Mexicali, Mexico-June 7, 2023-This test strip show that the heroin that was used is positive for fentanyl. (A La Sala worker laid a fentanyl test strip on it. A red line soon appeared.) Most all drugs are now laced with fentanyl. A man injects heroin laced with fentanyl at a safe house in Mexicali. Most…
En octubre de 2022, como consecuencia de la invasión de Ucrania por parte de Rusia, las Fuerzas Armadas reforzaron todas las misiones de disuasión de la OTAN en el flanco Este. Y entre ellas, las del Mar Negro, donde desplegó un radar de alerta temprana para vigilar las 24 horas del día y los siete…
Parents have been calling, texting and emailing me nonstop, particularly since the day that Yale University announced it had returned to requiring test scores for admissions. Frantic parents are desperate to know how the change will affect their kids. (Currently, three Ivy League schools — Dartmouth, Yale and Brown — have returned to requiring test…
I retired from teaching just as the COVID-19 epidemic was surging. Remember that time? Great waves of fear and confusion rolled in as we kept washing our hands and swabbing our noses and trying to discern if the little pink line was visible or not — that blurry line between wellness and illness. And so,…
a Metro bus in Encino in May 2023 (KTLA) Metro’s top security officer ousted days after filing complaint with inspector general Rachel Uranga March 29, 2024 Metro’s top security official was fired two days after she filed a report with the agency’s inspector general’s office, her attorney said. Gina Osborn, a former FBI agent who…
While I echo Steve McCoy’s sentiments that more young voters should feel encouraged to participate in elections (“Poor turnout by young voters,” March 23), I’m growing tired of the narrative that “young people don’t vote.” Especially because it isn’t true, at least for Generation Z. By and large, Gen Z voters like me are some…
The punk poet on finally getting JD Salinger, why he rereads the Bible, and growing up with Rupert Bear and Batman My earliest reading memoryMy earliest memories are of reading Rupert Bear, American comic books – Batman, Superman, Weird Planets, Creepy Worlds, Sinister Tales, Mad magazine, Kid Montana, Kid Colt: Outlaw and also Dick Tracy. My…
Forget the dodgy connotations: if it’s good enough for Chloë Sevigny, it’s good enough for the rest of us The rugby shirt is the Breton top of 2024. I am entirely serious. Instead of Pablo Picasso or Brigitte Bardot in a navy and white stripe T-shirt, your style icon for this spring is Prince William…
Some schoolkids are clearly nervous. One asked if I’d ever killed a child I’ve always been interested in the past. At school, I threw myself into history lessons. I turned one of my mum’s bedsheets into a toga so I could pretend to be a Roman, and spent holidays learning hieroglyphics long after lessons on ancient Egypt had finished. When I was…
Sinco, Luis B582278363Z.1 LOS ANGELES, CALIF. AUG. 8, 2012. Traffic streams along Crenshaw Boulevard at the intersection with Florence Avenue in South Los Angeles. (Los Angeles Times) With fewer options, South L.A. braces for bigger bills at fast-food restaurants Daniel Miller March 29, 2024 McDonald’s. Yoshinoya. El Pollo Loco. Little Caesars. Panda Express. Taco Bell….
The OpenAI logo appears on a mobile phone in front of a computer screen with random binary data, Thursday, March 9, 2023, in Boston. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer) (Michael Dwyer / Associated Press) AI companies are courting Hollywood. Do they come in peace? Jobs, Labor & Workplace,Artificial Intelligence Wendy Lee March 29, 2024 Artificial intelligence is…
Amor Towles, author of Table for Two. (Dmitri Kasterine) How many lives can one author live? In new short stories, Amor Towles invites us along for the ride Book reviews Leigh Haber March 29, 2024 In three bestselling novels over eight years, Amor Towles has established himself as one of our most beloved contemporary novelists,…
