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Tree plantation undergoing at Springwood (Image Credit: FDR Library Photo via National Park Service) In December 1943, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt donated his family home at Springwood in Hyde Park, New York, along with 33 surrounding acres, to the US government while retaining life-estate rights for his family. According to the National Park Service,…

An Oklahoma woman has been reunited with her missing dog after he was found about 1,100 miles away in North Carolina, leaving his owner and local animal services with a mystery over how he travelled so far. Melissa Burris, who lives near Tulsa in northeastern Oklahoma, said her 10-year-old Australian shepherd, Rio, disappeared from home…

The billboard is the latest escalation in an increasingly bitter public feud between Netanyahu and Mamdani Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party has stepped up its attack on New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, placing his image alongside Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, Hezbollah chief Naim Qassem and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on…

A floating and rotating ‘garbage island’ of an estimated area of 1.6 million square kilometres lies between Hawaii and California, according to a scientific estimate published in 2018. The area of the island is said to be larger than Para and nearly three times the size of metropolitan France. What exists here is a plastic…

Former Pak PM is set to be shifted to a hospital after top court’s order over health concerns Former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan’s sister Noreen Niazi met him at Rawalpindi’s Adiala Jail on Tuesday after a gap of around nine months, following a Supreme Court order allowing weekly meetings between the former prime minister…

At a cave on the slopes of Mount Carmel, thousands of small reptile bones accumulated alongside the remains of animals hunted and gathered by people more than 11,000 years ago. For years, their presence raised a straightforward but difficult question: were the snakes and lizards food, or had they ended up there through the activity…

On a summer day in 1831, Thornton and Lucie Blackburn left Louisville with little certainty about what awaited them. They were enslaved, newly married and facing the possibility that Lucie could be sold away from her husband. Their escape began on a steamboat and took them through Cincinnati and into Michigan, where they tried to…

Trump administration sanctioned ICC president Tomoko Akane The United States on Tuesday imposed sanctions on International Criminal Court president Tomoko Akane and senior trial lawyer Abdoulaye Seye, in the latest escalation of the Trump administration’s campaign against the Hague-based court.US secretary of state Marco Rubio said the sanctions were imposed under an executive order signed…

Sara Gonzales brought the DOL inspector general to a Texas office accused of selling H-1B visas and Green Card and showed him purported messages. Texas journalist Sara Gonzales brought Department of Labor Inspector General Anthony D’Esposito to the registered office of Mohammad Abbas in Texas, accusing him of selling H-1B visas and Green Cards. In…

Charles and Willa Bruce on their wedding day (Left) and Margie Johnson and John Pettigrew in Manhattan Beach in 1927 (Right) A prime piece of Southern California oceanfront property taken from a Black couple through eminent domain a century ago was formally returned to their descendants and then sold back to Los Angeles County for…