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A Florida music hall that hosted Louis Armstrong and Ray Charles closed in 1968; after a four-year, $4.8 million renovation, St Petersburg has reopened it

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A Florida music hall that hosted Louis Armstrong and Ray Charles closed in 1968; after a four-year, $4.8 million renovation, St Petersburg has reopened it

A new mural by artist Egypt Hagan has been added to the property. St Petersburg’s historic Manhattan Casino reopened on Saturday, 58 years after it closed, following a four-year renovation of the 101-year-old building. According to St Pete Catalyst, the city has spent $4.8 million on the two-storey property, which will now operate as a … Read more

Meet Jiaen Jiang, the 16-year-old Texas student who built an electrostatic “magnet” to capture hazardous Moon dust and won $25,000

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Meet Jiaen Jiang, the 16-year-old Texas student who built an electrostatic “magnet” to capture hazardous Moon dust and won $25,000

Jiaen Jiang – Student Researcher in Aerospace, PC: LinkedIn Jiaen Jiang, a 16-year-old student from Rosenberg, Texas, has won a $25,000 Davidson Fellows Scholarship for an engineering project designed to capture fine lunar dust before it enters future Moon habitats. Jiang’s project, called the Moondust Magnet, uses a bipolar interdigitated electrode array to create controlled … Read more

Cats may have their own chemical ‘ID cards’: Scientists found 13 unusual fatty acids in urine that remain stable for at least 24 hours which can easily help identify individual cats

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Cats may have their own chemical ‘ID cards’: Scientists found 13 unusual fatty acids in urine that remain stable for at least 24 hours which can easily help identify individual cats

It seems there exists an established yet hidden cat calling system. According to scientists, cats identify one another through a shockingly durable chemical “calling card” made from 13 unusual fatty acids in their urine. Thus, feline friendships might have to do more with their identification than consistent meetings.Cats rely heavily on scent to learn about … Read more

Meloni plans burqa, niqab ban in Italian schools; how it compares to rest of Europe

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Meloni plans burqa, niqab ban in Italian schools; how it compares to rest of Europe

Italy moves to ban burqa, niqab in schools, says Meloni (AI-generated image) Italy is preparing to ban the burqa and niqab in schools, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni announced on Sunday, putting the country back in the spotlight of Europe’s long-running debate over face-covering veils, religious expression and integration.Meloni said her government would soon take a … Read more

An Ontario couple paid C$200 for a landscape painting at a rural yard sale; six years later the work was identified as E J Hughes’s Lake Okanagan and sold at auction for C$402,500

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An Ontario couple paid C$200 for a landscape painting at a rural yard sale; six years later the work was identified as E J Hughes’s Lake Okanagan and sold at auction for C$402,500

Hughes spent much of his career focusing on the landscapes of British Columbia An Ontario couple who paid just C$200 for a landscape painting at a rural yard sale in 2001 later discovered that they had bought a work by renowned Canadian artist E J Hughes, literary weboste BC Booklook reported. Six years after the … Read more

18 suspects accused in the July 2021 killing of Haiti’s president being extradited from Haiti to US

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18 suspects accused in the July 2021 killing of Haiti's president being extradited from Haiti to US

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Eighteen suspects who were arrested in the July 2021 killing of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse were awaiting extradition to the U.S. on Sunday, marking the end of a drawn-out judicial process in Haiti for a killing that shocked the troubled Caribbean country. 18 suspects accused in the July 2021 killing of Haiti’s … Read more

Macron, Carney pledge closer ties in Atlantic island meeting amid strains with Trump

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Macron, Carney pledge closer ties in Atlantic island meeting amid strains with Trump

By John Irish Macron, Carney pledge closer ties in Atlantic island meeting amid strains with Trump Sept 20 – The leaders of France and Canada on Sunday pledged closer ties to grapple with rising geopolitical tensions, climate change and the erosion of democratic values, after they met in the French territory of Saint-Pierre and Miquelon … Read more

US warns of rapid escalation in Middle East war

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US warns of rapid escalation in Middle East war

The United States warned that fighting between Saudi Arabia and the Iran-backed Houthis could “escalate rapidly” after a missile attack targeted Riyadh for the first time since the Yemen conflict resumed. US warns of rapid escalation in Middle East war US President Donald Trump cut short a weekend at Camp David, a secluded presidential complex … Read more

Austin ICE-involved shooting: What happened in Texas today? Mayor and police chief give update on man’s condition

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An ICE officer shot and wounded a man in Austin, Texas, on Sunday. (REUTERS)

A US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer shot and wounded a man on Sunday afternoon in Austinthe capital of Texas. An ICE officer shot and wounded a man in Austin, Texas, on Sunday. (REUTERS) What happened in Austin? The man was shot once in the torso on Austin’s north side. Austin Police Chief Lisa … Read more

Who is Patrick Clancy? New wife Rachel Danis, kids, job, & more as Lindsay Clancy’s ex-husband appears on 60 Minutes

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Patrick Clancy appears in 60 minutes with his new wife. (David L. Ryan/Pool The Boston Gl)

Patrick Clancy has come back into the spotlight as he appears in 60 minutes with his new wife, Rachel Danis after the trial of his former wife, Lindsay Clancy ended in mistrial. Lindsay is accused of killing their three children in January 2023. Patrick Clancy appears in 60 minutes with his new wife. (David L. … Read more