A 270-Year-Old Scottish Folk Fiddle Makes Its Carnegie Hall Debut
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A 270-Year-Old Scottish Folk Fiddle Makes Its Carnegie Hall Debut

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Of course there will be bagpipes on Saturday, the eve of Tartan Day, when Carnegie Hall will host a lineup of stars. Among the luminaries of Scottish traditional music will be Julie Fowlis, who was featured in the soundtrack to Disney’s “Brave”; and…

White House Orders C.I.A. to Send an Unclassified Email With Names of Some Employees
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White House Orders C.I.A. to Send an Unclassified Email With Names of Some Employees

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The White House ordered the C.I.A. to send an unclassified email listing all employees hired by the spy agency over the last two years to comply with an executive order to shrink the federal work force, in a move that former officials say…

C.I.A. Now Favors Lab Leak Theory to Explain Covid’s Origins
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C.I.A. Now Favors Lab Leak Theory to Explain Covid’s Origins

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The C.I.A. has said for years that it did not have enough information to conclude whether the Covid pandemic emerged naturally from a wet market in Wuhan, China, or from an accidental leak at a research lab there. But the agency issued a…

Opinion | The Best Time to Fireproof Los Angeles Was Yesterday
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Opinion | The Best Time to Fireproof Los Angeles Was Yesterday

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines “The city burning is Los Angeles’s deepest image of itself,” Joan Didion wrote way back in the 1960s. And on X and Truth Social and, indeed, Fox News, they were playing the hits, too — the fires were not the result of climate…

R. Nicholas Burns, U.S. Ambassador, Says China Is Aligned With ‘Agents of Disorder’
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R. Nicholas Burns, U.S. Ambassador, Says China Is Aligned With ‘Agents of Disorder’

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The United States ambassador to China, R. Nicholas Burns, said the Biden administration is making a last push to try to persuade China to stop transferring equipment to Russia for the war in Ukraine. Mr. Burns, in an interview at the U.S. embassy…

Texas cheerleaders burned during punishment by coach on hot track at Lubbock’s Evans Middle School
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Texas cheerleaders burned during punishment by coach on hot track at Lubbock’s Evans Middle School

A Texas middle school teacher was placed on leave when she allegedly forced her middle school cheerleading team to crawl around on a blazing hot track as a sick form of punishment, leaving the teens with first and second-degree burns. Thirteen eighth-grade girls on the Evans Middle School cheer squad…

North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson hospitalized for burns after ‘incident’ at truck show
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North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson hospitalized for burns after ‘incident’ at truck show

Embattled North Carolina Republican Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson was hospitalized Friday after an “incident” during a campaign stop at a truck show left him with burns.  “Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson is currently being treated for burns following an incident at a campaign event in Mt. Airy,” Matt Hurley, a campaign…

European tourist suffers severe burns walking on Death Valley sand dunes
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European tourist suffers severe burns walking on Death Valley sand dunes

A European tourist suffered third-degree burns on his feet while walking on scorching sand dunes in Death Valley National Park after he lost his flip-flops over the weekend, according to park officials. The 42-year-old Belgium national was rushed to the hospital after walking barefoot on the Mesquite Flat Sand Dunes…

Jay Leno shows off his ‘brand new face’ after suffering third-degree burns
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Jay Leno shows off his ‘brand new face’ after suffering third-degree burns

Jay Leno joked he’s got a “brand new face” during an appearance on “The Kelly Clarkson Show” Wednesday. The former “Tonight Show” host endured a horrific car fire accident on Nov. 12 that left him with third-degree burns on his face, chest, and hands. The 72-year-old was met with loud…