Gulfport, Florida, announced its sixth annual Gulfport Pride will begin with a parade on May 31 and lead into a street festival on June 6, while other cities are scheduling Pride Month activities in June 2026. Chicago will run month-long events beginning June 1, Casper has planned Pride Week June...
Camden, New Jersey officials confirmed that European Metal Recycling has suspended operations at its scrap metal shredder in the city’s Waterfront South neighborhood after a significant two-alarm fire on the morning of Friday, May 29, 2026. The facility, which functions as the multinational company’s U.S. headquarters, drew an immediate response...
United States federal intelligence and cybersecurity agencies are investigating allegations that foreign actors linked to China are influencing a recent wave of protests against data centers across the country. The demonstrations have disrupted operations at facilities that host major artificial intelligence models, commercial cloud services, and government data processing, raising...
U.S.-based artificial intelligence company Anthropic has reached a valuation of $965 billion after closing a new $65 billion funding round, the firm announced in its latest financing update. The round was led by major venture investors including Altimeter Capital, Dragoneer, Greenoaks and Sequoia Capital, and featured a $5 billion commitment...
Eugene — The OSAA 5A boys state track and field championships take place this weekend at Hayward Field, and previews list favorites, contenders and dark-horse entrants across sprints, distance races, hurdles, relays and field events. Several marquee names headline the meet: Jude Jarrett of Summit is the favorite in both...
LANSING, Ill. This week community members gathered in late May as the Lansing Junior Woman's Club held its May 27 banquet and supported McJournal Night at a local McDonald's, volunteers from the Lansing Scouts repainted the WWII concrete flag in Sweet Woods, and The Lansing Journal published a May 29...
KIMBERLY, Wisconsin: Local high school teams posted decisive wins across baseball, softball and track in the Appleton and Green Bay areas Thursday through Saturday, May 28–30. Kimberly's Papermakers, Green Bay Preble and Appleton North recorded notable victories and individual athletes such as Gracie Day, Payton Schreiber and Eva Busch posted...
LONGVIEW, Washington – A catastrophic industrial accident at the Nippon Dynawave Packaging pulp and paper mill on May 26, 2026, occurred when a 3.4 million-liter chemical storage tank ruptured, releasing a massive volume of highly alkaline “white liquor,” a mixture of sodium hydroxide and sodium sulfide. The rupture happened during...
United States-based crypto markets experienced a sharp sell-off on Friday, with more than $700 million in leveraged positions liquidated within 24 hours across major digital asset exchanges. Bitcoin, the largest cryptocurrency by market value, fell more than 3% during the session and hovered near the $73,000 level as risk-off sentiment...
Oklahoma City — No. 5 Arkansas lost to No. 4 Nebraska, 5-3, in 10 innings Thursday at Devon Park during the Women's College World Series opener when Ava Kuszak hit a two-run walk-off home run in the bottom of the 10th; earlier scoring included Kailey Wyckoff's two-run home run and...
