Pruning in spring makes way for more growth and helps to encourage more flowers, foliage and colourful stems on a wide range of plants. Although, it can be difficult to remember the techniques required to do a good job, and it’s hard to know if you’re doing it right. It […]
Daily Archives: May 26, 2022
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UVALDE, Texas — Most “active shooter” attacks in America end within five minutes. The attack on Uvalde schoolchildren lasted an hour. That is how long police waited for backup Tuesday instead of moving on the gunman, who sprayed classrooms with bullets, leaving 19 children and two teachers dead. That revelation, which […]
(Bloomberg) — Texas Governor Greg Abbott dropped plans to address the National Rifle Association’s annual meeting in person, just days after the worst US school shooting in almost a decade, the Dallas Morning News reported. Most Read from Bloomberg Abbott, the pro-gun Republican leader of the second-largest US state, was […]
Uefa has been criticised by disabled supporters’ groups over the number of wheelchair-accessible spaces at Saturday’s Champions League final. Seventy-six positions accommodating wheelchairs will be available to fans of Liverpool and Real Madrid at Stade de France, despite the stadium reporting 550 wheelchair-accessible spaces. Uefa says much of the wheelchair […]
WASHINGTON — SpaceX will replace the heat shield on the next Crew Dragon spacecraft flying to the International Space Station after it failed inspections, but NASA says there is no risk of a similar problem for the spacecraft currently at the station. In a May 24 statement to reporters, NASA […]
The Baldwin family is mourning the loss of Carol M. Baldwin. In an Instagram post shared on May 26, Alec Baldwin announced that his mother, who is also the grandmother of Hailey Bieber and Ireland Baldwin, has passed away at 92. “It is with the deepest regret that my family posts […]
If you came to Fallout via Bethesda’s games, with their fully voiced NPCs, real-time combat, and switching between first-person and third-person cameras, you might think Fallout 1 and 2 look intimidatingly old school. And while they are 1990s RPGs with lots of text, turn-based combat, and a top-down camera that […]
LONDON — Indian writer Geetanjali Shree and American translator Daisy Rockwell won the International Booker Prize on Thursday for “Tomb of Sand,” a vibrant novel with a boundary-crossing 80-year-old heroine. Originally written in Hindi, it’s the first book in any Indian language to win the high-profile award, which recognizes fiction […]
People gather at a tent camp at the Matveyev Kurgan border checkpoint after evacuating from Donetsk on February 19. (AP) Hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians have been processed through a series of Russian “filtration camps” in eastern Ukraine and sent into Russia as part of a systemized program of forced […]
“I really don’t look at all of the memes,” he told CNN. “I try to stay away from things that might bother me.” Instead, Brown is focusing on healing. The former “bad boy of R&B” is sober, in therapy and excited to share his life story. The A&E documentary “Biography: […]
Let’s talk about internet policy! In Canada! Wheee! I’m serious that there are useful lessons from a saga over home internet service in Canada. What has been a promising, albeit imperfect, system that increased choices and improved internet service for Canadians is poised to fall apart. Barring a last-minute government […]
Since then, the brand has expanded to include 12 different shades, though that is still slim pickings compared with the dozens of shades that other brands, many of them newcomers, offer. And, most important, Glossier’s longstanding resistance to working with third-party retailers made it harder and harder for the brand […]
Courtesy of Diana Cooper Out on the town! Katie Holmes and boyfriend Bobby Wooten III have made their red carpet debut as a couple — and they looked stunning doing it. The Dawson’s Creek alum, 43, and musician, 33, hit the carpet at The Moth’s 25th Anniversary gala, The Silver […]
Collingwood defender and former Western Bulldogs premiership winner Jordan Roughead shocked his teammates on Friday morning, announcing he was retiring immediately at the age of 31. The veteran played 201 games, 138 for the Bulldogs and 63 for Collingwood, and battled injuries throughout a career where he was lauded for […]
Jill and Derick Dillard have spoken out after her brother Josh Duggar was sentenced to 12 years and seven months in federal prison in connection with his conviction for receiving child pornography. Derick, 33, and Jill, 31, issued a statement on their blog Thursday in which they cited the Bible […]
Americans traveling abroad are being told to take ‘enhanced precautions’ to protect themselves from the monkeypox virus — as testing confirms two cases in Utah, bringing the tally of verified infections to three. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued the Level 2 warning Wednesday, which is one […]
Struggling payments start-up Bolt fires a THIRD of its 900 staff at San Francisco HQ just five months after it was lauded for moving to permanent four day week The company, which had a staff of about 900 in its San Francisco headquarters, made the announcement in a letter to […]
One of the Northern Territory’s biggest and wealthiest pastoral landholders will join traditional owners to “resist” the entry of fracking companies on to its expansive holdings in the Beetaloo Basin. The former Morrison government made gas exploration in the Beetaloo a central pillar of its so-called gas-led recovery from the […]
“The Silence of the Lambs” star Jodie Foster is joining HBO’s “True Detective” franchise. Foster, 59, will executive produce and star in the series’ fourth installment, “True Detective: Night Country,” Deadline reported. This marks Foster’s first major TV role as an adult. “When the long winter night falls in Ennis, Alaska, the […]
The father of the Texas gunman who massacred 19 children and two teachers at Robb Elementary School on Tuesday apologized for his 18-year-old son and said the teen should have killed him instead. The gunman’s 42-year-old father, Salvador Ramos, opened up about his son, also Salvador, in a Thursday interview […]