Joni Mitchell, Canadian-born and 82, is sworn in as a US citizen 61 years after moving south
Her Instagram caption counts 62 years, which points back to 1964, when she left western Canada for Toronto; she first crossed into the US in April 1965.
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Moana star Auliʻi Cravalho narrates new ocean special Expedition: Saving Our Seas, out November 13
The one-hour National Geographic special follows six science teams from Antarctica to the Arctic, then streams on Disney+ and Hulu from November 14.
Should you rake acorns off your lawn this fall? What US extension and vet experts actually advise
Acorns rarely kill a healthy lawn, but in a mast year, when an oak drops an extra-large crop every two to five years, piles can smother grass and big ones can damage a mower.
From Army post to Tyler Perry Studios: the 141-year timeline of Atlanta’s Fort McPherson
The Atlanta base closed in 2011 after 126 years of Army use; Perry's 330-acre lot now holds 228,500 square feet of stages, about 5.3 times the land of Warner Bros. in Burbank.
King’s ‘arc of the moral universe’ line adapts an 1853 sermon by abolitionist minister Theodore Parker
Theodore Parker's 1853 sermon used 53 words and admitted doubt; King's 13-word version, used from 1958 and in Montgomery in 1965, turned it into a promise.
Texas campus reactor in a 1,000-ton steel vault clears its final DOE safety review before startup
The approval for Last Energy's 5-megawatt PWR-5 at Texas A&M-RELLIS came from the Energy Department, not the NRC; a readiness review is the last step before fuel and criticality.
How an 11-day steel runway in North Carolina in 1941 became a 72-hour airfield kit in World War II
Each Marston mat plank weighed 66.2 pounds and covered 12.5 square feet; nearly 2 million tons were made, and the idea survives in the Marine Corps' aluminum AM2 mat.
Sheep’s wool may shield glaciers as well as plastic fleece; a Swiss trial matched it on 2,150 sq ft of ice
The Summit Foundation and the University of Lausanne say covers of either material cut melt by 50 to 70 percent; wool avoids shedding plastic microfibers.
Buda, Texas unveils a 19-foot steel wiener dog ahead of its dachshund races’ 30th year
City records show a deal of up to $139,500 for the Cor-Ten dachshund, built from more than 400 steel parts and now standing in Buda City Park.
Barn owl family nests in an Upper West Side water tower, likely Manhattan’s first in a century
Two adults and up to six young are using a rooftop tank near West 76th Street, and the late brood should depend on its parents into early November.
Gardeners laying cardboard over US garden beds this fall can plant through it by spring, extension guides say
Extension services put the wait at four to six months under 4 to 6 inches of mulch; glossy or taped cardboard and over-thick layers are the usual errors.
Costco says under-40 shoppers now make up more than a quarter of its 84 million paid members
No new card or tier: the change is age. Membership still costs $65 or $130 in the US, C$65 or C$130 in Canada and £42 or £84 in the UK.
Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel join US protein soda brand Proda in first joint business venture
The couple became co-founders of a seven-month-old brand selling 12-ounce cans with 10 grams of whey protein at $39.95 for a 12-pack, about 33 cents per gram.
Linkin Park changed song keys for Emily Armstrong, drummer reveals in documentary Unshatter
Drummer Colin Brittain says he and Armstrong rehearsed about four days a week for months, and "Crawling" was the first older song the new lineup tackled.
Jay-Z’s three Yankee Stadium shows gross $42.3 million, a box office record for a rapper
The July run sold 136,934 tickets at an average of $308.84, and the JAŸ-Z30 series ends with two Los Angeles stadium dates on October 23 and 24.
Drake’s Habibti tops the US R&B/hip hop albums chart as Solar Eclipse debuts at No. 5
The FOMO reissue lifted Habibti from No. 116 to No. 2 on the main US albums chart with 71,000 units, nearly all from streaming, and gave Don Toliver his biggest Hot 100 hit.
Beyoncé marks her 45th birthday with a $2 million gift to the Studio Museum in Harlem
The donation, announced on September 4 through Parkwood Entertainment, landed the same day as her 31-track B'Day reissue and less than a year after the museum's new building opened.
Mac Miller’s The Divine Feminine returns to the US top 10 and tops the rap chart a decade on
The 10th-anniversary edition jumped from No. 159 to No. 10 with 32,000 units, and purchases rather than streams supplied 18,000 of them in the week to October 8.
Wollemi pine: 32 years after a canyon find near Sydney, 46 adult trees survive in the wild
Found by an off-duty parks officer in 1994, the tree was saved from the 2019–20 fires by crews winched into its gorge. Canberra's national botanic garden is now collecting backyard specimens.
Native fish rise 480% in Grand Canyon’s Bright Angel Creek after years of trout removal
Park biologists cut trout in the Phantom Ranch creek by 89% over eight seasons, and natives now make up 97% of its fish, clearing the way for threatened humpback chub.
US police are buying an AI that matches one photo of a room to rental listings
Graylark's Raven, formerly GeoSpy, tied a washer-and-dryer photo to a Charlotte Airbnb. It matches rooms already online, so metadata stripping alone will not stop it.
SS United States set to be sunk off Destin, Florida, in the second week of November
The 990-foot liner, in Mobile since March 2025, will rest 180 feet down about 22 nautical miles off Destin-Fort Walton Beach, overtaking the nearby USS Oriskany as the largest ship reef.
‘Be the change’ is not Gandhi’s line. His 1913 South Africa article said something longer
Gandhi wrote "If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change" in 1913; the short slogan first shows up with a Brooklyn teacher in 1970.
A 1990 Wisconsin test road over shredded tires drained like gravel, and states still use the idea
University of Wisconsin engineers tested tire chips under a landfill road used by garbage trucks. Today California uses tire-derived aggregate under rail lines and in landslide repairs.
The US paid farmers $8 an acre to plant kudzu. Forest Service data show it never ate the South
Popular accounts say kudzu covers 7.4 million acres of the Southeast. The Forest Service counted about 227,000 acres of Southern forest with any kudzu present.