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How to Plan Your Best Cycling Trip to Italy
PezCycling News
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July 4, 2025
After 30+ years travelling to Italy to chase multiple Giro’s, ride events, visit brands and attend product launches, plus a few holiday trips, I’ve learned a lot about most regions of the country, how to get around, and more importantly, where to...
Despite cancellations and drone switches, many still enjoy traditional July 4th celebrations
Long Beach Press Telegram - California
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July 5, 2025
In many ways, it was a traditional Southern California Independence Day. Fireworks framed the Hollywood Bowl as the Los Angeles Philharmonic played patriotic tunes. Red-white-and-blue-bedecked parades rolled through suburban streets. And throngs...
NZ's vaccination rates among lowest among high-income countries - study
RNZ
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June 25, 2025
Only Canada, San Marino, Ireland, Austria and Argentina had worse childhood vaccination coverage than New Zealand. Photo: CDC Between 2010 and 2019, progress in increasing vaccinations stalled and even reversed in some countries, including in 21...
Things to do in the San Gabriel Valley and Whittier, July 4-11
San Gabriel Valley Tribune - California
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July 4, 2025
Friday Foodieland Food Festival and Drone Light Show – Rose Bowl: The multicultural food festival on July 4, 3-10 p.m. (however, the festival runs 1-10 p.m. on July 5-6; no drone shows on these dates). Drone light show, 9 p.m. July 4 (only)....
List of all world famous athletes who died tragically in a car accident
The Times of India
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List of all world famous athletes who died tragically in a car accident (Image via X) List of all world famous athletes who died tragically in a car accident (Image via X) List of all world famous athletes who died tragically in a car accident...
U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services, May 2025
U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis
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July 3, 2025
Explanatory Notes Goods (Census basis) Data for goods on a Census basis are compiled from the documents collected by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and reflect the movement of goods between foreign countries and the 50 states, the...
On Sustainable Population Growth: Human Values
The Good Men Project - California
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July 1, 2025
“Population growth can exacerbate environmental degradation when it increases pressure on natural resources and generates more waste and emissions. Sustainable development requires policies that balance population trends with economic growth,...
Iceland Calls for Eurovision to Ban Israeli Flag After Being Accused of Plagiarizing Israeli Song
Breitbart
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July 2, 2025
The president of Iceland’s National Broadcaster (RÚV), Stefán Jón Hafstein, published a commentary on Tuesday calling for Israel to be banned from the Eurovision Song Contest – and suggested in the event the ban was impossible, the contest could...
I love traveling with friends and family, but I need alone time on vacation. I created a rule that keeps everyone happy.
Business Insider
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June 20, 2025
When I was a teenager, my family and I traveled more than 5,000 miles from San Marino (the country, not the city in California) to Seattle for vacation. One of the places I was most excited to visit was the Museum of Pop Culture, but...
Larry Wilson: Chip Jacobs’ new novel ‘Later Days’: Prep before it was Prep
Whittier Daily News - California
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July 2, 2025
If you were growing up in the West San Gabriel Valley in the 1970s and early 1980s, it was for the first time ever in the century-long history of the area that what we might call school choice became an issue for teens entering high school, or...
Roberto Baggio interview - 'To entertain people... that's what I lived for'
The New York Times
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June 30, 2025
It was the week before Lionel Messi’s 38th birthday. His wife, Antonella, must have been wondering what to get him. Then a gift arrived — early and unexpected — a special one that, judging from the boyish grin on Messi’s face, made him feel like a...
This tax-funded native habitat is finally opening to the public after 5-year wait
Los Angeles Times
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June 28, 2025
Welcome to July, the second anniversary of the L.A. Times Plants newsletter, which started with roughly 3,000 readers back in 2023 and now has more than 12,000 subscribers, strong evidence that Southern Californians care deeply about plants,...
Things to do in the San Gabriel Valley and Whittier, June 27-July 4
San Gabriel Valley Tribune - California
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June 27, 2025
Friday Laugh Factory Covina: Pablo Francisco, 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. June 27. Aaron Branch and Herman Wrice – Dysfunctional Friends Tour, 7 and 9:30 p.m. June 28. Rich Little, legendary impressionist, 6 p.m. June 29 (special event:...
“F1” is a Well-Tooled Engine of Entertainment
The New Yorker
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June 20, 2025
In “F1,” a snazzy piece of blockbuster engineering, Brad Pitt plays Sonny Hayes, a devotee of fast cars, beautiful women, and simple living. A professional gambler and an occasional speed demon for hire, he lives in a beat-up van that he hauls...
Tam Union school district expedites girls flag football
Marin Independent Journal - California
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June 25, 2025
The Tamalpais Union High School District has reversed a previous decision to delay a girls flag football program until next year. The district had planned to wait until the fall of 2026 to form teams at Redwood High School, Tamalpais High School...
Meet Kaitlyn Chen, who just got a standing ovation for her debut in the WNBA
South China Morning Post
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June 25, 2025
Kaitlyn Chen made history this week as she debuted for the Golden State Valkyries in their inaugural pre-season game in San Francisco, as the first Taiwanese-American basketball player to be drafted by the WNBA. Fans cheered on her performance and...
NZ vaccination rate low among high income countries
Otago Daily Times
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June 25, 2025
Between 2010 and 2019, progress in increasing vaccinations stalled and even reversed in some countries, including in 21 of 36 high-income countries such as Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, UK, and US. Australia had the sixth highest number...
Irish survivors to tell UN session why they want a ban on use of counselling notes in rape trials
Irish Examiner
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June 15, 2025
Ciara Mangan and Leyla Simsek of Beyond Surviving will be joined by human rights and equality researcher Lisa Murray in Geneva for a session of the Committee on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women. During the session —...
Pasadena Showcase House for the Arts Awards $20,000 to Aspiring Young Musicians
Pasadena Now - California
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Pasadena Showcase House for the Arts held its 38th Instrumental Competition on March 30, 2025 at the Pasadena Conservatory of Music’s Barrett Hall. Eight finalists demonstrated their musical talents competing for monetary prizes totaling $20,000....
The 12 Best Racing Movies Of All Time, Ranked
/FILM - Indiana
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June 21, 2025
The race car driver is an inherently intriguing figure — and an inherently cinematic one. Like any great film protagonist, they are obsessed, focused, and single-minded on their one goal. They've got lots of high-stakes obstacles in their way, and...