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The horticultural world is mourning the death of David J. C. Austin, chairman of the internationally renowned rose breeding company David Austin Roses, who died at the age of 67 after being diagnosed with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD). Austin’s family announced his passing, prompting tributes from colleagues, gardening enthusiasts and organizations that recognized his role in continuing the legacy of one of Britain’s most influential rose breeders.His death has also drawn attention to Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, an exceptionally rare but fatal neurological disorder that rapidly damages the brain. Although the condition affects only a small number of people worldwide each year, it…

A tornado watch is in effect from Delaware to Philadelphia to New York City to upstate New York as the Northeast braces for several rounds of severe thunderstorms Tuesday afternoon and evening.In New Jersey, multiple tornado warnings were issued on Tuesday afternoon. At least two tornadoes have been reported so far, one in northeast Pennsylvania, and the second in northwestern New Jersey.Besides tornadoes, the storms are forecast to bring damaging wind gusts up to 70 mph, large hail and rainfall rates above 1 inch per hour.Flash flooding poses a major threat to a large swath of the Interstate 95 corridor, from Philadelphia to…

The DC Universe continues to grow, and one familiar hero is officially joining the next chapter. According to Variety, Xolo Maridueña is set to reprise his role as Jaime Reyes/Blue Beetle in James Gunn’s upcoming Superman: Man of Tomorrow, marking the character’s first appearance alongside David Corenswet’s Superman in the rebooted DC Universe. Maridueña first debuted as Blue Beetle in the 2023 standalone film, and despite the DC Universe reboot, James Gunn previously confirmed that the character would remain part of the new continuity. His return in Man of Tomorrow officially delivers on that promise and gives fans another familiar…

OpinionCory AlpertFormer White House stafferJuly 22, 2026 — 5:00amJuly 22, 2026 — 5:00amSaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAATypically, when an American president gives a major speech from the White House, like Donald Trump did last Thursday, much of the world stops to pay attention.Trump has changed the presidency in many ways. One has been the devaluing of these direct-to-the-nation addresses, to the point that three major American TV channels refused to carry his 27-minute speech live for fear of broadcasting high-powered misinformation.In his first major address ahead of the…

Over the past year, I’ve reported about crimes against farmworkers who have come to the U.S. legally from Mexico and Central America. Over the past year, I’ve reported about crimes against farmworkers who have come to the U.S. legally from Mexico and Central America. I haven’t stopped thinking about how they suffered. Their wages were stolen, guns were pointed in their faces, and one woman I met was held captive, raped and nearly killed. I haven’t stopped thinking about how they suffered. Their wages were stolen, guns were pointed in their faces, and one woman I met was held captive,…

NEW YORK — The WNBA has grown at an exponential rate during Cathy Engelbert’s tenure as commissioner, a stewardship that at times has been tumultuous during her nearly seven years at the helm.Engelbert, the second-longest tenured WNBA president or commissioner, helped negotiate a transformative collective bargaining agreement this past spring that gives the WNBA its first core of million-dollar player salaries.“There’s not a lot of jobs where you can make over 30-plus millionaires instantly, right?” Engelbert said in a phone interview with The Associated Press heading into this weekend’s WNBA All-Star festivities in Chicago. “It just doesn’t exist in most companies, except…

WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court has rejected a request by Joe Biden to block the release of audio recordings and transcripts of his interviews with a memoir ghostwriter before he was elected president.Subscribe to read this story ad-freeGet unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content.A divided three-judge panel from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit suspended its decision until Aug. 3 to allow more time for Biden to consider another appeal.The panel’s 2-1 ruling late Monday found there is a “substantial” public interest in disclosing the material that Biden wants to keep under…

The US-Israel war on Iran is escalating again and oil prices are on the rise, but experts say the real clues to the state of the economy lie beyond indices and those price points.“The markets have been somewhat quiescent in the last month or two, but have changed since the war in Iran began,” said Michael Klein, professor of international economic affairs at Tufts’ Fletcher School.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of listYields on the 10-year United States Treasury bills, for instance, are up nearly 60 basis points since the start of the war on Iran in late February to…

Unprecedented sums are being spent on Democratic primaries, reshaping races while keeping their policy agendas largely out of public view. Ad Policy People gather outside of the Supreme Court Building to protest Citizens United in 2019.(Caroline Brehman / Getty) In Democratic primaries across the country, three special interests have been shelling out tens of millions to defeat progressives and help elect centrists who they think will back their policy agendas in Congress. The trifecta of spending groups represent the crypto and AI industries plus the pro-Israel lobbying group AIPAC, and in race after race they have been aligned to help…

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