Războiul declanșat de Vladimir Putin în Ucraina a ucis 50.000 de soldați ruși în cei doi ani trecuți de la invazia din februarie 2022, potrivit datelor confirmate de serviciul rusesc al radiodifuzorului britanic BBC, care a lucrat la această statistică alături de portalul independent Media Zona și mai mulți voluntari. Potrivit sursei citate, numărul de…
Black voters have traditionally been pivotal to the fortunes of the Democratic Party, but some recent polls have suggested that they are proving less bankable for President Joe Biden than in the past. Whether or not as many as 20% of Black voters have in fact deserted the Democrats, as some recent polls suggest, is…
Soluţionarea propunerii Inspecţiei Judiciare de suspendare din funcţie, până la finalizarea procedurilor disciplinare, a Ioanei Ancuţa Popoviciu, judecătoarea care soluţionează dosarul lui Vlad Pascu, şoferul drogat care a accidentat mortal, anul trecut, doi tineri în localitatea 2 Mai, a fost amânată pentru data de 24 aprilie, de către secția pentru judecători în materie disciplinară a…
L.A. is the unofficial sound bath capital of the U.S. Here are the 11 best to try, for every type of person.
A string of failures and heartbreaks gave way to the second chances I needed.
The comedian talks about quitting her Netflix job when she got her stand-up career up and running. Next month she headlines the Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever as part of Netflix Is A Joke Fest.
Ten thousand cheering horse racing fans at Kentucky’s Louisville Jockey Club, now called Churchill Downs, marveled as African American jockey Oliver Lewis brought his chestnut colt Aristides neck-and-neck with Volcano on the homestretch, and the pair surged ahead of the pack of lightning-fast thoroughbreds racing on May 17, 1875. They thundered in tandem at such…
At itselftools.com, we have gained extensive experience from developing over 30 applications using technologies like Next.js and Firebase. One of the common challenges faced in web development is ensuring that images render efficiently across different devices. To address this issue, we commonly use the HTML <picture> element in React components for responsive image rendering. Below,…
Application programming interfaces, or APIs as they’re commonly known, are the bedrock of everything we do online. APIs allow two things on the internet to talk with each other, including connected devices or phone apps. But the enormous growth of API usage — around half of all internet traffic — is putting businesses’ data at…
How do you handle neighbors who smoke weed? How do you find clean wax? What are my first steps in using cannabis to combat appetite loss from chemotherapy?
The Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator and L.A.’s Department of Transportation, aided by nearly $3 million in funding from the California Air Resources Board, debuted their 250-unit e-bike “lending library” Tuesday at Leimert Park’s Ride On! Bike Co-Op.
A new audio tour from the California Migration Museum examines the origins of historic Olvera Street and El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historical Monument — and the immigration raid that took place there in the 1930s.
An annual survey from UCLA’s Luskin School of Public Affairs found renters under strain from the steep cost of housing and inflation, and many fearing homelessness.
Tax Day has now passed, and people have money on their minds. You may have read news reports that people should not spend certain banknotes because they may be worth thousands of dollars, far more than their face value. Before anyone opens their wallet to use their newfound wealth to book a luxury cruise or make…
Două de aur, trei de argint şi cinci de bronz ar cuceri delegaţia României la Jocurile Olimpice de vară de la Paris (26 iulie-11 august), conform unui clasament virtual publicat miercuri de compania de cercetare Nielsen Gracenote, citată de Reuters și Agerpres. Cu cele zece medalii, România s-ar clasa pe locul 25 în ierarhia virtuală…
According to an automated missive, I have the perfect set of skills to help write the first draft of AI history. It’s not a job for life, though Say what you like about the Germans, you can always count on them to find just the right word for anything. Take “weltschmerz”, for example, which roughly…
The story of two historians unleashing evil while recording a song is a strong idea and there are good moments and performances, but it is too chaotic and unfocused to resonate Paul Duane is the film-maker who in 2011 made Barbaric Genius, a gripping documentary portrait of ex-convict, ex-vagrant and tournament chess player John Healy,…
Ronald Goldman’s family may be able to extract money owed to them from a wrongful-death judgment against O.J. Simpson’s estate following the football star’s death.
Phoenix broke several heat records last year. Now Grant Park, which has inequitable tree cover, is seeing a tree planting drive that promises some respite from 100F temperatures It was a relatively cool spring day in Phoenix, Arizona, as a tree planting crew dug large holes in one of the desert city’s hottest and least…
The Times spoke with the frontman of Tool, A Perfect Circle and Puscifer about his upcoming birthday show and creative process, how he manages it all, where he sees himself at 60, and more.
Every day, it’s lurking — somewhere in the window between lunch and dinner, waiting to sap your energy and motivation. It’s the midday slump, that time of afternoon when many people succumb to fatigue, lethargy and a general decline in productivity. But you don’t have to surrender to the post-lunch “food coma,” according to Dr….
A history of our obsession with the end of days – and the culture it has inspired Why do we obsess about the end of the world as we know it? The answer may seem obvious: it’s happening. Covid-19 has killed millions of us, and is still spreading. Month by month, the climate emergency accelerates…
Waste. Can’t live with it, can’t live without it. And therein lies the rub. Perhaps it was during the pandemic making all those home-cooked meals that you became painfully aware of how much of it you produce. Maybe you put scallions in a jar of water and watched them miraculously regrow. Or, you finally got…
I’ve lived in L.A. during the Watts riots, the beating of Rodney King and the death of George Floyd. Books about these times, such as Gary Phillips’ “Ash Dark as Night,” help me understand them.
When bereavement books didn’t help Warren Kozak, he decided to write his own. Only after he was done did he realize that his book about loss was really a book about love.
In the tumultuous world of cryptocurrency, where prices can soar to unprecedented heights one day and plummet to new lows the next, XRP, the digital asset associated with Ripple, finds itself at the center of attention once again. Despite recent dips in its value, XRP enthusiasts remain steadfast in their optimism, fueled by the unwavering…
Director David Leitch tops himself with his new action-comedy starring Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt, but his greatest legacy may be ahead of him — if the motion picture academy takes notice.
As abortion politics and policy clash in Arizona and threaten to sway the swing state, GOP lawmakers scramble to address the issue amid fallout from a ruling reviving an 1864 ban.
The overriding lesson of the Dexter Reed shooting is that when you shoot at — let alone wound — Chicago police, they will shoot back and not count the bullets. The Reed shooting should put renewed attention on the priorities in the city’s police reform efforts. The primary, and much ignored, reasons for the Chicago…
The planet has recorded 10 straight months of record-high temperates. If world leaders need a jolt to get into crisis mode on climate change, this should be it.
