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Heavy machinery has already started moving soil across a historic family farm in Minnesota. The work is preparing the property for a large new housing development after city officials gave final approval to the plans. The Prior Lake City Council unanimously approved the final plat, planned unit development, and development agreement for the former Vierling…

Republican Senator proposes new legislation to end employment-based Green Card. Amid several sweeping changes to the US immigration rules, Republican Senator Tommy Tuberville has introduced new legislation seeking to end Green Card lottery and employment-based Green Cards. This is just legislation and many such pieces of legislation are proposed regularly by lawmakers, which never see…

Image: Esko Tikkala/Lahti Museums A Finnish metal detectorist has uncovered what is believed to be the country’s largest known Viking Age silver coin hoard after finding thousands of ancient coins near the village centre of Sysmä. Kalle Lappinen discovered the hoard on September 3, 2026, and reported the find to authorities, allowing archaeologists from Lahti…

On a 160-acre farm in central Iowa, three tall wind turbines quietly rise above the fields. Each turbine uses less than an acre of land, but together they provide an annual income that has changed the financial future of 75-year-old farmer Evie Haupt. According to a CBS News report by Janet Shamlian and Alicia Hastey,…

Michigan CEO Jane Smith (Second from left) was fired after controversy over her AI photo of family members wearing Lake America sweatshirts during their Canada trip. A Michigan credit union CEO whose AI-generated photograph of her family wearing “Lake America” sweatshirts went viral during a trip to Canada is no longer with the organization. Michigan…

A small group of Goulburn residents gathered around kitchen tables in late 2014 to discuss a simple idea: making their own clean electricity. Twelve years later, that discussion became Australia’s first community-owned solar farm paired with a large-scale battery. The 1.4-megawatt facility, backed by a four-megawatt-hour battery, officially opened on an old industrial site on…

New report claims TPUSA insisted that Charlie Kirk should address outdoors despite security concerns. A new report on Charlie Kirk’s assassination last year has now revealed that his Turning Point USA organization insisted he speak outdoors despite security concerns, while the university where he was killed didn’t properly assess dangers like the possibility of a…

The two leaders held a 90-minute closed-door meeting on Thursday. According to the Chinese government’s readout, they discussed the Middle East, Ukraine and the Korean Peninsula. The White House did not release details of those talks. US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping are set to meet twice more this year, with the…

When former Seattle mayor and shipbuilding businessman Robert Moran was told by doctors in 1905 that he had only a few months to live because of a failing heart, he decided to spend his remaining time building a peaceful home on Orcas Island in the Pacific Northwest. That diagnosis turned out to be wrong. Moran…

Singapore welcomes Southeast Asia’s first Okapi calf. A rare okapi calf has been born at Rainforest Wild Adventure in Singapore, marking the first recorded birth of an okapi in Southeast Asia. The male calf was born on July 27 to first-time parents Kisala, 7, and Xandor, 4, at Mandai Wildlife Group’s wildlife park.The calf weighed…