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An LSU undergraduate missed out on a life-changing $1 million (£760,000) prize on national television after missing two field goal attempts during ESPN’s College GameDay broadcast in Baton Rouge. The high-stakes challenge saw sports analyst and former NFL punter Pat McAfee offer $500,000 from his own money. Show sponsor Home Depot then matched the amount,…

Bradley Carlisle, a 37-year-old community theatre actor from suburban Atlanta, has become the first professional Santa Claus in the US with Down syndrome. He was also inducted as an honorary member of the International Santa Claus Hall of Fame after completing one of the largest Christmas performer schools in the US in late August. From…

Miami airport: Boeing 767 overruns runway, huge black smoke plume seen An Amazon-linked Boeing 767 cargo aircraft overran the runway after landing at Miami International Airport on Sunday, according to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).Video footage showed the aircraft positioned alongside a road after it went off the runway.A huge plume of black smoke can…

3100 Sonoma Mountain Rd, Sonoma A huge 1,100-acre estate high on the slopes of Sonoma Mountain has sold for $38.5 million (£29.2 million), setting a record for the highest residential property sale ever recorded in California’s Sonoma County. The large agricultural property, known as The Summit and located at 3100 Sonoma Mountain Road, was bought…

Spending half a million dollars on a house makes sense. So does dropping that on a condo or an investment property. But what if it’s used for a ‘beach key’? On Martha’s Vineyard, an island off the south coast of Massachusetts, people are laying down $650,000, but not for the love of the vineyard. Not…

Highway engineers in Texas have shown that discarded household roofing shingles can be recycled into durable road surfaces that perform as well as standard asphalt after years of heavy traffic. In 1997, the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) built two 1,000-foot test sections along State Highway 31 in the Dallas District using hot mix asphalt…

‘Britain’s Yellowstone’: restoration project aims to take the greed out of land acquisition A nature restoration company has bought 7,500 acres of Northumbrian moorland for £8.5 million, starting a large rewilding project that aims to eventually hand the land to a charity or local community once investors have been repaid. The purchase of Emblehope Moor…

From De Niro jibe to ‘New America’: Trump unleashes bizarre AI slop on Truth Social MAGA supremo Donald Trump on Sunday unleashed a fiery series of AI-driven posts flaunting the supremacy of Uncle Sam, ranging from his dreamy imagination of meeting first-ever US President George Washington to a blatant jibe at cinema legend Robert De…

At least 25 people, many of them schoolchildren and teenagers, were killed when a passenger bus plunged into a ravine on the mountainous Fogo island in Cape Verde, local media and officials said Sunday.The crash took place late Saturday (local time) on the Campanas de Cima mountain road in northern Fogo. The bus veered off…

US envoys visit Kyiv for first time after Putin meeting; peace package being constructed, Kushner says US peace envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff met Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv on Sunday, stepping up the Trump administration’s renewed push to end Russia’s four-and-a-half-year war after holding three hours of talks with Russian president Vladimir…