of the 10-year-old boy from the Curtis School along with paying the family’s attorneys’ fees.”[The] decision to expel [the student] and bar him from campus is arbitrary and capricious,” the lawsuit said.The documents state that the boys exchanged lyrics from the 2018 rap song, “Murder on my mind” on Sept. 8.The friend, also in the fifth grade, said, “Wake up in the morning I got.” The boy responded, “Murder on my mind.”CALIFORNIA MAN ALLEGEDLY MURDERED ROOMATE, BURIED BODY IN BACKYARD: POLICEOver two weeks later, on Sept. 25, the students were emailing each other during their shared first period math class and sent several squirt gun emojis.On September 30, the boy was called into a meeting with the director and his homeroom teacher to discuss the emails, but the court documents claim the boy was not shown the specific emails.Ratnesar met with the boy’s parents and told them he was expelled and immediately barred from campus.CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APPThe school sent out the following statement to local media outlets:”While we were disappointed to learn about the litigation, our priority is to ensure a safe and secure campus for all of our students,” the statement said. “We are unable to comment on individual students.”Fox News Digital has reached out to the Curtis School for comment.



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So, back in 2007, in written testimony to Congress, DA Kamala Harris showed herself capable of some truly inspired argumentation. There was only one problem — that inspiring language wasn’t hers. See, when she wasn’t just lifting a wine glass, she was lifting all those sentences. According to the Washington Free Beacon, Kamala’s statement in support of a loan repayment plan for local prosecutors was taken almost verbatim from an Illinois DA’s opinion on the same subject that was given to the Senate months prior. Roughly 80% of her testimony was copied word for word from that old guy over there — Paul Logli of Winnebago County, Illinois, who, by the way, is a Republican. Holy s***. That’s like me stealing jokes from Jimmy Kimmel. I’d never do that, not because he’s my competition, but because he has cancer of the funny bone. But that’s not the only time she committed stolen verbiage. While she was California AG, she published a report on sex trafficking in her state. In that, she copied a fictional, fictional example of the type of call received by the National Human Trafficking Hotline, which told the story of how a woman in D.C. was saved from forced prostitution. But in a report, Harris never said the story was fake. Instead, she changed the location to San Fran to get credit for a rescue that never actually happened. There are other examples, but this is at least the second time Harris has been caught in a blatant act of plagiarism. She’s the literary version of a smash and grabber. Remember Kamala, anything under 900 words and you won’t get charged.NYT PLAGIARISM CONSULTANT ADMITS HARRIS SCANDAL ‘MORE SERIOUS’ THAN HE THOUGHTThe language is exactly the same line after line. Harris even kept the typos and grammar errors. She didn’t even try to make her theft look like her own. I mean, maybe it’s because she loves rap, and she considers it more like sampling. But it’s weird, you know, that none of this is surprising, perhaps because her only concrete policy proposal, no taxes on tips, she stole from another Republican, her opponent. So, in light of the fact that nothing Kamala says gives you any idea of what she believes, is it any surprise that less than two weeks out from Election Day, even Rachel Levine is asking, who the hell is this woman? Now, all of this comes on the heels of a report that Kamala lifted entire sections of her policy book, Smart on Crime. Who knew she was actually talking about herself stealing? Even The New York Times, which initially rush to defend her, finally had to admit her thievery. But the real point isn’t Kamala’s serial plagiarism, it’s how in the past this would end a campaign. It would lead every newscast. This would be the October surprise. I mean, this is way worse than what sunk Joe Biden in ’87 when he was caught stealing speeches from a British leader. And worse, it was this guy he stole it from.PICTURE OF MR BEANBut also, Harris has no core principles or any non-core principles. Her head is as empty as her husband’s balls after nanny season. There is a nanny season… she grew up in a middle-class family that was pretty well-off. She’s an American that spent her formative years in Canada. And she’s going to save democracy after she plotted a coup against her boss. I don’t even know what Doug sees in her since she won’t put him down for a nap. In fact, she might be the least honest politician ever. Listen to her on the Biden decline cover-up.NBC NEWS REPORTER: Can you say that you were honest with the American people about what you saw in those moments with President Biden as you were with him again and again repeatedly in that time?VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS: Of course. Joe Biden is an extremely accomplished, experienced and and capable.REPORTER: You never saw anything like what happened at the debate night behind closed doors with him?BIDEN’S CABINET HAS FEW WORDS ABOUT BIDEN FITNESS CONCERNS POST-DEBATEKAMALA HARRIS: It was a bad debate.REPORTER: Can the American people trust you in these moments, even when it’s maybe uncomfortable for Americans to have… To level with Americans in that way?KAMALA HARRIS: I speak with not only sincerity, but with a real firsthand account of watching him do this work. I have no reluctance in saying that.Our apologies, that should have come with bongos.VIDEO OF KAMALA HARRIS SPEAKING WITH BONGOS PLAYING IN THE BACKGROUNDIt always makes more sense. Incredible. But like the conveyor belt at the manure factory, the load of crap keeps coming. Listen to her on transgender laws.REPORTER: Do you believe that transgender Americans should have access to gender affirming care in this country?KAMALA HARRIS: I believe we should follow the law. I mean, I think you’re probably pointing to the fact that Donald Trump’s campaign has spent tens of millions of dollars… REPORTER: They’re trying to define you on this. I’m asking you to define yourself, though. Just broadly speaking, what is your value? Do you believe they should have that access?KAMALA HARRIS: I believe that people, as the law states, even on this issue about federal law.What horse****. The reporter even set up the question as a pro-trans layup and she still threw a brick, as if she actually has no impact on the law. And remember, there are other laws she doesn’t follow, like the 25th Amendment.You know, you thought Biden was an empty vessel? He’s got nothing on this broad. Fact is, we really don’t know what this woman stands for. Maybe that’s the point.



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Vice President Kamala Harris stumbled through the Biden-Harris administration’s border and immigration policies when pressed about the border crisis during a CNN town hall moderated by Anderson Cooper. “Let’s talk about this compromise bill that you want to pass if you are elected. You said that’s going to be a priority. It includes $650 million in funding for the border wall. That’s something Republicans wanted that was part of the compromise. Under Donald Trump, you criticized the wall more than 50 times. You called it ‘stupid, useless, and a medieval vanity project.’ Is a border wall stupid?,” Cooper asked Harris Wednesday. “Let’s talk about Donald Trump on that border wall,” Harris said while laughing. “So remember, Donald Trump said Mexico would pay for it. Come on, they didn’t. How much of that wall did he build? I think the last number I saw was about 2%. And then when it came time for him to do a photo op, you know, where he did it? In the part of the wall that President Obama built.””But you agreed to a bill that would earmark $650 million to continue building that,” Cooper pressed. OBAMA CLAIMS TRUMP ‘DID NOT SOLVE’ IMMIGRATION ‘PROBLEM.’ THE NUMBERS TELL A DIFFERENT STORY”I pledge that I am going to bring forward that bipartisan bill to further strengthen and secure our border. Yes, I am, and I’m going to work across the aisle to pass a comprehensive bill that deals with a broken immigration system,” Harris responded. “We need a president who is grounded in common sense and practical outcomes, like, let’s just fix this thing. Let’s just fix it. Why is there any ideological perspective on this? Let’s just fix the problem,” she continued.  Vice President Kamala Harris joined CNN for a town hall event Wednesday evening, speaking to Pennsylvania voters outside of Philadelphia. The town hall event kicked off at 9 pm on Wednesday from Chester Township, which is located less than 20 miles outside of Philadelphia. Cooper asked Harris earlier in the town hall to explain why just weeks before the first presidential debate with President Biden was still in the race this summer, the administration instituted executive actions that curbed illegal border crossings and had not issued such orders sooner. ‘UTTER BETRAYAL’: NEW REPORT REVEALS DHS OFFICIAL USED SOCIAL MEDIA TO PROMOTE ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION”You’re exactly right, Anderson. And as of today, we have cut the flow of immigration by over half. In fact, the numbers I saw most recently, illegal immigration,” Harris told Cooper. “If it was that easy without executive action, why not do it in 2022, 2023?” Cooper pressed. “Because we were working with Congress and hoping that actually we could have a long term fix to the problem instead of a short-term fix,” Harris responded. MIGRANTS CAUGHT AT BORDER BUSED, FLOWN OUT OF SAN DIEGO IN POSSIBLE ‘COVER UP’ BEFORE ELECTION: OFFICIAL”You couldn’t have done one and both at the same time,” Cooper noted. Cooper went on to ask Harris if she wished she had “done those executive orders in 2022, 2023,” sparking Harris to say she believes the administration “did the right thing.” CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP”I think we did the right thing. And but the best thing that can happen for the American people, is that we have bipartisan work happening. And I pledge to you, that I will work across the aisle to fix this longstanding problem. I think the American people are demanding it, on both sides of the aisle,” she responded. Get the latest updates from the 2024 campaign trail, exclusive interviews and more at our Fox News Digital election hub.



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