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Lucas Rojas, the 16-year-old Miami student who turned one inclusive kickball game into a six-team league with 40+ players and 60+ teen volunteers (Image Credit: Christopher Columbus High School) A single kickball game gave 16-year-old Miami student Lucas Rojas an idea that grew far beyond one afternoon on the field. What began as a chance…

Despite judge’s order, White House again blocks Politico reporter The White House on Thursday denied access to reporters from Politico and MS NOW, despite a judge ordering the Donald Trump administration to “immediately restore” access for news organisations whose journalists had been barred from the presidential complex.The Politico and MS NOW reporters were denied entry…

Helen Galloway McNicoll, The Bean Harvest, estimated £150,000-250,000. Sold for £174,000 An English artist and part-time art dealer who bought a wrongly labelled oil painting for £2,090 at a regional UK auction made a life-changing discovery when experts confirmed that the painting was a long-lost Impressionist masterpiece. The artwork had originally been listed only as…

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier A Florida school district is reviewing allegations involving a history teacher accused of repeatedly singling out an eighth-grade student over his conservative views and calling him a “misogynist”.Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier raised the allegations in a letter sent to Sarasota County Schools Superintendent Terry Connor and the school board….

Legendary musician, conductor and composer Michael Tilson Thomas’s Pacific Heights residence has hit the market. The historic mansion at 2670 Pierce Street was Thomas’s home for 32 years, where he lived with his husband and longtime manager, Joshua Robison. Thomas died in April 2026, just two months after Robison’s death. Now, for the first time…

A former 7-Eleven in downtown Seattle has been given an unusual second life as an interactive art shop where familiar convenience-store products have been transformed into deliberately impractical artworks. Called the ‘Inconvenience Store’, the exhibition keeps much of the former shop’s layout, including its aisles, checkout area, refrigerator and hot-food counter, but fills them with…

Neria Leiter, son of Israel’s US ambassador Yechiel Leiter, was seriously injured in a ramming attack in the West Bank on Wednesday.Neria, a reservist in the Israeli military, “needs a miracle,” his father said in a social media post. The ambassador’s older son, Moshe Yedidya Leiter, who also served in the military, was killed in…