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What if It’s Not the Phones?
When the 82-year-old psychologist Peter Gray describes the way he grew up, he punctuates the anecdotes by saying that modern parents would be arrested for letting a child have such fun. When he was 4 years old, he would walk to a store in Minneapolis to buy cigarettes for his grandmother. When he was 11,…
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Medicare’s new approach to halting fraud is paying off
Last year, we wrote in the Los Angeles Times that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services was done chasing criminals after we’d already handed them money. We said we were building something different — a prevention-first operation that would detect and stop fraud before the check cleared, not attempt to claw back lost funds…
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Why Putin’s nuclear threats aren’t working anymore
Key takeaways Ukraine is increasingly launching drone strikes deep into Russia and threatening Russian-annexed Crimea, both steps that many once feared would result in nuclear retaliation from Moscow. Vladimir Putin’s nuclear threats aren’t as effective as they used to be, in part because it’s not clear what using a nuke would actually accomplish or whether…
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‘Oh my God’: MS NOW floats 25th Amendment after ‘rambling’ Trump speech
Donald Trump’s final appearances at the NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey, raised questions about his mental state after he fumbled world leaders’ names, misidentified countries and went off on odd tangents that left reporters scratching their heads. Admitting he is is sympathetic to the rigors of overseas travel and sleep disruptions due to changing time…
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Pakistani rescuers find wreckage of lost cargo plane as search for missing crew intensifies
Pakistani rescuers found the wreckage of a cargo plane in a deep-sea search operation on Wednesday, 12 hours after it went missing off the coast of Karachi, with efforts underway to find the five crew members who were on board, authorities said. The wreckage of the K2 Airways Boeing 737 was recovered 53 nautical miles south…
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Bonnie Tyler rocked out to ‘Total Eclipse of the Heart’ in final performance before tragic death
Bonnie Tyler delivered an epic final performance of “Total Eclipse of the Heart” during the singer’s last show before her tragic death. The Grammy nominee belted out her hit song at London’s Shepherd’s Bush Empire on March 19. She was all smiles singing the ’80s power ballad, holding the microphone out to audience members for…
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Tennis’s New Golden Age
The golden age of tennis didn’t end with a whimper. After Roger Federer walked off the court for the final time, at the 2022 Laver Cup, he broke into full-on sobs. Federer’s doubles partner at that event in London, his longtime rival Rafael Nadal, seemed to understand that he was staring down his own tennis…
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Data Centers Are Quietly Taking Over Texas. The Pollution Could Be Catastrophic
Omaira Garcia didn’t realize life on her small ranch in Abilene, Texas, was about to change until clouds of dust—kicked up by a mysterious project next door—began to engulf her home. The Air Force veteran says she found out about OpenAI’s plans to build its flagship Stargate data center directly beside her property only after…
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Trump decries ‘communism’ while his government takes ownership of companies
As a student years ago, I dove deep into the history of the Red-hunting McCarthy era and became familiar with the actor who emerged second only to Wisconsin Sen. Joe McCarthy as the villain of that insidious time: his shameless, conniving young lawyer, Roy Cohn. Never would I have imagined that a future president would…
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How to tell your neighbor they’re annoying you
Tens of millions of Americans live on top of, below, or directly next to their neighbors — which means, statistically speaking, some of us are going to end up in close proximity to an extremely irritating stranger. The source of annoyance could be someone who appears to be hosting illegal raves every weekend. Or it…