On a summer day in 1831, Thornton and Lucie Blackburn left Louisville with little certainty about what awaited them. They were enslaved, newly married and facing the possibility that Lucie could be sold away from her husband. Their escape began on a steamboat and took them through Cincinnati and into Michigan, where they tried to…
European hedgehog (Image Credit: Canva) What was once seen as a useful garden helper in New Zealand has become an unexpected threat to some of the country’s most vulnerable wildlife. European hedgehogs were deliberately introduced to New Zealand in the 19th century, with acclimatisation societies releasing them in the hope that they would help control…
Charles and Willa Bruce on their wedding day (Left) and Margie Johnson and John Pettigrew in Manhattan Beach in 1927 (Right) A prime piece of Southern California oceanfront property taken from a Black couple through eminent domain a century ago was formally returned to their descendants and then sold back to Los Angeles County for…
CNN reporter Kristen Holmes (right) asked a question to President Donald Trump about Natalie Harp. Natalie Harp is a young assistant Donald Trump who is always seen by the side of the President. Harp is even called a human printer as she carries a printer to han out the president printouts of his emails and…
Maria Florida Nogo Kelen gave birth by torchlight during Indonesia’s 7.7 earthquake, naming baby Gempita/Image: Reuters A 39-year-old woman gave birth by emergency caesarean section under torchlight after a magnitude-7.7 earthquake cut power to a hospital in eastern Indonesia.Maria Florida Nogo Kelen was eight months pregnant when the earthquake struck East Nusa Tenggara on Saturday….
This Couple Found a Mysterious 150-Pound Sculpture Buried in Their Backyard. Now, They’re Trying to Figure Out Who Made It A routine gardening project in San Francisco turned into a historical mystery when a local landscape contractor found a 150-pound limestone sculpture buried deep beneath his backyard. Greg Gatwood, 65, was digging in the garden…
British student claims he was denied entry to the US only because he is Muslim. A 20-year-old British student, Laith Alani, said he felt as if he was kidnapped when he was detained by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) at Orlando International Airport. He said to the Guardian that he was interrogated for nine hours…
A Chinese factory worker got two new legs implanted after he lost both his legs in an accident. A Chinese hospital has claimed that its doctors performed the world’s first double thigh replantation, which made it possible for a factory worker who lost both his legs to start walking again. According to Chinese media reports,…
USCIS published details of new Green Card rules coming into effect on September 18, 2026. The US Citizenship and Immigration Services issued new guidelines on Tuesday on how officials would determine if a Green Card applicant would become a burden on the government. “On July 16, 2026, DHS announced a final rule that rescinds the…
Ohio eighth-grader Archishman Dey’s experiment reveals incense produced the highest PM2.5 pollution among five household sources. (Photo: Society for Science) An eighth-grader from Solon, Ohio, is drawing attention to an often-overlooked source of air pollution – the air inside our homes. Archishman Dey, a student at Solon Middle School, conducted a science project examining how…
