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'Pro-life Spiderman' arrested after scaling 40-story Chicago building

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An anti-abortion activist who calls himself "pro-life Spiderman" was arrested Tuesday after climbing a 588-foot building in Chicago's West Loop. In what police are calling a "publicity stunt," Maison DesChamps livestreamed on Instagram as he scaled the 40-story Accenture Tower without ropes, starting his climb at around 9:45 a.m. local time and ending 67 minutes later. As he made his ascent, bystanders stopped to watch the risky climb. Video from one onlooker, Darryl Crater, shows different stages of the 24-year-old scaling the curved building as police waited at its top to arrest him. Read More...

3 children, 4 adults killed in Massachusetts apartment fire

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Story highlights Fire burns apartments above liquor store Investigators looking into reports that fireworks were heard at building Fire chief: Building didn't have sprinkler system, and wasn't required to have one CNN  —  Seven people – including three children – were killed and at least 10 other people were sent to a hospital as a result of an apartment fire Thursday morning in Lowell, Massachusetts, officials said. The fire, reported just before 4 a. Read More...