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The team follows developments throughout the day, keeping an eye on official announcements, public records, reliable news sources and what people are talking about across the US.
Trump ally Harmeet Dhillon resigns as DOJ civil rights chief after Democrats’ midterm wins
Henry Ford’s 2,000-acre Michigan estate became a historic landmark after his death
Wilt Chamberlain’s Bel Air mansion sold for $9.675 million after years on the market
LA mansion dating back to 1915 sold for $8.5m in 2024 after owner restored its Tiffany stained glass
Steve Jobs’ historic Woodside mansion is gone; here's what happened to its other treasures
Colorado drained Bonny Reservoir in 2012 to meet water obligations; invasive trees took hold
California removed Cedar Creek dam in 2022, reopening 9 miles of habitat for migrating fish
Jensen Huang's $30 million gift helped create Stanford's engineering hub
Priscilla Chan's parents fled Vietnam by boat; she became her family's first college student
As Alaska's land-use fight intensified, Jimmy Carter signed a 1980 law protecting 104 million acres
After Hurricane Katrina, Sandra Bullock helped rebuild New Orleans school, funded its $700K clinic
Michael Bloomberg’s $1 billion Johns Hopkins gift lowered the cost of becoming a doctor
A researcher lived with 144 pea plants in a sealed habitat to test space life support
Hotter droughts may kill piñon pines faster, a Biosphere 2 experiment shows
In 2021, NFL star Jaylon Smith put $100,000 into Oura; his 2026 exit was valued at about $1 million
After Maryland removed Bloede Dam in 2018, herring DNA appeared upstream, then two adults in 2021
In 2018, Bon Jovi bought a $10M Palm Beach home, demolished and rebuilt it
In 1978, Richard Branson bought a bare Caribbean island for $180,000 to impress a woman
Maryland swapped a 4-foot dam for a natural stream channel, and alewives were spotted upstream
In 2019, Kanye West paid $14.5 million for a 6,713-acre Wyoming ranch with lodges and helipads
In 2016, during a California drought, Gwyneth Paltrow razed two homes to build a 14,000-sq-ft estate
In 1865, a doctor brought mynas to Hawaii to eat armyworms; they spread and can rival native birds
In 1971, Stockholm residents climbed 13 elms slated for a subway entrance
Around 1870, America imported Asian porcelain berry for gardens; its vines now smother native plants
St. Croix brought in mongooses to fight rats, and a native lizard vanished from 99.97% of its range
North Carolina sank a 106-foot tugboat off Cape Lookout in 2024 to give marine life a second life
A Vermont dam built in the 1950s was removed in 2022 to slow stormwater into Lake Champlain
