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National Trials 2025: DeCambre wins senior 1500m
Dylan DeCambre won his first national senior title in the men's 1500m event of the Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association's National Championship (Photo: Garfield Robinson) June 27, 2025 KINGSTON, Jamaica – Dylan DeCambre won his first...
Bespoke bash for a billionaire: Jeff Bezos weds Lauren Sánchez in lavish Venice ceremony
VENICE, Italy (AP) — The sky itself is no limit for billionaire Jeff Bezos and fiancée Lauren Sánchez, who have traveled into space — and expectations were about as high ahead of their wedding in Venice on Friday. One of the world’s most...

2025 Top Agri-Food Pioneers Announced: 39 Changemakers from 27 Countries Forging a New Future for Food
From Australia to Zimbabwe, 39 visionary scientists, farmers, policy advisors, entrepreneurs and humanitarians have been named to the 2025 Top Agri-food Pioneers (TAP) list, announced today by the World Food Prize Foundation. Now in its second...

All-News4JAX baseball: Goals are raised for St. Johns Country Day star Brayden Harris
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Brayden Harris came up short in what he set out to do and it was still the best around. Harris, the Varsity 4 All-News4JAX baseball player of the year, was elite in his junior season with St. Johns Country Day. Harris was...

City of Glasgow College graduates highlight proud legacy of innovation and learning
Set against the stunning backdrop of Glasgow Cathedral, today’s ceremony celebrates the achievements of students graduating from courses spanning Marine Engineering, Marine Electro-Technology, Marine Operations and Nautical Science. Many have...

WISH-TV’s “WISH You Were Here” kicks off at the Franklin Firecracker Festival
FRANKLIN (WISH) – WISH-TV’s “Focus on Family” took the show on the road as part of the station’s WISH You Were Here summer series, broadcasting live from downtown Franklin just ahead of the city’s annual Firecracker Festival. Co-hosts Faran...

The Mind-Boggling Net Worth in Venice for Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez’s Wedding
Venice is suffering through an all-out billionaire invasion as Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez prepare to tie the knot in the floating city. Among the arrivals: media tycoons, tech titans, Hollywood elites, and royals—collectively worth close to...

One way to bring a river back to life? Slow it way, way down
QUARTZ CREEK, Lane County, Ore. — As the restoration worker dipped a metal wand into the water — ZAP! — fish in this part of the creek were a bit stunned from an electric current. All the easier to net and scoop them into buckets. Rainbow trout,...

Meet Chatter magazine’s 20 Under 40 Class of 2025, some of Chattanooga’s young and fabulous
Meet the 20 Under 40 Class of 2025. Everyone here brings something different to the table. Or the board meeting. Or the nonprofit fundraiser. But they're all equally impressive. These honorees are selected for being awesome in any number of ways...

Fantasia Fest Reveals Third Wave Of 2025 Films: Queens Of The Dead, Fixed, It Ends, More
Fantasia International Film Festival has announced a strong final wave of films for its 2025 edition including Tina Romero’s Queens Of the Dead and more. The biggest genre film festival in North America announced the third wave of titles on...

Armenia’s new AI Data Center – At What Cost?
In recent news, Firebird, a cloud AI company, is planning to open a new 100MW AI data center in Armenia in 2026. Thousands of Nvidia Blackwell GPUs will be employed, in an endeavour to cultivate Armenia’s “tech sector and global partnerships” and...

The 10 most important people in Alabama sports history
Who is the most important person in the history of sports in the state of Alabama? Inspired by a debate on ESPN earlier this week, we’re seeking to answer that question. “Most important” is a highly subjective term, which we take to include not...

Fantasia International Film Festival announces final wave of titles for 29th edition!
The 29th edition of the Fantasia International Film Festival is set to run from from July 16th (one day earlier than previously announced) through August 3rd at the Concordia Hall and J.A. de Sève cinemas in Montreal, with additional screenings...

Anaakhtar And The University Of Jordan Sign Mou To Advance SEB Learning
(MENAFN- Asdaf News) Amman – Asdaf News: UAE-based AnaAkhtar , the first EdTech platform in the MENA region dedicated to social, emotional, and behavioral (SEB) development, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the University of Jordan...

USAID Leaks: Censorship As Regime Change
Leaked files show USAID paid Valent Projects to censor critics and spread pro-Western propaganda in Sudan and beyond. Ask ChatGPT Leaked files reviewed by Al Mayadeen English expose how notorious intelligence cutout USAID secretly employed the...

Asteroid once feared to be hitting Earth now more likely to strike Moon
An asteroid that was briefly feared to be on a collision course with Earth is now more likely to strike the Moon in 2032, according to updated calculations by Nasa. Astronomers have refined the orbit of asteroid 2024 YR4 using data collected by...

Saudi Real Estate: Riyadh To Host Cityscape Global 2025 After $61bn Success Last Year
Riyadh will welcome the world’s largest real estate exhibition, Cityscape Global, from November 17–20, 2025 at the Exhibition and Convention Centre in Malham. Under the banner “The Future of Urban Living,” the event is co-sponsored by the Ministry...

‘I Am the Heir to Delacroix’
A bit of apocrypha that’s floated around the art world for the past several years: when Artforum published one of Jack Whitten’s blazingly chromatic “slab” paintings on its cover in 2012, an eminent historian of modern and contemporary art...

LIDO Festival: Massive Attack, Maximum Impact – Music, Meaning & Battery-Powered Brilliance
“We’re a quality over quantity business but it’s important for us to have an event at the start of the summer. That’s where the LIDO idea came from,” Jim King, AEG Presents’ CEO European Festivals, tells this magazine on site. “And we love working...
‘Insane’: Joe Rogan turns on Trump
Joe Rogan says the Trump administration’s immigration raids on workplaces are “insane”, declaring the federal government would be better off targeting “cartel members,” “gang members” and “drug dealers.” The hugely popular podcaster also said...