At some point in the future, if we have one, historians will ponder when and why COVID-19 morphed from a public health crisis into an ideological confrontation, with vaccinations and masks as symbols of political leaning and with school children as innocent pawns. However it happened, the politicization of the pandemic continues to flavor its…
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Jack Sweeney, a Florida teen who tracks Elon Musk’s private jet online has a new aviation-themed target: Russian oligarchs and billionaires. The 19-year-old, who rejected Musk’s $5,000 offer to delete his Twitter account, recently launched two new automated Twitter handles — @RUOligarchJets and @Putinjet — following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The two profiles have amassed…
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Where would the Clippers be without Reggie Jackson? Where’d they be without Nico Batum? Where might they go with Robert Covington? Like his two new teammates have before, Covington went on the record after the Clippers’ win Thursday in Houston to say he’d come close to quitting basketball. Professional basketball, with its mostly unspoken outsized…
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Coors Light will soon phase out plastic packaging rings worldwide and instead opt for “fully recyclable and sustainably sourced cardboard wrappers” on its six-packs of beer, parent company Molson Coors Beverage Company announced Tuesday. We’re chill about a lot of things, but single-use plastic isn’t one of them. So we’re eliminating plastic rings from our…
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Gov. Gavin Newsom is slowly unwinding mandates and decrees aimed at addressing the coronavirus pandemic. It’s about time, but kudos to him for doing so. On Monday, it was announced that the state would “strongly recommend” but no longer mandate the wearing of masks by anyone, including people not vaccinated against COVID-19, in…
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INDIANAPOLIS — The Giants’ cap clearing has begun. Kyle Rudolph said goodbye to the Giants, their fans and his teammates on Instagram Wednesday morning. A source confirmed to the Daily News that the team is releasing the veteran tight end on Wednesday. Cutting Rudolph clears $5 million in salary cap space for the 2022 season,…
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By JIM HEINTZ, YURAS KARMANAU, VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV and DASHA LITVINOVA KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia renewed its assault Wednesday on Ukraine’s second-largest city in a pounding that lit up the skyline with balls of fire over populated areas, even as both sides said they were ready to resume talks aimed at stopping the new devastating…
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Star Wars essentials that diehard fans hoped to see in Galaxy’s Edge and in some cases Walt Disney Imagineering promised will cost the space opera faithful $5,000 to $20,000 to experience aboard the Galactic Starcruiser. The new Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser hotel debuted on Tuesday, March 1 next door to the Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge…
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A third site for composting organic waste is planned for Orange County, which will bolster the county’s efforts to adhere to state mandates to reduce waste and greenhouse gasses. This new compositing operation, planned for the Olinda Alpha Landfill in Brea, will eventually implement a more efficient compositing process to more quickly turn green and…
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By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell made clear Wednesday that the Fed will begin raising interest rates this month in a high-stakes effort to restrain surging inflation. In prepared testimony he will deliver to a congressional committee, Powell cautioned that the economic consequences of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine are “highly…
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