3 h. ago USC basketball recruit Alijah Arenas injured in LA car crash

University of Southern California basketball recruit Alijah Arenas has been involved in a vehicle accident

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5 h. ago Flu virus that can lead to paralysis and brain swelling detected in California’s wastewater

This comes on the heels of one of California’s deadliest flu seasons

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8 h. ago Family of California girl, 19, who died trapped in burning Cybertruck make shocking accusation against EV owners

The family of a 19-year-old college student who burned to death after being trapped inside a Tesla Cybertruck has make shocking accusation against the vehicle's owners.  

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10 h. ago AI helped write bar exam questions, California state bar admits

The bar says it will ask the state supreme court to adjust scores after test-takers also faced platform crashesThe state bar of California has disclosed that some multiple-choice questions in a problem-plagued bar exam were developed with the aid of artificial intelligence.The legal licensing body said in a news release Monday that it will ask the California supreme court to adjust test scores for those who took its February bar exam. Continue reading...

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10 h. ago Judge bars Trump from denying federal funds to ‘sanctuary’ cities that limit immigration cooperation

A federal judge is barring the Trump administration from denying or conditioning the use of federal funds to “sanctuary” jurisdictions

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15 h. ago Coronation Street fans fear for Gemma Winter 'death twist' as major 'blunder' uncovered

They are fearing for Gemma Winter as Mick Michaelis' sinister behaviour stepped up a notch as Chesney Brown returned home

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15 h. ago Dry conditions forecast for London Marathon with warmer spell to come across UK

Runners could see highs of 22C in the capital on Sunday.

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17 h. ago Make hydrangeas grow bigger and fluffier by burying this one item in your soil

Hydrangeas need enough water to bloom in spring.

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23 h. ago Two teens and 5,000 ants: how a smuggling bust shed new light on a booming trade

Two Belgian 19-year-olds have pleaded guilty to wildlife piracy – part of a growing trend of trafficking ‘less conspicuous’ creatures for sale as exotic petsPoaching busts are familiar territory for the officers of Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS), an armed force tasked with protecting the country’s iconic creatures. But what awaited guards when they descended in early April on a guesthouse in the west of the country was both larger and smaller in scale than the smuggling operations they typically encounter. There were more than 5,000 smuggled animals, caged in their own enclosures. Each one, however, was about the size of a little fingernail: 18-25mm.The cargo, which two Belgian teenagers had apparently intended to ship to exotic pet markets in Europe and Asia, was ants. Their enclosures were a mixture of test tubes and syringes containing cotton wool – environments that authorities say would keep the insects alive for weeks. Continue reading...

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25 h. ago Kneecap say ‘statements aren’t aggressive’ after denouncing Israel at Coachella

Belfast rappers criticised by US conservatives and Sharon Osbourne for the pro-Palestine and anti-Israel content of their set Irish-language rap group Kneecap have responded to criticism of statements they made about Israel during their Coachella performance on the weekend, saying that statements are “not aggressive” in comparison to Israel’s attacks on Gaza.During their second set at the Coachella music festival in California on 18 April, the rap group, known for their political performances and support of Palestine, led the crowd in chants of “free, free Palestine”. Messages displayed on the stage’s screens during their set read: “Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian people” and “It is being enabled by the US government who arm and fund Israel despite their war crimes.” Another read: “Fuck Israel. Free Palestine.” Continue reading...

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29 h. ago Elon Musk in White House 'WWE' style shouting match before stepping back from DOGE

Elon Musk has reportedly had a bust up with another key figure in the Trump administration, US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, at the White House where witnesses described the pair going "chest-to-chest"

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29 h. ago Judge's son remarkable act of forgiveness in court as he's jailed for shocking family crime

The son of former Judge Jeffrey Ferguson, 74, showed a remarkable act of forgiveness toward his father after he was convicted of fatally shooting his mother Sheryl, 65, on Tuesday.

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31 h. ago California expands its electric school bus fleet as federal freeze paused efforts elsewhere

California is spending $500 million to put an additional 1,000 electric school buses on the road

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34 h. ago Kneecap received death threats after Coachella gig, says manager

The Irish rappers referred to ‘hundreds of violent Zionist threats’ in a post on X.

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35 h. ago Huge breakthrough as scientists pinpoint cause of colon cancer in young people... with 100,000 exposed yearly

A common bacterial toxin may be to blame for America's colon cancer epidemic, a bombshell study from the University of California San Diego suggests.

Science

36 h. ago Women caught with £7,500 of cocaine, ketamine and cannabis that they supplied across a whole county avoid jail

Stacey Culvin and Sharnie Price were caught with £7,500 of Class A and B narcotics during a bust by Staffordshire Police.

Events

37 h. ago A dwarf crocodile carried home by a hunter: Thomas Nicolon’s best photograph

‘As a species, these crocs are easy to find and easy to catch. Brice Itoua is the most skilled hunter in his village. But they kill the crocs to eat – not to sell’The Congo dwarf crocodile is a lovely species. They’re very shy and, unfortunately, very easy to find and catch. Mostly hunted for their bushmeat, these crocs only grow up to a few feet in length and during the dry season, they often spend the daytime hiding in burrows and dens at the water’s edge. Hunters use a long, woody liana vine with a hook on the end to drag them out, before binding their snout with a shorter vine and carrying them away.Last summer, I shot a story about the Congo dwarf crocodile after being given access to the Lake Télé Community Reserve by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), which manages this protected area in the Democratic Republic of the Congo with the Congolese government. Continue reading...

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37 h. ago Lost Records explores the joys and dangers of our cultural obsession with nostalgia

Designers have long used nostalgia as a narrative device – but how does it reflect our own relationship with games?I finished Lost Records: Bloom and Rage several days ago, but I’m still thinking about it. Developed by Don’t Nod, the creator of the successful Life Is Strange series, it’s a narrative adventure about four girls in a town in Wyoming, who meet one summer, form a band, discover a strange supernatural force in the woods and then meet up 30 years later to dissect what exactly happened to them. It is about growing up, growing apart and processing trauma, seen through a nostalgic lens. We meet the lead characters as adults, and join them as they scour their shared past, revisiting old places – a shack in the woods, their teenage bedrooms, the local bar – and exhuming old feelings. Lost Records has an excellent feel for the mid-90s when the girls were 16: you can explore rooms and pick up artefacts such as game carts, diaries and mixtapes and, if you were around at the time, ...

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37 h. ago The holy screen: a brief history of popes on film and TV, from Peter O’Toole to Robbie Coltrane

Jonathan Pryce was humorous, O’Toole capricious, Liv Ullman secretly female and Jude Law memorably Speedo-clad – onscreen pontiffs have come in all formsEverything about the papacy is cinematic – especially picking a new one, as shown in the wildly popular movie Conclave, with Ralph Fiennes as an unwilling contender for the top job. There is the mystery, the ritual, the vestments; the spectacle of a lone, fragile human being poised over an abyss of history and good and evil; the elevation of one flawed man to a position of supreme authority, an exaltation whose parallel to the crucifixion is sensed but not acknowledged.Discussing the onscreen representation of the pope in Conclave would risk the blasphemy of spoilerism but there have been many popes on screen, some cheekily fictional, many factual. Many a heavyweight British thesp has turned in a gamey cameo as some hooded-eyed Renaissance pontiff. Peter O’Toole was the lizardly and capricious Paul III in TV’s The Tudors (2007), pre...

Culture

37 h. ago A surprising number of Americans want climate action. But why aren’t there more?

Support for climate action is growing in the US, but partisan divides and fossil fuel interests hold swayOver the last 12 months, the United States has endured a rash of disasters worsened by the climate crisis: devastating wildfires in southern California, a catastrophic hurricane in western North Carolina, and deadly heatwaves across the country.Americans increasingly believe global heating is a serious threat that will affect them personally – and 74% want to see more climate action. Yet while that sounds high, it is still lower than most other countries around the world. What explains this disparity? Continue reading...

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