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Fire slows traffic in southbound lanes of I-5 at Grapevine
Kern County firefighters are working to contain a brush fire that ignited early Thursday morning in southbound lanes of Interstate 5 at the Grapevine. The fire ...
Novak Djokovic trades his racket for a bicycle and takes a nighttime ride around Paris
Novak Djokovic traded his racket for a bicycle and swapped the French Open’s clay courts for the cobblestone streets of Paris during a nighttime ride around the Arc de Triomphe.
Thai and Cambodian armies agree to withdraw from disputed area after deadly border clash
The army chiefs of Thailand and Cambodia agreed on Thursday for a mutual withdrawal from the disputed border area where a brief clash a day earlier killed one Cambodian soldier.
The Latest: Trump’s tariffs blocked and Musk quits government role
A federal court on Wednesday blocked President Donald Trump from imposing sweeping tariffs on imports under an emergency-powers law, swiftly throwing into doubt Trump’s signature set of economic ...
Venus may be hiding potential ‘city-killer’ asteroid, researchers claim
( NewsNation) — Venus could be hiding asteroids that would be deadly if they hit Earth, some experts say. A new study published in the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics has shown that Venus has at ...
Japan’s Ishiba warns against tension over tariffs and vows to expand Asia-Pacific trade group
Japanese Prime Minsiter Shigeru Ishiba on Thursday showed his determination to defend rules-based free and multilateral trade systems and take a leadership role to expand the ...
Who are the Sacred Harp singers using a more than 180-year-old hymnal today
The Sacred Harp” hymnal is beloved by those who sing from it, carrying on the Christian songbook’s more than 180-year-old ...
MLB invests in Athletes Unlimited Softball League ahead of June debut
Major League Baseball is investing in Athletes Unlimited to support its softball league that will debut next month, marking the first time MLB will have a comprehensive partnership with a ...
Takeaways from AP’s report on why pre-Civil War hymnal ‘The Sacred Harp’ is getting an update
The Sacred Harp” is a pre-Civil War compilation of sacred songs that uses music notes shaped like triangles, ovals, squares ...
It’s not a reprint. Why Sacred Harp singers are revamping an iconic pre-Civil War hymnal
Singers at Holly Springs Primitive Baptist Church in West Georgia treat their red hymnals like extensions of themselves, never straying far from their copies of “The Sacred ...
A South African woman is sentenced to life in prison for selling her young daughter
A South African woman was sentenced to life in prison Thursday for selling her 6-year-old daughter. Kelly Smith was sentenced by a judge alongside two others, her ...
Tens of thousands demonstrate in Nepal seeking restoration of ousted monarchy
Tens of thousands of protesters demanding the abolished monarchy be restored and the former king be made the head of state of the Himalayan nation demonstrated in Nepal ...