The week's bestselling books, Dec. 28
The Southern California Independent Bookstore Bestsellers list for Sunday, Dec. 28, 2025, including hardcover and paperback fiction and nonfiction.
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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…
How flag football helped reenergize a veteran coach
In the spring of 2020, Doug Caines was burned out and finished coaching football. βThe COVID season probably broke me,β he said. He had been head coach at Dos Pueblos High since 2018. He had been head coach at Santa Barbara from 2012-14. He remained at Dos Pueblos as a media arts teacher and focused…
Bridgepoint goes into Exile with Β£30m infrastructure finance data deal | Money News
The London-listed private equity firm Bridgepoint has struck a deal to back a provider of data and intelligence to the global infrastructure and project finance industries. Sky News understands that Bridgepoint Growth has agreed to buy a minority stake in Exile Group, which was founded in 2013 in Deptford, south-east London. The deal, which will…
shipping resumes as fragile peace takes hold
The first signs of a post-war recovery are emerging across the Middle East after the U.S. and Iran signed a memorandum aimed at ending the conflict. Oil tankers are once again transiting the Strait of Hormuz, and daily routines are returning to the streets of Tehran. Here are some images related to the deal: Strait…
Gupta pledges UK steel arm to family in bid for Liberty | Money News
The metals tycoon Sanjeev Gupta is plotting to hand control of his remaining UK steel operations to his family in a bid to stave off their collapse into compulsory liquidation and a government-orchestrated fire-sale. Sky News has learnt that Mr Gupta is proposing to refinance the business through a pre-pack administration that would result in…
Consumers sue to block Paramount-Warner Bros. deal
A group of five consumers have filed a lawsuit against Paramount Skydance seeking to block its acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery and unwind the earlier merger that joined the storied Melrose Avenue studio with David Ellisonβs Skydance Media, alleging that both deals reduce marketplace competition. The lawsuit, filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in the…
Former Scottish parliament presiding officer Sir George Reid dies aged 86 | UK News
Former Scottish parliament presiding officer Sir George Reid has died at the age of 86, his family have announced. Sir George died in the early hours of Tuesday at Strathcarron Hospice near Denny, just a few miles from where he was born in Tullibody, Clackmannanshire. First Minister John Swinney paid tribute, saying: “I am desperately…
Farage rows back on including women and children in deportation plans | Politics News
Nigel Farage has appeared to row back on his claim that women and children would be detained and deported if they arrived in the UK on small boats, saying it was not Reform’s “priority”. The Reform UK leader gave a news conference on Tuesday in which he outlined plans to deport around 600,000 illegal migrants…
High school football: Saturday's scores
CIF Southern Section high school football scores from Saturday’s games.