“I set myself the challenge of making a full-length album, using almost entirely the five-stringed guitar, in just four days”: Polymath virtuoso Jacob Collier’s new album is a love letter to the guitar – and alternate tunings

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(Image credit: Theo Batterham) Jacob Collier has announced a new studio album that’s driven entirely by the guitar. But The Light For Days is not your typical guitar album – you won’t hear a six-string on it. Instead, Collier relies mostly upon his five-string tuned to DAEAD, trading “scales forContinue Reading

AOC Shreds Republicans for Trying to Spin Kirk’s Death

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Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez decried Republican condemnation of the left in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination as the FBI still struggles to detain the shooter, much less parse their politics and motive. “[The president] in his speech, he was very critical of left-wing violence,” a reporter asked Ocasio-Cortez on Wednesday.Continue Reading

UN Tourism and Sommet Education Foundation launch “Social Innovation Challenge”

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UN Tourism has launched the Social Innovation Challenge, a global call to empower and accelerate startups and scaleups that implement sustainable, inclusive, and green solutions for social Impact. The initiative is powered by strategic partners: Plug and Play as the technology partner, the Sommet Education Foundation as the education partner,Continue Reading

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Washington, D.C., September 12, 2025) – U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins today announced eligible livestock producers will receive disaster recovery assistance through the Emergency Livestock Relief Program for 2023 and 2024 Flood and Wildfire (ELRP 2023 and 2024 FW) to help offset increased supplemental feed costs due toContinue Reading