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Florida carried out two executions in one day—the first back-to-back state executions in nearly a decade—highlighting Gov. Ron DeSantis’s push to accelerate capital punishment. 80-year-old Dominick Anthony Occhicone was executed, making him the oldest Floridian put to death in modern times, hours after former police officer James Aren Duckett was executed for the 1987 rape and murder of 11-year-old Teresa McAbee.
A hotel fire in a Dominican Republic tourist town forced the evacuation of about 1,700 guests, with authorities helping them return home as the situation was brought under control.
PHAROS project divers have recovered 22 blocks weighing 70–80 tons from the Mediterranean off Alexandria, likely forming the lighthouse’s monumental entrance; each piece is digitized with photogrammetry to enable a virtual reconstruction of the Lighthouse of Alexandria, built in the 3rd century BCE on Pharos and once over 100 meters tall before earthquakes and later reuse of stones in the Qaitbay Citadel.
Top-ranked Canada, skipped by Rachel Homan, suffered a shock loss to Sweden in the women’s curling semifinal at the 2026 Winter Olympics in Cortina d’Ampezzo, ending Canada’s gold-medal hopes as the Swedes celebrated advancing to the final.