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More than 100 years ago, astronomer George Ellery Hale brought our two Pasadena institutions together to build what was then the largest optical telescope in the world. The Mount Wilson Observatory changed the conception ...Read more

A senior with memory loss and no family members to help gave control of her finances to a younger woman. In short order, the younger woman sold the elderly woman’s home and depleted her life savings while neglecting her ...Read more

BALTIMORE -- One of Rebecca Rienzi’s favorite stories to tell about Pathfinders for Autism – the Baltimore County nonprofit where she has been executive director since 2010 – happened at the National Aquarium in the ...Read more

Q: What's with this new eco-friendly gas blend with the yellow handle? Will it harm a non-flex fuel engine? It's 50 cents cheaper.

R.M., Elbert, Colorado

A: According to the U.S. Department of Energy, Energy Efficiency ...Read more

In April, Wisconsin joined 27 other states that have banned or restricted local governments’ use of private donations to run cash-strapped election offices, buy voting equipment or hire poll workers for Election Day.

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HAIFA, Israel — Carmel Neta was on the phone with his mother, Adrienne, when Hamas militants stormed her kibbutz on the morning of Oct. 7. He could hear panic in her voice and screams in the distance.

Neta, 39, did his...Read more

For the last century, flamingos in Florida were more likely to be spotted on T-shirts and cups in a souvenir shop than flapping around in the wild.

Then last summer, a flock of the rare and beautiful birds — a group is ...Read more

KALISPELL, Mont. — On a cold February morning at the Flathead Warming Center, Tashya Evans waited for help with her Medicaid application as others at the shelter got ready for the day in this northwestern Montana city.

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Last year, when World’s 50 Best issued its first global ranking of hotels, only two properties in the U.S. made the cut: the Equinox and Aman New York hotels, both in Manhattan.

Now Michelin has arrived stateside, in ...Read more

When USC President Carol Folt called off the 65,000-attendee "main stage" commencement amid pro-Palestinian protests and anger over the cancellation of pro-Palestinian student Asna Tabassum's speaking slot, USC promised ...Read more

Emerson College’s Board of Trustees backed President Jay Bernhardt, despite calls to resign from the school’s student government association following the arrest of more than 100 individuals who had occupied a campus ...Read more

The flight deck of a decommissioned World War II-era aircraft carrier docked at Alameda has recently begun launching something other than airplanes: microscopic droplets of salt water that scientists hope will help ...Read more

Japan’s ruling party lost a special election Prime Minister Fumio Kishida had described in part as a judgment on himself, months ahead of a party leadership vote.

Public anger over a slush fund scandal helped the main ...Read more

Ships seeking to avoid ongoing attacks by Houthi rebels in the Red Sea area are emitting millions of additional tons of carbon, making it tougher for companies using ocean freight to reduce pollution across their supply ...Read more

CHICAGO — More than 200 police officers, relatives and members of the public stood in line Sunday outside Blake-Lamb Funeral Home in Oak Lawn waiting for Chicago police Officer Luis Huesca’s visitation services to ...Read more

Donald Trump and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis met on Sunday to discuss the possibility of tapping DeSantis’ donor network, according to a person familiar with the matter.

The Miami meeting is a sign of rapprochement ...Read more

Some campus protests are crossing the line, lawmakers say.

Protesters have a right to voice their opinions about the situation on the ground in Gaza, but not so vociferously their protests cross the line into antisemitism...Read more

DFL state Sen. Nicole Mitchell, of Woodbury, who was arrested in an alleged burglary this month, will be relieved of her committee work and removed from DFL caucus meetings while her case is under review in the courts and ...Read more

A somewhat uneventful 2024 legislative session was thrown into disarray last week when a Democratic-Farmer-Labor state senator was charged with felony burglary after allegedly breaking into her stepmother’s northern ...Read more

Zendaya's tennis drama "Challengers" scored the top spot in the domestic box office this weekend, bringing in $15 million, as movie theaters are still struggling to match last year's ticket sales.

"Challengers" ...Read more