Ana Faguy BBC News, Washington DC Christal Hayes BBC News, Los Angeles Max Matza BBC News, Seattle Getty Images Brent Dmitruk calls himself an earthquake predictor. In mid-October, he told his tens of thousands of social media followers that an earthquake would soon hit at the westernmost point of California, south of the small coastal […]
Two of the biggest phases of the NFL offseason — the hiring cycle and the initial rush of free agency — are in the books. The draft looms in roughly a month. Soon after, coaches and players will begin the early steps of on-field preparation for their seasons. But this truly is the stage where […]
Mike Howell was looking at his phone in an airport lounge this month when he saw a letter from the attorney general of Missouri questioning whether President Joseph R. Biden Jr. had the “mental capacity” to sign the pardons and executive orders he issued during his final months in office. Mr. Howell, executive director of […]
Joan Presky worries about dementia. Her mother lived with Alzheimer’s disease for 14 years, the last seven in a memory-care residence, and her maternal grandfather developed dementia, too. “I’m 100 percent convinced that this is in my future,” said Ms. Presky, 70, a retired attorney in Thornton, Colo. Last year, she spent almost a full […]
The stakes behind Musk’s China briefing The boundaries of Elon Musk’s influence appear to be expanding by the day: The Times broke the news that the Pentagon was scheduled to brief him on its plans for any war with China. While the highly unusual development raises all sorts of questions, it underscores just how deeply […]
NASA made a bet a few years ago that commercial companies could take scientific experiments to the moon on a lower budget than the agency could. Last year, that was a bad bet. The first NASA-financed spacecraft missed the moon entirely. The second landed but fell over. But this month, a robotic lander named Blue […]
The news … it’s not good. Arm after arm, it seems, has been felled by one injury or another. So it’s time to update the rankings. For some, like Gerrit Cole, they’re out for the year and it’s as simple as removing them from these one-year rankings. But others, like Brayan Bello, Tobias Myers or […]
These are the key developments on day 1,122 of Russia’s war on Ukraine. Here is the roundup of key events on Saturday, March 22. Fighting Russian attacks killed two people late on Friday in Ukraine’s southeastern city of Zaporizhzhia and three more in the country’s north and east, officials said. Zaporizhia regional governor, Ivan Fedorov, […]
Disney knew that remaking “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” as a live-action musical would be treacherous. But the studio was feeling cocky. It was 2019, and Disney was minting money at the box office by “reimagining” animated classics like “Aladdin,” “Beauty and the Beast” and “The Jungle Book” as movies with real actors. The […]
After the first quarter, both SMU and Memphis assumed everything would calm down. Nine fouls in 10 minutes was a lot. But everyone, officials included, regroups after each quarter. Surely, someone in the three-member officiating squad would say: Let’s let them play. In the second quarter, the teams made it 90 seconds before the next […]