On Nov. 12, 1970, a sperm whale carcass was blown to pieces on the Oregon coast, sending huge chunks of blubber falling not just onto innocent bystanders, but into the history books. It’s hard to believe it’s been 50 years. This is the same exploded whale carcass that earned national […]
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Biden has made clear that he wants to reset the US relationship with top allies, especially those across the Atlantic. But on complex questions like how global tech firms should be taxed, deep disagreements will remain, even under a new US administration. Meanwhile, Europe’s mission to crack down on misbehaving […]
Keep the umbrella handy! Rainfall will continue all day today with isolated rumbles of thunder. Then additionally 2 inches of rainfall (from midnight) will accumulate across the area. For those to the West and North of La Crosse temperatures are near the freezing mark. This is causing a transition to […]
PlayStation 5 launch title Sackboy: A Big Adventure’s online multiplayer will not make it for its release date of November 12, 2020, and will instead arrive in a patch “by the end of 2020.” Revealed on PlayStation.Blog, Sackboy: A Big Adventure will still support local co-op on launch day, but […]
The National Park Service issued a notice Monday that hog-hunting season is underway and the Tennessee side of Big South Fork is a prime hunting ground. It’s not every day you’ll hear a conservationist say, Kill as many as you like. But when it comes to hog-hunting season at Big […]
Lorraine Bracco heads to Sicily to renovate a house in the premiere of “My Big Italian Adventure” on HGTV. (HGTV) During the coronavirus crisis, the Los Angeles Times is making some temporary changes to our print sections. The prime-time TV grid is on hiatus in print, but an expanded version […]
Republicans are already anticipating some losses in next week’s elections, but there’s a lingering nightmare scenario they also have to brace for: What happens if Democrats win big — like, really big? Democrats’ top priority is kicking President Donald Trump out of office, but to actually enact their agenda they […]
Editor’s note: This is an excerpt of Planet Money‘s newsletter. You can sign up here. On the afternoon of April 3, John Friedman went down to his basement and hopped on a call with his colleagues Raj Chetty and Nathaniel Hendren. The three are the directors of Opportunity Insights, a […]
The coronavirus is spreading across the U.S. for a number of reasons, including family and social gatherings ranging from dinner parties to weddings, as well as eased shutdown restrictions nationwide. For months during the pandemic, Natasha Miller, chief executive of the San Francisco-based event company Entire Productions, has dealt with […]
Peter Kern has been the CEO of Expedia Group since April. (Expedia Photo) “The day there’s a vaccine announced, that people really believe in, will be our highest booking day in history.” That was Peter Kern, the CEO of Expedia Group, the Seattle-based online travel giant, speaking this week at […]
Momentum rising against Big Oil Ed Potosnak is right (“More NJ cities should follow Hoboken’s lead, sue Big Oil”). ExxonMobil and other Big Oil companies deserve to be held accountable for misleading the public for decades about the climate change damages they knew their products would cause. However, he understated […]
NORTH CHARLESTON — Mary Doran had been waiting several years for the opening of the new dog park at Wannamaker County Park, located less than 2 miles from her home. Ozzie, her 9-year-old bichon frise, doesn’t get much off-leash time in Doran’s gated community. Doran figured the new space would provide […]