Columbus, OH

Buddhist monks in the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh chanted blessings and threw flowers on Thursday to welcome 14 trafficked artefacts repatriated from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. He was charged in 2019 by prosecutors in New York with smuggling looted Cambodian relics and helping to sell them on the international art market.

Trafficked Cambodian artefacts returned from US

Archeologists recently unearthed the grave of a man believed to be a chief in the Coclé culture, the archeological name for the people who inhabited Panama over a thousand years ago. Discovered in the El Caño Archaeological Park, the El Caño Foundation shared select images of the ongoing excavation...

Ancient tomb filled with gold, sacrificial victims discovered

Daily Mail

Iolani Palace, the only royal palace in the United States, stands in Honolulu as a stunning reminder of Hawaii's royal past.

Inside America's only royal palace owned by lesbian 'last princess'

The US Sun

ARCHAEOLOGISTS believe they have discovered the "lost" survivors of Pompeii who made it through the horror 18-hour volcanic eruption 2,000 years ago. It's often been depicted that there were no survivors following Mount Vesuvius' eruption in A.D. 79 but the latest finds suggest that narrative isn't entirely true. A new...

Archaeologists find the ‘lost’ survivors of Pompeii who made it through horror 18-hour volcanic eruption 2,000 years ago

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Cheryl E Preston

Etiquette and Miss Emily Post once frowned upon females who sat gap-legged in public. In Virginia, books in school libraries, teen magazines, and older females often suggested that young ladies cross their legs at the ankle while seated.

"Cross your legs at the ankle young lady" is not totally forgotten today

Mens Journal

The ancient city of Swenett, now Aswan, thrived between 6 B.C. and 9 A.D.

Archaeologists Discover ‘City of the Dead’ With 1,000s of Mummies

Fox News

Mexican officials recently announced that the 2,700-year-old Olmec Cave Mask, also called a "portal to the underworld", will be returned to the ancient cave that it was stolen from.

Eerie 'portal to the underworld' returns to ancient cave it was stolen from

Kentucky State

Florence, KY

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Five people, including the suspect, are dead and three others are injured after a shooting at a birthday party early Saturday in northern Kentucky. Officers responded to multiple calls of an active shooter at a residence in Florence, Kentucky, around 3 a.m. When officers arrived, shots were still being fired...

Shooting at Kentucky birthday party leaves 4 dead and 3 injured

Maryland State

The Guardian

More than 1,300 people died during the hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia as temperatures exceeded 120F

Maryland couple among 1,300 who died on pilgrimage in sweltering Mecca

Archaeologists with the civil engineering company Italferr have unearthed a Roman settlement and necropolis during the construction of the new Palermo-Catania-Messina railway link in Sicily. Located on a hill overlooking the Dittaino River, this Roman settlement dates back to the mid-1st to the 3rd century CE. The site’s strategic position,...

Archaeologists unearth Roman settlement and necropolis in Sicily

Reuters

TIRANA (Reuters) - Thousands of Albanians gathered in Tirana on Wednesday to pay tribute to their country's best-known novelist Ismail Kadare, who died on Monday after a heart attack.

Albanians gather for funeral of writer Ismail Kadare

Mississippi State

Claiborne County, MS

Two "dangerous" inmates being held on murder charges escaped from a Mississippi jail early Friday morning sparking a manhunt. Tyrekennel Collins, 24, and Dezarrious Johnson, 18, broke free from the Claiborne County Detention Center around 2:20 a.m., the sheriff's office said in a Facebook post. Chief Deputy Christy Sykes said...

2 'dangerous' inmates being held on murder charges spark manhunt after escape from Mississippi jail

LONDON — Britain woke Friday to the scene of a political earthquake. The opposition Labour Party, after 14 years in the political wilderness, has handed a brutal defeat to the ruling Conservatives. In his first speech outside his new home at number 10 Downing Street, the country's new Prime...

Britain wakes up to new government as Labour Party wins election in a landslide

California State

Scorching temperatures on the Fourth of July fueled wildfires in California, as warnings from meteorologists that the coming days could see dangerously hot weather. With much of the country in the grip of a heat wave that is set to break records and make conditions dangerously hot, a large blaze near Yosemite National Park has triggered evacuations and forced hospital patients to shelter in place.

Evacuations ordered as new California wildfire ignites in scorching heat wave

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Within hours of the sighting on Wednesday, Frank van Manen caught word that there was a grizzly sow with five cubs in tow spotted in Yellowstone National Park. Five cubs following mom is so unlikely that van Manen, who leads the Interagency Grizzly Bear Study Team, pondered an explanation.

Five grizzly bear cubs make the largest litter in Yellowstone-area history

New York City, NY

The driver of a pickup truck that fatally plowed into a group of revelers celebrating the Fourth of July at a New York City park Thursday evening was a substance abuse counselor who penned a book on helping others overcome addiction, according to law enforcement sources. Daniel C. Hyden, 44,...

Driver who plowed into NYC Fourth of July gathering in suspected DUI was a substance abuse counselor and author

South Padre Island, TX

New video shows panic among holiday beach-goers as a rare shark attack unfolded in South Padre Island, Texas. One victim speaks to NBC from her hospital bed and describes how she fought off the attack. There were two separate attacks in Florida. NBC News' Morgan Chesky reports.

Texas shark attack survivor speaks out

Hurricane Beryl struck a blow to Jamaica as a massive, category 4 storm, causing a dangerous storm surge, bending power lines and knocking out electricity. At least seven people have been reported killed across the Caribbean this week from the hurricane. NBC News' Sam Brock reports from Jamaica.

Hurricane Beryl smashes across Jamaica

CBS News

An American tourist was found dead near the Greek island of Corfu on Sunday, local media reported. It is the latest in a string of recent cases in which tourists in the Greek islands have died or gone missing. Another tourist found the man in the sea near the old port of Mathraki and informed the police, AFP reported, citing local media.The American tourist was reported missing on Thursday. He had last been seen alive Tuesday at a cafe in the company of two female tourists who have since left the island, The Associated Press reported.According to Athens News Agency,...

American tourist found dead in Greece; search ongoing for other U.S. traveler

South Carolina State

Oregon State

About 115 million people may experience sweltering conditions Saturday in cities including Los Angeles, Seattle and Las Vegas in the West, and Raleigh, North Carolina, Washington, D.C., and New York City in the East as “extremely dangerous heat” continues to affect both coasts this weekend, according to the National Weather Service.

Sweltering temperatures persist as 'extremely dangerous heat' continues on West and East coasts

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Cambodia welcomes the Met’s repatriation of centuries-old statues looted during past turmoil

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — The return to Cambodia this week of 14 sculptures that had been looted from the country during a period of war and...

Cambodia welcomes the Met’s repatriation of centuries-old statues looted during past turmoil

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