“From magazines to television shows and movies, fair features have been portrayed as the ideal standard. What kind of message does that send to young girls?” — Representative Ilhan Omar of Minnesota Two decades ago, a Somali-American girl named Ilhan overheard a boy at a soccer game explaining to another girl that she would be […]
A museum in Amsterdam is contemptuously known as the Bathtub because it resembles one. Berliners refer to their city’s architecturally adventurous arts center as the Pregnant Oyster. Unfortunate nicknames for a prominent museum in France include the Smurf House. And now Los Angeles has … the Death Star? The long-delayed Academy Museum of Motion Pictures […]
When we finally reached the grandstands, my three classmates and I scrambled excitedly to find our seats. Below us, our heroes — Duke Snider, Carl Furillo, Willie Mays, Monte Irvin — were taking batting practice, slamming balls deep into the bleachers. A few hours earlier, we had been sitting, bored and frustrated, in homeroom at […]
ORLANDO (AFP) – At a laboratory in central Florida, biologist Aaron Gavin uses tiny pipettes to carefully feed shrimp to more than 700 corals living in huge saltwater tanks, with sunlight-mimicking lamps glowing above them. The work of the scientists here could be the last chance to save the species that make up the only […]
NEW YORK (NYTIMES) – The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced on Wednesday (Sept 29) that it will return a religious sculpture from the 10th century to Nepal after researchers found gaps in its provenance record. Experts of the region’s cultural history said that the icon was likely stolen from a temple shrine in the Kathmandu […]
The centrist senator is key to President Biden’s agenda in Washington. Her positions have angered some Democrats back home. By Jack Healy and Emily Cochrane PHOENIX — Jade Duran once spent her weekends knocking on doors to campaign for Senator Kyrsten Sinema, the stubbornly centrist Democrat whose vote could seal the fate of a vast […]
Even for the governor of one of the nation’s largest states, it was a whirlwind few days. Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York greeted President Biden, bumped fists with the prime minister of Ireland, shook hands with Jay-Z and escorted British royalty though the World Trade Center site. But perhaps the highest-stakes meeting for the […]
The family of a missing woman found dead in a US national park have urged the media and public to give the same attention to other disappearance cases. Gabby Petito was found dead in Wyoming on 18 September – a week after her parents reported her missing – and the case made headlines across the […]
WASHINGTON (AFP) – Top senators from President Joe Biden’s Democratic Party warned Tuesday (Sept 28) that the US relationship with Brazil would be at risk if President Jair Bolsonaro does not respect democratic norms in October 2022 elections. The far-right leader, one of the leading international allies of Donald Trump, has warned that Brazil could […]
A judge is expected to decide today whether Jamie Spears should be removed from his controversial role running his superstar daughter Britney’s life. The hearing at the Los Angeles Superior Court is a significant moment in the 13-year conservatorship arrangement that has controlled the financial and personal life of the millionaire singer. It comes as […]