A historic bottle of whiskey can soon be yours — if you have tens of thousands of dollars to spare. The whiskey, bottled in LaGrange, Georgia, is about to go up for auction. The Old Ingledew Whiskey is believed to be the oldest known whiskey in existence, according to Skinner, which is facilitating the auction.
Continue ReadingTesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is putting up $100 million for a new XPrize competition aimed at spurring the creation of new carbon removal technologies and helping to ease the climate crisis. The prize will be the largest cash incentive in history, according to XPrize, a long-running organization that hosts competitions focused on spurring
Continue ReadingThe White House is hammering out the details of an increasingly likely European summit between President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin, which could happen as soon as early summer, according to sources familiar with the planning. The planning comes as the Biden administration is preparing to send Secretary of State Antony Blinken to
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story RACINE, Wisconsin (The Journal Times) — Racine historian Jim Mercier is always on the lookout for memorabilia to add to his collection, which contains thousands of items originated from the community. Mercier never knows what he’ll find, he said, but when he came across an online auction in
Continue ReadingFor the last 100 days, President Joe Biden and his top advisers have mounted an urgent, wartime effort to get millions of coronavirus vaccines into the arms of Americans in order to beat back a pandemic that has upended the world for the better part of year. The effort, described to CNN during in-depth interviews
Continue ReadingOne man was killed and three people were wounded in a Sunday night shooting in the historic and entertainment district in Kansas City, Missouri, police reported. Officers responded to a report of gunshots around 10 p.m. and found four people shot near 19th and Vine streets, the police said in a news release. Officers provided
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Calling it the nation’s largest summer child nutrition effort, the Biden administration announced Monday that it will expand a key coronavirus aid program to help get food to more than 30 million kids after the school year ends. Eligible families will receive roughly $375 per child — or about $6.82 per child per weekday —
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The US Census Bureau announced Monday that the total population of the United States has topped 331 million people, marking the country’s second slowest population growth rate in US history. Amid that, Texas will gain two seats in the redistricting process, the results found. Additionally, Colorado, Florida, Montana, North Carolina and Oregon will each gain
Continue ReadingOhio Rep. Tim Ryan launched his Senate campaign on Monday, betting that the state that turned red in the Trump era can return to the Democratic party in 2022. Ryan, a Democrat who has represented the Youngstown area since 2003 and mounted a long-shot 2020 presidential bid, is closely aligned with organized labor and often
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Central Oregon public health departments voiced concern Monday and outlined steps being taken to combat a recent rise in drug overdoses around the region, including two fatal overdoses, and 20 to 32 non-fatal overdoses in less than three weeks.
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story FLINT, Michigan (WNEM) — Three people have been charged, including two who are still wanted, after a missing person investigation from last year in Flint. Flint police started searching for Craig Myott Jr. in June 2020, who was last seen in May of 2020 in the city of
Continue ReadingRock legend Ronnie Wood says he has been given the all-clear by doctors after battling cancer for a second time. Speaking to British newspaper the Sun, the 73-year-old Rolling Stones guitarist revealed he was diagnosed with small-cell carcinoma — a cancer that typically affects the lungs — during the coronavirus lockdown. “I’ve had cancer two
Continue ReadingPresident Joe Biden’s joint address to Congress may stand as the prime-time marker of his first 100 days in office, but it will also serve as the launch point for an all-out administration-wide blitz to highlight accomplishments — and the ambitious legislative push ahead. The Biden administration will launch what officials are calling the “Getting
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College Nordic athletes are invited to immerse yourself in one of the premier summer training grounds in the United States with the Bend Endurance Academy.
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — A boy wishing to see his parent one more time has inspired a song that will help other kids going through grief. Jace and Emmy Lu Muller’s mother Amie died of cancer four years ago. They’ve been going through grief counseling at school, through a
Continue ReadingAs Michigan grapples with a surge of Covid-19 cases and hospitalizations, state officials have expanded the mask mandate to include children as young as 2. The mandate, which went into effect Monday, requires children ages 2 to 4 to wear face masks while in public spaces, including day care and camps. Before Monday, the mandate
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story MIAMI, FL (WFOR) — A South Florida woman has made it her mission to make the world more accessible to people with disabilities after becoming paralyzed in an accident and now she is bringing that inspiration to Miami Beach. Sabrina Cohen is bringing that inspiration to create an
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story MIAMI, FL (WFOR) — The search continues for the person who fired the shot that killed three-year-old Elijah LaFrance. “They killed him. Oh God, he is still on my mind. I was just with him playing with him, “ said Adrian Annestor, LaFrance’s uncle. “That boy was so
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story NORMAN, Oklahoma (KTVT) — Remember VHS tapes? One Texas woman now certainly does after a particular tape came back to haunt her over 20 years later. Caron McBride, a former Oklahoma resident, faced felony embezzlement charges for not returning a “Sabrina the Teenage Witch” VHS tape to a
Continue Reading“Master of None,” the acclaimed Aziz Ansari-led Netflix comedy, is returning for Season 3 — but it’s unclear how much Aziz Ansari will appear at all. Netflix on Monday unveiled the first look at the new season, which it said will chronicle “the relationship of Denise (Emmy Award winner Lena Waithe) and her partner Alicia
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