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Roughly 1,500 beagles are now at the centre of one of the largest coordinated dog rehoming efforts in recent US memory. The animals were acquired from Ridglan Farms in Wisconsin through a confidential agreement brokered by Big Dog Ranch Rescue and the Center for a Humane Economy. The price has not been disclosed.

'They started within an hour or so coming up to us, wanting attention. Some crawled into people's laps. Every single one of them is super sweet,' she said, reported by The Guardian. 'I think they are loving the attention. I just know they know they're safe.'

Elmer, a kitten rescued from a glue bucket, finds a new home with his foster carer after a miraculous recovery. He arrived unable to breathe properly, unable to eat, and only minutes from death. Five weeks later, a tiny Texas kitten now called Elmer has been adopted by the woman who helped nurse him back from one of the grimmest animal rescues seen this spring.

An Arkansas education director who prosecutors said turned a classroom into a humiliating arena for child abuse has been sentenced after pleading guilty to orchestrating what officials repeatedly described as a 'makeshift child fight club.'

According to the probable cause affidavit, Morrison instructed the child to sit on the floor while surrounded by 18 other juvenile students. Prosecutors said she then directed the group to place their hands on the child and strike the victim with an 'unknown object.' The recording also showed Morrison herself placing her hands on the student during the incident.

The episode lasted roughly 30 minutes. Deputies said it included a teacher instructing one child to hit another 'in the private area.'

Senate Bill 73, formally titled the Online Age Verification Amendments, requires websites hosting a 'substantial portion of material harmful to minors' to verify the age of users accessing those platforms from Utah.

Sponsored by Sen. Calvin Musselman (R) and Rep. Steve Eliason (R), age-gating laws are not new. Several US states have introduced similar requirements, prompting major adult sites such as Pornhub to block access in protest rather than collect sensitive identification data.

Users, predictably, found the workaround quickly. VPNs.

Stretching more than 200 feet and shaped like a fish, it is one of the very few intaglios documented in south-western Arizona and is believed to have ceremonial significance for the ancestors of the Tohono O'odham and Hia-ced O'odham peoples.