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When Don Toliver set out to make his new album βOctane,β the rapper was first fixated on Los Angelesβ San Gabriel Mountains. Though it wasnβt the sparsely green terrain or occasionally snowcapped mountains that caught his eye, it was instead the historic collection of white domes and solar towers that make up the Mount Wilson…
China has lifted restrictions on some British MPs and peers and will now allow all parliamentarians to visit the country, Sir Keir Starmer has said. Speaking to Sky News’s political editor Beth Rigby, the prime minister said the sanctions have been a “real cause for concern across parliament”, and he had raised the issue with…
WASHINGTONΒ βΒ Senate Democrats reached a deal with the White House late Thursday to prevent a partial government shutdown by moving to temporarily fund the Department of Homeland Security for two weeks, providing more time to negotiate new restrictions for federal immigration agents carrying out President Trumpβs deportation campaign. The deal follows widespread outrage over the fatal…
CIF City Section and Southern Section high school boys’ and girls’ basketball scores for Thursday’s games.
Driverless cars are coming to London β some time this year. Waymo, Google’s driverless car division, has confirmed its self-driving cars will be fully operational by the end of 2026, assuming regulators give the go-ahead. The phrase “Q4” was mentioned: corporate code for the last few months of the year. There are around 24 Waymo…
After Paul Dano came under unexpected fire from filmmaker Quentin Tarantino in December, the βThere Will Be Bloodβ star received support from fellow artists including Daniel Day-Lewis and Ben Stiller. A month after the drama, he is now returning the love. Dano finally publicly addressed Tarantinoβs controversial comments at the Sundance Film Festival during a…
Eleanor Dalley didn’t think she’d live to see 50 after being diagnosed with motor neurone disease (MND) in 2019. There is no cure, and most people die within a few years as they lose their ability to move, eat, talk and breathe. But for Eleanor, there was a lifeline – a breakthrough drug that has…
California Democrats have assumed leading roles in their partyβs counter-offensive to the Trump administrationβs massive immigration crackdown β seizing on a growing sense, shared by some Republicans, that the campaign has gotten so out of hand that the political winds have shifted heavily in their favor. They stalled Department of Homeland Security funding in the…
Jordan Chiles might be able to keep the bronze medal she won, then was stripped of, at the 2024 Paris Olympics after all. On Jan. 23, Swiss Federal Supreme Court sent the U.S. gymnastβs case back to the Court of Arbitration for Sport to re-examine the matter βon the basis of an audio-visual recordingβ that…
Uber wants to capitalize on the emergence of self-driving cars β not by handing the wheel to AI-powered drivers, but rather by tapping the mountain of potentially valuable data the rideshare company could collect in the billions of trips it handles every year. Uber this week announced a new initiative to collect and analyze data…
