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For the Proteas, the prospect of playing in front of a sold out Newlands in the T20 World Cup final on Sunday is not as daunting as it may have appeared two weeks ago when the tournament started.

Today’s update is a five-minute read that will brief you on the day’s biggest stories.

Smith was named a laureate along with five other recipients in 1994 by the Lincoln Academy of Illinois, for “contributions to the betterment of humanity that have been accomplished in or on behalf of the State of Illinois.”

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Grow a bee friendly garden to ensure food baskets of our nation are never empty of fresh fruit and vegetables — apples, melons, pumpkin, squash, broccoli, almonds, among others. Bees pollinate over 50 percent of the flowers of vegetables and fruit for our everyday table. Wheat, rice, corn and sugar cane crops which don’t need the help of bees to produce food do survive in a world without bees.

A couple days prior to the UMass women’s lacrosse team’s first game of the season, first-year head coach Jana Drummond sat in her office preparing for her team’s first game of the season against UMass Lowell. It was a familiar setting for Drummond,...

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The New York Independent newspaper claimed James Hope had “no rival in Europe in forest or brook scenery” and the Philadelphia Evening Telegraph called him the “father of the realistic school of landscape painters in America.”

A Washington House member has proposed taking wolves in northeast Washington off the states endangered list, a move the states wolf policy leader said would not imperil recovery.