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Explore the latest home and rent prices in and around L.A., updated for August.

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Thursday 21 September, 2023

In a surprising move the Prime Minister announced yesterday that the government would be scrapping policies for "compulsory car sharing if you drive to work" citing that "it cannot be right for Westminster to impose such significant costs on working people especially those who are already struggling to make ends meet".

Government policies to fight climate change are discouraging oil companies from investing heavily in new production even as they turn in record profits – a dynamic that could spell tight supply and high prices as clean energy alternatives seek to fill the void. Crude oil prices have surged above $90...

As American influence has receded in Sub-Saharan Africa, our major adversaries have moved in.

The Senate dress code whining isn't really about propriety, not from the party of Donald "Capitol Riot" Trump

Thursday, Sept. 21: Both the City of Ottawa and the transit authority are stuck in the past, a reader writes. You can write to us too, at letters@ottawacitizen.com

For the Time100 Impact Awards, Ayushmann Khurrana picked an embroidered pantsuit from Anamika Khanna's menswear collection

The iPhone 15 series looks a lot like the iPhone 14 series. However, can you use older cases on the new models? That's the question we're going to answer.

Apple has been trying to figure out a post-pandemic hybrid work balance for over two years and is no closer to an answer.

These are today's mortgage and refinance rates. Mortgage rates will likely stay near their current levels until we get more data on how inflation is trending.

The Indian hockey teams, both men and women, will be hoping to secure podium finishes in Hangzhou and qualify for the Olympics next year.

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Bengaluru: Indian men’s and women’s hockey teams for the Asian Games 2023 pose for photographs during a special send-off ceremony titled ‘Sunehra Safar’, in Bengaluru. | Photo Credit: PTI

The Indian hockey teams, both men and women, will aim to secure their Paris Olympics spots with a strong show in China. It’s expected... Читать дальше...

Sometimes there is a gray area between honesty and denial.

In the extreme hearts of neutron stars, fundamental particles are twisted into strange 'pasta' shapes that could reveal untold secrets about how dead stars evolve.

Have you ever wondered why there are no green stars in the night sky? Find out why stars are different colors.

This project emerged from the Master Plan for the Snow Wells of Sierra Espuña, which included the cataloging and analysis of the state of conservation of these ancient ice factories. Thanks to this effort, in November 2022, the cultural landscape of the wells was declared a Cultural Heritage Site (BIC) in the category of "ethnographic place of interest." Among the urgent measures outlined in the Master Plan was the restoration of wells number 11 and 13 due to their uniqueness, accessibility, and state of conservation. Читать дальше...

Though he didn’t officially announce he was finished as a fighter for another seven months, Rocky Marciano had his final ... more

Eight Brooklyn-based arts non-profits will each receive $25,000 and ten months of workshops and other sessions

US-based Palantir is favored to win a $595 million NHS contract, but activists and doctors worry about its controversial ties to cofounder Peter Thiel, the military, and US border control.

Despite my success with AI-generated stories, I'm not sure they are good for writers—or writing itself.

Police gather at the scene of a crash in Washington DC in March that left a Lyft driver and his two passengers dead. The other vehicle involved had 49 outstanding citations, leading to public outcry that not enough had been done to keep the driver off the roads. | Robert Devaney/The Georgetowner Newspaper

Amid rising traffic deaths, legal mechanisms designed to keep streets safe are breaking down. Is there a better way?

One of the strangest things in the Supreme Court’s history is the antitrust exemption for Major League Baseball. The justices have previously described the judicially crafted immunity as an “exception,” an “anomaly,” and an “aberration,” even as they let it stand on other grounds. Now a group of minor league teams is asking the court to reverse what it describes as a century-long error.

Just after the crack of dawn, a few dozen late-teens and twentysomethings stumble from modest cabins into the cafeteria for coffee and a hot breakfast. Group by group, they bus their trays and head out—first to slather on bug spray and sunscreen and then to pick up their supplies for the day: knee-high rain boots, starter plants, and a fresh pair of gloves. Their job this week is planting mangrove trees, whose stubborn, tangly roots are already helping protect these vulnerable shorelines against erosion. Читать дальше...

The morning commute on Interstate 395 in Washington, D.C., was interrupted twice last month by the climate activist group Declare Emergency. As activists sat across highway lanes blocking traffic, drivers got out of their cars to confront the protesters. “We gotta go to fucking work!” one driver yelled. “We got kids to feed!” Another suggested the activists take their complaints to the White House. When police eventually cuffed and removed the protesters from the scene, the crowd cheered. 

This article is from The Spark, MIT Technology Review’s weekly climate newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Wednesday, sign up here. Have you ever repeated a word so many times it started to sound like gibberish? Try saying “peanut butter,” “roughhousing,” or “warbler” about 50 times, and you’ll be wondering whether the words…