Over the past three years, we reporters learned there were certain things that we weren’t allowed to say. Not long ago, in fact, my new video may have been censored. One dangerous idea, we were told, was that COVID might have been created in a lab at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. That seems very possible,…
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UCLA gymnasts will wince if you ask them about the intrasquad meet that occurred in the first practice after the Pac-12 championships. Coach Janelle McDonald decided to hold an intrasquad to replicate the feeling of competing two days in a row. So after a Pac-12 championship in which UCLA worked their way from fourth to…
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Earth Day is a global environmental movement where we’re all asked to think about and maybe even actually do something to better our world on Saturday, April 22. Typically, inhabitants of Earth participate on this day by volunteering and taking part in events that help the planet and all of the creatures living on it.…
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Somewhere in the faraway Mozambique Channel, on Madagascar’s tiny, roadless, volcanic “Lemur Island,” a tawny-colored, wet-nosed, white-maned, utterly adorable lemur suddenly pounced from a tree in the tropical rainforest — and landed on my shoulder. She leaned over, wrapped her eerily human-like hand around my wrist and, with a silky tongue, licked a squished piece…
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By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER | AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON — U.S. consumer inflation eased in March, with less expensive gas and food providing some relief to households that have struggled under the weight of surging prices. Yet prices are still rising fast enough to keep the Federal Reserve on track to raise interest rates at least…
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LONDON — Billionaire Elon Musk has told the BBC that running Twitter has been “quite painful” but that the social media company is now roughly breaking even after he acquired it late last year. In an interview also streamed live late Tuesday on Twitter Spaces, Musk discussed his ownership of the online platform, including layoffs,…
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Painting has begun to restore the iconic patriotic mural on the Prado Dam near Corona after years of advocacy and a legal battle for the beloved artwork created nearly four decades ago. Workers, who will use the same design as the original mural, began the job Tuesday, April, 4. The project will be completed in…
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Despite a gloomy marine layer, the owners of the Dragonfly, a 26-foot sailboat, were all smiles and sunny dispositions as their boat passed its first inspection as part of the requirement of getting a slip at Dana Point Harbor’s newly installed boat docks. The French-made, cherrywood boat is among 260 vessels that will move into…
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I recently stumbled across a notebook I kept of our trip to the Italian Riviera many moons ago when the kids were still young enough to enjoy my company and did not yet flinch when I tried to touch them. Some of these tips that I wrote to myself will be useful in my future…
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By ANNE M. PETERSON AP Sports Writer ST. LOUIS — Alana Cook scored her first international goal on her 26th birthday and the United States beat Ireland, 1-0, in an exhibition on Tuesday night as the teams prepare for the Women’s World Cup this summer. It was the Americans’ first game without Mallory Swanson, who…
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