Month: June 2024

Jun
18
2024
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By Lily Chang
Disney’s Splash Mountain will reopen with a Princess Tiana theme

Disney’s Splash Mountain will reopen with a Princess Tiana theme

Investments and Business
More news - Latest news Tiana's Bayou Adventure uses the same trails as Splash Mountain, and riders continue to ride in vehicles made to look like hollowed-out logs. But everything else has been redesigned. Instead of a suspenseful story that sees Br'er Rabbit thrown into a field of brambles, the new attraction focuses on a Mardi Gras party: Tiana and her friend Louis, a trumpet-playing alligator, are on a quest to creatures to form a gang with. Midway through the film, the cheerful Mama Odie, a voodoo queen in "The Princess and the Frog" and now a "fairy godmother of…
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Jun
18
2024
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By Lily Chang
Morrie Markoff, considered the oldest man in the United States, dies at 110

Morrie Markoff, considered the oldest man in the United States, dies at 110

Health
Related media - Recent news As of April, the world's oldest living man is believed to be Englishman John Alfred Tinniswood at 111 years old, according to Guinness World Records. (Guinness lists María Branyas Morera, a California native living in Spain, as the world's oldest woman, at 117.) When Mr. Markoff heard the news of his rise to the top of the list, "he just smiled and said, 'Well, someone has to be there,'" his daughter said in an interview. He stood out not only for his longevity but also for a lucidity unusual for his age. Until her final…
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Jun
17
2024
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By Lily Chang
BTS’s Jin completes military service

BTS’s Jin completes military service

Politics
More news - Breaking news K-pop juggernaut BTS is one step closer to a reunion. The first member of the boy band to enlist in South Korea's army, Jin, 31, was discharged Wednesday morning, BTS' label said. Over the next year, his bandmates are expected to complete their military service, which is required of nearly all South Korean men. BTS shocked their own army – as the seven-member group's fervent following is collectively known – in June 2022 when they said they would take time off to enlist. Jin, the group's oldest member, whose birth name is Kim Seok-jin, began…
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Jun
17
2024
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By Lily Chang
Crisis in the Middle East: Blinken defines some Hamas changes to the ceasefire proposal as “unacceptable”.

Crisis in the Middle East: Blinken defines some Hamas changes to the ceasefire proposal as “unacceptable”.

Social Responsibility
More news - Recent news A United Nations commission investigating the October 7 attacks on Israel and the resulting conflict in Gaza accused both Palestinian armed groups and Israel of committing war crimes, and the commission said Israel's conduct of the war included crimes against humanity.In a report released on Wednesday, the three-person commission – led by Navi Pillay, a former UN human rights chief – provided the UN's most detailed examination yet of the events since 7 October. The report itself does not entail any sanctions. , but presents a legal analysis of actions in the Gaza conflict that…
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