World News

September 19, 2026

Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi paid $6.7 million for a 1917 Santa Barbara farmhouse in 2018, spent a year restoring it, sold it in 2019 — and it’s now relisted for $14.75 million

September 19, 2026

‘He’s paying him back’: Trump defends Russian oligarch funding his son’s Bahamas wedding

September 19, 2026

Flights at Luxembourg airport on hold after drone activity forces shutdown

September 19, 2026

In 1998, Alaska miner Barry Clay was pushing dirt with a bulldozer near Ruby when he uncovered a 294.1-ounce gold nugget; 23 years later, the state’s largest recorded nugget sold for $750,000

September 19, 2026

California kept 2,060 coastal acres closed to the public as a buffer around Diablo Canyon nuclear plant; after plans for luxury homes, a $42 million deal will turn the land into trails, campsites and protected coastline

September 19, 2026

In 1984, Johnny Carson bought a 4-acre Malibu estate for about $9.5 million; decades later, subsequent owners asked $81.5 million before the property finally sold for $40 million after major price cuts

September 19, 2026

North America loses its monopoly on dinosaur fossils; fourteen tail vertebrae just turned up in Spain and experts have identified it as Diplodocus

September 19, 2026

In 2014, Leonardo DiCaprio’s foundation donated $1 million, helping save African elephants who were being killed for their ivory tusks at a rate of 100 per day

September 19, 2026

A Georgia city moved a pre-Civil War house out of the way of a hotel project instead of demolishing it; after a $500,000 relocation and restoration, it is becoming a coffee shop

September 19, 2026

In 2024, Narelle Zanker turned her 4,000-acre family dairy farm into a classroom; 2 years later, her Dairy Adventures had welcomed 1,200+ visitors and won the 2026 Rural Women’s Award