When her book "The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World" came out in April 2019, Melinda Gates could not have imagined how important the ideas in it would become in the wake of the COVID-19 outbreak. The pandemic cast systemic inequities facing women and people of color into newly sharp relief, as parents struggled to manage both full-time child care and full-time work, and ...
"Hollywood Arensberg: Avant-Garde Collecting in Midcentury L.A." by Mark Nelson, William H. Sherman, and Ellen Hoobler; Getty Publications (432 pages, $65) ___ Knud Merrild was just about the only avant-garde Los Angeles artist whose work was acquired by Louise and Walter Arensberg, the powerhouse collecting couple who moved from Manhattan to Los Angeles in 1921. In their jam-packed house in ...
Ancient humans may have grimaced and scowled just like modern-day people, and research suggests that facial expressions have evolved to show a…
REIMS, France - She's been on the cover of Sports Illustrated in a bikini, on the cover of Time in heavy makeup and on stage with Taylor Swift. Her face is on giant billboards and in commercials hawking such diverse wares as soft drinks and deodorant and her name is on a series of books for middle-schoolers and a lawsuit against the U.S. Soccer Federation. But on Tuesday all that fades into ...
A week out from the midterm elections, the Pentagon said Monday it is sending 5,200 troops, some armed, to the Southwest border in an extraordinary military operation to help stop illegal crossings by a caravan of migrants moving slowly north in Mexico.
HUIXTLA, Mexico — Edith Cruz was sitting at home in central Honduras, scanning Facebook on her phone, when she saw the post about the caravan on a community news page.
Some people head to a scenic locale for spring break, while others find a family vacation spot. Samuel Seago found both, but with a twist.
