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• The Next ‘It’ Apple Might Be 300 Years Old

  14-10-2026 13:48 via article.wn.com
  Esopus Spitzenburg, Cornish Gilliflower, Hubbardston Nonesuch: Antique varieties, with names recalling Dickensian villains, are packed with fresh flavor and texture. ......
  
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• Who is Najmeh Amini? Iranian accounting student facing death sentence over social media post

  14-10-2026 20:34 via article.wn.com
  An Iranian accounting student has been sentenced to death on blasphemy charges over a social media post.Najmeh Amini, 23, is being held at Vakilabad prison in Mashhad, north-eastern Iran. She has received a death sentence in one case and a prison term of 12 years, six months and one day in another, according to The Guardian.The case comes amid a wider crackdown following nationwide protests in January, during which thousands of people were reportedly killed. According to the HRAI news agency, Hr
  
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• West Virginia Fire Commission says it critically needs firefighters but not how many

  14-10-2026 20:34 via article.wn.com
  Staffing at fire departments is the top issue cited in the newly released Fire Prevention and Control plan by the West Virginia Fire Commission. The plan states that staffing issues plague both paid and volunteer fire departments, leading to dangerous situations at fire scenes. For every two firefighters inside a structure, two must be outside to render aid if needed — a procedure prescribed by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. “The manpower needs relative to fire an
  
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• Watercare apologises after billing error deducted $6.14m from 43,835 accounts

  14-10-2026 20:34 via article.wn.com
  Watercare, the water and waste services provider for Auckland, has issued an apology after a system error resulted in the premature deduction of $6.14 million from the accounts of 43,835 customers. The incident, which occurred on Monday, involved credit...
  
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• Trump campaigns in Arizona and Montana on 2nd day of Western swing to help boost GOP candidates

  14-10-2026 20:34 via article.wn.com
  LAS VEGAS (AP) — President Donald Trump’s midterm roadshow to rally the GOP is stopping Wednesday in swing-state Arizona and a Republican-leaning U.S. House district in Montana. The visits come as the Republican president works to bolster his party in Nov. 3 elections that will determine control of Congress, and they follow stops earlier this week in Ohio and Alaska. In Bullhead City, Arizona, Trump will be rallying support for Rep. Andy Biggs, who is seeking to defeat incumbent Demo
  
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• Pressing matters: Trump's new spokeswoman struggles on day one

  14-10-2026 20:34 via article.wn.com
  TOI Correspondent from Washington: For a White House that treats politics as a television spectacle and television as a political show, Donald Trump's press secretaries have often looked as though they were selected by a casting director rather than the administration’s personnel office. Katie Zacharia arrived at the White House press room lectern on Tuesday camera-ready, with the familiar blonde look that prompted comparisons with Ivanka Trump, which some trolls insist is a required quali
  
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• Pope Leo is eating and walking after cancer surgery, but Latin America trip in question

  14-10-2026 20:34 via article.wn.com
  Doctors say Pope Leo XIV is eating regularly and has begun walking and doing respiratory exercises, and his post-operative tests are normal following surgery to remove a cancerous mass from his lung. Pope Leo XIV spent a peaceful night in ......
  
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• Pilot reported ice building up on the wings before Wisconsin crash that killed 6

  14-10-2026 20:34 via article.wn.com
  DELLONA, Wis. (AP) — Six people, including one child, died Tuesday night in a plane crash in Wisconsin after the pilot reported that ice was building up on the wings as he flew through a thunderstorm, according to authorities. The six-seat, single-engine plane was...
  
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• Mike Tyson and wife Lakiha sued in £1.5 million High Court battle over Rabona sponsorship deal after alleged refusal to film giant talking pigeon video; boxer denies breach of contract

  14-10-2026 20:34 via article.wn.com
  Mike Tyson and his wife, Lakiha Tyson, are embroiled in a £1.5 million High Court legal battle in London over claims that the former heavyweight boxing champion unlawfully withdrew from a lucrative marketing campaign after objecting to a promotional video featuring a giant talking pigeon. According to a report by The Independent, Medier Ltd, the company behind online gambling brand Rabona, is suing Tyson and his promotional business, Tyrannic, alleging breach of a sponsorship agreement sig
  
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• Man who died at Six Flags survived cancer twice and a recent fiery car accident

  14-10-2026 20:34 via article.wn.com
  The 42-year-old Atlanta teacher who was ejected from a roller coaster at Six Flags Over Georgia and fell to his death was described by loved ones as a passionate educator who overcame several health challenges and a recent near-death experience. Three weeks before Hassan Jihad Ibn Kariem was thrown from his seat on the Goliath ride, he was in a fiery car crash and walked away unharmed, family members told NBC affiliate WXIA. According to the outlet, Kariem's 10-year-old daughter was also in the
  
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• Justice Department threatens California with possible legal action over what it says are noncitizens on its voter rolls

  14-10-2026 20:34 via article.wn.com
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• Justice Department threatens California with legal action over claim of noncitizens on voter rolls

  14-10-2026 20:34 via article.wn.com
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Justice Department has threatened California with possible legal action over what it says are noncitizens believed to have received mail ballots for next month’s midterm elections. A letter Tuesday to Secretary of State Shirley Weber from Trent McCotter, the acting deputy attorney general, says that the Justice Department has provided officials in Los...
  
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• Indian-origin man in Australia denied bail for 'stalking' woman he met on dating app; judge says risk to her safety 'too great'

  14-10-2026 20:34 via article.wn.com
  An Indian-origin man in Australia has been denied bail after prosecutors alleged he repeatedly harassed a woman he met on a dating app, continued contacting her after she rejected his advances and used government systems to obtain personal information about her family.Suyash Sinha, 31, appeared before the ACT Magistrates Court after being arrested during a police raid on his property. Special Magistrate Lucinda Wilson refused...
  
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• In India, engineers coated road aggregate with shredded plastic before adding bitumen; an NH-207 test track reported satisfactory performance

  14-10-2026 20:34 via article.wn.com
  Engineers in India tested a road-building method that uses shredded waste plastic to coat heated stone aggregate before bitumen is added, and one of the major field trials was carried out on National Highway 207 in Karnataka, where a 20-kilometre test section compared several modified bituminous binders, including a waste-plastic formulation. The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways later described the waste-plastic section as showing satisfactory performance.The process tested in India is kn
  
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• In cigarette-butt asphalt tests, researchers found a 1.5% filter-waste blend gave the mix its best resistance to permanent deformation

  14-10-2026 20:34 via article.wn.com
  Researchers have tested cigarette-butt waste as an ingredient in asphalt mixtures, with one study finding that a mix that contained 1.5% cigarette butts had the lowest flow value among the tested concentrations, which indicates the strongest resistance to deformation by that measure. The same study found that increasing the cigarette-butt content changed the mixture's behavior under load, although its separate high-temperature rutting test produced a different optimum.The work examined cigarette
  
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• In Cameroon’s black-cotton-soil road experiment, researchers mixed bamboo charcoal, quarry dust and lime into the ground; its bearing score rose from 2.7% with bamboo charcoal alone to 19% with the final mixture

  14-10-2026 20:34 via article.wn.com
  Building durable roads on weak soil is costly, particularly in regions where the ground swells when wet and shrinks as it dries. In Cameroon, researchers tested whether bamboo charcoal, quarry dust and lime could strengthen Black Cotton Soil, an expansive soil that can weaken road foundations.According to a study published in the International Journal of Civil Engineering, the researchers examined how combining the three materials affected the soil’s load-bearing capacity. The best-perform
  
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• In 2017, The Miz and Maryse bought a 7,770-square-foot Austin farmhouse; 15 months later, they put its heated infinity pool, spa and bocce court back on the market for $2.75 million

  14-10-2026 20:34 via article.wn.com
  When professional wrestling stars Mike ‘The Miz’ Mizanin and his wife, Maryse Mizanin, bought a sprawling farmhouse in Austin, Texas, in December 2017, the property offered plenty of room for family life, entertaining and relaxation. With its Mediterranean-inspired architecture, spacious interiors and resort-style outdoor amenities, the house stood out well beyond the wrestling ring.According to the Los Angeles Times, WWE stars The Miz and Maryse bought a new home in California in 20
  
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• In 2002, Japan widened a 70-metre road using crushed oyster shells in its base; testing found the shell section exceeded the ground improvement target

  14-10-2026 20:34 via article.wn.com
  Discarded oyster shells are often associated with seafood waste, stockpiles and the challenge of finding storage space. In parts of Japan, oyster-farming shells became the focus of a practical engineering experiment. Rather than sending the material for disposal or using it only in agriculture, researchers investigated whether crushed shells could help strengthen the ground beneath roads.According to a study published in the Journal of the Society of Materials Science, Japan, crushed oyster shel
  
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• Farmers rely on tall fescue across 35 million US acres for hardy pasture; a fungus inside much of the grass now costs the beef industry about $1 billion a year

  14-10-2026 20:34 via article.wn.com
  Tall fescue grows across more than 35 million acres of US pasture and hayland and is valued for its ability to survive drought, tolerate grazing and grow on difficult soils, but microscopic fungus living inside many tall fescue plants produces toxins that are associated with an estimated $1 billion in annual lost production for the US beef industry, according to the US Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service (USDA ARS). The agency describes the condition as fescue toxicos
  
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• Colombia opens an embassy in Jerusalem after restoring diplomatic ties with Israel

  14-10-2026 20:34 via article.wn.com
  Colombia opened an embassy in Jerusalem on Wednesday, marking a major shift in relations with Israel after conservative President Abelardo de la Espriella restored diplomatic ties severed by his predecessor over the war in Gaza. Colombia’s Foreign Ministry hailed the opening as a “diplomatic milestone,” while Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar called it “a day of...
  
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• Bullfrogs were brought west for food, hunting and pest control; along Montana's Yellowstone River, their invasion grew from 37 to 66 miles in just 3 years

  14-10-2026 20:34 via article.wn.com
  American bullfrogs spread along roughly 66 miles of Montana’s Yellowstone River floodplain by 2013, up from about 37 miles in 2010, according to a US Geological Survey report published in October 2014. Researchers also recorded an increase in breeding sites, from 12 to 45 over the same period, and the findings documented a rapidly expanding population of a frog native to eastern North America but introduced to the Yellowstone River region, near Billings, through human activity.People helpe
  
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• A Rhode Island family planned more than 200 affordable apartments on 31 acres; the town seized the site for a municipal complex after a $775,000 appraisal, but a federal judge later voided the taking

  14-10-2026 20:34 via article.wn.com
  A federal judge has blocked the Town of Johnston, Rhode Island, from taking control of a 31-acre property planned for affordable housing. The judge ruled that town officials did not have the legal authority to seize the land. US District Judge Melissa R. DuBose overturned the town's decision to take the property near George Waterman Road. The ruling clears the way for the Santoro family and their development company, SCLS Realty LLC, to continue plans for a 252-unit housing complex. The decision
  
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• A California high school football booster club treasurer is accused of diverting $411,761 from money raised for the team, including a $131,523 transfer prosecutors say went toward her overdue home mortgage

  14-10-2026 20:34 via article.wn.com
  A former treasurer of an Orange County high school football booster club has been arrested on a federal indictment accusing her of defrauding the nonprofit of approximately $411,761. Julie Hanway Molina, 56, is charged with four counts of wire fraud. According to the US Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California, prosecutors allege she wired approximately $131,523 in June 2023 to pay the delinquent balance on her home mortgage, and sent board members...
  
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• World's oldest shipwreck - thought to be 4,700 years old - found off coast of Turkey

  14-10-2026 20:12 via article.wn.com
  The shipwreck dates back to the Early Bronze Age and is believed to have been built around the same time as the Great Pyramid of Giza ......
  
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• Where unwanted furniture goes: Why mattresses don't get a second life

  14-10-2026 20:12 via article.wn.com
  Lugg reports that 85% of mattresses are disposed of rather than reused, due to strict donation rules and poor resale options, leading to recycling challenges. ......
  
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• What's allowed when modifying a leased truck

  14-10-2026 20:12 via article.wn.com
  RealTruck.com reports that lease modifications are allowed within limits: reversible, non-structural upgrades are fine; avoid altering the frame or engine. ......
  
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• Video Game Regulation

  14-10-2026 20:12 via article.wn.com
  Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who is running for reelection, arrives for a ceremony to sign a decree regulating the video game industry in Brasilia, Brazil, Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2026. ......
  
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• US stocks sink as inflation gets worse

  14-10-2026 20:12 via article.wn.com
  Worries about worsening inflation are pulling the U.S. stock market further from its record. The S&P 500 dropped 1.1% Wednesday and was on track for a fifth loss in the six days since setting its all-time high. The Dow Jones ......
  
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• US stocks fall further from their record as inflation gets worse

  14-10-2026 20:12 via article.wn.com
  Worries about worsening inflation are pulling the U.S. stock market further from its record. The S&P 500 slipped 0.6% Wednesday and was on track for a fifth loss in the six days since setting its all-time high. The Dow Jones ......
  
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• UN peacekeeping chief says major questions hang over southern Lebanon as UNIFIL exit nears

  14-10-2026 20:12 via article.wn.com
  The United Nations peacekeeping chief...
  
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