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Cancer-stricken reptile enthusiast, YouTuber posts emotional goodbye video

Explore More A reptile enthusiast known for his wildlife videos posted a goodbye video on YouTube as he prepares to enter hospice care due to a battle with pancreatic cancer. Brian Barczyk, 54, shared a 16-minute montage of his beloved animal videos bearing the title “This is Goodbye” as he signed off for the final time. “It’s been an amazing journey, one that has changed my life like you can’t believe,” the YouTuber said as he appeared to struggle to breathe.

Heat wave enters its third month of scorching Americans across southern U.S.

The endless summer heat wave in the southern United States, now entering its third month, continues this week, scorching millions of Americans with record heat and high humidity. While portions of the Desert Southwest will see the searing heat ease ever so slightly early this week, it’s getting hotter along the Gulf Coast, especially in Louisiana and central to eastern Texas. End of carouselThe week’s dangerous heat will focus on the Central and Southern Plains, the Lower Mississippi Valley and the Gulf Coast states where heat alerts were in effect Monday for more than 55 million people.

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Last Christmas scores Christmas number one, beating Sam Ryder and Mariah Carey

By Mark SavageBBC Music Correspondent Watch: Christmas No 1 was always the goal for Last Christmas - Wham! starWham!'s Last Christmas has been crowned this year's Christmas number one, 39 years after it was first released. The festive classic beat Sam Ryder to the top spot after one of the most open races in years. Mariah Carey was third, with Noah Kahn's Stick Season fourth. It's the first time George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley's song has been number one in Christmas week.

Leon Levine, retail contrarian who founded Family Dollar, dies at 85

Leon Levine, a college dropout who in 1959 emptied his bank account of $3,000 to found Family Dollar, growing it from a single store in downtown Charlotte into one of the country’s most successful discount retail chains, died April 5 at his home in Charlotte. He was 85. His death was confirmed by Thomas W. Lawrence III, the president of the Leon Levine Foundation, who did not cite a cause.