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File – A woman looks at artist Maurizio Cattelan’s piece of art “Comedian” during an auction preview at Sotheby’s in New York, Monday, Nov. 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez, File)

Duct-taped banana sells for $6.2 million at art auction

November 20, 2024 at 7:31 p.m.

A piece of conceptual art consisting of a banana duct-taped to a wall sold for $6.2 million at an auction in New York on Wednesday.

Keon Johnson steps out of his stalled car on the street near his house that has been flooded for three days due to heavy rains from Tropical Storm Debby, Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2024, in Pooler, Ga. (AP Photo/Stephen B. Morton)

Tropical Storm Debby doles out repeat deluges for weather-weary residents

August 7, 2024 at 7:29 p.m.

Days of rain forced the deluge-hardened residents of a South Carolina community to begin the near-ritualistic task of assessing damage left behind by Tropical Storm Debby.

A BMW sedan is stalled in high water along southbound US Alt 19 in Tarpon Springs, Fla., Monday morning, Aug 5, 2024, as Hurricane Debby passes the Tampa Bay area offshore. (Douglas R. Clifford/Tampa Bay Times via AP)

Tropical Storm Debby drenches Southeast with rain, high water as it drifts along the Atlantic coast

August 6, 2024 at 4:29 p.m.

Tropical Storm Debby drenched coastal cities in Georgia and South Carolina, stirred up tornadoes and submerged streets with waist-high floodwaters Tuesday in what is just the beginning of a prolonged...

Virna Munoz-Guzman, 52, center left, and her husband Felix, center right, wear protective gloves and masks due to COVID-19 concerns as they hand out disposable gloves and sanitizing wipes to people who are homeless on 42nd Street, Saturday, March 21, 2020, in New York. "I always think about my kids," Munoz-Guzman said. "I think that, you know, maybe one day my kids might need something and somebody else will come and give it to them. Every time I do something for somebody, I always think about my kids."

‘I can do it.’ Couple braves pandemic to help NYC’s homeless

March 23, 2020 at 12:04 p.m.

Fearful glances from masked faces. Shuttered storefronts and silent bars. As confirmed cases of coronavirus infections have risen over 11,000 in New York City and its suburbs, the city that...

A counterprotester drives by a gathering of demonstrators outside the Catholic Diocese of Covington on Jan. 22, 2019, in Covington, Ky.

Covington Catholic student says he didn’t disrespect Native Americans in D.C.: ‘None of my classmates are racist people’

August 22, 2019 at 10:20 a.m.

A Catholic high school student whose close encounter with a Native American activist and a black religious sect was captured on video in Washington, D.C. says he has nothing to...

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