Hostages Are Being Freed. Some Israelis Ask: At What Cost?
More than 30 hostages are set to be released during the cease-fire in Gaza. But many Israelis have mixed feelings about the ...
Beloved Sci-Fi Author Octavia Butler’s Gravesite Survived Los Angeles Fire
In Parable of the Sower, a fire-ravaged California endures a climate change future that is now reality. In the 1993 ...
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Bargaining with the Palisades Fire, I Buy a Pack of Edible Flowers
If I eat every petal of chive blossom and hibiscus, marigold and rose, if I swallow each dahlia and begonia whole, will you ...
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1 person found dead at scene of Reading house fire
READING, Pa. – A fire ripped through a rowhome in Reading Monday afternoon. The flames sent smoke spewing through the neighborhood and left one person dead. One neighbor saw smoke moments ...
Gazans and Israelis Dare to Hope as Cease-Fire Takes Hold
After the fighting paused, Hamas began to free some of its hostages, releasing 3, and Israel said it had released 90 ...
‘To anyone who lost their home in the #lafire I will paint it for free’
The Palisades Fire burned Charlotte Tragos’s home to the ground. The height chart from when she was a child was marked on the ...
The super posh UK village that's one of the ‘most desirable’ - houses cost whopping £1.4m
The UK's "most desirable" towns have been named, and in one of them, houses cost more than £1.4million on average. The list ...
How JK Rowling's doctor husband has become her rock in the face of an avalanche of death threats from militant trans activists - and even helped out on her latest book …
The social media post JK Rowling penned to mark the occasion of her 23rd wedding anniversary was short, understated and ...
The Harry Potter rich list: Eye-watering sums the child stars such as Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint and Robert Pattinson have made... including the VERY ...
It's been 14 years since Daniel Radcliffe played Harry Potter. Yet the actor, 35, is still cashing in from the role, having ...
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How Zora Neale Hurston's posthumous novel was rescued from a fire and published
Following Hurston's death, the unfinished manuscript sat in a trunk that was nearly consumed in a fire along with many of her ...
Roger Pratt dead: Oscar-nominated icon behind Harry Potter and Batman dies, aged 77
British cinematographer Roger Pratt, who was nominated for an Oscar for his work on The End of the Affair, and worked on two ...
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Social media, brain rot and the slow death of reading
low-value content” found online and the intellectual deterioration from its overconsumption. First recorded in Henry David Thoreau’s 1854 book Walden, this year’s uptick in usage is ...