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by Hanna Erdmann on June 6, 2026 at 10:54 am
According to the Mayo Clinic, the condition involves the hardening and tightening of the skin, and there is no cure.
by Stan Boney on June 6, 2026 at 2:18 am
It’s the first Friday in June, and that means another First Friday event in Downtown Youngstown.
by Alex Imwalle on June 5, 2026 at 10:36 pm
Kellogg grew up in Beaver County, where he would often get a glimpse of skydivers from his backyard, but he never got the chance to try it himself. Until June 26, 2004, the day before his 43rd birthday.That’s when he made his way to Skydive Rick’s in Petersburg, went up in a plane, and his life changed forever.
by Stan Boney on June 5, 2026 at 10:07 pm
Monday, June 8, will be 100 years since the first Mass was celebrated at Youngstown’s St. Patrick Church.
by Gabriella Winans on June 5, 2026 at 9:06 pm
Federal agents arrested five people this morning after taking down a drug trafficking organization in Lawrence County.
by Susie Pinto on June 6, 2026 at 1:48 pm
“The Holocaust does not define me,” survivor Sami Steigman said.
by KONSTANTIN TOROPIN, Associated Press on June 6, 2026 at 12:18 pm
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth cut nine Navy officers, including all the women, from a promotion list.
by The Associated Press on June 6, 2026 at 12:05 pm
President Trump has issued a pardon to Stephen Buyer, who served nearly two years in prison for making illegal stock trades based on inside information after he left office.
by Adam Conn on June 6, 2026 at 11:07 am
The former Buckeye was drafted by the Denver Broncos in 2021 after four seasons at Ohio State.
by Hanna Erdmann on June 6, 2026 at 10:53 am
According to the Mayo Clinic, the condition involves the hardening and tightening of the skin, and there is no cure.
by Nick Evans, Ohio Capital Journal on June 5, 2026 at 4:13 pm
A bipartisan measure creating new oversight for JobsOhio got its first hearing Tuesday. The bid for greater transparency comes after a podcast scandal that cost the former Ohio State University president his job. But the drumbeat began before that incident. Former Gov. John Kasich structured the economic development agency as a nonprofit private corporation. JobsOhio The post Bipartisan JobsOhio Oversight Bill Gets First Hearing appeared first on Cleveland Scene.
by George Michaels on June 5, 2026 at 3:56 pm
Hometown heroes Devo returned to the place where it all started in Akron. The sold-out Akron Civic show was filled to the brim with a crowd frenzied with excitement. For 53 years Devo has entertained us songs like “Whip It” and “Girl U Want” and last night was no exception. Massive Hotdog Recall, fronted by The post Concert Photos: De-Evolution Lives on as Devo Returns to Akron appeared first on Cleveland Scene.
by Mark Oprea on June 5, 2026 at 2:19 pm
Literary Cleveland just got its largest piece of financial support in its 11 years of existence. Executive Director Matt Weinkam on Thursday announced that the nonprofit was one of 40 organizations and publishers, and the only one in Ohio, to receive a piece of an $8 million national grant from the New York-based Literary Arts The post Literary Cleveland Scores Big Grant from Arts Fund appeared first on Cleveland Scene.
by Douglas Trattner on June 5, 2026 at 2:04 pm
The new Ohio City Farm Store – officially the Glick Farm Store – opens today. The retail store is the latest, greatest addition to the five-acre urban farm, which was launched in 2010. “The farm’s goal, in supporting the mission of Re:Source Cleveland, is to create as many fair wage employment opportunities for international newcomers The post New Ohio City Farm Store Now Open appeared first on Cleveland Scene.
by ClevelandClassical Staff on June 5, 2026 at 2:03 pm
This weekend’s schedule offers a rich mix of stand-alone events — some with multiple performances — and intriguingly programmed festival concerts. JUNE 5 – FRIDAY On Friday, Armin Kelly’s Cleveland International Classical Guitar Festival (download the program book here) hosts the Kaleido Guitar Duo (Hao Yang and Kevin Loh, 7:30 in CIM’s Mixon Hall), and The post The Cleveland International Classical Guitar Festival and the Rest of the Classical Music to Catch This Weekend appeared first on Cleveland Scene.
by Harry J. Kazianis on June 2, 2026 at 3:49 pm
Summary and Key Points: In the waters off Florida in early 2015, a French nuclear attack submarine named Saphir — a 1970s-era Rubis-class boat, the smallest nuclear attack sub in service anywhere — threaded through the cruisers, destroyers, and helicopters screening the USS Theodore Roosevelt and fired simulated torpedoes into the aircraft carrier. -A boat The post In 2015 a small, decades-old French submarine slipped undetected through the destroyers and helicopters screening the USS Theodore Roosevelt and “sank” the supercarrier in a war game — and a Swedish boat had already done the same thing to another US carrier appeared first on 19FortyFive.
by Harry J. Kazianis on June 2, 2026 at 3:17 pm
Summary and Key Points: The USS Gerald R. Ford is the most expensive warship ever built — a $13 billion supercarrier and the most advanced on earth. She is also, as of the spring of 2026, a cautionary tale: kept at war for eleven months across back-to-back campaigns against Venezuela and Iran, driven home by The post The USS Gerald R. Ford is the most expensive warship ever built, a $13 billion supercarrier and the most advanced on earth — and after being kept at war for eleven months until a fire and 600 failed toilets drove sailors from their bunks, she may now sit broken for up to two years appeared first on 19FortyFive.
by Harry J. Kazianis on May 31, 2026 at 11:34 pm
Summary and Key Points on the X-20: Years before the Space Shuttle, the US Air Force had designed a reusable, piloted spaceplane that launched on a rocket and glided back to a runway — selected its pilots, including a young Neil Armstrong, and brought the first vehicle within a month of assembly. Then, in December The post NASA test pilot Neil Armstrong was one of seven men secretly chosen to fly the X-20 Dyna-Soar, a reusable Air Force spaceplane cancelled in 1963 two decades before the Space Shuttle — and the orbital mission it was designed for is now flown by the Space Force’s X-37B and China’s Shenlong appeared first on 19FortyFive.
by Harry J. Kazianis on May 31, 2026 at 11:01 pm
Summary and Key Points: On November 16, 2004, a twelve-foot unmanned NASA aircraft lit a scramjet with no moving parts and rode it to Mach 9.6 — nearly ten times the speed of sound — a record still unbroken twenty years later. -NASA had already mapped its Mach 15 successor, the X-43D. -It was never The post In 2004 a twelve-foot unmanned NASA aircraft hit Mach 9.6 and set an air-breathing speed record that still stands today — then America cancelled the Mach 15 machine meant to come next and spent twenty years watching Russia and China field the hypersonic weapons it walked away from appeared first on 19FortyFive.
by Harry J. Kazianis on May 31, 2026 at 4:39 pm
Summary and Key Points: The North American XB-70 Valkyrie was built to cruise at three times the speed of sound — so high and fast that nothing the Soviet Union could field would ever catch it. -It beat the heat, the speed, and the engineering that should have killed it, and then, in June 1966, The post The XB-70 Valkyrie was a Mach 3 nuclear bomber built to fly so high and fast that nothing the Soviet Union launched could ever reach it — and one of the only two ever built was destroyed not in combat but in a midair collision during a publicity photo shoot for an engine company appeared first on 19FortyFive.
on June 5, 2026 at 10:05 pm
Game 1 between the Spurs and the Knicks averaged nearly 17 million viewers.
on June 5, 2026 at 5:53 pm
Actor James Handy has been stabbed to death, and police have arrested the son of his girlfriend in the killing
on June 5, 2026 at 5:22 pm
Actor Anthony Head, known for his roles in “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” and “Ted Lasso,” has died at 72
on June 5, 2026 at 11:16 am
A report by Britain’s public spending watchdog shows that the former Prince Andrew made money by subletting cottages on the estate where he lived rent-free for two decades
on June 5, 2026 at 6:48 am
Ewan McGregor says “Trainspotting” remains a defining moment in his career
on June 6, 2026 at 12:52 pm
Norway’s Crown Princess Mette-Marit has been placed on a lung transplant list due to worsening pulmonary fibrosis
on June 6, 2026 at 12:49 pm
Bernadette Chirac, the steel-willed former first lady of France, has died
on June 6, 2026 at 12:41 pm
A zoo in Taiwan’s capital has received a pair of endangered red pandas from China
on June 6, 2026 at 12:18 pm
Pope Leo XIV acknowledges he’s competing with another VIP in Madrid this weekend
on June 6, 2026 at 12:03 pm
Residents of St. Petersburg have been told to stay indoors after a large-scale Ukrainian drone attack targeted the city
on June 6, 2026 at 9:27 am
Football fans will be allowed to bring sealed disposable water bottles into World Cup stadiums in the US and Canada after criticism over a decision to ban reusable bottles.
on June 6, 2026 at 9:09 am
Ukraine has launched a “large-scale” drone attack on St Petersburg, showing Kyiv’s ability to hit deep inside Russian territory.
on June 6, 2026 at 7:45 am
A technical issue has been detected on one of the UK’s largest warships as it was docked in Norway, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) said.
on June 6, 2026 at 7:43 am
A man has died after being attacked by a shark while fishing off Australia’s southwestern coast, police say.
on June 6, 2026 at 5:35 am
A seven-month-old baby has been killed and his parents were wounded in the West Bank after Israeli soldiers opened fire, the Palestinian health ministry said.
on June 6, 2026 at 1:41 am
McDonald’s is testing ArchIQ, a new AI order-taking system at five locations, as part of its McDonald’s Next strategy announced by CEO Chris Kempczinski.
on June 5, 2026 at 9:34 pm
The Trumpian boom: jobs rising more than double the predications, prior months revised higher. wage income beating inflation
on June 5, 2026 at 8:54 pm
Subaru has issued a voluntary safety recall covering nearly 70,000 model-year 2026 Forester and Forester Hybrid vehicles after identifying a defect in certain moonroof assemblies.
on June 5, 2026 at 7:21 pm
Walmart shoppers are urged to stop using recalled Boon NURSH baby bottles after reports that loose plastic pieces could pose a choking risk to children.
on June 5, 2026 at 7:18 pm
Conservative activist Robby Starbuck warns Harley-Davidson’s recent executive hires risk alienating American riders fed up with wokeness and DEI.
on June 6, 2026 at 12:07 pm
New regulations would allow EU member states to pay poorer countries, with questionable human rights records, to take in undocumented migrants who cannot be deported to their own countries. This unacceptable policy highlights the EU’s abdication of the humanitarian principles on which it was founded.
on June 6, 2026 at 8:37 am
The British monarch has stressed the importance of the rule of law, while the pope has warned against leaving societies defenseless in the face of technology. Columnist Gilles Paris examines these symbolic statements, which could break the current climate of paralysis.
on June 6, 2026 at 3:00 am
‘How China is Devouring Europe’ (1/4). In just a few decades, China has gone from being the world’s factory to a major technological rival for Europeans, who had hoped to profit on China’s vast domestic market but underestimated its capacity for innovation.
on June 6, 2026 at 3:00 am
Behind the offer of an outstretched hand, the Ukrainian president’s letter to the Russian leader seeks to exploit Moscow’s vulnerabilities and the Russian people’s exhaustion after four years of high-intensity war. Zelensky’s initiative comes as his European partners are attempting to regain control of peace talks that the Trump administration abandoned.
on June 6, 2026 at 12:43 am
After US Central Command announced that they struck the radar sites, Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said they hit ‘enemy bases’ in the Gulf. A ceasefire has been in place between the US and Iran since April 8, but subsequent talks to try to put a more permanent end to the conflict have so far been unsuccessful.
by Kosuke Takahashi on June 5, 2026 at 8:03 pm
Japan and Indonesia have agreed to begin working-level discussions on the possible transfer of used Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) Asagiri-class destroyers, marking another step in Tokyo’s expanding defense export policy and highlighting how Japan is tailoring naval cooperation to the specific requirements of regional partners. Japanese Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi met Indonesian Defense Minister … The post Indonesia Eyes JMSDF Asagiri-Class Destroyers as Japan Tailors Warship Transfers to Southeast Asian Partners appeared first on Naval News.
by Richard Scott on June 5, 2026 at 12:44 pm
The UK Royal Navy (RN) is progressing plans to undertake flight trials of a jet-powered Autonomous Collaborative Platform (ACP) from a Queen Elizabeth-class (QEC) aircraft carrier by the end of next year. Speaking at the Defence Leaders CNE 2026 conference in Farnborough on 20 May, Commodore Steve Bolton, Deputy Director Aviation Programmes and Futures, said … The post Royal Navy progresses towards Project Vanquish demo from aircraft carrier appeared first on Naval News.
by Aaron-Matthew Lariosa on June 5, 2026 at 8:57 am
Aselsan’s Kiliç series of Kamikaze Autonomous Underwater Vehicles were among the products showcased by the Turkish defense firm on the sidelines of Ankara’s premier defense drills last month. Initially debuted at Saha 2026, a company official explained that there was potential to further develop and expand Kiliç’s capabilities. Naval News understands that recent developments in … The post Aselsan Showcases Kiliç Kamikaze Underwater Drones at Efes appeared first on Naval News.
by Yoshihiro Inaba on June 5, 2026 at 7:48 am
Japan began developing a domestically produced unmanned amphibious armored vehicle (AAV) in 2024, and materials recently disclosed by the Ministry of Defense have revealed its detailed performance characteristics. For more than a decade, Japan has been pursuing measures to strengthen its maritime defense capabilities in response to China’s expanding military power. Among these efforts, the … The post Japan is developing a new unmanned AAV which will bring MUM-T to Amphibious Operations appeared first on Naval News.
by Naval News Staff on June 5, 2026 at 6:56 am
Hanwha Ocean has signed a Strategic Alliance Agreement (SAA) with ONEX Shipyards & Technologies Group at the U.S. Embassy in Greece to revitalize Greece’s shipbuilding industry and enhance maritime sovereignty. Hanwha Ocean press release The signing ceremony was attended by Sean seongwoo Park, Vice President of Hanwha Ocean’s Naval Ship Business; Panagiotis Xenokostas, President of … The post Hanwha Ocean Partners to Strengthen Greece’s Shipbuilding Capabilities appeared first on Naval News.