German cockroaches in warewashing area: Chester County restaurant inspections, Oct. 5, 2025

The Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture, 866-366-3723, uses a risk-based inspection reporting process for restaurants and other food handlers. READ: What do restaurant inspectors look for and can they close a restaurant? Simply Shrimp Inc., 300...

Living in Space: The UN celebrates innovation, cooperation and the final frontier

With the 2025 theme “Living in Space,” the celebration highlights how scientific innovation, international law, and collaboration are shaping the future of a potential new chapter in human history among the stars – and the technologies that are...

13 Trending Kitchen Islands That You'll See in All the Coolest Schemes Next Year

There are, perhaps, more identifiable trends in kitchen islands than there are in cabinets, as not only do these elements often end up the backbone of the kitchen, but they're also something designers experiment more radically with. Trends is...

A look behind the scenes with 3 New Orleans artists, just in time for Art for Art's Sake

Artists differ from the rest of us due to an inherent creative ambition, a heightened sensitivity and openness to experience, and a distinct way of perceiving the world through a lens of possibility, curiosity, aesthetics and intuition. While...

Trump admin offering some unaccompanied migrant children $2,500 to self-deport, memo shows

The federal government is offering unaccompanied migrant children 14 and older $2,500 to leave the United States of their own volition, or “self-deport” back to their countries, according to a memo sent by the Department of Health and Human...

Trump Administration Offers $2,500 Stipend to Unaccompanied Migrant Teens for Voluntary Deportation

The Trump administration has introduced a new policy offering a one-time payment of $2,500 to unaccompanied migrant teenagers who opt to voluntarily leave the United States and return to their countries of origin. This initiative, detailed in a...

Step by awful step, Trump is using this 12-stage plan to seize total control

“A house divided against itself cannot stand.” —Abraham Lincoln “The greatest good we can do our country is to heal its party divisions and make them one people. To render us again one people, acting as one nation, should be the object of every...

10 tips from actual kids on reconnecting with your childlike sense of wonder

I thought I’d noticed everything on the four-mile stretch of the Gabrielino Trail from its western trailhead near Pasadena to the Gould Mesa campground in Angeles National Forest. I have a favorite sycamore tree about a mile in that, if it weren’t...

Colombia again leads grim toll of murdered land defenders

Total of 48 campaigners killed in 2024 as land and communities under threat. Community leaders traveling on the Putumayo River, a region where land defenders are constantly under attack by armed groups. Photo: Steve Hide A new report Global...

After her husband was deported, Skokie woman and 3-year-old are leaving US to keep family intact

Ann Salas laid out toys, clothes, furniture and appliances on her Skokie driveway Friday morning, selling everything in preparation for permanently leaving the United States. Some shoppers were happy to just give her cash, because her 49-year-old...

Intrepid Launches ‘Short Breaks’ for Time-Strapped Travelers

Intrepid Travel has unveiled its new ‘Short Breaks’ range, featuring 4–6-day adventures for time-pressed travelers seeking immersive travel experiences. The range includes 10 brand-new itineraries across Latin America and Europe and 45 refreshed...

Bananas are top fresh fruit, but supply disruptions could lie ahead

Craig Higashi said bananas are usually the top-selling item in a produce department. He ought to know. He’s president of Spokane Produce, which started out as a farmer-owned co-op in the 1940s, until only Higashi’s family remained. He’s been in...

Suitcase souls: how running away led me home

Let’s set the scene: You’re staring at your laptop, Zoom-fatigued, while your potted plant judges you for re-wearing sweatpants again. The walls of your apartment—or cubicle, or hometown—feel like they’re closing in, pixel by pixel. Enter: The...

Issues/Program Report 3rd Quarter 2025

October 1, 2025 Per the FCC, this is a list of the most frequently cited issues of concern to the people in the WBHM listening area during the last quarter. The list details the most significant programs addressing these issues. All of these...

Meet The Traverse City Nonprofit Working To Drive Humanitarian Causes In Kenya

It started during the pandemic, when local travel writer Kim Schneider was pining for far-flung adventures that were all but impossible at the time. It’s evolved into a nonprofit that works to make life-changing impacts abroad, and to send people...

What's Going On: Harvest of Harmony parade starts at 8:15!

“Sounds of the Island,” 83rd Harvest of Harmony parade, 8:15 a.m., Third St., downtown Grand Island. Stadium field competition will begin at 11 a.m. at Memorial Stadium at Grand Island Senior High (last performance is 5:45 p.m., awards presented...

PM Briceño calls on United Nations to act

By William Ysaguirre (Freelance Writer) BELIZE CITY, Mon. Sept. 29, 2025 Belize Prime Minister Hon. John Briceño issued a call to action when he addressed the leaders of the free world at the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly in...

Mindanao Youth Use Journalism to Fight Against Massive Mining Project

By Victoria Nolasco, Executive Director In the face of a massive mining threat, a new generation of Indigenous youth in Mindanao is using citizen journalism as a powerful tool of resistance and cultural preservation. Through a project supported by...

UK Avocado Consumption Poised for Family-Driven Expansion, World Avocado Organisation Reveals

6 Reading Time: 3 minutesAt the Fruit Attraction trade fair in Madrid, the World Avocado Organisation (WAO) presented new consumer insights pointing to families and young parents as the central force in boosting avocado demand in the United...

LONG READ: The GEMIs, the Global Emerging Markets' interlocking institutions

The international order is breaking up as the Global Emerging Markets (GEMs) build a raft of new non-Western interlocking international institutions to run their vision of a new multipolar world order. At the same time the incumbent...