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Times of India - US News

US - Sep 15, 2026 - A Texas family donated a 153-acre ranch for a sports park; the site is now being transformed into a tournament complex for baseball, softball and soccer

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Meet Aditya Sengupta, the 18-year-old Bellevue student who built an AI system to better predict dangerous clear-air turbulence; his research won $100,000

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Good heavens! US reveals it has placed weapons in space

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US - Sep 15, 2026 - 'You have been so drunk': Democrat senator takes on Kash Patel over alcoholism test, FBI hiring rules

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In 1998, Pittsburgh's last operating steel mill closed, leaving 178 riverfront acres vacant; 28 years later, 700,000 sq ft has been built or is underway for robotics, biotech, housing and parks

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Trump promises $5,000 for every American adult: How will it affect US economy

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In 2011, New York covered five acres of Lake George with more than 700 mats to suffocate invasive Asian clams; 97% died, but the invader later spread to 27 locations

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Who is Jonathan Hunter Kramer? Pennsylvania man arrested with rifle, 190 rounds of fire in alleged IS-inspired plot

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Trump slams 3 justices he nominated after mail-voting setback: 'Not the people I interviewed'

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Penn's Cave opened to visitors in 1885 and has been run by the same Pennsylvania family since 1908; after four generations, its owners want the 1,500-acre property to become a state park rather than be developed

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At 22, Jayden Williams became Stockbridge's youngest mayor; 10 months later, the city council removed him after a 10-hour misconduct hearing

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In 1995, Discovery Channel founder John Hendricks bought a Colorado ranch and turned it into a 7,000-acre estate before listing it for $149 million

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Developers once planned Adirondack Park's largest residential project on 5,800 New York acres; after years of failure and foreclosure litigation, the land is headed for public auction

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Matthew McConaughey on why he didn't let his son Levi have social media until 15: "He wanted it when he was 12..."

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The US and Mexico have shared the Colorado River since 1944; a new deal will cut Mexico's allocation by 250,000 acre-feet, about 17%, for two years

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FBI director Kash Patel to face Senate panel over leadership, spending, and 2020 election probe

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Jacksonville donated 20 acres for a new university campus; the $300 million project will bring graduate programmes and semiconductor research downtown

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Ohio wants to add 118 acres around a rare wetland to a nature preserve; if funding comes through, the protected habitat could grow to 450 acres and the family has offered to donate its house and 3 more acres

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'Born without making a sound': New docs reveal chilling details about Trump rally shooter

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In 2024, this woman spent a night inside the real Conjuring House, the 1736 Rhode Island farmhouse where the Perron family reported horrifying experiences

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A Wisconsin family tried for years to drain nearly 2,000 floodplain acres for farming; after the effort struggled and a tax fight followed, the land is now permanently protected along 2+ miles of the Sugar River

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Texas landowners are suing to stop border work through Big Bend under a $46 billion federal push; the 500-mile region has historically accounted for about 1% of arrests

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In 1901, Theodore Roosevelt rushed to Buffalo by train after McKinley died and took office in a friend's library; 125 years later, it is reenacted in the same room

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An Ohio community is negotiating to buy 850 acres from a coal company; if successful, the public forest could link about 74,000 acres between Wayne National Forest and Strouds Run State Park

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In 1907, New Jersey's Clementon Park opened; after surviving a 1931 fire and a $2.37 million foreclosure rescue in 2021, it has permanently closed; now the 52-acre site goes on sale

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Russian businessman funded Trump Jr's Bahamas wedding after-party

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A Texas farmer stopped planting cotton and sent his sheep to solar farms; the switch turned a potential $200,000 loss into $300,000 profit

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'Was laughing': Video shows Indian-origin woman, friend moments before NYC subway train ran over them

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Trump faces fresh setback as judge blocks stricter foreign student visa rule

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Trump's handpicked prosecutor resigns from DOJ probe after clash with attorney general

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Indian-origin man, woman killed by train after sitting on NYC subway tracks

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Trump's mail ballot push hits Supreme Court roadblock ahead of crucial midterms

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Jimmy Buffett helped turn Florida's manatee into a conservation symbol; the singer became involved with the campaign decades before the species' recovery

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Iran strikes damaged US bases, embassies across 8 countries: Pentagon watchdog

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Trump slams AI guardrails, calls it a 'sick conspiracy'

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A 15-year-old started collecting unwanted shoes after school; she has now gathered 1,913 pairs for people in need

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Abbott agrees to pay nearly $385 million to US government over alleged false claims tied to infant formula made at Michigan facility; contamination allegations, company history and settlement explained

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Tourists leave behind "lint bunnies" inside the world's longest cave; volunteers have removed about 600 pounds of human debris

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In 2011, a Massachusetts dairy installed the state's first agricultural digester; by 2020, manure and food waste were saving it $155,000 a year on heat, fertiliser, and bedding

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Texas bought a 1,700-acre Hill Country ranch for a new state park; unlike nearby Garner, planners want it rugged, with Frio River access only after miles of backcountry hiking

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A Cleveland district fell from nearly 100,000 residents in the 1960s to fewer than 20,000, leaving blocks looking like countryside; a new plan now aims to build 200 homes and could generate up to $182 million for streets, parks and sewers

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A US grandfather planned a $100,000-$150,000 treehouse for his grandkids; it grew into a $325,000 backyard castle with a pirate ship and 200-foot zipline

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Meet Meera Ramaswami: The Ann Arbor inventor who turned her grandmother's fall into a patented mobility device and launched a company

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In 1835, Free Frank McWorter, a formerly enslaved man, paid $100 for 80 Illinois acres; a year later he founded New Philadelphia, and 191 years later nearly 20 acres entered NPS ownership

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Scientists planted 150,650 native koa trees on Hawaii's abandoned pasture, but 20 years later endangered birds were moving into the young forest

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A Connecticut brass mill closed in 1986 and left behind a contaminated 66-acre site; 40 years later the town plans to turn it into a public works campus while converting its old yard into a riverside park

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Bangalore Masters swimming team SwimLife Orcas does the Historic Catalina Channel Double Crossing - first by an Asian team

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Generous gift from a dear friend: Donald Trump's daughter-in-law breaks silence on oligarch funding her wedding; says there is no mystery, no conspiracy

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Trump's Green Card rule challenged by a coalition of states and local governments who call new policy 'catastrophic'

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'Unleash American energy': Trump moves to scrap Biden-era carbon limits on US coal & gas power plants

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In 1990, Tennessee siblings planted 240 acres of former fields and pastures with loblolly pine; 28 years later, their entire 852-acre family property passed to a land trust for conservation

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Texas politics inflamed by MAGA cowboys v Indians row

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Trump claims Russia, Ukraine agree to stop hitting each other's energy targets

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​In the 1940s, a Wampanoag couple opened a restaurant overlooking Martha's Vineyard's Gay Head Cliffs; their descendants are now raising $8 million to buy back and restore the 3.5-acre property

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A Tennessee farmer leased 100 acres of his century-old family land for solar rather than sell it; in 2026, the 147 MW project went live, and the lease helped keep the farm in the family

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'High IQ president' is all AI needs: Trump backs US lead, blames China for 'sick conspiracy'

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A West Virginia family with roots around Audra stretching back 175 years donated 47 acres to the state park; one gift increases the entire park by about 13%

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In 1996, US established a court to quickly remove foreign terrorists from the country. Afghanistan's Nazira Haji Zada became the first one to be deported three decades later

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