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A survey from the Partnership for Public Service also found that a majority of Americans oppose the Trump administration’s changes to government.

Days after the Pride flag was raised for the first time ever at Webster Town Hall, it was taken down. The move came as the result of a new flag policy passed Thursday by the Town Board in a 3-2 vote. Town Board member John Cahill introduced the policy, which established the United States flag and the New York state flag as the only ones allowed on flagpoles on town propert

Speaking on the eve of the tournament opener between co-hosts Mexico and South Africa, Fifa president Gianni Infantino tells football fans to 'chill and relax' over concerns surrounding Somali referee Omar Abdulkadir Artan, who was barred from entering the US this week despite having a valid visa. 'We have to respect that we are not kings of the world, who can rule over governments and police forces. We are a sports organisation that does as much as we can. It’s important sometimes to chill, relax. We work on everything. Sometimes screaming and shouting does not find a solution,' he says.

Tarrant County commissioners voted along partisan lines Tuesday to reject a resolution honoring the county’s largest health center focused on LGBTQ services. The resolution was drafted to commend Arlington’s HELP Center for LGBTQ+ Health for “outstanding service, compassionate care and enduring contributions to the health, dignity and wellness of the people of Tarrant County.” In 2025, the center administered more than $70 million worth of medication, clinical services and supportive care to 7,000 patients for free. The court’s three Republicans — County Judge Tim O’Hare and commissioners Matt Krause and Manny Ramirez — voted against the resolution. Democratic commissioners Alisa...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: * There are more than 1,000 moai statues on Easter Island, representing a key part of the region’s cultural and archeological past. * A new moai, smaller than most, was found in a dried-up lakebed. * The find raises the potential for additional moai finds in the future. ============================================================================== Just when experts thought they knew every moai on Rapa Nui, otherwise known as Easter Island, a dried-up lakebed kept them on their toes. These statues—largely made of a stone formed from volcanic ash and dust called tuff—pepper the island, with more...

A son who was told his ‘missing’ dad had died more than 40 years ago has exhumed the body – and found they buried the WRONG person. Mark Wells, 52, has spent decades wondering what really happened to his dad, Dale Wayne Wells, who disappeared aged 38 in February 1985. After becoming frustrated at a lack of answers from the authorities, he paid to get his dad’s remains exhumed in the hope that new DNA could help solve the mystery. But Mark was stunned when the results came back — and revealed the man he buried and mourned as a...

Oklahoma resident Les Vandever said he is still stunned after seeing a man charging into a herd of bison in Yellowstone. "It was a moment of unbelievable stupidity," he said. “We were sitting in our car, just dumbfounded." Man charging into herd of Yellowstone bison (Photo by: Les Vandever) It’s the summer season in Yellowstone National Park, which means it’s open season for brazen bunglers to try their luck with bison. Les Vandever of Sand Springs, Oklahoma, was in Yellowstone last month when he stopped near Floating Island Lake in northern Yellowstone to see if he could spot any bears....

Johnson travelled from Los Angeles to Brisbane last month to meet the family of his partner, Kate Tolo, 30, for the first time Johnson said his trip to Australia undid some of his anti-ageing work amounting to a 'biological insult' that took weeks for his body to recover from. 'I decided to live in her mum’s world. I ate everything she prepared, including meat, bread, and pasta, and embraced the discomfort of being an introvert in a week-long marathon social interaction with the entire extended family,' 'I experienced a huge spike in food noise when in Australia,' he said. 'The...

Australian wildlife officers have busted a single breeder holding more than 100,000 banned live cockroaches, the largest grab of exotic invertebrates the nation has ever recorded. Madagascar hissing cockroach DUBIA The operator, who ran a commercial outfit in Bathurst, New South Wales, had been raising more than 100,000 banned cockroaches, a stockpile officials valued at 200,000 Australian dollars ($142,000), according to The Associated Press. A government spokesperson confirmed to the outlet that prosecutors did not file any charges against the breeder. The insects will be destroyed. What landed the breeder in regulators’ sights were two foreign species, the Madagascar hissing...

The elderly victim was left with minor head injuries after he was punched, kicked, and struck with a broomstick and a metal chair. Tashara Abel, 27, was stuffing reelection flyers into mailboxes for Anthony Beckford, a DSA member and New York State Committee Member running for re-election as a Democratic district leader in the June 23 primary, when the elderly man walked in, and the two began arguing over the campaign materials, police and neighbors said, according to a report from the New York Post. Abel “repeatedly punched and kicked the older man” before striking him with the broomstick and...

One hundred days after former Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei was killed in an attack on his office in Tehran, the Islamic Republic has yet to bury the man who led the country for more than three decades. The delay has become one of the most unusual and politically sensitive aspects of Iran's post-war transition. While senior military commanders and officials killed in the same conflict have already been buried, repeated promises of a massive funeral for Khamenei have so far gone unfulfilled. Tehran municipal officials spoke of plans for a multi-day funeral procession later this month. Ceremonies, they said, are...

A blue-glowing spider was only the first clue. Deep in Angola, scientists uncovered a hidden world of species still waiting for names after long trek. A crowned crab spider that glows bright blue under ultraviolet light. An armored cricket that can squirt defensive fluid. A ladybird orb-web spider that mimics a toxic beetle. These are among the dozens of species potentially unknown to science discovered during a February 2026 expedition to Angola’s remote Lisima plateau. The survey, called the Cassai Life Atlas, was conducted by The Wilderness Project, an organization founded by South African explorer Steve Boyes. The team of...

Veteran Democratic strategist James Carville compared supporting Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner to the United States allying with Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin during World War II. Carville praised Platner for his military service, contrasting it with other politicians, saying, “He’s f—ed up, he’s been shot at, he’s a veteran, he’s a little bit weird, he’s an oysterman.” “Then his opponent, I can hardly say her name without the utter contempt dripping, Susan Collins, whose spine reminds me of a blueberry jelly from Maine,” he said. “Maybe we need a combat veteran right on that Senate floor who is f—ed up.”...

America Spent $12.5 Billion Fighting the Emerald Ash Borer. The Woodpeckers Did It For Free In 2002, a beetle from eastern China arrived in a Detroit shipping crate and went on to kill more than 100 million American ash trees. The federal response cost $12.5 billion. It did not stop the beetle. What did stop it was already in the woods. Four native bird species — and one parasitic wasp the size of a sewing needle — quietly built a predation pyramid that no quarantine, no insecticide injection, and no government program had ever designed. This documentary follows the decade...

Tough times for ‘Randy Andy’. We have been reporting on how Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor is under investigation for Misconduct in Public Office and now also for sex offenses; on how he was arrested and exiled to a property away from the Royal Family; and how he was reportedly targeted by an armed man. And now, a mystery is hounding the British press, as the disgraced former prince has been photographed with a large bruise across his face. 🚨 PICTURED: Former Prince Andrew with a large bruise on his face earlier today pic.twitter.com/ycidUrKcL1 — Politics UK (@PolitlcsUK) June 4, 2026 Disgraced ex-Prince...

A Boeing 787 plane bound for Los Angeles nosedived onto the runway while parked at Frankfurt airport after the landing gear unexpectedly collapsed. Footage shared on social media shows the moment the nose gear of the plane, which is operated by Lufthansa, gave way. 'Passengers had not yet boarded,' a Lufthansa spokesperson said in an emailed statement, but crew members and ground staff were on board the aircraft at the time of the incident. 'Several staff members were injured and are currently receiving medical treatment,' the company added. Their condition is not yet known. Images showed multiple emergency vehicles parked...

Once again silliness returns! Today's episode: The Zot!The dreaded Viking kitty!

I didn't have anything better to do this Monday so after 43 years I totaled our plane. Time to get out.

But the deepest of the Finger Lakes hides secrets down below. Many have heard what can only be described as cannon shots coming out of nowhere. Known as “Seneca guns” or “Seneca drums,” the phenomenon was thought by the local Seneca Tribe to be the bellowing shouts of Manitou, the Great Spirit, when he was angry. Later, European settlers thought they were hearing ghosts of Seneca warriors still fighting for their land as the ground turned red with blood. It also inspired James Fenimore Cooper to write his short story The Lake Gun, in which he observes: “A sound resembling...

5:00-- need a thorough de magafication like the de nazification in Germany