A video showing a defunct Hindu temple in Muslim-majority Pakistan has been repeatedly shared in social media posts that falsely claimed it was located in India’s southern Kerala state and contained a chicken shop “inaugurated” by opposition Congress leader Rahul Gandhi. A human rights activist told AFP the temple was no longer in use as […]
FILE – Daniel Banyai, the owner of Slate Ridge, speaks to supporters, April 17, 2021, in West Pawlet, Vt., during a Second Amendment Day Picnic. An arrest warrant was rescinded Thursday, April 11, 2024, for Banyai, the Vermont owner of a controversial firearms training center involved in a long-running legal dispute after the town says […]
Apr. 11—You wouldn’t know it from looking at Edgewood Elementary School’s buff and beige exterior, but the school’s unoccupied South Building has been at the center of a disagreement — and a lawsuit — between the town of Edgewood and the Moriarty-Edgewood School District since October 2022. Town officials argue the building is a historic […]
NEWCOMERSTOWN ‒ The vehicles and equipment of the former Newcomerstown Emergency Rescue Squad, Inc. (NERS) are being sold through an online auction. The auction, conducted by the company Auction Ohio, runs through 4:45 p.m. March 17. Items being sold include a ladder truck with 164,000 miles on it; an emergency squad that has bad brakes […]
A NASA mission that was retired in 2022 has helped scientists detect water on the surface of two asteroids. Researchers from the Southwest Research Institute were able to use data from the retired Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, a joint project between NASA scientists and the German Space Agency at DLR, to discover the water […]
When Amazon called off its acquisition of iRobot on Monday, the impact was immediate: The Roomba maker’s longtime cofounder and CEO stepped aside and hundreds of staffers were laid off. But, coming on the heels of Adobe’s abandoned $20 billion Figma buyout last year in the face of regulatory pushback, a longer-term and more unsettling […]
Investigators with the House Ethics Committee appear to be taking a deeper look at the now closed federal probe into the conduct of Rep. Matt Gaetz, Republican of Florida, and have in recent weeks reached out to witnesses and the Justice Department for information, according to multiple sources familiar with the recent developments. At least one […]
Jan. 7—The abandoned Westmoreland Glass Co. plant in Hempfield has deteriorated into a shadow of its former self, but the varieties of glassware produced at the site for nearly a century have not lost their luster for collectors and local historians. “They made high quality white milk glass, and they painted just about everything they […]