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Meet Hannah Joseph, the Ohio sophomore who pitched a nonprofit helping seniors use technology and won an AI leadership award

That initiative made her the first teenager ever considered for, and honored with, a Cincinnati AI Leadership Award. Hannah Joseph, a sophomore at Indian Hill High School in Ohio, has won the 2026 AI Next Generation Award after pitching her nonprofit, Seniors Go Digital, at Cincy AI Week, Village Press reported. She stood out among…

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‘Zero self-awareness’: Indian-origin professor slams viral video of woman welcoming parents at US airport triggering wheelchair row

A woman’s celebratory video of welcoming her parents to the US has gone viral. Videos of Indians using wheelchairs at international airports surface on social media from time to time. This time, a video of an Indian woman apparently welcoming her parents at Dallas-Fort Worth Airport in Texas went viral as the mother was seen…

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Antarctica’s melting glaciers are leaking toxic mercury into the ocean, which could increase toxic metal levels in the marine food chain and humans |

Tidewater glacier on the Antarctic coast. Image Credit: Jason Auch/Wikipedia Antarctica is releasing alarming amounts of mercury into the surrounding ocean as climate change accelerates the melting of its glaciers. A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) has found that mercury accumulation in sediments around the Antarctic Peninsula…

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Mass cancellation of nonimmigrant US visa appointments triggers panic: State Department says it’s for training

US embassies and consulates cancel all visa appointments across the world until September 1. Thousands of visa applicants all across the world received emails from their embassies and consulates that their visa appointment has been cancelled and will be rescheduled only after September 1. This happened to non-immigrant visa applicants, which include student visas, work…

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Married NYC lawyer getting fired after his video of smooching 29-year-old colleague in Central Park goes viral

Nathaniel Cullerton and Kelsey Borenzweig’s kissing video at Central Park went viral. Nathaniel Cullerton and Kelsey Borenzweig became TikTok famous after their smooching video went viral. Both of them are colleagues at an elite New York law firm. And now almost a month after their viral canoodling, New York Post has reported that Nathaniel Cullerton…

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‘Lake America’: Trump floats plan to rename Lake Ontario amid escalating US-Canada trade row

Trump said US is considering to change the name of Lake Ontario. President Donald Trump on Tuesday said the United States was “giving serious consideration” to renaming Lake Ontario as Lake America, amid escalating trade dispute with Canada.In a post on Truth Social, Trump wrote, “The United States is giving serious consideration to changing the…

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In 1972, Lyndon and Lady Bird Johnson gave the Texas White House and about 600 acres to the US but kept lifetime rights; she continued living there until 2007

The property was more than a place connected to Johnson’s presidency. It was also a home for the Johnson family. (LBJ library photo) In 1972, former US President Lyndon B Johnson and his wife, Lady Bird Johnson, gave their ranch house and about 600 acres of land to the National Park Service for use as…

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In 1959, Vermont bought Snake Mountain land but the seller kept timber rights; 67 years later the state plans to secure 949 acres of those rights and add 256 acres

With support from the Trust for Public Land, the Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department plans to secure the timber rights covering 949 acres of the Snake Mountain Wildlife Management Area (WMA). A conservation story that began nearly seven decades ago is entering a new chapter in Vermont. What was once a complicated split between land…

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US removes Syria from terrorism list after 46 years – what it means for the Middle East country

Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa said in a video message that Syria is ‘shaking off a dark burden’ (File photo) The United States on Monday removed Syria from its list of state sponsors of terrorism, ending a designation that had been in place since 1979 and imposing significant restrictions on trade, investment and financial transactions with…

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For 30 years, the “Kerry cow” bones were seen as proof of early farming in Ireland; scientists now say they belonged to a bear and wild boar

Representative Image (AI-generated) For more than three decades, a collection of animal bones from Ireland’s Ferriter’s Cove was considered some of the earliest evidence that farming had reached the island. But new research has now overturned that interpretation. According to University College Dublin (UCD), bones once identified as cattle have instead been identified as belonging…

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