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SafeWalkr launches across 14 FCPS schools, helping families find safer walking routes on National Walk and Roll to School Day. For most students, getting home from school is a routine journey. For Daniil Prokofev, an eight-mile run home turned into something far more consequential. A route generated by Google Maps sent the 17-year-old along a…

Weeds can destroy 50% to 90% of a field’s crop yield if left entirely uncontrolled, according to data from the Weed Science Society of America (WSSA) and US Department of Agriculture (USDA). In order to reduce the amount of weeds growing in fields, the USDA in 2022 funded a trial by spreading cardboard beds in…

For at least three generations, the Luidhardt family has farmed land north of Bowling Green, Ohio. That continuity came under pressure when the family learned that a natural gas pipeline connected to Meta’s data centre in Middleton Township could cross roughly 40 acres of their soybean fields. After Jon and Ken Luidhardt challenged the proposed…

File photo: Judge orders White House to restore CNN, MS NOW and Politico access A US federal judge on Tuesday ordered the Trump administration to allow CNN, MS NOW and Politico to access the White House while their lawsuit against US president Donald Trump’s press ban proceeds, ruling that the restrictions likely violated the First…

Representative Image of selling baklava to enthusiastic fans at a lively concert ( AI Generrated Image) In September 2021, Jacob Komarow impulsively bought 3 trays of baklava on his way to a Phish concert in California, intending to resell them to fellow fans. When a friend doubted he could sell all 3 trays, Komarow bet…

More than 50 years after the first crewed moon landing, Jeff Bezos has a straightforward explanation for why returning to the lunar surface remains so difficult. The Amazon founder says the United States devoted almost 3% of its gross domestic product (GDP) to the effort in 1969, making Apollo an exceptionally expensive national project. During…

The COVID-19 pandemic deepened food insecurity across the US, with Feeding America estimating that 45 million people, including 15 million children, could face hunger in 2020. Against this backdrop, model and entrepreneur Olivia Culpo launched More Than a Mask in May 2020, selling fashion face coverings to raise funds for hunger relief. The initiative later…

Actress and singer Scarlett Johansson listed her walled and gated Spanish villa in the Hollywood Hills for $4.95 million in February 2010. The villa dated back to 1931 and had been restored and remodelled. It featured four bedrooms, five and a half bathrooms, and approximately 4,300 square feet of living space.According to the Los Angeles…