Tuesday, August 19, 2025

Daily Digest: Living history, the Burden Iron Works Museum celebrates reopening

Also: NCAA WOMEN’S SOCCER: Mechanicville native forges collegiate career at Siena • Russell Sage College women’s flag football program receives its first sponsor
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Tuesday, August 19, 2025

 
 

Happy Tuesday!

Hope everyone is having a great week. A little chilly out there this morning. Before you head out or enjoy that morning cup of coffee or tea, check out some of the top stories on our website.

Be safe and enjoy the day. — Ron Rosner, Senior Editor


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Living history, the Burden Iron Works Museum celebrates reopening

TROY, N.Y. — The Burden Iron Works Museum recently celebrated its grand re-opening, cutting the ribbon two months after it officially reopened in May. The Museum closed for another round of updates…

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NCAA WOMEN'S SOCCER: Mechanicville native forges collegiate career at Siena

LOUDONVILLE, N.Y. — The Siena women's soccer season began with a bang last week, as the Saints defeated Lafayette 2-0 in their 2025 home opener on Thursday. Watching from the sidelines, cheering on…

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Russell Sage College women's flag football program receives its first sponsor

TROY, N.Y. – Russell Sage College Athletics announced on Monday that Greco Construction will be the inaugural sponsor of its women's flag football athletic program, the first of its kind in the Cap…

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Senegal's 'schools for husbands' aim to shift gender roles and keep mothers from dying

Men who teach in the program or attend its talks acknowledge the benefits.

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Pope Leo XIV celebrates Mass for local homeless people, invites them to lunch at summer villa

In the church, he said, everyone is poor and precious, and share the same dignity.

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Former Sinaloa cartel kingpin Ismael 'El Mayo' Zambada set to plead guilty

The development comes two weeks after federal prosecutors said they wouldn't seek the death penalty.

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Prosecutors indict the son of Norway's crown princess on multiple counts including rape

Marius Borg Høiby could face up to 10 years in prison if convicted.

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Appeals court overturns order that stripped some protections from pregnant Texas state workers

The ruling was a victory for advocates of the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act.

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US archbishop's meeting with Putin denounced as 'betrayal of Christian witness'

The meeting is notable in how American churches are embroiled in controversies involving Orthodoxy in Ukraine.

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FTC sues ticket reseller, saying it illegally exceeded purchase limits for Taylor Swift, other shows

Ticket broker Key Investment Group allegedly used fictitious Ticketmaster accounts to buy tickets for events.

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Maine police officer arrested by ICE agrees to voluntarily leave the country

ICE arrested Old Orchard Beach Police Department reserve Officer Jon Luke Evans on July 25.

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Union says Air Canada flight attendants won't return to work despite strike being declared illegal

The airline said operations would resume Monday, but the union president says that's not happening.

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Judge issues injunction preventing Trump's FTC from investigating watchdog Media Matters

Media Matters already been fighting a lawsuit by Musk over a November 2023 story.

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