In November of 2021, Vladimir Dinets was driving his daughter to school when he first noticed a hawk using a pedestrian crosswalk. The bird—a young Cooper’s hawk, to be exact—wasn’t using the crosswalk, in the sense of treading on the painted white stripes to reach the other side of the road in West Orange, New […]

Students from among the poorest families in California are about to get the newest, most up-to-date public high school in the state as the rebuilt Compton High prepares to open. The brand-new $225-million, 31-acre campus is strikingly innovative — even experimental in some ways: The library has no books; it’s all digital. Classrooms feature an […]

Por JON GAMBRELL y GIADA ZAMPANO ROMA (AP) — Irán y Estados Unidos se preparaban para celebrar una quinta ronda de negociaciones sobre el programa nuclear de rápido avance de Teherán el viernes en Roma, y el enriquecimiento ha emergido como el tema clave. Funcionarios de Estados Unidos, incluido el presidente Donald Trump, insisten en […]

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Reporting Highlights Community Divisions: A tribal lending business in Minto, Alaska, is bringing in much-needed revenue but also dividing the community over ethical concerns and questions about who benefits. Legal Issues: Two suits […]

Arizona’s attorney general has sued a Saudi-owned farm operating a massive hay operation in the middle of the Arizona desert, alleging that the business is hastening the loss of the rural community’s rapidly depleting groundwater supply.  The farm owned by Fondomonte uses billions of gallons of groundwater in La Paz County each year to irrigate […]

Produced by ElevenLabs and News Over Audio (Noa) using AI narration. Listen to more stories on the Noa app. Final Destination, as a horror franchise, is known for its reliable results. Each of its first five movies begins with someone having a premonition of a terrible disaster (a plane crash, a highway pileup, a roller-coaster […]

Only a few months ago, former Irvine Vice Mayor Tammy Kim had aspirations of returning to the City Council she previously served on for four years. Now her immediate goal is to fight off charges that could put her in prison for several years. The Orange County district attorney’s office announced Thursday afternoon that Kim […]

The federal government wants states to turn over data about tens of millions of people who received food assistance benefits since 2020. A new lawsuit challenges that data request. Spencer Platt/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Spencer Platt/Getty Images A new lawsuit filed Thursday says the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s demand for sensitive data about […]

WEST SACRAMENTO, California, EE.UU. (AP) — El tercera base de los Atléticos Gio Urshela se dirigirá a la lista de lesionados tras sufrir un tirón en el tendón de la corva izquierda durante el encuentro del jueves, una derrota ante los Angelinos de Los Ángeles. Urshela abandonó el juego en la sexta entrada debido a […]