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New York’s first legal recreational marijuana shop opens

December 31, 2022965 Views

The first licensed marijuana store in New York opened on Thursday, more than a year after the state legalized the drug and during delays in setting up the legal market to benefit people previously arrested for marijuana crimes. The dispensary was opened in New York City's East Village by Housing Works, a non-profit organization that fights homelessness and AIDS. The non-profit was among the first 36 groups or individuals that the state awarded with a marijuana retail license last month. A woman scans marijuana products before the opening of the first legal recreational marijuana dispensary located in the East Village in the Manhattan borough of New York City, U.S., December 29, 2022. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz "We're prioritizing repairing harm, harm that's been done even by the state...

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Blockbuster museum show breaks attendance records

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December 29, 20221071 Views

Ben Mankiewicz dazzles hundreds of fans at “Art of the Hollywood Backdrop” The Boca Raton Museum of Art at Florida, US presents the world premiere of this larger-than-life show, the first dedicated museum exhibition of its kind honoring the unsung heroes of Hollywood’s artistic DNA, going back through time almost 100 years. Ben Mankiewicz, the primetime host of Turner Classic Movies (TCM), greeted hundreds of fans and kicked off a series of Holiday events at the Boca Raton Museum of Art’s acclaimed exhibition “Art of the Hollywood Backdrop,” now in its final few weeks of a spectacular run. “I am honored to have been invited by the Boca Raton Museum of Art to be part of the Art of the Hollywood Backdrop, before this stellar museum experience concludes its successful debut,” ...

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‘Gift of love’ Waterford crystals placed on Times Square New Year’s Eve ball

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December 28, 2022798 Views

Nearly 200 new Waterford crystals were installed on the New Year's Eve ball in Times Square in New York on Tuesday in preparation for Saturday's celebration to welcome in 2023. A workers holds up one of the new Waterford Crystal triangles featuring this year's "Gift of Love" design on the Times Square New Year's Eve Ball on the roof of One Times Square in Manhattan, New York City, U.S., December 27, 2022. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz Since 1999, replacements for the 2,688 crystal panels that make up the ball have been designed and made by hand by Irish craftsmen at Waterford. Each year, a new theme is chosen. This year's theme was the "Gift of Love," incorporating intertwining love hearts, said Waterford master artisan Tom Brennan at the Times Square site. "We need this after the pan...

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Buffalo faces more snow after deadliest storm in decades

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December 27, 2022445 Views

Storm-battered Buffalo braced Tuesday for fresh snow while still counting fatalities and striving to recover from the deadliest storm in western New York in at least two generations. Mayor Byron Brown’s office announced seven additional storm-related deaths Tuesday, bringing Buffalo’s total to 27, along with at least seven suburban fatalities. The toll surpasses that of the historic Blizzard of 1977, blamed for killing as many as 29 people in a region known for harsh winter weather. Tommy Roetzer digs out his driveway on West Delavan Street in Buffalo, N.Y., on Monday, Dec. 26, 2022. (Derek Gee/The Buffalo News via AP) The National Weather Service predicted that as much as 2 inches (2.5 to 5 centimeters) more snow could fall Tuesday in Erie County, which includes Buffalo. It is t...

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Deadly blizzard, deemed worst in 45 years

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December 26, 2022763 Views

Extreme cold, travel chaos: Woes from deadly storm continue The deep freeze from a deadly winter storm that walloped much of the United States will continue into the week as people in western New York deal with massive snow drifts that snarled emergency vehicles and travelers across the country see canceled flights and dangerous roads. Road and utility crews faced the task on Monday of digging out and restoring some normalcy around Buffalo, New York, where a blizzard considered the area's worst in 45 years buried snow plows, stranded motorists in cars and killed at least 13 people. Vehicles are left stranded on the road following a winter storm that hit the Buffalo region in Amherst, New York, U.S., December 25, 2022. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid The lethal blizzard took form late...

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Frigid weather doesn’t stop Santas surfing off Florida coast

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December 25, 2022716 Views

For the surfing Santas off Florida’s central coast, the Atlantic Ocean felt more like the North Pole than the Sunshine State as temperatures on Saturday morning plunged to around freezing, while freeze warnings were in place for at least half of the state. Parts of the Florida Panhandle had wind chills that dipped into the single digits on Saturday morning, and interior parts of central Florida had temperatures plunging as low as 27 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 2.7 Celsius degrees). “It’s a frigid start to your #ChristmasEve across the area,” the National Weather Service in Tallahassee tweeted. Surfer Corey Howell in a space man Surfing Santa suit, rides with waves with other surfing Santas for the 14th annual Surfing Santas of Cocoa Beach event Christmas Eve morning, Saturday, Dec....

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U.S. deep freeze forecast to break Christmas Eve records

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December 24, 2022959 Views

An arctic blast gripped much of the United States on Saturday driving power outages, flight cancellations and car wrecks, as plummeting temperatures were predicted to bring the coldest Christmas Eve on record to several cities from Pennsylvania to Georgia. Battering winter storm knocked out power to 1.7 million homes and businesses across the United States on Saturday, left millions more to worry about the prospect of further outages and crippled police, fire departments and an airport in snow-blown New York state. A view of a car covered in snow after heavy snowfall in Regent, North Dakota, U.S. December 23, 2022, in this picture obtained from social media. Blake Rafferty/Twitter@BlakeRafferty1/via REUTERS Temperatures are forecast to top out on Saturday at just 7 degrees Fahren...

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Bye-bye Ya Ya and Le Le: Memphis pandas to be returned to China

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December 22, 2022511 Views

A zoo in Memphis, Tennessee, is returning two giant pandas that had been on loan from China for 20 years, prompting celebrations by animal advocates who said the health of the animals had deteriorated due to neglect. The announcement on Wednesday came after months of criticism by In Defense of Animals and other advocacy groups that have accused the zoo of providing inadequate care to the pandas, Ya Ya and Le Le. Critics called on the zoo to provide them with better food, more uncaged time and ultimately a transfer to a panda refuge. LeLe the Giant Panda eats bamboo in his habitat at The Memphis Zoo, November 1, 2022. REUTERS/Karen Pulfer Focht IDA posted a video on Twitter in February that showed the pandas pacing in circles around their enclosure as proof they were suffering fro...

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Threat of ‘bomb cyclone’ looms large over US holiday travel

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December 21, 20221090 Views

A powerful winter storm is expected to blanket a large swath of the United States with bitterly cold weather, heavy snowfall and life-threatening wind chills starting on Wednesday, complicating holiday travel plans for millions of Americans. Heavy snowfall and low visibility from a strong winter storm blanketing Pacific Canada has already forced the Canada's second busiest airport in Vancouver to halt all flights on Tuesday morning, with disruptions expected to continue ahead of the Christmas weekend. The same storm is expected to bring the nasty weather to a large swath of the United States, extending from the Northwest and Great Plains southeast into the Appalachians. It will likely lead to flight delays and impassable roadways during one of the busiest travel periods of the y...

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Mystery Nevada fossil site could be ancient maternity ward

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December 21, 2022162 Views

Scientists have uncovered new clues about a curious fossil site in Nevada, a graveyard for dozens of giant marine reptiles. Instead of the site of a massive die-off as suspected, it might have been an ancient maternity ward where the creatures came to give birth. The site is famous for its fossils from giant ichthyosaurs — reptiles that dominated the ancient seas and could grow up to the size of a school bus. The creatures — the name means fish lizard — were underwater predators with large paddle-shaped flippers and long jaws full of teeth. This illustration provided by the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in December 2022 depicts a group of adult and newly born Triassic shonisaurus ichthyosaurs. (Gabriel Ugueto/NMNH via AP) Since the ichthyosaur bones in Nevada wer...