Jackson man raffles off houses
New at six, a Jackson man is raffling off houses for cheap, really cheap.
New at six, a Jackson man is raffling off houses for cheap, really cheap.
The bushy plants are slow to bolt, or flower, which is typically the kiss of death for coleus. Ocean Sunset Orange Glow’s orange flowers with yellow centers and hot pink edges are about as cheerful as a flower can get.
An exploration of racism on social media and a history of Native Americans are among the winners of J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project Awards, which celebrate literary excellence, social relevance and original reporting. Ned Blackhawk's “The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History,” which won a National Book Award last fall, received the $10,000 Mark Lynton History Prize.
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin promised Tuesday that the United States will not let Ukraine fail in fighting off Russia, even as further aid remains stalled in Congress and Kyiv's forces face shortages of munitions.The "United States will not let Ukraine fail", Austin said at the opening of a meeting in Germany of Ukraine's international supporters, at which he is seeking to secure further assistance for Kyiv.
The grand Roman residence where Italy's former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi had his political headquarters - and allegedly hosted sex parties - has been converted into the home of the international press. Berlusconi, who died last June aged 86, dominated Italian politics from the 1990s onwards while embroiled in a string of corruption sagas and so-called "bunga bunga" sex scandals. The 1,600-square-metre space has now been turned into an office and press conference centre, complete with chandeliers and frescoed ceilings, for the 450 members of Italy's Foreign Press Association.
Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s running mate for vice president could be Google's Sergey Brin's ex-wife, Nicole Shanahan.
Unilever said it's spinning off iconic ice cream brand Ben & Jerry's to focus on its other businesses.
For one afternoon, on Antioch’s main street and tranquil riverbank, the fragrance of burning incense was paired with the sound of Buddhist and Tao chants. Antioch's dark past, specifically its horrific mistreatment of early Chinese immigrants, motivated about 200 Buddhists to undertake a recent pilgrimage to the city of about 115,000, tucked deep in the delta that drains into the San Francisco Bay. In the 1800s, thousands of Chinese immigrants came to the area during the gold rush to work in mines, and build railroads and levees.
The feted Belgian designer Dries Van Noten will step down as creative director of his namesake fashion label this summer, he announced Tuesday. Van Noten sold a majority stake in his label to Spanish conglomerate Puig in 2018, but remained chairman of the board and creative director.
French land forces are ready to respond to any threat as they prepare for even "the toughest engagements", their commander said in remarks published Tuesday."To protect itself from any attack and to defend its interests, the French army is preparing for even the toughest engagements," he said.
A Russian energy ministry official told a parliament meeting on Tuesday there were plans to defend oil and gas facilities with missile systems."We are jointly working, including with colleagues from the Russian National Guard, to cover objects, on installing, accordingly, protection systems such as Pantsir," said Artyom Verkhov, director of energy ministry's department for gas industry development. Ukraine has stepped up attacks on Russian oil infrastructure since the start of the year, hitting numerous large oil refineries in an attempt to cripple Russia's military and curb its army's advances. Russian oil refining capacity shut down in the wake of Ukrainian drone attacks in the first quarter amounts to about 4.6 million tons (370,500 barrels per day), or some 7% of the total, Reuters calculations show.
Months after Isabella "Bella" Willingham was found unresponsive and severely injured in her dorm room in a case that has baffled her family and law enforcement, the former Asbury University student is still trying to piece together what happened that day.
Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, said on Tuesday that Vladimir Putin was not the legitimate president of Russia and that she would try to convince world leaders not to sit down to negotiate with him. Putin won 87.3% of the vote and a new six-year term on Sunday in an election which the West said was neither free nor fair. In a video message, Navalnaya praised the participation of thousands of people across Russia and abroad in a noon protest on Sunday against Putin's rule.
In 1939, after attending the Golden Gate International Exposition in San Francisco, Alfred Chan and his friends were headed back home to the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. “They got really hungry and decided to stop halfway in Antioch for a meal,” his son Ron Chan said. Eighty-two years after that incident, Alfred Chan received an apology delivered in person by Antioch Mayor Lamar Thorpe in November 2022.
Investors are waiting with baited breath for the Fed's big decision.
Armenia's prime minister said Tuesday that the Caucasus nation needs to quickly delimitate the border with neighboring Azerbaijan to avoid a new round of hostilities. Speaking to residents of the village of Voskepar in the Tavush region on border with Azerbaijan, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan warned that Armenia's refusal to delineate the border could trigger a new confrontation. “It would mean that a war could erupt by the end of the week,” Pashinyan said.
Military airstrikes in western Myanmar killed at least 25 members of the country’s Muslim Rohingya minority, including children, local media reported, prompting the U.N. chief to express concerns over the escalating violence. According to the reports, the airstrikes took place early on Monday morning and targeted the village of Thada, north of Minbya township in Rakhine state. The military government had no immediate comment on the reports.
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An investigation by the country's comptroller general's office had already shown that Bolsonaro's vaccination records were false. In addition to Bolsonaro, one of his former aides, Mauro Cid, who was arrested in May last year as part of the investigation, was also indicted. According to the sources, Bolsonaro was indicted on charges of entering false data into the country's Unified Health System (SUS) and forming a criminal organization.
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