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Image Credit: AI Generated A Massachusetts coastal property became the centre of a legal dispute after its owner took out a $3.85 million mortgage on a house standing less than 14 feet from an eroding bluff above Cape Cod Bay. John Bonomi bought the Wellfleet property for $5.5 million in November 2021, but years of…

US President Donald Trump. US President Donald Trump has said he would intervene to resolve any ongoing restrictions on Ukraine’s access to Starlink communications, saying he would speak to Elon Musk if the problem remained unresolved.Ukrainian officials said on Friday that speed restrictions on Starlink services were still in place, contradicting Trump’s earlier claim that…

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney/Image: Reuters Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has rejected allegations that Ottawa intends to interfere in the upcoming US midterm elections, criticising Washington’s ambassador for suggesting that Canadian officials were seeking to influence American politics.Speaking to reporters during an official visit to Turkey on Friday, Carney said Canada had no plans…

Volunteers across Rhode Island have collected more than 600 discarded Christmas trees in 2026 to help repair damaged riverbanks and protect wild trout. The effort turns holiday waste into valuable underwater habitat for fish and other aquatic life. The statewide project, known as “Trees for Trout,” is a joint effort by the Rhode Island Department…

When actress Portia de Rossi surprised her wife, television host Ellen DeGeneres, with a 60th birthday gift in 2018, she helped fund a major conservation project in Rwanda. The project improved wildlife protection and gave local people more chances to learn about the environment. By September 2023, the Ellen DeGeneres Campus of the Dian Fossey…

1890 Sherlock Holmes first edition found in charity shop sells for £11,520 (Image Credit: Wikipedia) A rare first-edition copy of The Sign of Four, one of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes novels, sold for £11,520 after being discovered among book donations at an Oxfam charity shop in Shrewsbury, England. According to Oxfam’s official press…

Musician Alicia Keys and her husband, record producer Swizz Beatz, bought one of Southern California’s best-known architectural homes for $20.8 million (£16 million) in 2019. They paid nearly $10 million less than the original asking price before turning the oceanfront property into an art-filled family home. Known as the Razor House, the glass-and-concrete estate sits…

US President Donald Trump The Trump administration has filed a federal lawsuit seeking to prevent Alaska from certifying its US Senate election results if Republican incumbent Dan Sullivan loses, arguing that a candidate with the same name could confuse voters.The lawsuit, filed on Thursday in federal court in Anchorage, claims Alaska would fail to protect…

A former wheat-growing farm in West Sussex, England, has recorded a remarkable increase in butterfly numbers just two years after a large-scale habitat restoration project began, with 5,290 butterflies belonging to 28 species documented during surveys in 2026. The findings, reported by The Guardian and detailed by Halnaker Hill Farm, include the first recorded sightings…

J.J. Watt turned his $100,000 donation into a $41.6 million Hurricane Harvey relief campaign in 2017. (Photo: JJW Foundation) Former NFL star J.J. Watt turned a $100,000 donation into a massive relief effort after Hurricane Harvey devastated Texas in 2017. The Houston Texans defensive end launched an online fundraiser with an initial target of $200,000,…