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Elor Azaria’s conviction in 2017 for manslaughter and his release drew enormous attention in Israel. (AP Photo) Israel’s President Isaac Herzog has pardoned former combat medic Elor Azaria, who was convicted of manslaughter for shooting dead a badly wounded Palestinian attacker in the occupied West Bank nearly a decade ago.According to the Associated Press, Azaria…
Israeli police officer and a soldier stand guard near the site of a shooting attack that killed one Israeli. (AP Photo) An Israeli man in his 30s was shot dead near the West Bank settlement of Neve Tzuf, also known as Halamish, on Sunday, hours before the start of the Yom Kippur holiday. The suspected…
US Education department post sparks backlash. A post from the US Department of Education has drawn criticism, with users asking if the department is endorsing Republican Texas Railroad Commission candidate Bo French’s racist tweet about South Asian students at the University of Texas.The department posted a graphic on September 19 showing a packed college football…
Alderman Merriam’s Shells, 1951 A Michigan collector paid just $30 for a painting at an estate sale, not knowing that the work had been out of public view for about 75 years. The 1951 painting by American Surrealist Gertrude Abercrombie has since been authenticated and is now estimated to sell for $150,000 to $250,000 at…
Pic credit: Brooklyn Paper/ Lauren Walsh, Isabelle Ginsberg For over a year, Isabelle Ginsberg, 17, photographed the same park. Every Saturday, and most Sundays, she wandered through Prospect Park. The Brooklyn teen captured the park in summer, then winter and spring. She walked along the same paths, capturing different angles and emotions. This attention to…
Beaver Valley Headwaters Preserve in Siskiyou County, Calif. California’s Wildlife Conservation Board has approved $43.868 million in grants for 15 projects across 11 counties. The projects will support Tribal land acquisition, salmon habitat restoration, public access and protection of wildlife corridors.According to California Department of Fish and Wildlife, the funding includes $32 million in climate…
Mount Gilead Lake in the Falling Water Park An Atlanta teacher spent years warning students to stay away from a locked forest outside their school. Now, after years of community organising, the 26-acre Falling Water Park in southwest Atlanta is set to receive $3 million to help turn the inaccessible greenspace into a public park.Renette…
Monmouth County residents have recently received a wonderful gift, one that is going to make the coming autumn a season worth looking forward to. The 90-acre Scudder Preserve, in the Navesink section of Middletown, was officially accredited in July as a Level I Arboretum by ArbNet. Among its many treasures are a state-designated 201-year-old tulip…
More than 18,000 acres of federal forest land in Oregon could be transferred into trust for the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde under new legislation introduced in the US Congress, in a move the tribe says would help rebuild part of its land base after decades of federal termination.The Grand Ronde Land Transfer Act, introduced…
Apollin Lu is only 17, but she is already leading a growing youth network that is helping tackle food waste across British Columbia. She founded the Food Recovery Alliance, which has mobilised more than 140 young volunteers who have saved 9,000 pounds of fresh produce from going to waste. Together, they collected surplus produce from…
