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‘Slim chance’ government will hit 1.5m new homes target, Rayner tells BBC
There is only a “slim chance” the government will meet its target of building 1.5 million homes in England by...
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Indian-origin lab owner wanted in US over $93m-Medicare fraud; suspect may be in Hyderabad
Indian-origin laboratory owner Khadeer Khan Mohammed. (Photo: HHS-OIG) An Indian-origin laboratory owner has been placed on the US federal fugitive...
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Reform’s £72m donations ‘entirely in line with law’, Jenrick says
Robert Jenrick has said Reform UK believes £72m of donations it has received from two cryptocurrency billionaires are “entirely in...
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At 100, Atlanta’s Barbara Haig still drives her white Ford Mustang; she says caution, not age, will determine how long she stays behind the wheel
Haig has been fond of convertibles for years. After giving them up for a period, seeing other drivers enjoying the...
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In 1999, David Letterman bought a 2,700-acre Montana ranch after avoiding celebrity country; he says the property has buffalo, horses, barbed wire and weeds
After his decision to leave late-night television, Letterman and wife, Regina Lasko, moved back to Indiana In 1999, television host...
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In 2024, New York turned 250 discarded Christmas trees into nearly 600 feet of breakwaters; by fall, the trees were trapping sediment around a restored salt marsh
What looked like holiday waste ended up helping rebuild a fragile salt marsh at Jamaica Bay, where the trees were...
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A former fuel-tank farm beside an Alaska national park visitor center has been erased; a young conservation crew restored 15,000 square yards of landscape and built 500 feet of new trail
The project also created about 500 feet of new pedestrian trail, connecting the visitor center with the Lakeview Tinitun trail...
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‘Die first, white man’: US university probes Nigerian-origin professor Uju Anya’s ‘threatening’ social media posts
Nigerian-origin professor at Carnegie Mellon University Uju Anya’s social media posts trigger outrage. Carnegie Mellon University has launched a review...
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After 9/11, a New York aircraft carrier became an emergency headquarters for more than 500 FBI agents; 25 years later, it is still turning the tragedy into public service
The Intrepid wasn’t an independent FBI facility. The museum complex also assisted FEMA and state and local emergency responders during...
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At 4, Casey Kloepfer lost his NYPD father on 9/11; 25 years later, he became an NYPD officer, wears his father’s badge number and plays for the lacrosse team his father founded
NYPD graduate Casey Kloepfer (left), gets his shield and officer Ronald Kloepfer (right) died on 9/11 At four years of...
