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…
SACRAMENTOΒ βΒ Every two years, elite athletes compete in the Olympics, biennial plants β like carrots and onions β 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…
Like the mythical city of Brigadoon, Lisa Kudrowβs βThe Comebackβ 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-wing factions have united behind a call for a “major reset” β 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…
The adage goes, it doesnβt have to be pretty. But for the UCLA womenβs basketball team, thatβs not the philosophy. Coach Cori Close preaches thriving, not surviving, and thatβs been evident in the Bruinsβ lopsided victory margin all season. Thatβs why leading by 10 points at halftime against a No. 16 seed was likely alarming….
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 Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta is asking a judge to unravel Nexstar Media Groupβs $6.2-billion acquisition of rival TV station owner Tegna β the latest in a flurry of merger twists. Nexstar announced late Thursday that it had consummated the Tegna takeover β despite a lawsuit that Bonta and seven other Democratic state attorneys general…
πListen to Politics at Sam and Anne’s on your podcast appπ 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…
During President Obamaβs 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…
After sustaining a foot injury on her balance beam routine during a quad meet on Feb. 27 against Maryland, Ohio State and Iowa, Katelyn Rosen was sidelined for the rest of the competition. With the Big Ten title on the line, Bruins coach Janelle McDonald trusted one of the youngest athletes on her roster. Freshman…