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BOWLING GREEN — Living in a former church has been a blessing for the Faulkner-Atkinson family.

Action star Steven Seagal is now 320lbs and said to be a "total pariah" in showbiz circles due to his controversial worship of Vladimir Putin.

Willie Nelson, 91, is feared to be "on the verge of death" after his old music outlaw pals passed away.

A renter recently complained that most of the mail he receives in the post is for the previous tenant and is at a loss for what to do about it.

It requires 1 billion times less energy than our current systems.

A new video from the International Space Station shows SpaceX's Crew Dragon alongside the Milky Way, as the bright sun rises on the spacecraft's face.

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Jamahal Hill doesn’t fight for free.

The Fossil Forest in Dorset is a stretch of southern English coastline peppered with living mounds of limestone that hide the remains of cypress trees from the late Jurassic period.

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PALM BEACH, FL—Clearing their throats as the vice president-elect knocked on the door of the Mar-a-Lago conference room and poked his head inside, members of the presidential transition team reportedly rolled their eyes Friday and allowed JD Vance to pull a low folding chair up to a corner of the table. “Hey everyone, JD is […]

NEW YORK—Emphasizing that enough was enough with the season of savings, the entire U.S. populace told reporters Friday that it was sick and tired of all the deals and bargains. “Just charge us full price, goddammit,” said Peter Nguyen, 43, echoing the sentiment of all 340 million Americans as he opened his wallet, removed a […]

LOS ANGELES—Drawing widespread condemnation from classics scholars around the world, the new Odyssey adaptation The Return was criticized this week for dropping the original work’s group dance scene ending. “Homer’s decision to close his epic poem with a blowout ensemble dance number is essential to the story of Odysseus’ journey, and any adaptation that omits […]

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This baby name visualizer aligns oversized versions of the letters in your name to a graph of the popularity of the name over time.

I was having a conversation recently about how every third girl in my class as a kid was named Jennifer, and every fourth boy was named Jason. — Read the rest

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How Taylor Swift's Eras tour became the century's defining live event

From nonfiction about Indigenous women and plants, chosen by Robin Wall Kimmerer, to a French novel that Kaia Gerber loved, there’s something for everyone.

A dozen districts hire specialists, eye better data with $4.7 million in state funding.

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Have the Royals signed Juan Soto yet?

A rare bright spot among sagging Chinese stocks, Hong Kong-listed Pop Mart is turning cute toys into gold—for now.

(Telecompaper) A number of European countries issued a joint statement, calling on the European Commission to make sure all of its new digital competition and...

Plus One, due out Feb. 14, includes banjos, fiddles, and a Miranda Lambert co-write, but it still sounds like the War and Treaty

Afternoon Insiders, it’s good to know you. Max Goldbart here penning the newsletter after a busy week. Sign up here. The Future Of TV Death of cable: Hoards of American execs descended on the English capital for Content London this week. The ensuing debates about the future of global TV were fascinating, with plenty optimism, […]

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Teenaged darts star Leighton Bennett has been banned for eight years for match-fixing and many of the sport's top players have offered their two cents on the saga

Armed security operatives have taken over the main Palace of the Kano Emir at Kofar Kudu in the early hours of Friday restricting people from going into and coming out of the palace. The heightened security presence comes as Emir Muhammadu Sanusi II was scheduled to accompany Alhaji Munir Sanusi, the newly-appointed Wamban Kano, to