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Pope.L, world-renowned performance artist and teacher at University of Chicago, dies at 68

Pope.L called himself a “fisherman of social absurdity.” He once crawled along New York’s Broadway in a Superman costume and ate scraps of the Wall Street Journal while sitting on a toilet.

Chicago Sun-Times · Jan 3, 2024

Amid massive search for mass killing suspect, Maine residents remain behind locked doors

Shocked and fearful Maine residents are keeping to their homes for a second night as hundreds of police and FBI agents search intently for Robert Card, a U.S. Army reservist authorities say fatally shot 18 people at a bowling alley and a bar

The Independent UK · Oct 27, 2023

Live Updates | Police hunt for the shooter as residents take shelter after deadly Maine shooting

Diana Florence of New York says her son, a sophomore at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine, where at least 16 people were killed when a man opened fire at a bar and a bowling alley, stayed in his dorm with his roommate with the blinds closed

The Independent UK · Oct 26, 2023