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Lauryn Hill and the Fugees 2024 Tour Is Quietly Canceled, Three Days Before First Date

A U.S. tour by Ms. Lauryn Hill and the Fugees set for late summer and fall has been canceled, with the dates removed from Ticketmaster and ticketholders receiving notices about receiving refunds late Tuesday.

Magicicadas in The Mood | TIME

Periodical cicadas spend over a decade buried beneath the soil, feeding on xylem. And then one spring, they emerge, shed, swarm, sing, mate and die in a few short weeks. 30 billion Number of cicadas that will emerge with one order of business: mating. Their odds are good, but birds will feast on them. 400 Number of eggs female cicadas can lay. Offspring fall from the trees and burrow into the ground for 13 to 17 years.

McDonald's suburban hometown is worried because the company is abandoning them for Chicago

But in 2016, the company announced that it would move to downtown Chicago. A The relocation worries a number of employees and residents who rely on the company for their income, according to a new report from the Washington Post's Jonathan O'Connell. McDonald's relocation could have an economic impact on Oak Brook, as evidenced by other large companies that have left the suburbs for the city. ADVERTISEMENT

Nintendo's Original Super Mario Bros. Sketches

June 16, 2015 3:45 PM EDT In the leadup to Nintendo’s new level-creator game Super Mario Maker, the company is offering an inside look into the design process that goes into creating games in its most successful franchise. During Nintendo’s E3 video presentation, Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto and longtime Mario designer Takashi Tezuka showed off some early sketches of gaming’s most famous plumber.   Initially Mario had an even more cartoony look, with an extra-large nose and a pretty serious overbite.

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Olympian Miles Chamley-Watson Brings the Flair to Fencing

Miles Chamley-Watson doesn’t quite roll like other athletes in fencing, his relatively low-wattage Olympic sport. The American medal hopeful at the Paris Olympics, for example, returned home for a week in May from a competition in Shanghai—Team USA won gold in the team foil event—before jetting off to Monaco watch one of his best friends, fellow globe-trotting sportsman Lewis Hamilton, race in Formula One’s crown-jewel event, the Monaco Grand Prix. He bounced back to the U.

Otti says Abia will partner Israel in agriculture, tech, digital economy

Otti made this known while receiving the Israeli Ambassador to Nigeria, His Excellency Michael Freeman, at the Government House, Umuahia, Abia capital on Thursday, May 16, 2024. This is contained in a statement by the Governor's Chief Press Secretary, Kazie Uko, who quoted the Israeli envoy as commending the leadership quality of Otti. Freeman noted that his visit to the South-East state is a tribute to the good work the Governor has been doing since he assumed office, particularly in the area of security.

Person of the Year 2023: Taylor Swift

Taylor Swift is telling me a story, and when Taylor Swift tells you a story, you listen, because you know it’s going to be good—not only because she’s had an extraordinary life, but because she’s an extraordinary storyteller. This one is about a time she got her heart broken, although not in the way you might expect. She was 17, she says, and she had booked the biggest opportunity of her life so far—a highly coveted slot opening for country superstar Kenny Chesney on tour.

Rodeos: The Bulldogger | TIME

One exasperating day back in 1903, so the story goes, an Oklahoma cowpoke named Bill Pickett was having an infernally tough time persuading an ornery steer to head into a corral He whooped at it and pleaded with it, prodded and battered it, until in furious frustration he leaped from his horse, bit the steer’s lip like a bulldog, twisted its neck and brought it to the ground. Pickett’s romantic technique was never very handy around the ranch, but it was sort of satisfying, and Pickett kept doing it at Wild West shows around the country.

Science: Closing the Blue Book

TIME December 26, 1969 12:00 AM GMT-5 With almost as much attentiveness as it gives to the comings and goings of its own planes, the U.S. Air Force has carefully logged every unidentified flying object that has been reported in the American skies during the past 22 years. During that time, Project Blue Book, as the operation was called, looked into a total of 12,618 UFO sightings. Yet lately, the flying-saucer business has fallen on hard times.