Boys’ basketball player of the year: Maxi Adams of Sierra Canyon
When you’re already an All-American in high school and several new players show up perhaps…
Boys’ basketball player of the year: Maxi Adams of Sierra Canyon
When you’re already an All-American in high school and several new players show up perhaps as talented as you, the challenge is developing chemistry and seeing who’s going to remain humble and unselfish for the good of the team. Maxi Adams, Sierra Canyon’s 6-foot-8 senior, was the big man on campus until another All-American, Brandon…
How iNaturalist app users have fun while aiding science
We share our planet with maybe 10 million species of plants, animals, birds, fish, fungi and bugs. And to help identify them, millions of people are using a free phone app. “Currently we have about six million people using the platform every month,” said Scott Loarie, the executive director of iNaturalist, a nonprofit. Has anyone…
Solutions to speed California vote count and make voting easy
SACRAMENTO — Every two years, elite athletes compete in the Olympics, biennial plants — like carrots and onions — produce seeds and people across America look on with consternation and mounting impatience as California counts its election ballots. The prolonged tally has become as much a part of electioneering in the Golden State as wall-to-wall advertising, high-flown…
‘The Comeback’ Season 3 review: Lisa Kudrow tackles AI in TV
Like the mythical city of Brigadoon, Lisa Kudrow’s “The Comeback” has returned to television after many years away, with the difference that time has not stood still for its inhabitants, older in a changing world that values them less and which they navigate with less assurance. Kudrow, who created and writes the series with Michael…
Labour’s left unite behind ‘major reset’ call in fresh challenge to Starmer | Politics News
Labour’s left-wing factions have united behind a call for a “major reset” – warning the party will “only survive if it chooses a different path”. The statement, from a coalition of MPs, councillors and activists, comes after a major intervention from Angela Rayner, in which she criticised Sir Keir Starmer’s “un-British” immigration reforms and said…
UCLA opens its NCAA title bid by dominating California Baptist
The adage goes, it doesn’t have to be pretty. But for the UCLA women’s basketball team, that’s not the philosophy. Coach Cori Close preaches thriving, not surviving, and that’s been evident in the Bruins’ lopsided victory margin all season. That’s why leading by 10 points at halftime against a No. 16 seed was likely alarming….
Student loans: The main problems caused by changes announced in the budget | Money News
Changes to the student loans system quietly announced in the last budget have provoked a loud and angry response that has woken up Westminster to what anyone who did a degree in the 2010s, and their parents, already knew. The debt burden is rising, squeezing young workers as they approach their earning prime. With around…
California attorney general asks judge to block Nexstar-Tegna merger
California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta is asking a judge to unravel Nexstar Media Group’s $6.2-billion acquisition of rival TV station owner Tegna — the latest in a flurry of merger twists. Nexstar announced late Thursday that it had consummated the Tegna takeover — despite a lawsuit that Bonta and seven other Democratic state attorneys general…
Angela v Shabana: Who will win? | Politics News
👉Listen to Politics at Sam and Anne’s on your podcast app👈 With a full-on pointed and personal attack at Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer – is Angela Rayner beginning to position herself for something bigger? The former deputy prime minister ramped up the rhetoric – claiming the future of the Labour Party was at stake…
Column: Trump wants to ‘take’ Cuba, but we’ve done that repeatedly before
During President Obama’s first term, when the U.S. and Cuba initially made attempts to thaw our icy relationship, I visited the island country as part of an educational delegation. We met with government officials including Mariela Castro, the daughter of then-President Raul Castro, as she was working on pro-LGBTQ+ legislation. We visited the burial site…