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Local university offers a new wildlife degree program
AUSTIN (KXAN) — A new bachelor’s degree program at Concordia University is designed to educate students to learn how to manage the wildlife population and maintain healthy ecosystems. Concordia University recently started a new bachelor’s degree in wildlife conservation. The program began during this current fall semester. The university, located in northwest Austin, sits on…
Read MoreAre Rob Kardashian and Blac Chyna Back Together? The Truth
Blac Chyna and Rob Kardashian are in a new season. The model and the Keeping Up with the Kardashians star hinted that their romance may be taking flight again, eight years after calling off their engagement. Blac Chyna (real name Angela White) shared a series of photos to Instagram Oct. 14 of her wearing a white lace short…
Read MoreTyra Banks, Heidi Klum and More Celebrities Who Got Their Start Walking the Victoria’s Secret Runway
Miranda Kerr graced the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show stage for the first time in 2006 and became the first Australian to sign as an Angel the following year. Six years later, she stepped back from the VS runway to focus on her son Flynn with ex-husband Orlando Bloom and pursue other career opportunities. “This is a…
Read MoreDistrict judge issues temporary injunction, prevents UT system from enforcing campus free speech law
AUSTIN (KXAN) — A district judge issued a temporary injunction Tuesday preventing the University of Texas System from enforcing a state law prohibiting speech on campus during certain times. This comes after a lawsuit was filed by students with UT at Austin and Dallas in September shortly after the law went into effect, saying that…
Read MoreDWTS’ Derek Hough May Have Accidentally Revealed Sex of First Baby With Hayley Erbert
Derek Hough may have tangoed his way into a big reveal. The Dancing With the Stars judge appeared to accidentally share the sex of his first baby with wife Hayley Ebert during the Oct. 14 Dedication Night episode of the ABC series. During the episode, celebrity contestant Jordan Chiles performed a Viennese Waltz alongside her dad…
Read MoreLISD bus monitor employee arrested, accused of child indecency
AUSTIN (KXAN) — A Leander Independent School District transportation employee was arrested Tuesday after he was accused of indecency with a child, according to the Cedar Park Police Department. Police said on social media it identified that employee as 70-year-old Steven Wade Lackey. He was booked into the Williamson County Jail on two counts of…
Read MoreCozy up in These Chic Fall Jackets and Coats: Peacoats, Puffers, Trench Coats and More
Even though I’m not a fan of cold weather, I do look forward to getting to wear my favorite jackets again once fall comes around. A simple outfit is instantly elevated when styled with a chic coat. Sometimes, the outfit is the coat and I like to use that to my advantage when getting dressed.…
Read MoreJPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon Sounds Alarm on a Troubling Corner of Subprime Lending
Jamie Dimon warned that there could be more to come after the bankruptcies of Tricolor and First Brands. Photo: Noam Galai/Getty Images Last month’s collapses of Tricolor and First Brands, a subprime auto lender and auto-parts supplier, respectively, sent alarm bells ringing across Wall Street about the health of the consumer credit market. Those concerns…
Read MoreBeautiful Trash: Sustainability as Condition, Not Cure, in Contemporary Art
Tom Friedman, Detritus, 2025. Today’s artists are metabolizing trash, corrosion and entropy into new forms of sustainability. Courtesy Lehmann Maupin Trash is no longer just a byproduct—it’s a proposition. As the ecological crisis deepens, the art world—traditionally enmeshed in systems of extraction and spectacle—is increasingly poised to make a meaningful bid into sustainability. And a…
Read MoreIndigenous Artists Use AR to Rewrite the Narrative in the Met’s American Wing
Cannupa Hanska Luger’s Midéegaadi: Fire (2021-ongoing) on Thomas Cole’s View on the Catskills – Early Autumn. Courtesy of the artist and Amplifier On October 13, a group of Indigenous artists took over the American collection at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art to emphasize the need to elevate alternative narratives on Columbus Day—now widely observed…
Read MoreMeasles Outbreak in South Carolina Sparks Concern
More than 130 unvaccinated students at two schools in South Carolina are being quarantined after they were exposed to measles, amid an ongoing outbreak in the state—a sign, public health experts warn, that cases could continue to rise this school year. On Tuesday, the South Carolina Department of Public Health confirmed the 16th case of…
Read MoreNext Gen NYC’s Ariana Biermann and Boyfriend Hudson McLeroy Break Up
Ariana Biermann is officially single in the city. The Next Gen NYC star announced that she and her longtime boyfriend Hudson McLeroy have broken up after a yearslong on-and-off romance. “Hudson and I have decided to go our separate ways,” Ariana, 23, wrote in a post on her Instagram Stories Oct. 14. “While these things…
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