SEVIERVILLE, Tennessee (AP) — Dolly Parton’s theme park in east Tennessee will unveil new features for fans to honor the life of the “dreamer-in-chief,” Dolly Parton, who died at the age of 80. Sevierville, in the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains, will also be placing markers throughout the ci
Sept 2 (Reuters) – Broadcom forecast quarterly revenue below Wall Street estimates on Wednesday, signaling intense competition could hamper gains from its custom processors. Shares of the Palo Alto, California-based company fell over 3% in extended trading. They have gained about 6% this year, signi
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is wading into a legal fight between OpenAI and the New York Times, backing the ChatGPT-maker’s argument in a closely watched case over how it builds its AI technology by ingesting and processing millions of news articles. In court papers filed Tuesday, the
CAIRO (AP) — A U.S. missile hit a home in southern Iran where dozens were gathered to celebrate the wedding of a fisherman’s daughter, according to a rights group and Iranian media. Iranian state media said four people — two women and two children — were killed and more than 60 were wounded. The rig
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Scientists have discovered an enormous 10-sided wave pattern in the icy ammonia clouds over Saturn’s south pole. The spinning, meandering decagon appears to be even bigger and more unstable than the hexagon of clouds around Saturn’s north pole that was spied by NASA’s twi
Take, for example, corn. You probably didn’t expect that. But however you might measure intelligence, it is probably only valid if corn’s is higher than ours. In the fauna realm, if a Martian landed in my community and reported back to their spaceship on who is in charge down here, they would almost
Iran targeted Gulf allies of the United States on Wednesday, firing drones at Kuwait and Bahrain after a night of U.S. aerial bombardment of Iran. Iranian officials said one of the U.S. strikes on the country overnight struck a wedding party, leaving at least four people dead and dozens wounded. Fig
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Here’s another place the AI frenzy is making itself felt: the market for luxury homes. High-income earners, many of them employees at AI companies, are snapping up multimillion-dollar houses in the San Francisco Bay Area, undaunted by the higher mortgage rates and rising home pric
(SRN NEWS)- It is the work of J.D. Payne of the Southern Baptist Convention, and it draws its numbers from the U.S. Religion Census. Payne reports that Evangelical Christians are centered in the Southeast and Midwest, with Alabama coming in first, followed by Oklahoma, Mississippi, Arkansas and Tenn
(SRN NEWS)- The Muslim government is fighting Muslim rebels in the African country and both sides are killing and abusing Christians along the way. The fighting has now come to the Nuba Mountains, long a refuge for Sudan’s small Christian minority. War and Islamic terrorism are wreaking havoc amongs
(SRN NEWS)-A new study from the Pew Research Center looks at how many women are seeking the procedure outside of their state of residence in the wake of the repeal of Roe versus Wade by the Supreme Court. About 17% of women travel to another state for an abortion these days, up from 11% when Roe was
PEORIA, Ill. (AP) — Bonnie Engstrom believes a long-deceased TV priest helped save her son’s life after he was born in 2010 without a pulse. The Catholic Church agreed, declaring the boy’s resuscitation a miracle after Engstrom and others sought the heavenly prayers of the late Archbishop Fulton She
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian aerial attacks overnight and during daylight Wednesday killed two civilians and wounded six in a central Ukraine city, local officials said, while the Kyiv and Odesa regions bore the brunt of Moscow’s latest attacks. The air war between Russia and Ukraine has intensified
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A tugboat capsized and sank off South Korea’s southeastern coast on Wednesday, leaving one crew member dead and six others missing, the coast guard said. The 286-ton tugboat was carrying eight crew members when it departed Wednesday morning to tow a merchant vessel in the w
BUNIA, Congo (AP) — Congo’s Ebola outbreak has killed more than 3,000 people out of over 6,100 confirmed cases, the latest government data showed Wednesday, as the disease is spreading at an unprecedented speed, faster than efforts to track and slow it. Data from Congo’s Ministry of Health showed th
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Hours after Russian ballistic missiles shook Kyiv overnight, balloons floated above a schoolyard in the Ukrainian capital’s Obolon district on Tuesday. Bleary-eyed parents and children in festive outfits gathered to music, determined to celebrate the traditional start of the sch
BRUSSELS, Sept 2 (Reuters) – Europe’s second-highest court on Wednesday rejected Norwegian browser maker Opera’s challenge against EU antitrust regulators’ decision to exempt Microsoft’s browser Edge from rules reining in the power of Big Tech. The European Commission in its 2024 decision said Edge
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — The New Jersey Devils have acquired Luke Evangelista in a trade with the Nashville Predators. The teams announced the deal Tuesday. New Jersey sent a conditional first-round pick and its own second-rounder in 2028 to Nashville for the 24-year-old forward. Evangelista is coming of
SEOUL, Sept 2 (Reuters) – South Korea’s finance minister nominee vowed on Wednesday to quickly proceed with “mega projects” for AI investments and actively utilise policy capacity from a global chip boom. • The pledge follows the government’s unveiling on Tuesday of its most aggressive fiscal spendi
By Clare Jim HONG KONG, Sept 2 (Reuters) – While Nvidia is synonymous with the AI boom, a lesser-known group of power and cooling equipment suppliers is cashing in on a global data centre construction spree as developers race to avoid infrastructure bottlenecks. Energy-hungry data centres have trigg
Presented as the latest event in the German American Heritage Center's popular “Kaffee und Kuchen” series, The DAR, Hannah Caldwell Chapter Contributions to Davenport History will, on September 13, find Hannah Caldwell Chapter Regent Terri Putnam Toppler discussing the Daughters of the American Revo
On September 17, a second-generation Holocaust speaker will share the remarkable story of her mother, Adela Goldberg, in the Moline Public Library program Memories of the Holocaust, Ruth Yablonsky speaking on one vital woman's life as a survivor, witness, and keeper of an important piece of history.
With the third offering in its series directed and co-written by legendary director and Italian neorealist pioneer Roberto Rossellini, the German American Heritage Center continues its “The Lost Years of German Cinema: 1948-1963" film screenings with Germany, Year Zero, which enjoys a September 16 s
With the third-floor exhibition boasting masks, prints, sculpture, and other mediums reflecting the richness of traditional Mexican art forms, Mexican Roots: Masks, Prints, & Traditional Arts of Mexico will be on display at Davenport's Figge Art Museum September 12 through February 21, its fascinati
Described by Time Out New York as an “insanely fun mixtape musical” and by Variety as a show that “gleefully apes the worst excesses of the era's pole-dancing, crotch-grinding, big-hair-tossing movies,” the Broadway smash Rock of Ages enjoys a September 16 through November 7 run at Rock Island's Cir
Lauded by the New York Times as a "big bearhug of a musical" in which "even the most stalwart cynics may have trouble staying dry-eyed," the Tony Award-winning Come from Away enjoys a September 11 through 22 at the Coralville Center for the Performing Arts. Presented by City Circle Theatre Company,
A country-music singing/songwriting legend with 14 Grammy nominations to her name, Martina McBride brings her eagerly awaited national tour to Davenport's Rhythm City Casino Resort Event Center on September 13, the neo-traditionalist talent beloved for smash hits including "Independence Day," "Bless
Touring in support of their most recent album Arcadia that was awarded four stars by The Guardian, the bluegrass and country talents of Alison Krauss & Union station, along with featured performer Jerry Douglas, bring their latest tour to Davenport's Adler Theatre on September 11, The Guardian stati
A legendary glam-metal outfit whose first studio album Dawn Patrol debuted more than 40 years ago, the rockers of Night Ranger bring their national tour to Davenport's Capitol Theatre on September 17, the group revered for Billboard-charting hits including "Don't Tell Me You Love Me," "When You Clos
Touring in support of her newly released EP Promises (Covers EP), and with her prior album Carving Canyons hailed by Forbes as “her best as well as her most mature work yet," lauded singer/songwriter and Rock Island native Lissie returns to the Quad Cities for a September 16 headlining concert at Da
