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Animal shelters across Nova Scotia are struggling to keep pet food pantries stocked, highlighting a 50-per cent increase in demand since last year. Bide Awhile, a shelter in Dartmouth that runs a pet food pantry to support low-income families and students in taking care of their pets, noticed its pantry began to run low last week. It reached out to the community for help and was quickly inundated with almost 200 Amazon packages.Liesje Somers-Blonde, the executive director of Bide Awhile Animal Shelter, was overwhelmed.” So far, we’ve received 197 Amazon packages,” Somers-Blonde says. “Five local pet food stores have contacted…

Oklahoma Sooners softball coach Patty Gasso defended her players after some attended an event hosted by women’s sports advocate Riley Gaines last week.Gaines has championed fairness in women’s sports since Lia Thomas tied with her at the NCAA Championships in 2022. Thomas also became the first transgender athlete to win an NCAA women’s swimming championship. Since then, current and former female athletes have come together to keep biological males out of women’s sports. Oklahoma head softball coach Patty Gasso is pictured during the college softball game between the University of Oklahoma Sooners and the UCF Knights at Love’s Field in…

Central Wheatbelt MLA Lachlan Hunter has been promoted to the State’s shadow agriculture minister after the Liberals and the Nationals agreed to work in alliance to hold Labor to account.  

The Japan Business Federation (Keidanren) said on Monday that the world stands at the “crossroads” of whether free trade can be maintained. “The world has flourished through the free trade system and free trade since the end of World War II. The driving force behind this system is the US,” chairman Masakazu Tokura told a press conference. “The US itself has (now) raised tariffs, and protectionist moves have emerged in response because various countries needed to counteract these moves,” Tokura said. “To put it in a dramatic way, we hold a sense of urgency that we stand at the crossroads…

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Kevin Bacon wanted to get away from the spotlight after “Footloose” was released in 1984, but his wife Kyra Sedgwick had other plans.During a recent episode of the YouTube show, “Mythical Kitchen’s Last Meals,” Bacon admitted that his dream was to be a “lonely” farmer, living on a rural farm with just his dog.”I think I had gone through the intensity of ‘Footloose,’ and exploding into a kind of national kind of stardom, and then trying to deal with that,” Bacon said. He revealed that it felt like his life went from “zero to 60,” and he was looking for…

On a recent Thursday, journalists cramming into the White House press briefing room saw an unfamiliar face in a rotating seat designated for new media.It was occupied by John Stoll, who had recently been appointed head of news at X, the social platform owned by Elon Musk.“As you all know — you are all on X — it’s home to hundreds of millions of users, a large contingent of independent journalists and news organizations across geographies and political spectrums,” said Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, by way of an introduction. She then directed Mr. Stoll to ask the…

It was gray and drizzly in Houston — a perfect day to be sucked into an alternate universe.A mysterious statue of a bearded man encrusted head to toe in pastel shells, barnacles and other sea life caught the attention of two visitors. One of them, a young boy, uttered a few words into a microphone, and suddenly the creatures began to pulse and glow. A symphony of chirps, squawks and sounds reminiscent of whale songs and pipe organs resonated through a forest of neon-colored coral.Lisa Hlavacek, 35, and her 3-year-old son, Arthur, were visiting Radio Tave, the latest immersive art…

Deaths add to the casualty numbers in what has been declared the deadliest ever war for media workers.An Israeli air attack on a media tent in Gaza has killed at least two people. The bombing near the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis early on Monday also wounded several other reporters, according to local media. The attack was just the latest to result in the casualties of journalists, with Israel having been accused of deliberately targeting the press during its war in the enclave. The strike on the tent outside the hospital in southern Gaza at about 2am set it ablaze,…

As the Trump administration pursues an “all of the above” energy strategy, hydrogen experts welcome the new attention and are advancing efforts to make it a top, domestically-produced power source.The Pacific Northwest Hydrogen Association, one of seven “hubs” nationwide, partners with tribal, public and private concerns to build hydrogen production projects throughout their region.”Hydrogen has a lot of dexterity as a molecule, and it can be used for a host of different things,” PNWHA president Chris Green told Fox News Digital.Hydrogen can be a power source, but it more so is utilized as an energy carrier due to its periodic…