First look at the Space Shuttle Endeavor in its new L.A. home
People got their first look Wednesday at the space shuttle Endeavour in its new home at the California Science Center in Los Angeles’ Exposition Park in full upright launch position…
Smith: Juneteenth asks more of us than a ceremony
Participants walk through Fair Park during 2024 Opal’s Walk for Freedom honoring the U.S. federal holiday, Juneteenth, June 19, 2024, in Dallas. Chitose Suzuki/Staff Photographer Three years ago, a band…
Philadelphia’s 1876 World’s Fair set the stage for this years 250th shebang
Listen to article • 0:00 minPlanning for America’s 100th birthday started in 1866 when John L. Campbell, a math professor in Indiana, approached Philadelphia city officials with the idea to…
Market East’s Lits Building is taking us back to the Centennial with America’s first typewriter, telephone, popcorn, and seltzer
Listen to article • 0:00 minThis summer Market East’s Lits Building — the former home of Ross Dress for Less — will house replicas of technological products that debuted 150…
Trump administration vows crackdown on Chinese companies ‘exploiting’ AI models made in US
By DIDI TANG WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is vowing to crack down on foreign tech companies’ exploitation of U.S. artificial intelligence models, singling out China at a time…
Russia’s internet crackdown leads to a spring of growing discontent
By DASHA LITVINOVA Several dozen people lined up outside a presidential administration building on a sunny spring weekend in central Moscow as police stood nearby and watched them closely. The…
Peter Thiel’s lecture series on the Antichrist comes to Rome, and Catholic institutions back away
By NICOLE WINFIELD ROME (AP) — One of the hottest tickets in the Vatican’s backyard these days is for a four-lecture series on the Antichrist being given by Silicon Valley…
Michael Bloomberg, biggest donor of 2025, tops Philanthropy 50 list for third year in a row
By MARIA DI MENTO and BEN GOSE of The Chronicle of Philanthropy For the third consecutive year, Michael Bloomberg landed the No. 1 spot on the Chronicle of Philanthropy’s exclusive…
China’s population falls again as births drop to lowest rate since 1949 communist revolution
By HUIZHONG WU BANGKOK (AP) — How do you persuade a population to have more babies after generations of limiting families to just one? A decade after ending China’s longtime…
‘Everywhere chemicals’ are in our food, decades after scientists recognized dangers
CARY, N.C. — Earl Gray was astonished by what he found when he cut into the laboratory rats. Some had testicles that were malformed, filled with fluid, missing, or in…