23+ hour, 41+ min ago   (585+ words) Cumming, August 15, 2026 — Fifteen years old Timur Latypov walks into Gracie Barra South Forsyth most days after school, drops his bag by the mats, and starts working toward something bigger than his next tournament. In three years training under Coach Ivan…...

3+ day, 13+ min ago   (682+ words) It’s spring cleaning season, and for some people that can mean drudgery or anxiety. But experts from Zen monks to psychologists say there are mental health benefits to be found in such manual chores as sweeping, mopping and clearing away…...

4+ day, 4+ min ago   (935+ words) Beijing, August 12, 2026 — Former Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji, the impatient, sharp-tongued reformer who helped ignite China’s explosive economic boom by forcing wrenching change on state industry in the 1990s and leading the country into the World Trade Organization, has died of illness,…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (709+ words) Nonthaburi Thailand, August 7, 2026 — A student shot several people at a high school outside Bangkok on Friday morning, killing at least five and wounding several others, according to authorities, who said the gunman also appeared to have separately killed his two…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (167+ words) Already a member? Login to your account to continue reading. Come on the weekend, Ibu’s runs a buffet, $25 a head, all you can eat, and worth timing your visit around. Arrive when the doors open if you can; a steam…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (584+ words) Tokyo, August 6, 2026 — Hiroshima on Thursday marked the 81st anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the western Japanese city, with its mayor criticizing major powers for waging wars and urging them to stop justifying the possession of nuclear weapons as a…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (758+ words) Stand-up comedians are used to tuning out the din of clinking glasses from two-drink minimums and patrons walking in and out during sets. But what about rolling shopping carts or the smell of fried fish? That kind of ambience is…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (557+ words) Washington DC, August 4, 2026 — Twenty-five states sued the Trump administration Monday over its latest tariffs, calling them a pretext for replacing import taxes the Supreme Court struck down in February. The United States last month imposed double-digit tariffs on 59 countries and…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (264+ words) Washington DC, July 30, 2026 — The U.S. economy expanded at a sluggish 1.5% pace from April through June as rising imports weighed on growth. But consumer spending rose. And the Federal Reserve’s favored measure of inflation grew more slowly last month, but remained…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (1230+ words) Hong Kong, July 28, 2026 — China has a hot new product in the United States: artificial intelligence. San Francisco-based Raffi Krikorian, the chief technology officer at Mozilla, which runs the Firefox browser, switched to Chinese AI startup Moonshot’s Kimi K3 for many of…...