School closures have rocked this LA-area district – are they destroying it, or saving it?

As the US faces challenges to public school funding, activists warn that more people should pay attention to what’s happened in Inglewood, California ...

The great retreat: Before Brexit, up to a million Romanians came to the UK to work as cleaners and builders... now nearly 40,000 are leaving each year to escape crime, th…

The numbers of Romanians leaving the UK are higher than for any other EU nationality, dwarfing the 25,000 Poles who left ...
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Chile to Restore Global Leadership in Lithium Production

Chile's state-owned copper producer, Codelco, together with Chinese-backed private miner, SQM, announced on Saturday the ...

How animals have been used for espionage from Hvaldimir the roving Russian whale to American 'bat bombs' and a 'spy squirrel' unit caught behind enemy lines

The first time animals are believed to have been used was after German pharmacist Julius Neubronner developed the pigeon ...
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China's BYD Poised to Overtake Tesla in 2025 EV Sales

Growing Chinese auto giant BYD stands poised to officially surpass Tesla as the world's biggest electric vehicle company in ...
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From Columbus Park camps to boutique hotel, San Jose's homeless plan is tested

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... After a year of living out of her car in San Jose's Columbus Park, where rats had so overrun the city's largest homeless encampment that residents gave them ...