Chronicle: Hunger in the Heartland, Part 3
As pandemic relief ends, inflation grows and donations to the Food Bank for the Heartland drop with families cutting back to make ends meet, we highlight why the need is greater than ever.
As pandemic relief ends, inflation grows and donations to the Food Bank for the Heartland drop with families cutting back to make ends meet, we highlight why the need is greater than ever.
A Boeing 737 was forced to turn around and make an emergency landing after eagle-eyed ground crew members spotted a missing landing wheel during take-off at Johannesburg Airport in South Africa. Dramatic footage captured the moment the plane touched down and the loud explosion as the wheel disintegrated during the landing.
Google has once again delayed the phasing out of third-party cookies from Chrome. Now the company says it’ll happen in 2025.
A man has been charged with kidnap and sexual assault after a nine-year-old girl went missing while with her family on a busy high street in London. The Metropolitan Police were called shortly before 3pm on Monday to reports of a missing child on Brompton Road in Knightsbridge, near the famous department store Harrods. Scotland Yard has now announced that a 56-year-old man has been charged with kidnap, sexually assaulting a girl under 13 years old, and administering a substance with the intention of stupefying or overpowering to enable sexual activity.
A portrait of a young woman by Gustav Klimt that was long believed to be lost was sold at an auction in Vienna on Wednesday for 30 million euros ($32 million). The Austrian modernist artist started work on the “Portrait of Fräulein Lieser” in 1917, the year before he died, and it is one of his last works. The Im Kinsky auction house said that “a painting of such rarity, artistic significance, and value has not been available on the art market in Central Europe for decades.”
Allergy season can bring misery to tens of millions of Americans each year. Tree, grass, and other pollens can cause runny noses, itchy eyes, coughing and sneezing. Where you live and what you're allergic to can make a big difference in how bad your allergies are, but there are many things you can do to feel better.
Canadian miner First Quantum Minerals believes it will be able to take the already mined copper out of its disputed Cobre Panama mine in Panama after the national elections there in May, the company's chief executive said on Wednesday. Panama's current government ordered the closure of the copper mine last year after public protests over environmental damage from mining in the country. Cobre Panama is one of the biggest copper mines in the world and accounted for 40% of First Quantum's revenue last year.
Scientists have seen a sudden explosion coming from a rare object in a nearby galaxy. Researchers believe that the burst must be giant flare erupting out of a magnetar, a kind of neutron star. It offers an opportunity to study an incredibly rare event – and could help explain other kinds of unusual activity in the universe.
Dolphins eyeball some non-Power 5 players.
Italy will sign an agreement with Ukraine and the United Nations' cultural agency UNESCO to rebuild the city of Odesa and its cathedral which was badly damaged by a Russian attack, Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said on Wednesday. Ukraine said the Orthodox cathedral was damaged when it was hit during a Russian missile attack on the country's southern port city in July last year.
Guerrilla fighters from the main ethnic Karen fighting force battling Myanmar’s military government have withdrawn from the eastern border town of Myawaddy two weeks after forcing the army to give up its defense, residents and members of the group said Wednesday. The soldiers came from the army’s Infantry Battalion 275, whose base, about 4 kilometers (3 miles) to the west of Myawaddy, was captured on April 11 by the armed wing of the Karen National Union —- or KNU — and allied pro-democracy forces. The fleeing soldiers reestablished themselves in an area next to one of Myawaddy’s two bridges connecting it to Thailand’s Mae Sot district.
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OTTAWA — Mother Nature is delivering a typical spring day in Ottawa, with light drizzle, near-freezing temperatures — and thousands of grams of plastic. A new report says based on previous readings, more than 1,000 kilograms of microscopic plastic particles will fall on the national capital throughout the day. The report was compiled by Australia's Minderoo Foundation as a reminder of the scope of the problem as talks continue in Ottawa towards a global treaty on plastic. Negotiators are working
At night, the “dwarf”-like animals emerged from rock walls and crevices.
Ahmed Alid denies murdering Terence Carney in Hartlepool and attempting to murder a fellow asylum seeker at their shared accommodation
The Rugby Football Union will lose one of its most senior figures less than a year before the Women’s World Cup in 2025 when Sue Day joins the Football Association.
Tennis star Coco Gauff, 19, keeps her personal life private, but she has mentioned her boyfriend a few times. Here's what she's said about their relationship:
Sales updates from Europe's big luxury brands have offered scant reassurance that Chinese demand for high-end fashion is recovering, leaving a cloud over the outlook for the industry. Warning on Tuesday that its first half profit would drop steeply, Kering flagged low demand in Asia, and China in particular, in addition to its struggles to turn around star label Gucci. Italian luxury group Ermenegildo Zegna also saw revenue fall in the first quarter, dragged down by declining sales of its Thom Browne label in the Greater China region.
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Kirsten Dunst, Emma Stone and Zendaya have each played leading roles in 'Spider-Man' movies and later portrayed tennis players on the big screen
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