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"Barbenheimer" is a hard act to follow, but as Hollywood enters another summer movie season, armed with fewer superheroes and a landscape vastly altered by strikes, it's worth remembering the classic William Goldman quote about what works: "Nobody knows anything." Four decades later, that still may be true. One thing Hollywood has learned in releasing [...]
RENO, Nev. (AP) — The Biden administration has taken a step in its expedited environmental review of what could become the third lithium mine in the United States, amid anticipated legal challenges from conservationists over the threat they say it poses to an endangered Nevada wildflower. The Bureau of Land Management released more than 2,000 [...]
LAS VEGAS — Work began this week on a $12 billion high-speed passenger rail line between Las Vegas and the Los Angeles area, with officials projecting millions of ticket-buyers will be boarding trains by 2028. Brightline West, whose sister company already operates a fast train between Miami and Orlando in Florida, aims to lay 218 [...]
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California pet owners struggling to find a rental that accepts their furry, four-legged family members could have an easier time leasing new housing under proposed state legislation that would ban blanket no-pets policies and prohibit landlords from charging additional fees for common companions such as cats and dogs. Backers of the [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — After several difficult years, the Army and Air Force say they are on track to meet their recruiting goals this year, reversing previous shortfalls using a swath of new programs and policy changes. The Navy, however, while improving, expects once again to fall short. The mixed results reflect the ongoing challenges for [...]
Allie LeFevere describes her maximalist Chicago home as colorful and eclectic. When she and her husband moved in to their home four years ago, she didn't have a specific design in mind. "I just wanted the house to feel vibrant," said LeFevere, founder of branding agency Obedient. She wanted "a representation of our lives and [...]
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Struggling to deal with a severe drought, water authorities in central Mexico decided last week to stop taking water from a rapidly emptying reservoir that is home to an upscale lakeside community. Residents around the Valle de Bravo reservoir had protested about Mexico City drawing water from the lake, an area [...]
SALT LAKE CITY — Reminders of the 2002 Winter Olympics are nestled in every nook and cranny of Utah's capital city, from a towering Olympic cauldron that overlooks the Salt Lake Valley to an Olympic emblem stamped on manhole covers downtown. As visitors leave the airport, they are greeted with a can't-miss Olympic arch amid [...]
With a compact mirror in one hand and an eyelash curler in the other, Grace Xu told her roughly 300,000 TikTok followers she was likely about to be laid off. She was right, she tells them in a subsequent clip, but she was planning to pursue a different career anyway: as a content creator. "I [...]
Brown rats are the undisputed winners of the real rat race. New research suggests that they crawled off ships arriving in North America earlier than previously thought and out-competed rodent rivals — going on to infuriate and disgust generations of city-dwellers and becoming so ubiquitous that they're known as common rats, street rats or sewer [...]