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The Olympic, NCAA and WNBA champion is one of the greatest of all time. Now she has helped found a league she hopes can transform the sport she loves Whether you’re on Broadway, in the audience at Radio City or marveling at what you just witnessed in Carnegie Hall, New York is the home for … Read more

The Los Angeles fires hark to the nineteenth-century blazes that ravaged our cities—and point toward an even more flammable future.

Report says evidence ‘was sufficient to obtain and sustain a conviction’ had Trump not been re-elected. Plus, dangerous winds return to LA Good morning. Donald Trump would have been convicted of crimes over his failed attempt to cling to power in 2020 if he hadn’t won the presidential election in November: that’s the finding of … Read more

As fires licked the Los Angeles landscape, a network of volunteers plunged into action to rescue pets and livestock As flames roared into communities on all sides of Los Angeles last week, and tens of thousands of residents rushed to evacuate, trailers across southern California were being hitched and trucks fueled. A network of volunteers … Read more

Allocation of funds from Inflation Reduction Act makes it harder for president-elect to halt green initiatives The Biden administration has raced to allocate $74bn of funding for climate initiatives before Donald Trump’s inauguration, leaving $20bn vulnerable to potential rollback by the incoming president, new figures reveal. As the inauguration of Trump looms, the outgoing administration … Read more

Family of Jeremi Sensky, from Pittsburgh, suggests wheelchair may have acted as ‘boulder’ to help stop attack The family of a man who was left paralyzed from the waist down by a 1999 car accident before being hit and badly wounded in the deadly New Year’s Day truck attack in New Orleans are reportedly wondering … Read more

Culture wars and personal issues are expected to dominate a hearing for Donald Trump’s choice to be the country’s next defense secretary, Pete Hegseth.

For years I’ve overlooked the many good reasons for leaving the social media platform. But now there is no other choice Jaron Lanier was chief scientist of the engineering office of Internet2 back in the day, which is to say, definitely one of the godfathers of the internet. In 2018, he set out the reasons … Read more

Workers call proposals ‘almost laughable’ with new CEO’s pay package 10,000 times the median salary of barista Negotiations between Starbucks and its union have broken down with workers calling the company’s proposals “almost laughable” and highlighting the multi-million pay package of the coffee chain’s recently appointed CEO. Since late 2021, over 530 Starbucks stores have … Read more

Killing people with paperwork instead of a gun doesn’t make you any less of a murderer At this very moment Luigi Mangione, who is accused of shooting UnitedHealthcare’s CEO last month, is sitting in a federal jail cell in Brooklyn. He’s got a barrage of court appearances scheduled and, once he has wound his way … Read more