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Edgar McGregor, a climate activist and meteorologist, received a certificate of congressional recognition for saving thousands of lives through his Facebook page during the Eaton Fire. This article was originally published by a www.audacy.com . Read the Original article here. .

U.S President Donald Trump on Monday said there is a lot of interest in TikTok, as his administration seeks to broker a sale of the popular app. This article was originally published by a www.reuters.com . Read the Original article here. .

This afternoon, the Twitter account for the hollowed-out remains of a once-popular video game website began counting down to an announcement. “The best gaming token is coming… stay tuned for updates!” read a post from Kotaku’s Twitter. Some presumed that the site’s owner, G/O Media, had launched a new misbegotten scheme to staunch bleeding from the publisher’s countless self-inflicted wounds. But no, turns out the account had been hacked – as a result of one of the many aforementioned self-inflicted wounds.G/O Media revoked writers’ access to sites’ social media accounts years ago, following then-Kotaku sister site Gizmodo’s promotion of an article…

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine’s proposed $218 billion state budget would fully fund public education, and raise taxes on tobacco and marijuana, as well as on sports betting companies to help fund things like the Cleveland Browns stadium project. The budget is in the early stages, and due by July 1. It will now be up to lawmakers to shape and pass a two-year budget to send DeWine. The budget is projected at $108 billion for fiscal year 2026 and $110 billion for fiscal year 2027. Unsurprisingly, the vast majority of the governor’s press conference was based around children. DeWine did…

The tight-knit New Jersey ice skating community mourned together for the D.C. plan crash victims at a memorial vigil held at the Hackensack Ice House. This article was originally published by a www.northjersey.com . Read the Original article here. .

A teenage girl has died after she was bit by a shark in northeastern Australia on Monday, according to local authorities.Paramedics responded to reports of a “serious shark bite incident” at Woorim Beach, a popular tourist destination in Queensland, around 4:45 p.m. local time, the Queensland Ambulance Service wrote on X.The 17-year-old girl had been swimming on the southeast end of Bribie Island, where the beach sits, when she was bit by the shark.In a statement, Queensland Ambulance confirmed the girl suffered from serious injuries to her upper body. She died about 15 minutes later, Queensland Police said in a…

NFL commissioner Roger Goodell said the New Orleans Saints “are great corporate citizens” despite revelations in unearthed emails detailing how the football team’s owner and other top executives coordinated with the city’s Roman Catholic archdiocese in a campaign to soften media coverage of a decades-old clergy-abuse scandal engulfing the church.Saints owner Gayle Benson and other key lieutenants “are very involved in this community, and they are great corporate citizens”, Goodell said after media outlets provided the most complete accounts yet detailing the team’s decision to help the New Orleans church’s messaging about a scandal that has prompted state police and…

What would you say is the largest retailer in Manhattan?New Yorkers’ first guess might be the hometown Duane Reade or its simulacrum CVS, chains so ubiquitous they’ve been blamed for nothing less than ruining the city as we know it.Whole Foods, with massive stores housing aisle upon aisle of pricey groceries, takes up a good amount of space. And the big department stores like Saks and Macy’s muscle their way in with the sheer size of their behemoth stores.But it’s actually the luxury gym Equinox — with its space-gobbling locations and growing pipeline — that occupies the most retail space…

The global battle against unauthorized vapes is already a messy one, pitting regulators, Big Tobacco and the startups that ship billions of devices across the world against one another. Donald Trump’s return to the White House promises to make things even more complicated. Worth an estimated $22 billion worldwide, the vaping industry is lucrative and at times legally hazy. In recent years, the US Food and Drug Administration has not authorized fruit-, candy- or mint-flavored vapes — also known as e-cigarettes — saying that they encourage teenagers to take up the habit. This article was originally published by a www.bloomberg.com…

Watch: Brownsville TV News Update Brownsville Mayor John Cowen, Jr. has been recently appointed Vice Chair of Border Policy for the U.S. Conference of Mayors. From that post, he will share… This article was originally published by a www.facebook.com . Read the Original article here. .