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Goldie Hawn’s MindUP helps 7 million children manage stress across 48 countries (Image Credit: MindUP) Children learn mathematics, science and languages in school, but understanding their own emotions and managing stress can be equally important to their development. Recognising this need, actor Goldie Hawn established the Goldie Hawn Foundation in 2003 to help children develop…

Michigan senator-elect Abdul El-Sayed. Abdul El-Sayed, the Michigan senator-elect who campaigned on reducing the influence of money in politics, has registered a political action committee days after becoming the first Muslim elected to the US Senate.Named “Habibi PAC”, the committee was registered with the Federal Election Commission on Thursday as a leadership PAC sponsored by…

A casual remark about an old painting tucked away in a closet has led to an extraordinary art-world discovery: a long-unseen work by American modernist Georgia O’Keeffe, valued at around $3 million, is heading to auction after spending nearly four decades out of public view in a New York apartment. The painting, ‘Near Abiquiu, New…

The appeals court accepted the lender’s recordkeeping evidence and rejected Pham’s disclosure objections as improperly raised at trial. A business loan can put more than just the company’s finances at risk. If a lender asks an owner to personally guaranty some of the borrowing, the consequences can haunt them long after the business runs into…

Hannah Wasserman, Maisey O’Donnell and Jimmy McIntosh. Image Credit: Concord-Carlisle High School and Boston Area Diving/CBS News A fake GoFundMe campaign claiming to collect funeral expenses for a Massachusetts teenager killed in a Florida car crash raised thousands of dollars before it was removed from the platform in April 2025. The fundraiser was created without…

‘Breaking Bad’ actor Dean Norris and wife Bridget Norris file for divorce. (Photo Credit: Instagram / deanjnorris) Dean Norris, best known as Hank Schrader on ‘Breaking Bad’, has listed his 11-acre Temecula ranch for $3,199,267 as he and his wife Bridget navigate divorce proceedings and a bankruptcy filing involving their longtime restaurant. The actor bought…

Anna Bissell took charge of the family business in 1889 and became the first female chief executive in the United States. The business had begun several years earlier, when Anna and Melville R. Bissell ran a crockery shop in Grand Rapids, Michigan. A problem with sawdust in the shop led Melville to invent an improved…

Virginia charity programme embezzlement ended in a four-year prison sentence for Linda Natelle Brown, a Texas woman who stole more than $1.5 million from the Commonwealth of Virginia Campaign, the officially sanctioned non-profit charity fundraising scheme for the state’s more than 120,000 government employees. She was sentenced on 13 May 2026 for taking money that…

Representative Image (AI-generated) A construction project can become an expensive dispute when work crosses a property boundary. In Oregon, a landowner alleged that workers clearing an adjoining parcel removed trees, shrubs and other plants from as much as 150 feet inside his property. A jury found that the timber trespass was intentional and awarded him…

Mama Flo the Local Hero of Stockport (Images- Pride of Britain official website) Mahatma Gandhi very famously said, “Simplicity is the essence of Universality”. Sometimes it is the simplest gestures that make the biggest difference in somebody’s life. We come across stories of people doing extraordinary things for their community, and we too are in…