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Natalie Flaherty, a 12-year-old from Minnesota who distributed over 100,000 anti-hate bracelets, is one of this year’s Gloria Barron Prize for Young Heroes winners. The tween won the $10,000 award for her global initiative, ‘I Stand with Anne’, which aims to transform Holocaust remembrance into daily action. The bracelets she made read, “I Stand With…

Professor Brian O’Brien and the carbide lamp he lost inside an Australian cave in 1953. Image: ABC Brian O’Brien was 19 when he entered the Yarrangobilly Caves in New South Wales in December 1953 with fellow caver Fred Stewart, but a short exploration turned into a three-day fight for survival. The pair became separated inside…

A Wisconsin university campus that spent nearly six decades serving students has entered a new chapter, with its 76-acre property now approved for sale and proposed redevelopment into a large residential neighbourhood.The Waukesha County Board on September 22 approved an ordinance authorising the sale of the former University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee at Waukesha campus at 1500…

A recently discovered collection of Golden Age comics, stored for roughly 75 to 80 years, is heading to auction. According to Heritage Auctions, the original-owner Merrimack Valley Collection includes a 9.4 Captain America Comics No. 3, a 9.0 Captain America Comics No. 1 and the first nine issues of Batman. The books are among the…

Silicon Valley opposes Trump administration’s $103K H-1B fee proposal. TechNet, an industry association representing major US technology companies, has urged the Trump administration to withdraw a proposed $103,265 fee on certain new H-1B visa petitions, saying the measure could make it harder for US companies to recruit highly skilled workers, Wall Street Journal reported. The…