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The green light has been granted to a woman who went viral for digging a massive tunnel under her home.
“Kala,” the supposed name of the homeowner and creator of the TikTok account @engineer.everything, garnered 7.7 million views as she documented herself digging a bunker under her home in Herndon, Virginia.
Known on social media as “Tunnel Girl,” Kala posted a video on Monday announcing that her plans had been approved after paying a $2,000 fee. Her project had been halted in 2024 due to potential building violations.
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“I paid the fee, and my tunnel plans are approved. Finally, floor plans, structural plans, construction specifications, load engineering, electrical plans, other trade plans, all approved,” she announced in the TikTok video.
Fox News Digital reached out to Kala for comment.
The tunnel system extends 22 feet below ground with a 30-foot entrance below her house on her property.
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A group of disabled veterans was recently brought together to excavate a Revolutionary War battlefield — but it was far from the usual dig.
The project, which was organized by the American Veterans Archaeological Recovery (AVAR), took place over the course of four weeks and ended in February.
Fourteen veterans came to Kershaw County in South Carolina to excavate where the Battle of Camden was fought in August 1780, and they weren’t just looking for musket balls.
AVAR founder Stephen Humphreys told Fox News Digital that the archaeologists-in-training were using GPS receivers to collect spatial data in order to learn more about the battle, which was considered a devastating loss for the colonial forces.
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“A lot of Americans haven’t heard about it… but it’s an extremely significant battle for the South in particular and for the North as well,” the expert explained. “One of the big research questions is, you ..

Travelers have recently reported encountering “gate lice” and “seat squatters,” but there’s another controversial plane trend sparking fiery discussions on social media.
Flyers are calling out fellow passengers who play music or watch videos out loud not using earbuds.
In the “r/unitedairlines” Reddit forum, one flyer titled a post “Anti-headphones,” asking, “Do we have a term for our fellow passengers that do not use headphones? This is getting out of hand.”
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The user also addressed how travelers who cut lines when boarding were given the name “gate lice.”
“Hadn’t heard that before and made me laugh,” the user wrote.
Users took to the comments section to discuss travelers who listen to audio on devices without headphones.
“Speaker scum,” more than one user wrote, suggesting a nickname to give the travelers.
Another posted, “I’m all for the upcoming free wifi but dreading everyone with free ..

A British traveler recently went viral after documenting his unique experience as one of the first Western tourists to visit North Korea in over half a decade.
Mike O’Kennedy boasts more than half a million followers on his YouTube channel, “Mike Okay.” His travel documentary about his journey to North Korea, “Inside North Korea After 5 Years of Isolation,” accrued over 3 million views in the first week since it was posted on Feb. 28.
O’Kennedy, who said that he likes to “do things as uncensored as possible,” spoke with Fox News Digital about his experience visiting the isolated country. He arrived in the city of Rason on Feb. 20. (See the video at the top of this article.)
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“My main kind of takeaway was that this is an incredibly developing country that is at least 50 years behind anyone else,” O’Kennedy said. “It’s where China was… in the mid[dle] of the last century.”
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The U.S. State Department recently issued a Level 2 travel advisory, warning travelers to exercise increased caution in the Turks and Caicos Islands due tocrime.
The alert comes as the islands prepare for spring break visitors.
Most crime in the British Overseas Territory, located in the Atlantic Ocean nearly 600 miles southeast of Miami and just south of Bermuda, occurs on the Turk and Caicos’ main island of Providenciales, and local police may have limited investigatory resources, according to the State Department.
In January, an Illinois sheriff’s deputy, Shamone Duncan, 50, was killed in a shooting while celebrating her sister’s birthday in Turks and Caicos.
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Gunfire broke out outside a restaurant on Grace Bay Road and three people were shot, the Royal Turks and Caicos Islands Police Force confirmed.
When on the islands, the State Department recommends avoiding walking ..

The U.S. State Department recently issued a Level 2 travel advisory, warning travelers to exercise increased caution in the Turks and Caicos Islands due tocrime.
The alert comes as the islands prepare for spring break visitors.
Most crime in the British Overseas Territory, located in the Atlantic Ocean nearly 600 miles southeast of Miami and just south of Bermuda, occurs on the Turk and Caicos’ main island of Providenciales, and local police may have limited investigatory resources, according to the State Department.
In January, an Illinois sheriff’s deputy, Shamone Duncan, 50, was killed in a shooting while celebrating her sister’s birthday in Turks and Caicos.
AMERICANS ARRESTED IN TURKS AND CAICOS BUNK, PRAY TOGETHER WHILE AWAITING SENTENCINGS: ‘A BIG FAMILY’
Gunfire broke out outside a restaurant on Grace Bay Road and three people were shot, the Royal Turks and Caicos Islands Police Force confirmed.
When on the islands, the State Department recommends avoiding walking ..

France has rolled out a new requirement for travelers who are hoping to visit the country.
A “solidarity tax” has been added to commercial flight tickets for planes departing from French airports.
The tax increase took effect on March 1 with around $8 being tacked on for economy travelers going to destinations in France or Europe, according to the French government’s Public Service site.
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About $16 applies to travelers visiting intermediate destinations and over $40 applies to distant destinations.
“Depending on company policy, flight prices will not necessarily increase: these increases could be absorbed without impacting the price of plane tickets,” reads the Public Service site.
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ACI, an industry group which represents European airlines and airports, urged the government to strike down the idea in Octo..

Construction has begun on a 180-foot statue of the Virgin Mary in Konotopie, Poland.
It’s believed that the project, once it is finished, will be the tallest religious structure of its kind, according to Wirtalny Toruń, the tourism group associated with the structure.
The statue of Mary itself is to be 133.2-feet high, sitting atop a pedestal in the form of a 50-foot-high crown.
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The crown will form an observation serving as a place of pilgrimage.
“Mary is the model of perfect love and obedience to Christ. God preserved Mary from sin, and she conceived our Lord by the power of the Holy Spirit, bringing Christ into our world,” writes catholicscomehome.org, a faith resource site.
In a press release from Wirtalny Toruń, the group says there is sentimental meaning behind the location of the statue.
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Travelers are calling on airlines to actively stop line-cutters during the boarding process.
American Airlines has already begun prohibiting people from boarding ahead of their proper zone, otherwise known as “gate lice.”
Last year, before Thanksgiving, American rolled out a new technology used during boarding that audibly alerts gate agents when a passenger is attempting to board ahead of their designated assignment, Fox News Digital reported.
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Other airlines have not yet adopted this protocol and travelers appear to be noticing the negative effects of gate lice.
A flight passenger took to the Reddit sub-thread r/unitedairlines to share their frustration surrounding the travel trend and how it negatively impacts other passengers.
“Kudos to [American Airlines] for taking the lead on thwarting annoying people who are either too clueless to board with their assigned group or just being devious in a bid t..