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Santa Monica’s historic 1897 Shotgun House found new life as a Preservation Resource Center (Image Credit: Stephen Schafer via Santa Monica Conservancy) ​​ A small wooden house in Santa Monica has survived something few historic buildings ever face: demolition threats, years in storage and several moves from one location to another. Built in 1897, the…

Music icon Art Garfunkel/Image: Getty Images Art Garfunkel, the eight-time Grammy-winning singer, says he is considering leaving the United States because of his opposition to President Donald Trump’s administration.“I don’t like America’s position at all,” Garfunkel said in an interview with The Guardian. “I’m not aboard, and I’m thinking of leaving the country, frankly.”The 84-year-old…

File phot: A chimpanzee formerly used in research receives a comprehensive health check at a retirement sanctuary for chimpanzees, in Bapakwali, Liberia. Chimpanzees once used in hepatitis B vaccine experiments have undergone comprehensive health checks at a sanctuary in Liberia as part of long-term care aimed at giving the animals a chance to live out…

Bernhard Fritsch, a fugitive ex-CEO, is wanted by the FBI after $35 million fraud conviction. He was once a tech entrepreneur with Hollywood connections, a Malibu mansion and a startup that promised to help celebrities and influencers make money from their online fame. Now, German-born entrepreneur Bernhard Eugen Fritsch is a fugitive wanted by the…

Fire at Kinshasa wedding party kills 22 (representative image) At least 22 people were killed in a fire at a wedding party in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, the mayor of the city’s Lingwala district said on Saturday.The fire broke out overnight Friday and continued into the early hours of Saturday…

Muzammil Ahmad, a key figure in a gold scam targeting seniors in Texas, was arrested as he was boarding a flight to Saudi Arabia. A 35-year-old man accused of playing a central role in an international fraud network that allegedly stole more than $250 million from elderly victims has been arrested at New York’s John…

​Department of Homeland Security issues interim rule on birthright citizenship for foreign government employees/Image: Representative Image Children born in the US to certain foreign government employees could be denied automatic citizenship under a new rule issued by the Department of Homeland Security, widening an exception that has traditionally covered children of foreign diplomats.The interim final…

Ukraine’s battlefield data fuels new AI market (AI-generated image) Ukraine’s war with Russia is generating a resource that could outlive the conflict itself. Reports suggest that vast amounts of battlefield data are increasingly being used to train artificial intelligence systems, creating a new and largely unregulated market around the technology.Every drone flight can generate thousands…

High in the Blue Ridge Mountains of western North Carolina, a quiet story of faith, education and land stewardship has unfolded over nearly two centuries. In 1842, a mission school opened on what was then rugged mountain farmland in the Valle Crucis valley, near present day Boone. For more than 130 years, religious and educational…

The Sangre de Cristo Land Grant was established in 1844 under the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. A land dispute in Colorado dates back to an 1844 Mexican land grant and continues to involve questions over who can access the property and for what purposes. The land, now known as Cielo Vista Ranch and traditionally called…