US President Donald Trump. US President Donald Trump is facing rising pressure to bring down fuel prices as increasing costs squeeze American households and businesses ahead of the November midterm elections.Despite measures to boost diesel supplies and reduce fuel taxes, prices remain elevated, raising questions about how much the administration can do to ease the…
Once David’s boss, Stephanie now runs their business with him as an equal partner. A South Carolina couple who lost their jobs during the Covid started an air-conditioning business with just $2,000. Stephanie Postell and her husband, David Postell, founded Anchor Heating and Air in 2021 after being fired in December 2020. Nearly five years…
PC: WIkipedia/ Image AI generated In January 1985, as critics debated whether Starman would make Jeff Bridges a star, the 35-year-old actor gave a breakfast interview to the Los Angeles Times to discuss world hunger. In the interview with the Los Angeles Times, He told reporter Deborah Caulfield that learning how many people die of…
The subdivision’s original layout allowed houses to be constructed directly along certain property boundaries (Representational photo) A dispute between two neighbouring families over a five-foot strip of land beside their waterfront homes in Texas reached an appeals court after disagreements over property boundaries, utility meters, drainage and access for home repairs. The case involved two…
Image: Left/StyleBlueprint/Right/Rex Long before red carpets and golden statuettes, the Lawrence family had mud on their boots and a deep love of animals. Behind actress Jennifer Lawrence stands a Kentucky story that begins on a family farm, grows into a children’s summer camp with horses and a butterfly garden, and expands into an animal rescue…
Navanethem ‘Navi’ Pillay, who currently serves as a jurist in the International Court of Justice, has been awarded the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize for her efforts to promote peace and international law, by ensuring that war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide are prosecuted.Born into a family of Indian Tamil origin in apartheid-era Durban, South…
A rock musician working at a computer might seem an unlikely figure in an asteroid-sampling mission, but Brian May brought a specialist skill to Nasa’s search for a place to land on Bennu. The Queen guitarist, who also holds a doctorate in astrophysics, helped scientists turn spacecraft photographs into three-dimensional views of the asteroid’s rough…
Comedian and actor Russell Peters has sold his 1.5-acre estate in Hidden Hills, California, for $7.8 million. The sale price was $700,000 below the asking price. Records show Peters, a native of Canada, paid $6.45 million for the property in 2017. The estate is anchored by an 11,600-square-foot mansion built in 1998, with eight bedrooms…
A vine-covered mansion in Bel-Air might seem like an obvious candidate for a complete renovation, particularly when its new owner is a Hollywood actor with the means to start afresh. Sydney Sweeney had a different approach when she bought a property dating back to the 1930s in 2023. Rather than stripping away its aged features…
Billionaire real-estate developer Donald Bren helped turn a significant portion of California’s historic Irvine Ranch into a vast network of protected public lands, with 57,500 acres now preserved as open space and parklands. The scale of the conservation effort has been documented by the Irvine Ranch Conservancy, the City of Irvine and the National Park…
