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A New York City neighborhood is fully turned on for Christmas, drawing throngs to its annual light show, even as the Omicron variant puts a damper on celebrations....

By Dan Fastenberg NEW YORK (Reuters) - A New York City neighborhood is fully turned on for Christmas, drawing throngs to its annual light show, even a...

By Dan Fastenberg NEW YORK (Reuters) - A New York City neighborhood is fully turned on for Christmas, drawing throngs to its annual light show, even a...

A New York artist has assembled more than 350,000 acrylic fingernails to create a neon and pale pink grotto - a tribute to surviving the coronavirus pandemic.

By Dan Fastenberg (Reuters) - Fearing there may only be hours to stave off a capture, a former U.S. army captain who served in the war in Afghanistan is lobbying for the rescue of his former interpreter. Scott Henkel served during Operation Enduring Freedom in 2006 and 2007 as an army Alpha team leader. In an interview, Henkel said he spent the entirety of his time in Afghanistan with his interpreter whom he called Kevin, his nickname, to protect his identity. Henkel also declined to specify the...

By Syndicated Content By Dan Fastenberg NEW YORK (Reuters) – If you happened to stroll by Union Square in New York City on Sunday, you might have been greeted by an unusual sight: people posing nude, their bodies covered in floral designs and stars painted in bright colors. That’s how a group of 26 artists and 45 models celebrated the eighth annual NYC Bodypainting Day, using the human body as their canvas to promote messages like body positivity. “The idea of the event is rea...

The moon has seen climate change in the 2030s causing coastal flooding, Reuters said By Dan Fastenberg (Reuters) – The U.S. coast will experience increasing flooding in the mid-2030s due to a regular lunar cycle that will increase sea level rise caused by climate change, according to research led by NASA scientists. The key factor identified by scientists is the regular “vortex” in the orbit of the moon – XVIII. It was first identified in the century – it needs 18.6 years. The Moon’...

As Tulsans prepare to mark the centennial of the massacre, they have heard broader conversations about reparations for Black Americans at the federal level and locally in communities such as Evanston, Illinois. Some Tulsans say the national conversation has been encouraging.

Article content In the center of New York City’s spring greenery, artist Maya Lin has installed the barren, brown trunks of 49 dead Atlantic White Cedar trees in a Manhattan park as a “Ghost Forest” to warn of the danger of climate change and the threat of rising sea water. “This is a grove of Atlantic Cedars… victims of saltwater inundation from rising seas due to climate change,” said Lin, designer of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, DC. We apologize, but this video ha...

More likely to be struck by lightning? Americans weigh risk of J&J vaccine Reuters 1 hr ago By Gabriella Borter and Catherine Koppel WASHINGTON/NEW ORLEANS, April 13 (Reuters) - Henna Ramchandani walked out of her vaccine appointment at a Washington D.C. convention center on Tuesday morning, thrilled she had decided just one day earlier to get the Pfizer Inc COVID-19 vaccine instead of the Johnson & Johnson shot, initially her first choice. Hours earlier, U.S. federal health agencies had reco...