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Times of India - US News

US - Sep 2, 2026 - A 16th-century English longhouse hid serious structural problems behind its walls; the builder restoring it has now turned the centuries-old property into his own family home

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Built in 1881 and closed in 2004 over structural problems, a Smithsonian building restored for $55 million has finally been chosen for a permanent new life

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Hollywood actor Joel McCrea bought a California ranch in 1933; his family later donated 74 acres as a wildlife preserve and effectively gave another 220 acres for parkland

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Operation 'Rotten Apple': US arrests over 2,100 illegal immigrants across New York

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US - Sep 1, 2026 - In 2008, Allen University paid $116,000 to move a historic 1903 house two blocks and promised restoration; 18 years later, the work never came and the house is being demolished - A historic 1903 house in Columbia, South Carolina, is being demolished nearly 18 years after Allen University moved it two blocks and promised to restore it. The Robert Weston Mance House was linked to generations of Black community and civil rights leaders. After years of neglect, a legal fight over its future and concerns about safety, the city approved its demolition.

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This Montana family ranch was valued at $3.5 million; the owners gave up $2.9 million in development value to protect it

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Texas volunteers started a cleanup 40 years ago with 2,800 people; the movement has now collected 1.3 million plastic bottles from coastlines and waterways worldwide and could change plastic policy

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Hammer-wielding Ohio man who smashed windows of JD Vance's home pleads guilty

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'Very justified': Trump says US striking Iran targets, warns of 'harder' attacks

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Jose Luis Valdez arrived in America and started as a dishwasher; with $14,000 he later built his own frozen-dessert business

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A Staten Island deli manager started paying kids for better report cards 3 years ago; his fundraiser has now crossed $500,000 and he is giving school supplies to 3,000 students

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In 2023, buyers paid $87,000 for a crumbling 1979 Michigan concrete dome with caved-in ceilings; after a total overhaul, the 2,457-sq-ft home is back for $499,900

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'Secretive, rushed, chaotic': Whistleblower flags risks in Trump's USPS ballot plan

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A 19-year-old was taking a Boston train for the first time when his girlfriend fell onto the tracks; he jumped down to save her and died after hitting the electrified third rail

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Israeli PM Netanyahu's son urgently evacuated from US over 'significant threat'

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In 1944, Polish priest Henry Denis endured Nazi malaria experiments at Dachau; after surviving the camp, he fulfilled his vow by building Our Lady of Fatima Shrine in Nebraska

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Data Darbar: Trump backs server farm boom as protests grow in US

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He started washing dishes at 15 in a small Washington cafe; decades later Michael Mina had built a restaurant empire with more than 25 restaurants

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A WWII-era training plane was packed into boxes in 1953; its owner carried the pieces through 3 moves for 50 years before the forgotten aircraft was finally restored

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In 1943, two Jewish refugees fleeing the Nazis bought a crumbling Los Angeles mansion for $9,000; 83 years later, after the Palisades Fire forced it shut, Villa Aurora has reopened

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This Nebraska town once had 150 residents, shops and a school. Today, one 84-year-old woman serves as mayor and runs it alone

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'My jaw physically dropped like a cartoon': US woman summoned to court on wedding day in Rome

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A Miami man posed as the son of a 94-year-old woman and put himself on the title of her $625,000 home; 3 years after his arrest, he has been sentenced to 20 years in prison

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In 1937, Pittsburgh built a 102-foot water tank that doubled as a park lookout; closed for decades, it is getting a $3 million restoration to reopen its 154-step climb and skyline view

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A four-month-old baby was buried without a marker in 1906; 120 years later her cemetery finally gave her a headstone

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Kudzu was brought to America as a garden plant; scientists now warn its tangled vines can become wildfire fuel

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In 2016, Arkansas tried to blow up a 93-year-old bridge to begin a $98.4 million replacement; the explosives went off and the bridge simply wobbled back into place

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17-year-old girl who recorded California mosque shooting livestream charged with murder

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This Texas basin was once dismissed as a 'graveyard'. Now its oil economy supports 853,924 jobs and generates billions in economic activity across the US

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In 2024, Hurricane Helene lifted a concrete Virginia bridge off its foundation and pushed it to the shoreline; after $195.5 million in regional repairs, its replacement opens today

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About 20 years ago, Dawn Robinson paid $40,000 for 2.4 acres in New Jersey; Middle Township later offered her $47,000 and is now trying to take the land for a 340-home project

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New York Times Square stabbing: Who is Pamela Cisneros? Woman behind attack had mental health history

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Quote of the day by Warren Buffett: "Rule No. 1: Never lose money. Rule No. 2: Never..."

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Lindsay Clancy trial: No verdict after 17 hours of jury deliberations; hearing to continue Tuesday

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In 2014, a Colorado couple bought land to build a family ranch; by 2025 bird species had risen from 29 to 37 and grassland-bird detections doubled from 178 to 356

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Idaho is building a $20.8 million wildlife highway crossing to help deer migrate under a busy highway without losing lives

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In 1965, Bob Hope bought a 212-acre former Hollywood movie ranch; after thousands of Westerns were filmed there, plans emerged to turn much of it into a park

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In 2015, Alibaba founder Jack Ma paid $23 million for 28,100 acres in New York's Adirondacks; he planned to conserve its forests, trout streams and white-tailed deer habitat

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Trump-backed Freedom Fuel chain faces lawsuit over $4 million unpaid gas bill

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In 2012, a derelict 1866 Washington house was listed on a waterfront lot worth more without it; preservationists spent 6 years buying it and 8 more restoring it before reopening it in 2026

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A Florida clock survived nearly a century outdoors; one clockmaker has now spent about 700 hours restoring its 95-year-old hands, dial and metalwork

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'This is real': Pete Hegseth appears to mock Canadian military woman amid US-Canada tensions

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In 1985, Harrison Ford began protecting 389 acres of his 800-acre Wyoming ranch from development, preserving a migration corridor for elk and mule deer

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In 1968–1969, Robert Redford acquired a Utah ski area and surrounding land amid development pressure; his family later placed 865 acres of wildlife habitat under permanent protection

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In 1996, CNN founder Ted Turner bought a reported 558,000-acre New Mexico ranch; conservation work expanded its bison herd and restored about 30 miles of streams

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A YouTuber spent 4 years helping strangers find lost relatives; then a DNA test gave him a 22.7% match with a 66-year-old Texas woman who turned out to be his long-lost sister

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Melinda French Gates' father worked on NASA's Apollo missions; the women engineers she met at his company picnics shaped her thinking

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Laurene Powell Jobs left Wall Street and moved to Florence for eight months, then built a multibillion-dollar empire funding education, climate and social change

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A Missouri man bought the 1914 mansion his late wife had always loved to save it from redevelopment; restoration later revealed $150,000 worth of hidden damage

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Scientists used geothermal drill-hole temperatures in Oregon's Cascades and found at least 81 cubic kilometres of water hidden in volcanic rock, nearly 3 times Lake Mead's capacity

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Watch: Woman with mental health history charges at NYPD officers with kitchen knives before being shot

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US states, consumer watchdog file lawsuit against Amazon for manipulating advertising prices

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Oklahoma man found beneath a flyover at 92 pounds after 20 years of addiction goes from homelessness to graduating with a 4.0 GPA and two degrees

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A Guatemalan immigrant began delivering pizzas in Dallas in 1987; decades later she built a franchise training organisation

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In 1941, comedian Jack Oakie bought a California ranch; decades later his widow fought to save its last 9 acres from development

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US army secretary Dan Driscoll steps down amid tensions with Pentagon chief Hegseth: Report

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Times Square stabbing: 1 killed, another critically injured; suspect shot dead by NYPD

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A 19th-century Colorado mining town was abandoned; a German investor bought the entire ghost town in the 1990s and spent decades rebuilding it

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