As the Cahaba’s “‘charismatic” namesake lily blooms, an old festival and a new musical tribute celebrate Alabama’s longest free-flowing river. By Lee Hedgepeth WEST BLOCTON, Ala.—“The lilies have bloomed this season if you know where to go.”Continue Reading
The 8-0 decision overturned the U.S. Court of Appeals decision that the project’s environmental impact statement was insufficient. The post Supreme Court puts Utah’s oil train back on the rails appeared first on High Country News.Continue Reading
The South Coast Air Quality Management District is poised to vote on regulations that would limit emissions of nitrogen oxides — the key pollutants that form smog.Continue Reading
Medical staff and administrative workers at Garrahan Hospital, a leading paediatric centre in Buenos Aires, staged a protest to demand urgent salary increases from President Javier Milei’s government., Read MoreContinue Reading
As the country tumbles into fascism, we are consoled by tee vee host, sexual predator, inept alcoholic, definitely-not-gay serious person and Defense Secretary Whisky Pete Hegseth taking on the big issues of the day and hewing to his obsession with “warrior ethos” by ordering the Navy to strip the nameContinue Reading
Polina Zabrodskaya was well on her way to the top of the creative advertising game. But when she challenged her senior management on whether a major client’s environmental and labour-related claims were true, she says her career path quickly crumbled. Now, Zabrodskaya is taking her former employer, AMV BBDO, to anContinue Reading
North Korea appears to have returned to an upright position its stricken Choe Hyun Class destroyer that partially capsized during a botched launching ceremony., Read More NBC NewsContinue Reading
Last year, I visited Cape Town, South Africa, for a girl’s trip. The flight to our destination lasted 15 hours – the longest I’d ever been on an airplane. As I settled into my not-quite-comfy-enough premium economy seat (you’d think that for $5srcsrc, you’d get a little more legroom…Continue Reading
Ukrainian drones have reportedly hit key Russian air bases, targeting TU-22 and TU-95 strategic bombers—aircraft central to Russia’s cruise missile operations. While Ukraine claims up to 40 bombers were destroyed, Russian sources say the number is much lower. Independent experts estimate around 13 aircraft may have been damaged or destroyed.Continue Reading
Iranian supreme leader says issue of uranium enrichment remains key to Tehran’s pursuit of energy independence., Iranian supreme leader says issue of uranium enrichment remains key to Tehran’s pursuit of energy independence. Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has pledged that Tehran will not abandon its uranium enrichment, rejecting aContinue Reading
About 2 million Muslims begin the once-in-a-lifetime Hajj to Mecca. Alma Milisic explains this sacred Islamic journey., Hajj explained: A journey through the key rites of the Muslim pilgrimage NewsFeed Around two million Muslims are about to fulfil a once-in-a-lifetime religious duty this week as they take part in theContinue Reading
Tammy Bruce’s remarks had critics cringing., Read MoreContinue Reading
President Traitor 47 wants his “big, beautiful” bill of tax breaks and spending cuts on his desk to be signed into law by Independence Day., Read MoreContinue Reading