A massive overnight rock fall has buried the entrance to one of Cornwall's most beloved landmarks, a sea cave featured in the BBC's Poldark series, and locals say the loss is permanent. Hundreds of tons of rock and debris crashed down onto Holywell Cave on Holywell Bay near Newquay, Cornwall, sometime during the night of […] The post Cornwall's famed Poldark cave sealed permanently after massive cliff collapse appeared first on American Almanac .
A massive overnight rock fall has buried the entrance to one of Cornwall's most beloved landmarks, a sea cave featured in the BBC's Poldark series, and locals say the loss is permanent. Hundreds of tons of rock and debris crashed down onto Holywell Cave on Holywell Bay near Newquay, Cornwall, sometime during the night of Sunday, August 30, sealing off a site that had drawn pilgrims, tourists, and film crews for centuries. No injuries were reported, but the Newquay Coastguard search and rescue team warned the surrounding cliff face remains unstable and urged the public to stay away. The collapse wiped out access to a cave also known as St Cuthbert's Cave, a low-tide destination famous for its vividly colored interior rock and a freshwater…Open
Freddie Mercury's former fiancée and lifelong confidante Mary Austin has published a 318-page book built around the Queen frontman's handwritten lyrics, manuscripts she discovered hidden inside a piano stool at the West London home he left her when he died of AIDS in 1991. Austin, who has rarely spoken publicly about Mercury in the thirty-five […] The post Mary Austin breaks decades of silence on Freddie Mercury in new book of handwritten lyrics appeared first on American Almanac .
Freddie Mercury's former fiancée and lifelong confidante Mary Austin has published a 318-page book built around the Queen frontman's handwritten lyrics, manuscripts she discovered hidden inside a piano stool at the West London home he left her when he died of AIDS in 1991. Austin, who has rarely spoken publicly about Mercury in the thirty-five years since his death, sat for an exclusive interview with USA TODAY from her home in London to discuss *A Life in Lyrics: The Official Creative Legacy of Freddie Mercury*, published by HarperCollins. The book pairs dozens of pages of Mercury's lyrics, written in small, cursive penmanship on British Midland airline notepads, with Austin's own contextualizing text, personal photos, and art…Open
A Republican congressional staffer survived a lightning strike just feet from his parked car on a Staten Island street, collapsing to the pavement before a neighbor rushed to help, and he was back home the next day. Thomas Fahmy, a staffer in Rep. Nicole Malliotakis's Staten Island office, was walking to a dentist appointment on […] The post GOP congressional staffer struck by lightning on Staten Island sidewalk — and walked away appeared first on American Almanac .
A Republican congressional staffer survived a lightning strike just feet from his parked car on a Staten Island street, collapsing to the pavement before a neighbor rushed to help, and he was back home the next day. Thomas Fahmy, a staffer in Rep. Nicole Malliotakis's Staten Island office, was walking to a dentist appointment on Todt Avenue during a thunderstorm when a bolt of lightning hit him. CCTV footage captured the moment: Fahmy, umbrella in hand, passed a white picket fence and dropped to the ground. He estimated he was roughly 15 to 20 feet from his car when the strike landed. Fahmy survived. He spent one night at Northwell Staten Island University Hospital for evaluation and walked out the following day with no burns and no…Open
Tom Cruise visited Daytona International Speedway ahead of the Coke Zero Sugar 400 and paused at an empty chair bearing Kyle Busch's name, a small, wordless gesture that spoke to the NASCAR community's lasting grief. Cruise, 64, attended the drivers' meeting at the iconic Florida track before Saturday's race. During the session, he spotted the […] The post Tom Cruise pays quiet tribute to the late Kyle Busch at Daytona drivers' meeting appeared first on American Almanac .
Tom Cruise visited Daytona International Speedway ahead of the Coke Zero Sugar 400 and paused at an empty chair bearing Kyle Busch's name, a small, wordless gesture that spoke to the NASCAR community's lasting grief. Cruise, 64, attended the drivers' meeting at the iconic Florida track before Saturday's race. During the session, he spotted the chair set aside for Busch, the two-time Cup Series champion who died on May 21 at age 41. Cruise looked down at the seat, then gently patted it with his hand. The Sun published photographs of the moment, and the images drew an immediate response from fans online. One fan wrote: "That's respect, thank you Tom Cruise." No grand speech. No press conference. Just a hand on an empty chair, and a…Open
Dolly Parton's family chose to shield the public from her cancer battle because the 80-year-old singer "never wanted to worry anybody", a decision her niece says left even close relatives in shock when the end came. Jada Star, Parton's niece and the daughter of Parton's sister Frieda, sat down with Extra in an interview published […] The post Dolly Parton's niece reveals why the country icon kept her cancer diagnosis secret appeared first on American Almanac .
Dolly Parton's family chose to shield the public from her cancer battle because the 80-year-old singer "never wanted to worry anybody", a decision her niece says left even close relatives in shock when the end came. Jada Star, Parton's niece and the daughter of Parton's sister Frieda, sat down with Extra in an interview published September 1 to describe the private grief behind one of the most public losses in American music. Parton died August 25 at a Nashville medical center, surrounded by loved ones, after what her representatives called a brief battle with cancer. The specific type of cancer has not been disclosed. The interview offered the first extended family account of why Parton, a woman who built a career on openness,…Open
Pennsylvania's largest school district partnered with a self-described "revolutionary" organization to run mandatory "liberation" workshops for students, led in part by a convicted felon with a record of antisemitic statements. The School District of Philadelphia hosted a series of symposia between 2025 and 2026 organized through a partnership between a 10th-grade history teacher and the […] The post Philadelphia schools brought a convicted felon and prison abolition group into classrooms for mandatory student workshops appeared first on American Almanac .
Pennsylvania's largest school district partnered with a self-described "revolutionary" organization to run mandatory "liberation" workshops for students, led in part by a convicted felon with a record of antisemitic statements. The School District of Philadelphia hosted a series of symposia between 2025 and 2026 organized through a partnership between a 10th-grade history teacher and the W.E.B. Du Bois Movement School for Abolition and Reconstruction, an outfit that openly describes itself as a "political education program for aspiring revolutionaries." Among the facilitators who led sessions for children as young as seventh grade: Anthony Smith, who pleaded guilty to a felony for his role in torching a police car during the riots…Open
"I'm not going to play the game where I throw friends under the bus because I have political disagreements with them. I think that is a terrible place for the United States to go," he said during the White House press briefing.
It’s wild the way Democrats and the dying news media love to pipe up whenever someone gets hurt in the course of immigration law enforcement. It’s an inadvertent reminder that President Trump is doing something right and we’re only still in this godforsaken mess because of them. The latest incident involves a Haitian migrant, 20-year-old […]
Gloria Steinem, the American journalist and political activist who became the face of second-wave feminism in the late 1960s and early 1970s, has died at age 92, according to her verified Instagram account. Steinem died Wednesday in New York City, “surrounded by some of the many who loved her,” the statement on social media said. “Gloria’s near-century on earth were years well-lived, and she continued working for equality until the very end,” the statement read. Steinem was a feminist icon who spent the better part of a century advocating for women’s rights in the workplace, the right to abortion and sex education. Her name and face became almost synonymous with the fight for women’s rights. She continued to be a vocal…
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