Southern California is a hotbed for softball talent, so it comes as no surprise that the USA national team’s 15-person roster for the World Games in Chengdu, China, is loaded with local products. Players either went to high school locally or played for UCLA. They include Oaks Christian and UCLA standout Maya Brady and St….
Blake Lively was honored at the Time 100 Gala on Thursday, where she alluded to her ongoing legal battle with Justin Baldoni and paid tribute to her mother. “I have so much to say about the last two years of my life, but tonight is not the forum,” the It Ends With Us star and…
The coffin of Pope Francis is carried on the day of the funeral Mass of Pope Francis in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican on April 26, 2025. Kai Pfaffenbach | Reuters World leaders and Catholic faithful bade farewell to Pope Francis in a funeral Saturday that highlighted his concern for the “most peripheral of…
President Trump met privately with President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine on Saturday in Rome, the White House said, on the sidelines of the funeral service for Pope Francis. It was the first time the two leaders had met in person since their televised argument in late February in the Oval Office that resulted in a…
A weathered sign in the Minnesota River Valley proudly proclaims: “World’s Oldest Rock.” Erected in 1975, it marks a 3.8-billion-year-old gneiss — or so scientists thought. Turns out, it’s not the world’s oldest rock (Since 2019, that title has been held by an estimated 4-billion-year-old Canadian Acasta Gneiss). An analysis of minerals in the Minnesota…
Elon Musk’s xAI Holdings is in talks to raise $20 billion in fresh funding, potentially valuing the AI and social media combo at over $120 billion, according to a new Bloomberg report that says talks are in the “early stages.” If successful, the deal would be the second-largest startup funding round ever, behind only OpenAI’s…
All but one NHL team will end the season on a bitter note, as there can be only one Stanley Cup champion. But on Saturday, we could have our very first playoff elimination of the 2025 playoffs. Editor’s Picks 2 Related The Ottawa Senators are on the brink heading into Saturday’s game. Despite taking the…
26 April 2025 Dorit Kemsley has filed for divorce from PK Kemsley. Dorit Kemsley files for divorce The ‘Real Housewives of Beverly Hills’ filed papers to end her 10-year marriage to the 57-year-old English businessman and she cited “irreconcilable differences” as the reason for the split. According to PEOPLE, Dorit also requested spousal support and…
The life and legacy of Pope Francis — a pontiff who defied easy definition and led the Roman Catholic Church through a dozen years of different phases and contradictions — are not easy to fit into a single homily. But that was the task for Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, the dean of the College of…
Ancient DNA Reveals Phoenicians’ Surprising Ancestry Phoenician civilization spread its culture and alphabet across the Mediterranean but not, evidently, its DNA By Ewen Callaway & Nature magazine A death mask from the third or second century bc found in the Phoenician trading city of Carthage in what is now Tunisia. Peter Horree/Alamy Stock Photo An…
