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BOSTON — A Boston suburb that was the birthplace of two of the nation's earliest presidents is planning to build a center honoring their legacies. Officials in Quincy, Mass., have announced the formation of a new nonprofit foundation to raise money and oversee the design and construction of the Adams Presidential Center honoring former President [...]
PHOENIX (AP) — Long lines are back at food banks around the country as working Americans overwhelmed by inflation turn to handouts to help feed their families. With gas prices soaring along with grocery costs, many people are seeking charitable food for the first time, and more are arriving on foot. Inflation is at a [...]
YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (AP) — A famed grove of giant sequoias in Yosemite National Park survived its first wildfire in more than a century, thanks to efforts to regularly burn the undergrowth beneath the towering trees, a forest ecologist who toured the site said earlier this week. Small, intentionally lit fires over the past [...]
There’s always been a taste for antique furnishings. These days, a widely acquired taste. Antiques are hot partly because of supply chain delays and higher prices for many custom or mass-market pieces. There’s also the public’s turn toward sustainability: Environmentally-conscious buyers are averse to throwaway furniture, and are trying to reuse and recycle. Pop culture, [...]
ANADARKO, Okla. (AP) — Native American tribal elders who were once students at government-backed Indian boarding schools testified July 9 about the hardships they endured, including beatings, whippings, sexual assaults, forced haircuts and painful nicknames. They came from different states and different tribes, but they shared the common experience of having attended the schools that [...]
WASHINGTON — About 1,000 Air National Guard troops who are assigned to space missions are mired in an identity crisis. Torn between the Air Force, where they have historically been assigned, and the military’s shiny new Space Force where they now work, their units have become orphans, according to commanders, as state and federal leaders [...]
The new CEO and executive director of the Ohio History Connection has risen through the ranks of the organization since her hiring more than 15 years ago. Megan Wood, 41, of Worthington joined the organization formerly known as the Ohio Historical Society in 2006 to coordinate the state’s efforts for National History Day in Ohio, [...]
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The fight between Texas and New Mexico over the management of one of the longest rivers in North America could be nearing an end as a date to resume the trial has been put off pending negotiations aimed at settling the years-long case before the U.S. Supreme Court. New Mexico Attorney General [...]
The Greater Columbus Arts Council recently approved approximately $8.5 million in operating support and general support grants for local arts and cultural organizations. The council’s board of trustees awarded 15 general support grants, totaling more than $667,000, and 22 operating support grants, totaling more than $7.9 million. “Funding from the Arts Council will go toward [...]
Los Angeles and Mumbai, India, are the world’s only megacities of 10 million-plus where large felines — mountain lions in one, leopards in the other — thrive by breeding, hunting and maintaining territory within urban boundaries. Long-term studies in both cities have examined how the big cats prowl through their urban jungles, and how people [...]