Dear Miss Manners: I am casual friends with D and F. We all became friends when our boys were in elementary school, but now the boys are grown and we see each other infrequently, only getting together every couple of years. A few years ago, D sent F a Christmas card, but sent it to…
Humans like to think we sit at the top of the evolutionary ladder, largely because we have language, which is a system so flexible and expressive that it’s often taken as proof of our intelligence. However, whales may complicate that assumption. Researchers have suspected for years that whales might be using a far more sophisticated…
“Project Hail Mary” and its $525 million dollar global box office haul was not a fluke, Amazon MGM Studios swore on a stack of James Bond novels in Las Vegas on Wednesday night. The tech monolith’s film arm took the main stage at CinemaCon — the annual gathering of movie theater owners — to present…
After an off day Thursday, the Dodgers open a four-game weekend wraparound against the Colorado Rockies starting Friday night at Coors Field in Denver. Tyler Glasnow takes the ball in the series opener on Friday. Right-hander Tomoyuki Sugano will be on the mound for Colorado. Friday game info Teams: Dodgers at Rockies Ballpark: Coors Field,…
New research shows that the large-bodied ornithopod dinosaur Muttaburrasaurus langdoni from the mid-Cretaceous of Australia was no ordinary herbivore. With a toothed beak and a brain wired for smell, this species likely combined selective feeding with agile behavior. The findings also hint at life near a vast inland sea, where it may have consumed salty…
The House voted Wednesday to advance a measure that would reinstate temporary protections for Haitians living in the U.S., with six Republicans voting alongside Democrats to oppose a key component of President Donald Trump’s immigration policy. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. The measure, brought forward…
Steven Spielberg praised NBCUniversal Entertainment chair Donna Langley for moving to a 45-day exclusive theatrical window, accepted an award from the Motion Pictures Association, and sat down with Colman Domingo at CinemaCon to talk about his upcoming film Disclosure Day, a thriller about extraterrestrial life. The subject has always fascinated him, as evident from some…
Fans are frustrated with LA28. City Council members are battling over billions of dollars and overdue contracts. But in front of the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee board of directors, LA28 found support for the private organizing committee’s progress with a little more than two years remaining before the Games open in L.A. Despite pushback…
The owner of the Drax power plant in North Yorkshire received record subsidies of almost £1bn for burning trees to generate electricity in 2025, a climate thinktank has calculated. The company was paid £999m last year for generating about 4.5% of Great Britain’s electricity from its biomass plant, costing each household £13 a year, according…
It’s going to be interesting to see what happens in California if the citizens (and illegals) there are smart enough to elect a Republican governor. Maybe he’ll look into Christopher Rufo’s expose on the state giving free “gender-affirming care,” including “bottom surgeries,” to homeless illegal immigrants. You might think that the state would prioritize…
