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  • Opinion: Gutsy Team USA proves it is all grown up

    Michelle Kaufman Miami Herald, Syndicated content|Updated Nov 25, 2022

    CORAL GABLES, Fla. - The USA vs. England World Cup game was still an hour away and the sidewalk plaza outside Fritz & Franz Bierhaus in Coral Gables was jam-packed with soccer fans, most of them in red, white, and blue. Some went all out and came dressed as U.S. historical icons - George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Ben Franklin and the Statue of Liberty. A crowd of nearly 1,500 was expected to stop by the popular soccer gathering spot Friday afternoon; and Austrian owner Hara...

  • Cowboys lock in date for Beckham visit

    Mike Rosenstein nj.com, Syndicated content|Updated Nov 25, 2022

    The Cowboys have a date on which they hope to win the Beckham Bowl. Now Dallas must win the heart and mind of free-agent wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr. Per Pro Football Talk, FOX Sports' Jay Glazer reports the three-time Pro Bowl selection will visit the Cowboys on Dec. 5. The Cowboys have been the most vocal and visible recruiter of Beckham. ESPN's Ed Werder reported Thursday following the Cowboys' 28-20 win over the New York Giants that Dallas owner Jerry Jones already...

  • Albuquerque city councilor buys fourth newspaper

    Alaina Mencinger Albuquerque Journal, Syndicated content|Updated Nov 25, 2022

    Just weeks after buying the Sandoval Signpost, Albuquerque city councilor and cannabis consultant Pat Davis bought the Edgewood Independent with his publishing company CTRL+P. Davis now owns four papers: the Corrales Comment, and The Paper, as well as the two recently purchased papers. Davis said buying another paper wasn't on his "radar," but former Independent owner Leota Harriman reached out to him recently about taking over the Independent. Unlike the purchases of the Sandoval Signpost and the Corrales Comment, Davis...

  • Star Wars to science: Researchers harvest water from air to address shortages

    Adithi Ramakrishnan The Dallas Morning News, Syndicated content|Updated Nov 25, 2022

    DALLAS -- In "Star Wars," Luke Skywalker grows up on the hot desert planet Tatooine. His family owns a moisture farm that uses devices called "vaporators" to pull drinking water from the air. But while vaporators are a figment of science fiction, the technology that makes them work may be moving closer to fact. Researchers from Xianming "Simon" Dai's lab at the University of Texas at Dallas are developing technology that can pull water from the air. They recently published a p...

  • Army veteran collects NM's WWII stories

    Robert Nott The Santa Fe New Mexican, Syndicated content|Updated Nov 25, 2022

    In Steve McGee's view, every monument over a veteran's grave has a story to tell. But what if there is no gravestone or, perhaps, there's a marker with a story that remains unknown? McGee, an about-to-retire U.S. Army engineer who lives in El Paso, wants to uncover those stories — about 2,600 of them. That's how many New Mexicans died during World War II, either in combat or stateside, by his estimate. He's looking for volunteers to help him compile a database of Stories Behind the Stars, a national nonprofit initiative to r...