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Martha Stewarts 152-acre New York farm keeps growing; 26 years after purchase, it has 19 pheasants and over 100 chickens

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Twenty-six years on, Martha Stewart’s New York farm is still growing, one bird at a time. (Wikimedia Commons and @marthastewart48/Instagram)

Most people know Martha Stewart as a TV host, author, or as a home and cooking expert. But on her farm in Bedford, New York, which she bought in 2000, the birds are now the star attractions. The Martha Stewart Blog said in a post on March 9, 2026, that she had 11 pheasants that … Read more

Jane Doe V. Cornell: Netflix releases documentary on Cornell gangrape case amid growing calls for Presidents resignation

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A new Netflix documentary revisits Jane Doe’s allegations of rape at Cornell. (Getty Images via AFP)

Netflix on October 29 released a brief documentary on the Cornell University gang rape case, coinciding with increasing scrutiny of the school’s administrators regarding their response to Jane Doe’s allegations from 2024. A new Netflix documentary revisits Jane Doe’s allegations of rape at Cornell. (Getty Images via AFP) The 36-minute documentary titled Jane Doe V. … Read more

Two Iowa farmers gave up pigs and started growing mushrooms; their abandoned livestock buildings became an artisan food business

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Two Iowa farmers gave up pigs and started growing mushrooms; their abandoned livestock buildings became an artisan food business

Two Iowa farmers have transformed their family’s former hog operation into a speciality mushroom business, turning infrastructure once built for thousands of pigs into spaces for growing lion’s mane and oyster mushrooms. The Faaborg family, which once raised about 8,000 hogs a year, ended its animal-farming contract in October 2022 after decades in the industry. … Read more

Lie detectors, 50 officials and a leak hunt: Inside Pentagon’s growing paranoia over Iran

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The US government has reportedly subjected roughly 50 members of the military’s Joint Staff to lie detector tests as investigators hunt for officials suspected of leaking classified information to journalists, including details about dwindling US ammunition supplies during the war with Iran. Donald Trump has gone beyond efforts to stop unauthorised disclosures, calling media coverage … Read more

CNN founder Ted Turner’s New Mexico ranch helped save North America’s rarest large tortoise, growing its population from 30 to about 800

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CNN founder Ted Turner’s New Mexico ranch helped save North America’s rarest large tortoise, growing its population from 30 to about 800

For thousands of years, the Bolson tortoise had been missing from the grasslands of New Mexico. Then a private ranch offered the species something it had not had in generations: space to start again. What began with just 30 captive tortoises grew into a population of roughly 800 through a long-running conservation effort backed by … Read more

As AI grips world, thrill of collecting vintage, iconic computers growing

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As AI grips world, thrill of collecting vintage, iconic computers growing

Attendees play on Apple Macintosh computers from the 1980s at the Vintage Computer Festival in Mountain View, California MOUNTAIN VIEW: Software engineer Josh Dersch loves old computers. He spends countless hours tinkering in his garage, trying to coax decades-old machines back to life. He estimates he owns more than 200 vintage computers and devices in … Read more