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A local, independently owned yarn store partnered with the Little Free Library Project to create free fibre libraries around the city, providing yarn, needles and other fibre arts supplies to the community.

When county clerk Brianna Lennon got an email in November saying a newly expanded federal system had flagged 74 people on the county’s voter roll as potential noncitizens, she was taken aback. ...

A local, independently owned yarn store partnered with the Little Free Library Project to create free fibre libraries around the city, providing yarn, needles and other fibre arts supplies to the community.

What happened in Tumbler Ridge is a tragedy. Lives were lost. Families were shattered. A small community is now carrying a soul-crushing grief that will live long after the headlines fade. That is where our attention should begin, and where it should remain. ...

Under pressure from Republican state attorneys general, the agency that advises the U.S. Supreme Court and federal judges on scientific and technical matters has withdrawn the entirety of its content on climate change from a new judicial reference manual. ...

Back in 2000, gastroenterologist Dr. Michael Levitt, sometimes dubbed the “King of Farts,” summed up the problem. “It is virtually impossible for the physician to objectively document the existence of excessive gas using currently available tests.” Smart Underwear exists because “currently available tests” weren’t ...

Several voters in Bangladesh have described to DW their hopes of what the election could bring. ...

Amethyst, citrine, and jade I think? I'm not sure about the reddish ones, but I know there are garnets out here. ...

A recent analysis by Red Wine & Blue, a left-leaning network of over 700,000 suburban women working to influence politics at the grassroots level, found that 62 percent of candidates it labeled as “extremist” lost their elections. Meanwhile, 71 percent of the candidates it characterized as “common sense” won competitive ...

A new children’s book tells the story of Cree Elder Shirley (Fletcher) Horn’s experience over a decade of attending residential “school” — recounting the experience from a kid’s perspective. ...

This February, the military coup in Burma entered its fifth year. In Yangon, life appears to have returned to a fragile normality. Worn down by a revolution that seemed endlessly prolonged with no clear horizon of victory, many who once left their jobs to join the Civil Disobedience Movement have gradually returned to the system ...

With the filing of new impeachment complaints on Feb. 2, after the one-year constitutional bar expired, that position has been restated without variation. What has not changed, however, is the absence of clear answers to the allegations themselves.

I'm looking to build up the posts here and the sidebar list to include more diverse, english publications from outside North America. I look for a good reputation and fact-checking record, but don't care too much about readership volume. ...

In 2021, a unit of healthcare giant Johnson & Johnson announced “a leap forward”: It had added artificial intelligence to a medical device used to treat chronic sinusitis, an inflammation of the sinuses. Acclarent said the software for its TruDi Navigation System would now use a machine-learning algorithm to assist ear, nose ...

According to People’s Daily, the butterfly arrived aboard a Kuaizhou 11Y8 cargo mission in December, sealed inside a 14.2-liter capsule designed to function as a tiny, self-contained ecosystem. The chamber was kept at about 86 degrees Fahrenheit and included plants and microorganisms that supported the insect through ...

Shrove Tuesday (also known as Pancake Tuesday or Pancake Day) is the final day of Shrovetide, which marks the end of the pre-Lenten season. Lent begins the following day with Ash Wednesday. Shrove Tuesday is observed in many Christian countries through participating in confession, the ritual burning of the previous year's Holy ...

The mass arrest was in response to protesters throwing rubber dildos over chainlink fences at passing vehicles suspected of being driven by ICE agents. The arrests follow a recent trend of various law enforcement agencies in the Minneapolis-St. Paul metro area mass arresting protesters following demonstrations against Operation ...

The Office of the Privacy Commissioner explained to the IJF that the figure of 2.2 million affected individuals was “a preliminary estimate,” although that number was recorded following reports from three federal institutions and six months after the breach initially occurred. The watchdog itself did not investigate the ...

Under questioning from reporters, Osborne seemed to contradict herself. She acknowledged that “the rate of possession offenses, the seizures of drugs, did go down especially in that initial first part of the decriminalization pilot.” ...

The Society for the Suppression of Vice, formerly the Proclamation Society Against Vice and Immorality, or simply Proclamation Society, was a 19th-century English society dedicated to promoting public morality. It was established in 1802, based on a proclamation by George III in 1787, and as a successor to the 18th-century ...

Named the Kartoffel-Flut (potato flood), after the highest yield in 25 years, the bumper crop has inspired one farmer to organise a potato dump on Berlin, with appeals going out around the German capital for people to come to various hotspots and pick them up for free.

Bottom: Iron mordant adjunct ...

Perhaps the most terrifying is a condition called subacute sclerosing panencephalitis, or SSPE, in which the virus lies dormant in the brain of someone who recovered from a measles infection and reawakens 7-10 years later to cause “a progressive dementia that is almost always fatal,” Kasson wrote. ...

Early French artists, including François Clouet (1510–1572) and Nicholas L'agneau (1590–1666), used crayons in their early art projects. Clouet used crayons for his modeled portraits, which were so elaborate that he caught the attention of Henry V, who knighted him. He became a court painter for the royalty, and his entire ...