Candace Owens (Image via Getty Images) A new post circulating on X has put Candace Owens’ latest comments about Turning Point USA back under the spotlight. In the clip shown in the screenshot, Owens questions the direction of the organization while suggesting that another group could eventually take its place. Her remarks have since fueled…
The Smithsonian Arts and Industries Building in 2021. (Matt McClain/The Washington Post) The Smithsonian Institution Board of Regents has officially chosen the historic Arts and Industries Building on the National Mall as the permanent home of the National Museum of the American Latino. The decision ends a long debate over the museum’s location and removes…
A thick green carpet can make a pond or reservoir appear almost solid, but giant salvinia is a floating fern, spreading across the water rather than growing from the bottom. In Texas and Louisiana, the plant had become difficult to manage, forming dense mats that blocked sunlight, reduced oxygen and interfered with waterways. According to…
Photo credit: California Department of Fish and Wildlife On a late-August afternoon in the San Gabriel Mountains, a group of hikers near La Verne, California, heard an unsettling sound: what they described as “howling” coming from a large water tank along a trail. When they investigated, they discovered a mother black bear and her two…
The Manatee County Commission approved the property as the county’s first locally designated historic landmark (Image Credit: Facebook/ @Manatee County, Florida Government) The walls of this Florida house have witnessed more than a century of history, including 41 years with the same couple who refused to let its past disappear. After moving into the 1908…
In 1932 a brand new theater opened in South Los Angeles showing movies and live shows to a growing neighborhood. Decades later, after years of decline and closure, that same building sat dark and deteriorating, its ornate interior hidden behind boards and dust. In 2011, the city of Los Angeles committed to saving it, launching…
The restoration included repairing much of the original oak frame, but also creating contemporary spaces that met the needs of modern family living. Cadman Construction was already undertaking one of its most challenging heritage projects: restoring a Grade II-listed 16th-century longhouse in Suffolk. But for Stuart Cadman, Managing Director of Cadman Construction the challenge had…
A small group of muskrats arrived in Bohemia in 1905, carried across the Atlantic as curiosities from a hunting trip in North America. Five animals were released into ponds at Prince Colloredo-Mannsfeld’s estate near Dobříš, where they were expected to remain little more than a private collection and perhaps a source of valuable fur. They…
Residents of the Retreat at Deer Lick Falls sued Hayes over alleged HOA control and fund mismanagement. (Realtor.com photos) More than 40 homeowners in three tiny-home communities in Tennessee are taking legal action against developer Claude ‘Chip’ Hayes III, accusing him of retaining control of their homeowners associations (HOAs) and mismanaging association funds. They are…
Wail Alselwi is encouraging kids to improve their grades. A Staten Island deli manager who started giving neighbourhood children cash and free snacks for getting top marks three years ago has turned his small reward programme into a major community effort, raising more than $500,000 (£380,000) to provide school supplies to 3,000 students. Wail “Wally”…