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Olivia Bruce is a reporter for Prairie Island News. Her work can be found in the arts, construction, automotive, travel, real estate, and fashion sections. Olivia has been with the paper since it began in 2015 and is proud to be one of its original reporters. She loves to travel and has visited many different countries.

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Asia's fastest inflation just got a political crisis as Pakistan's middle class throws majority to jailed Imran Khan's party

Imran Khan’s supporters demonstrated in key cities across Pakistan as two rival parties held talks to form a government even though Khan loyalists won the most seats in Thursday’s polls. Supporters of Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party staged protests in the cities of Islamabad, Lahore and Peshawar. The crowds numbered in the hundreds due to the heavy […]

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Young, middle class Pakistanis shock regime by voting for jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan's party with inflation at 28%

Imran Khan was jailed and silenced. His colleagues were barred from contesting Pakistan’s election under their party’s name. They weren’t even allowed to use its famous cricket bat symbol. Yet the candidates who are part of Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party — running as independents — put forth a strong showing in the contentious poll. Independents,

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Argentina president-elect Javier Milei meets the man he once called a 'filthy leftist': Pope Francis

Javier Milei was in the middle of his first television interview as Argentina’s president-elect when an adviser abruptly handed him a mobile phone. The cameras stopped rolling. Pope Francis was on the line. The world’s two most powerful Argentines had traded barbs throughout the election that Milei won in a landslide last November. The foul-mouthed

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Court forces Elon Musk to testify in SEC Twitter probe again after his refusal, and now the agency has ‘thousands of new documents’ 

A federal court in California is enforcing a subpoena for Elon Musk to testify before the US Securities and Exchange Commission regarding potential violations of federal securities laws in connection with his purchase of Twitter. The court ruled the evidence gathered is relevant and material to the SEC’s investigation and the testimony required of Musk is not unduly

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How to watch, stream the Puppy Bowl live online free without cable

Forget that sideshow in Vegas. For millions of people, today’s must-see game is the Puppy Bowl. Celebrating its 20th anniversary this year, the Super Bowl-adjacent annual spectacle will once again see Team Ruff and Team Fluff face off for the Lombarky trophy. More than just alternative programming and a chance for viewers to collectively smile

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Jimmy Van Eaton, pioneering rock 'n' roll drummer who spent 4 decades selling bonds after backing Jerry Lee Lewis, dies at 86

J.M. “Jimmy” Van Eaton, a pioneering rock ‘n’ roll drummer who played behind the likes of Jerry Lee Lewis and Billy Lee Riley at Sun Records in Memphis, Tennessee, died Friday at age 86, a family member said. Van Eaton, a Memphis native who came to the famous record label as a teenager, died at

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'The kids are all on TikTok or the internet and understand therapy speak': Gen Zers' parents recoil from school mental health treatment

Derry Oliver was in fifth grade when she first talked to her mom about seeing a therapist. She was living in Georgia with her uncle and grandparents while her mom was in New York scoping out jobs and apartments ahead of moving the family. It was a rough year apart. Oliver, now 17, was feeling

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Meet Craig Underwood, the 81-year-old farming millionaire whose chilis made sriracha hot until 'everybody turned out to be a loser'

In the 1980s, Craig Underwood was a fourth-generation California farmer, struggling with the region’s changing agricultural landscape, when he stepped up to meet a need in the marketplace: Red jalapeño peppers. The call came from David Tran, a Cantonese refugee from Vietnam who had arrived in the Golden State a few years before. He had

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Sriracha mogul David Tran is a 78-year-old immigrant turned multimillionaire—and he’s mystified about what’s gone wrong in just a few short years

It took decades for David Tran to become a hot sauce multimillionaire, with his signature sriracha becoming one of the top three hot sauce brands in America.  He got started making chili sauce back in his homeland, right after serving in the South Vietnamese army and manning his older brother’s chili field to provide for

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