New York City, NY

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What is more summery than an icy, sweet frozen drink? If the heat wave is getting to you, try whipping up this simple frozen strawberry lemonade. All you need is your choice of lemonade and some frozen strawberries. You can use store-bought lemonade, make your own from scratch, or a powdered version. As for strawberries, frozen ones are the easiest choice. If you'd rather use fresh, add at least two cups of ice until you reach a nice, frozen consistency.

2-Ingredient Frozen Strawberry Lemonade: Beat the Heat!

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The FBI has seen a rise in scams targeting timeshare owners. In this kind of scam, criminals con these part-time property owners into shelling out hefty sums of cash, all under false pretenses related to their timeshare properties.

FBI warns that Mexican cartels are targeting Americans with timeshare scams

AMSTERDAM.- In September 1815, Karl von Müffling, the Prussian governor of Paris, presented himself at the doors of the Louvre and ordered its French guards to step aside. Belgian and Dutch officials, backed by Prussian and British troops, had arrived to reclaim art treasures plundered by the French during the revolutionary and Napoleonic wars.

Napoleon's loot: When the world decided stolen art should go back

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Declutterbuzz

Why Depression Can Impact A Cluttered Home & Cluttered Mind sets out to explain the possible connection between depression and clutter. Scientists that study depression have found a link to depression playing a role in some folks.

Why Depression Can Impact A Cluttered Home & Cluttered Mind

Paul Gauguin, Nature morte à la coupe de fruits et aux citrons, vers 1889-1890. Huile sur toile, 50 x 60 cm. Museum Langmatt, Baden. Photo: M. und R. Fischli, Fotocompany, Baden. LAUSANNE.- In 2024, as part of its 40th anniversary celebrations, the Fondation de l’Hermitage hosts an exceptional exhibition...

Masterpieces from Villa Langmatt on view at the Fondation de l'Hermitage

Colorado State

Aurora, CO

David Heitz

The Aurora City Council will hold a public hearing Monday on whether to allow cannabis dispensaries to stay open until midnight. State law allows marijuana dispensaries to stay open until midnight, but some jurisdictions such as Aurora shortened hours to 10 p.m. Council member Curtis Gardner has brought forth the ordinance to lengthen the hours.

Aurora considers midnight dispensary hours

Pennsylvania State

YORK, PA.- Veteran collectors of action figures may think they’ve seen it all, but the team at Hake’s Auctions says wait – there’s more. Much more! Starting in January 2025, the Pennsylvania-based company, which holds numerous world records in pop culture categories, will auction the internationally renowned Jeff Jacob action figure collection.

Hake's to auction world-renowned Jeff Jacob action figure collection starting in January 2025

Cambridge, MA

CAMBRIDGE, MASS.- Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD) is pleased to name Thandi Loewenson the winner of the 2024 Wheelwright Prize. The $100,000 grant supports investigative approaches to contemporary architecture, with an emphasis on globally minded research. Loewenson’s project, Black Papers: Beyond the Politics of Land, Towards African Policies...

Thandi Loewenson wins 2024 Wheelwright Prize

Newark, NJ

Morristown Minute

NEWARK, N.J. – Eight individuals associated with the "793 Bloods" street gang, a subset of the national Bloods gang, have been charged for their roles in a Newark-based drug trafficking organization, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced.

Eight '793 Bloods' Gang Members Charged in Newark Drug Network

LONDON.- Alison Jacques presents an exhibition of work by Austrian artist Birgit Jürgenssen (b.1949; d.2003). Her practice examines women’s interior lives refracted in exterior systems of power. Many of Jürgenssen’s works focus on the domestic life of a mythic figure, the ‘hausfrau’: an ideal bourgeois Austrian housewife.

Alison Jacques opens an exhibition of work by Austrian artist Birgit Jürgenssen

WASHINGTON, DC.- After two decades representing the western cardinal point of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian on the National Mall, the volcanic pōhaku (rock) named Kānepō will return to its home on the Island of Hawaiʻi this summer. In preparation for Kānepō’s departure, a ceremony will be held July 1 during the Smithsonian Folklife Festival. The ceremony will take place at 11 a.m. in the museum’s Potomac Atrium and will be led by Kekuhi Kealiʻikanakaʻole, who is a kumu hula (master teacher of the art of hula), educator, scholar and founder of Hālau ʻŌhiʻa, a program designed to deepen connection and relationship with the Earth through Hawaiʻi life ways.

After 20 years, ancestor rock, Kānepō, to return home to Hawaiʻi

LONDON.- The Design Museum today announced a history-making and out-of-this-world Barbie will be included in its upcoming major exhibition on the design history of the famous doll. A major highlight of Barbie®: The Exhibition — which opens next week — will be the very first public display of a unique...

Barbie that flew on landmark International Space Station mission to go on public display for first time

NEW YORK, NY.- The Balenciaga couture show opened with a meditation and ended with a storm cloud — one designed to disappear. That’s either a statement of faith in the future or a lot of hot air. Maybe both. In place of the usual finale wedding gown, Demna,...

The incredible disappearing dress

Arkansas State

Missouri State

Branson, MO

CJ Coombs

Many believe the cryptid Ozark Howler is simply a folk monster like Momo. The Ozark Howler has been brought forward in oral traditions as a creature of the Ozark Mountains. The Ozark Mountains span parts of Missouri and Arkansas and have been home to this legendary creature that has captured the imagination of many. This elusive animal has been described as a large, black, and shaggy creature. Some say it looks like a very large cat. It's also been reported in numerous sightings, stories of which have been passed down through generations. Many wonder if the Ozark Howler is a real creature or simply a myth.

Missouri's Ozark Mountains: legend of the Ozark Howler and whether it's fact or fiction

Reno, NV

Wanted posters included a collection that included two of the three different original Pinkerton wanted posters/circulars for the outlaws Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid ($12,500). RENO, NEV.- A group of three original wanted posters for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, including two original Pinkerton wanted posters/circulars, sold for...

Holabird announces highlights included in its American History & Hall of Fame Showcase Auction

Virginia State

Margaret Minnicks

Many new laws become effective in Virginia on July 1, 2024. However, a law has always existed in Virginia, but some residents might not be aware of it. According to WSET, leaving grass clippings and other debris on Virginia roads is illegal.

It is illegal to leave grass clippings and other debris on roads in Virginia

Woodbridge, VA

The Inside Scoop - PWC

WOODBRIDGE, Va. — Authorities are actively searching for Quamel Thomson, a 26-year-old man from Woodbridge, who is accused of assaulting a woman and preventing her from leaving an apartment in the Longview Apartments complex on Lynn Street.

Woodbridge Police Hunt for Man Accused of Strangling and Assaulting Woman in Apartment

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Jersey City, NJ

Hoboken, NJ

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Hidden under George Washington's home: 35 glass bottles of cherries

NEW YORK, NY.- There it was, in the cellar of Mount Vernon, a relic of the last decades of colonial America: the top of a glass...

Hidden under George Washington's home: 35 glass bottles of cherries

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