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Melinda French Gates donated $10M to Olivia Rodrigo’s Daisy Chain Fields Festival, bringing the total to $20M, here’s where the money will be going

Trust the women in the world to make change and they will. Singer, songwriter Olivia Rodrigo successfully concluded her inaugural Daisy Chain Fields Festival on Saturday, August 29, in Irvine, California. The star-studded event included performances from artists such as Stevie Nicks, Karen O, Chappell Roan, Doechii, Bikini Kill, Rachel Chinouriri, Garbage, The Breeders and […]

‘Venezuela will be reborn’: Maduro shares first photos from US prison since capture

Former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro smiles and flashes a peace sign in a photograph. (Photo: @NicolasMaduro) Two photographs posted to Nicolás Maduro’s official social-media accounts on Sunday appear to show the former Venezuelan president smiling and making peace signs at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, nearly eight months after US forces captured him in […]

Pete Hegseth: Did US military warn Hegseth over Iran war strain before latest escalation? What report claims

US military leaders reportedly warned Iran that operation has become “too much for too long”, citing strain on troops and readiness. Several senior US military leaders reportedly warned Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth that prolonging large-scale operations against Iran was unsustainable and could weaken the military’s ability to respond to threats elsewhere, including against the US […]

Meet Kim Ji-on, a 12-year-old South Korean student who invented a life-saving device that helps people escape deadly fires

What’s the one thing you would carry to a remote island with you? If honesty is the way forward, most would say their phone. While there was a time someone would have said an answer like a weapon or maybe their loved one, now, it is truly a mobile phone that lives rent-free with a […]

In the early 1990s, fewer than 1,000 threatened chum salmon returned to this Washington watershed; recent returns average 32,600 a year as a $9.7 million river restoration nears completion

chum salmon Representative image In the early 1990s, fewer than 1,000 threatened summer-run chum salmon made it back to the Big Quilcene River on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula each year. Decades of logging, road building and habitat degradation had left the river choked with sediment, its gravel spawning beds buried and its side channels disconnected. Today, […]

In 1940, actor James Cagney bought hundreds of acres of California grassland; decades later the remaining 417 acres became a protected wildlife corridor | World News

For decades, the grasslands outside Ramona, California, looked much as they had for generations: open country, seasonal pools and wide stretches of native vegetation broken by grazing land. As reported by the local news report, The San Diego Union-Tribune, among the people who once owned part of this landscape was Hollywood actor James Cagney, who […]

Joe Anderson: US mayor Joe Anderson dies mysteriously at 45 after sudden collapse on Colorado hike

Colorado politician Joe Anderson suddenly collapsed on Colorado hike and died shortly thereafter. (Photo: Instagram @nypost) Joe Anderson lost consciousness and was not breathing while hiking on the lower slopes of Quandary Peak in Summit County, according to local authorities. Sheriff’s deputies were called at about 6.40am after other hikers had already begun CPR.Deputies and […]

In 2024, a developer paid $4 million for 83 acres outside Yosemite; two years later the US is considering a land swap for a private access road through the park

The National Park Service is examining whether a land exchange can be carried out under federal law A Nevada-based developer is seeking a land exchange that could allow a private road to be built through Yosemite National Park, giving access to an 83-acre property just outside the park. The Trump administration is considering the proposal, […]

Dark energy, exoplanets and black holes: What Nasa’s new Roman telescope will explore

The launch of Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope was posted by @NASARoman on X. Nasa has launched its Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope on a mission to investigate dark matter and dark energy, study black holes and search for planets beyond our solar system. The agency expects Roman’s surveys to uncover roughly 100,000 new exoplanets.The […]

Nepal survivors return to ruins to salvage memories

File Photo: A man salvages a money and bottles of mineral water from his house affected by flash floods in Dhading District, Nepal Days after a wall of water and debris ripped through Nepal, Shanti Lamichhane sat on a fruit crate in the dirt where her village once stood, staring at what remained of her […]