The Tennessee Emergency Management Agency says National Guard troops are being sent in to help out as wildfires continue to spread in Gatlinburg and surrounding areas in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. [...]
Tennessee officials say thousands of residents and visitors in the Gatlinburg area have been evacuated and hundreds of structures have been damaged and destroyed by spreading wildfires.
The bucket of ice that sparked a viral social-media campaign has a new home at the Smithsonian.
The National Museum of American History is opening a new exhibit on the history of philanthropy on Tuesday. A showcase item will be the blue bucket that was used to dump ice water onto Jeanette Senerchia in 2014.
The "Ice Bucket Challenge" was already making the rounds online, but Senerchia is believed to be the first person to tie it to ALS, a degenerative condition also known as Lou Gehrig's Disease. Her husband Anthony has the disease.
The challenge ended up raising more than $50 million for ALS research.
Emma Morano, the last known person alive who was born in the 19th century, has celebrated her 117th birthday.
Born on 29 November 1899, four years before the Wright brothers first took to the air, she is the world’s oldest living person. Her life has spanned three centuries, two world wars and over 90 Italian governments.
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The Internet Archive, a digital library non-profit group that stores online copies of webpages, e-books, political advertisements and other media for public record, is fundraising to store a copy of all of its contents in Canada after Donald Trump's election to the presidency.
“We are building the Internet Archive of Canada because, to quote our friends at LOCKSS, ‘lots of copies keep stuff safe,’” a fundraising pitch from the group posted Tuesday reads.
- On today’s Kagro in the Morning show: Trump saw something on TV & now we all have to talk about it, or talk about how we refuse to talk about it. Greg Dworkin notes how the Price pick for HHS puts Medicare in the crosshairs. KT McFarland’s got issues. Clinton camp thoughts on the recount.
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