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Decades-old palm trees in Rio de Janeiro flower for the first â and only â time
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Towering talipot palms in a Rio de Janeiro park are flowering for the first and only time in their lives, decades after famed Brazilian landscape architect Roberto Burle Marx introduced them in the 1960s.Towards the end of its life — which can span between 40 and 80 years — the palm tree sends up a central plume crowded with millions of small, creamy-white blossoms that rise high above its fan-shaped leaves.
The rare phenomenon that ties past to present has sparked the curiosity of passersby in Flamengo Park who stop, crane their necks to... Read More
Lithuanian court convicts the leader of a governing party of inciting hatred against Jews
VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — A Lithuanian court on Thursday convicted the leader of one of the parties in the country's coalition government for making antisemitic comments and fined him 5,000 euros (about $5,800).The district court in the capital, Vilnius, found that Remigijus Žemaitaitis incited hatred against Jews, grossly downplayed Nazi Germany’s crimes and grossly minimized the Holocaust in an offensive and insulting manner. The punishment fell short of prosecutors' call for him to be fined 51,000 euros (around $60,000) and ordered to pay into a fund for victims of... Read More
Zohran Mamdani and the Louvre make the list of most mispronounced words of 2025
DALLAS (AP) — From the election of Zohran Mamdani to the intrigue surrounding the jewel heist at the Louvre, keeping up with this year's news also left some Americans struggling with pronunciations. That's put both the name of New York City's incoming mayor and the famed Paris museum on a list of the most mispronounced words in 2025.The language-learning company Babbel and closed-captioning company The Captioning Group on Thursday released a list of the words that news anchors, politicians and other public figures in the U.S. struggled with the most this year, giving an... Read More
Putin says there are points he can't agree to in the US proposal to end Russia's war against Ukraine
Russian President Vladimir Putin says that some proposals in a U.S. plan to end the war in Ukraine are unacceptable to the Kremlin, indicating that any deal is still some way off despite intense shuttle diplomacy by American envoys.U.S. President Donald Trump has set in motion the most intense diplomatic push to stop the fighting since Russia launched a full-scale invasion of its neighbor nearly four years ago. But the peace efforts have once again run into demands that are hard to reconcile, especially over whether Ukraine must give up land to Russia and how it can be kept safe... Read More
Affordable Care Act premiums are set to spike. A new poll shows enrollees are already struggling
WASHINGTON (AP) — Fifty-two-year-old Dinam Bigny sank into debt and had to get a roommate this year, in part because of health insurance premiums that cost him nearly $900 per month.Next year, those monthly fees will rise by $200 — a significant enough increase that the program manager in Aldie, Virginia, has resigned himself to finding cheaper coverage.
“I won’t be able to pay it, because I really drained out any savings that I have right now,” he said. “Emergency fund is still draining out — that’s the scary part.”
Bigny is among the many... Read More
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- Doctor who sold ketamine to 'Friends' star Matthew Perry gets 2 1/2 years in prison
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- Pentagon watchdog finds Hegsethâs use of Signal posed risk to US personnel, AP sources say
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- Zohran Mamdani and the Louvre make the list of most mispronounced words of 2025
- Doctor who sold ketamine to 'Friends' star Matthew Perry gets 2 1/2 years in prison
- Steve Cropper, guitarist and member of Stax Records' Booker T and the M.G.'s, has died at age 84
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