AP News - Contractors curious about an extension cord on the roof of a Michigan
grocery store made a startling discovery: A 34-year-old woman was
living inside the business sign, with enough space for a computer,
printer and coffee maker, police said. “She was homeless,” Officer
Brennon Warren of the Midland Police Department said Thursday. “It’s a
story that makes you scratch your head, just somebody living up in a
sign.” The woman, whose name was not released, told police she had
a job elsewhere but had been living inside the Family Fare sign for
roughly a year, Warren said.
Pew Research - Americans are less likely than people abroad to feel close to others in their country and community, according to a 2023 Pew Research Center survey of 24 nations. This is especially the case among certain groups of Americans, including younger adults, those with lower incomes and less education, those who identify with or lean toward the Democratic Party, and those who are religiously unaffiliated. Across all 24 countries surveyed, a median of 83% of adults say they feel very or somewhat close to other people in their country. A majority of U.S. adults (66%) also hold this view, but Americans are the least likely among those in the countries surveyed to do so. Even fewer Americans feel close to people in their local community: 54% feel a connection to others near them, compared with a median of 78% of adults across all 24 countries. South Korea is the only country with a lower share of adults who feel connected with others in their community (50%).
CNN - A team of French bakers has set a new Guinness World Record for the longest baguette ever made. ... The 461-foot-long loaf was baked in a special mobile oven and prepared during the Suresnes Baguette Show at the Terrasse du Fécheray observation deck near Paris. After the official nod from Guinness — and some celebration — part of the baguette was cut up, spread with Nutella and shared with the public. Another part was given to the local youth association Celije so that it could be distributed to the homeless that evening. MORE
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