FBI receives nearly 3,000 internet crime complaints a day on average A retired nurse, Susan Bivins, was tricked into sending more than $200,000 to a scammer who pretended to be a federal agent. Bivins said she reported the fraud to the FBI and local police, but did not receive the help she had hoped for….
A Winnipeg woman who rescued a child and her father from drowning in the Red River on August 24 near St. John’s Park is being called a hero, but she said she doesn’t feel like one.“I’m just a mom. I don’t feel like a hero,” Jayclyn Morrissette, 32, told CBC. Woman saves two lives Representative…
George Woolf on Seabiscuit (Image: Wikipedia) For years, Ridgewood Ranch in Mendocino County, California, was known primarily as the place where Seabiscuit, one of America’s most famous racehorses, spent his retirement. After a remarkable racing career, the champion arrived at the ranch in 1940, where he lived until his death in 1947. But the property’s…
Jackie Chan, one of China’s best-known film stars, became the face of a high-profile campaign in 2017 aimed at reducing demand for pangolin products and helping protect one of the world’s most trafficked mammals. The campaign, called “Kung Fu Pangolin”, used Chan’s martial-arts image to deliver a simple message to consumers in China and Vietnam,…
Long before Mike Tyson became one of boxing’s most feared heavyweight champions, pigeons were a source of love and comfort for him. Tyson has recalled being bullied as a child growing up in Brooklyn and finding refuge in the pigeons he kept, saying that spending time with them helped take his mind off the world…
In the depths of the Grand Canyon, scientists were trying to give native fish a better chance of survival, by taking other fish out of the Colorado River. A four-year fish-removal experiment conducted between 2003 and 2006 dramatically changed the composition of fish being caught in one section of the river. According to a 2011…
Colorado farmer Marc Arnusch had a straightforward choice: accept millions of dollars from solar companies seeking to lease 2,700 acres of his family’s farmland, or keep the property in agriculture for the next generation. He chose the farm. Now, after spending nearly $1 million documenting a conservation easement, he is facing an IRS audit over…
Image Credit: AI Generated In 1995, a batch of fertilised Japanese quail eggs travelled from Earth to space station ‘Mir’ as part of an experiment designed to answer a question that, ‘can embryos develop normally without the pull of gravity.’ 30 eggs were incubated aboard the station for 16 days before their developing embryos were…
When Simon’s wife of 43 years died, the loss left him struggling with a loneliness he had never known. Like many widows and widowers, he eventually turned online, hoping to find some companionship. Instead, he found Emily. The woman seemed real. The conversations continued and a relationship began to take shape. But Emily did not…
UK mortgage approvals for home purchases hit a new low, highlighting a weakened demand in the housing market amid rising borrowing costs. Mortgage approvals for house purchases in the UK fell to their lowest level since January 2024 in July, signalling weaker demand in the housing market as borrowing costs continue to weigh on prospective…
An $8 million conservation grant has helped place 1,688 acres of California ranchland into public ownership, protecting a stretch of one of the Eastern Sierra’s few major undammed rivers and preserving a critical wildlife corridor. According to Alpine County, Western Rivers Conservancy and the California Wildlife Conservation Board, Park Ranch near Markleeville was formally transferred…
‘I first started working when I was broke’: HasanAbi responds to Community Note over his financial past Hasan “HasanAbi” Piker has responded after an X Community Note challenged his claim that he was once financially broke. The political commentator said critics were ignoring an important part of his financial history. According to HasanAbi, he grew…
