Topic: United States

Mickelson the perfect role model, says PGA chief Finchem

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Phil Mickelson will be inducted into the Golf Hall of Fame next year with one of the sport's most powerful administrators describing the American as a perfect role model.The 41-year-old four-times major winner was announced as the latest member ...

Wal-Mart heiress' museum brings art to Middle America

BENTONVILLE, Ark (Reuters) - Art should be accessible to all people. That's the concept behind a massive new museum in small-town Arkansas that is the brainchild of the heiress daughter of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton.When the 217,000-square-foot art Crystal Bridges Museum of ...

Statue of Liberty celebrates 125th birthday

The Statue of Liberty, iconic symbol of freedom, New York City and US immigration, celebrated its 125th birthday Friday, before closing for a year's repairs.More than 1,000 people from the United States and France, the country that gifted the statue in the ...

Bear mauls hunter in Grand Teton National Park

CODY, Wyo (Reuters) - A Wyoming hunter scouting for elk in Grand Teton National Park was mauled by a bear in an attack that was believed to be a surprise encounter with a single grizzly, officials said on Monday.National Park Service officials ...

Bear injures hunter in Grand Teton National Park

CODY, Wyo (Reuters) - A Wyoming hunter was injured on Sunday in an attack by a bear in Grand Teton National Park, officials said.National Park Service officials said the 32-year-old Jackson man was hunting elk along the Snake River when he spotted ...
A claim by two US authors that Vincent van Gogh may not have taken his own life is "interesting", but it is premature to discard the long-held suicide theory, the Van Gogh museum said Monday.In a new biography of the Dutch-born painter, ...

After devastating fire, Texans vow to rebuild park and community

BASTROP, Texas (Reuters) - Bastrop calls itself the Heart of the Lost Pines, but now the Texas state park is the place where the pines were lost.More than a month after the most destructive wildfire in Texas history burned 34,000 acres, destroyed ...
Nearly a century after it was stolen by a German soldier during World War I, and after a decade of transatlantic legal wrangling, a painting by French Realist Jules Breton is going home.US Immigration and Customs Enforcement will return "A Fisherman's Daughter" ...

'Arnie' back in native Austria

Arnold Schwarzenegger arrived back in his native country of Austria on Thursday where he is to visit a museum devoted to his eventful life in Thal, the village where he was born 64 years ago.The former Mister Universe bodybuilding champion, movie star ...

U.S. seeks to lift Wyoming wolf protections

SALMON, Idaho (Reuters) - The U.S. government has proposed lifting federal protection from wolves in the state of Wyoming which would allows unregulated killing of the animals in most of the state.The proposal under a state wildlife management plan would require Wyoming ...
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