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A new $55 million medical facility in South Carolina includes a special outdoor retreat built with a $100,000 donation from country music star Dolly Parton. The gift also honours her family’s roots in the local area. The new Union Medical Center, part of the Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System, marked its opening with a ribbon-cutting ceremony….

Southern California is currently grappling with wildfires, prompting evacuation orders in several communities and causing widespread power outages. (Pic Credit: Reuters) Several wildfires were burning across Southern California on Friday as hot, dry and windy weather heightened fire danger, prompting evacuations and leaving more than 150,000 electricity customers across California without power.A fast-moving blaze in…

The Vatican on Friday released the first image of Pope Leo XIV since his lung surgery, showing the pontiff attending Mass at Rome’s Gemelli Hospital as doctors reported steady progress in his recovery.According to the Holy See Press Office, Pope Leo celebrated Mass in a room prepared on the hospital’s 10th floor, where he is…

President Donald Trump listens as gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy speaks at a campaign rally at the Covelli Centre, in Youngstown, Ohio. AP/PTI(AP10_13_2026_000002B) The Indian identity has always cast a strange shadow over America, even before the USA came into existence. Christopher Columbus – who never reached the present-day mainland US and yet became one of…

US President Donald Trump said the US wanted to ensure the nuclear weapons never fall into Iranian hands (AP photo). US President Donald Trump on Thursday said Washington may strike Iran’s Pickaxe mountain facility as he seeks to prevent Tehran from acquiring a nuclear weapon, while ruling out the use of nuclear weapons in the…

The US Justice Department has sued California over allegations that more than 20,000 people suspected of being noncitizens are registered to vote, seeking a court order to prevent their mail-in ballots from being counted in the November 3 midterm elections until their citizenship status is verified.The lawsuit, filed on Thursday, accuses the state of failing…

A $12 million donation from Oprah Winfrey to the Smithsonian Institution continues to support public discussions about African American history and culture in the nation’s capital. The Smithsonian Institution announced the donation in June 2013. The money supported fundraising for the National Museum of African American History and Culture. Along with an earlier gift of…

Renner and Winters transformed a historic mansion into a luxurious Holmby Hills estate, turning an ambitious renovation into a lucrative sale. Some houses are bought for their addresses. Others are bought for what they could become. For actor Jeremy Renner and his longtime business partner Kristoffer Winters, a 1920s mansion in Los Angeles became the…

Kiran Kaur and Vickrum Digwa The mother of a Sikh man jailed for murdering an 18-year-old student Henry Nowak could leave prison early under changes to England’s early release rules.Kiran Kaur, 53, was sentenced to three years in prison in July for removing the knife her son, Vickrum Digwa, used to kill Nowak in Southampton…

A Pennsylvania appeals court has upheld an order blocking the sale of a 60-acre family farm. The ruling stops a deal that would have allowed one sister living on the property to sell the land for $250,000 while continuing to live there under a 99-year lease. The Pennsylvania Superior Court upheld an injunction issued by…