Imagining the hardship of fire consuming their homes, San Jose teens quickly organized fund-raisers to aid LA fire survivors. Saratoga High’s Mock Trial Club members carry bags of Winter coats, blankets, and sleeping bags to the Saratoga High main office to volunteer for the Sacred Heart organization in Saratoga, Calif., on Jan. 20 2025. (Nischal Jasti/Mosaic) Editor’s Note: This article was written for Mosaic, an independent journalism training program for high school students who report and photograph stories under the guidance of professional journalists. As wildfires continue to burn in Los Angeles, displacing tens of thousands of residents, South Bay…
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Teams of volunteers from San Jose collect 4 tons of clothing, food waste and other garbage littering waterway and banks. Volunteers pick up trash along Coyote Creek in San Jose, Calif., on Monday, Jan. 20, 2025. (Brittany Pierola Diaz/Mosaic) Editor’s Note: This article was written for Mosaic, an independent journalism training program for high school students who report and photograph stories under the guidance of professional journalists. More than 80 people spent part of the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday stuffing clothes, bottle caps, and food littering Coyote Creek into trash bags, and pulling shopping carts and television monitors from…
NHL: San Jose Sharks face the Montreal Canadiens at SAP Center on Tuesday night San Jose Sharks SAN JOSE — The San Jose Sharks recalled center Andrew Poturalski from the San Jose Barracuda prior to their game against the Montreal Canadiens at SAP Center on Tuesday night. Poturalski, 31, is the American Hockey League’s leading scorer with 45 points in 41 games with the Barracuda this season. He and goalie Yaroslav Askarov represented the Barracuda in the AHL All-Star Classic on Sunday and Monday in Palm Desert. Poturalski could slide in as the Sharks’ second-line center Tuesday night against the…
Young artists marketing their wares on TikTok turn to other social media platforms. Sudi Roudi, owner of the SudiBear store, poses for a photograph in her store in downtown San Jose, Calif., on Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2025. (Nischal Jasti/Mosaic) Editor’s Note: This article was written for Mosaic, an independent journalism training program for high school students who report and photograph stories under the guidance of professional journalists. TikTok’s potential ban feels all too familiar to Sudi Roudi, a San Jose small business owner. The United States ban on TikTok, while temporary, raised fears of broader censorship, as practiced by Iran,…
President Donald Trump will attend the Super Bowl in New Orleans on Sunday, according to the White House. It will be his first trip as president to the game, as the Kansas City Chiefs take on the Philadelphia Eagles. Trump’s trip was confirmed by a White House official that was not authorized to speak publicly about the president’s plans. Trump is also scheduled to sit for an interview with Fox News’ Bret Baier as part of the network’s pre-show programming, which is set to be taped from Florida before the game. It’s a tradition that’s been inconsistently followed by Trump…
Former UCF basketball player Marcus Jordan was arrested early Tuesday morning in Central Florida after being accused of DUI and cocaine possession after getting his vehicle stuck in train tracks, Maitland police say. Leer en español Jordan, 34, who is the son of NBA legend Michael Jordan, was booked into the Orange County jail, WKMG reported. Around 1:15 a.m., Maitland police were in the area of Greenwood Road near Mechanic Street when they spotted a vehicle parked on the railroad tracks. When police approached the blue Lamborghini SUV, they noticed the tires were halfway buried in the gravel on the…
In what used to be the concert hall in this town in eastern Ukraine, cots are arranged on stage. Instead of music, the room is filled with the muffled sobs of local people driven from their homes by fighting in the country’s almost three-year war with Russia. The Russian army’s recent advances have engulfed towns and villages in the area. The Pavlohrad concert hall was requisitioned as a temporary center for local civilians fleeing the relentless Russian bombardment. “It’s good here. There’s food, warmth, and a place to wash,” said 83-year-old Kateryna Odraha, who lived through the Nazi German occupation…
In 2022, Salman Rushdie was about to deliver a lecture before a live audience in western New York when a man ran towards him and plunged a knife into the author’s hand as he raised it in self-defense. “After that there are many blows, to my neck, to my chest, to my eye, everywhere,” Rushdie recalled in a memoir that followed. “I feel my legs give way, and I fall.” In the coming weeks, Rushdie is expected to return to the same New York county to recount the experience as one of the first witnesses in the trial of the…
A group of families with transgender children filed a lawsuit Tuesday over President Donald Trump’s executive order to halt federal support for gender-affirming health care for transgender people under age 19. PFLAG, a national group for family of LGBTQ+ people; and GLMA, a doctors organization, are also plaintiffs in the court challenge in U.S. District Court in Baltimore. It comes one week after Trump signed an order calling for the federal government to stop funding the medical care through federal government-run health insurance programs including Medicaid and TRICARE. Kristen Chapman, the mother of one of the plaintiffs in the case,…
The hundreds of earthquakes that have rattled Greek islands on the Aegean Sea are a “seismic swarm” and could continue for weeks before eventually diminishing, the Santorini mayor told The Associated Press on Tuesday — pausing to chuckle as new tremors shook items on his desk. “This phenomenon may play out with small quakes or a single, slightly stronger one, followed by gradual subsidence,” said Mayor Nikos Zorzos, adding he was cautiously optimistic after speaking to seismologists who described the swarm as a series of tremors of similar magnitude occurring in clusters. Thousands of residents and seasonal workers have left…
A group of FBI agents who helped investigate the Jan. 6 Capitol attack has filed suit to block the DOJ from assembling lists of agents for potential disciplinary action.
Supporters have also helped the owner of Hive Bakery in Flower Mound make big profits in recent weeks, serving up a side success with controversy. Supporters have also helped the owner of Hive Bakery in Flower Mound make big profits in recent weeks, serving up a side success with controversy. Supporters have also helped the owner of Hive Bakery in Flower Mound make big profits in recent weeks, serving up a side success with controversy. FLOWER MOUND, Texas — At Hive Bakery, owner Haley Popp is no stranger to crafting elaborate cakes for customers in North Texas, around the nation…
Chinese wisdom has the potential to go beyond guiding the country’s own development path and also inject fresh impetus into global governance, domestic and foreign experts said at an international symposium on Thursday. Chinese wisdom has the potential to go beyond guiding the country’s own development path and also inject fresh impetus into global governance, domestic and foreign experts said at an international symposium on Thursday. Chinese wisdom has the potential to go beyond guiding the country’s own development path and also inject fresh impetus into global governance, domestic and foreign experts said at an international symposium on Thursday.
ARLINGTON, Va. — Crews worked Tuesday to try to recover the plane’s cockpit and the rest of the remains of the 67 people who died in the midair collision between a passenger jet and Army helicopter near the nation’s capital last week. They say their work might depend upon the wind and tidal conditions in the Potomac River, where the aircraft crashed last Wednesday night after colliding as the American Airlines flight was about to land at nearby Ronald Reagan National Airport. All 67 people on both aircraft were killed. As of midmorning Tuesday, they were working to raise another…
Howard Brown Health announced a new CEO on Tuesday – a former public health official who arrives after a time of tumult for the organization and at the beginning of a presidential term that’s already posing challenges for transgender patients. Dr. Travis Gayles will serve as CEO of Howard Brown, which has seven clinics in Chicago and specializes in caring for patients who are LGBTQ+ and people living with HIV. A search committee selected Gayles from among 200 candidates. Most recently, Gayles was chief health Officer at Hazel Health, a school-based telehealth provider. He’s also served as a public health…
EXCLUSIVE: Nicholas Celozzi, a co-writer and producer on the Barry Levinson JFK flick Assassination, has filed a lawsuit against the film’s financier and production outfit 308 US. Originally filed by Celozzi in a Los Angeles County court in November, the suit will go before a judge in April who will decide whether the legal action […]EXCLUSIVE: Nicholas Celozzi, a co-writer and producer on the Barry Levinson JFK flick Assassination, has filed a lawsuit against the film’s financier and production outfit 308 US. Originally filed by Celozzi in a Los Angeles County court in November, the suit will go before a…
Sideshow and Janus Films have acquired North American rights to Ira Sachs’ new movie Peter Hujar’s Day which made its world premiere in the Sundance Film Festival Premieres section. A fall theatrical release is planned. Whishaw and Hall play photographer Peter Hujar and writer Linda Rosenkrantz, the pic a cinematic rendering of a conversation recorded […]Sideshow and Janus Films have acquired North American rights to Ira Sachs’ new movie Peter Hujar’s Day which made its world premiere in the Sundance Film Festival Premieres section. A fall theatrical release is planned. Whishaw and Hall play photographer Peter Hujar and writer Linda…
EXCLUSIVE: International documentary sales, distribution, and production company Dogwoof has acquired worldwide sales rights to Deeper from BAFTA and Emmy-nominated filmmaker Jennifer Peedom (Solo). The film is set to have its world premiere at this year’s SXSW Film Festival in March. Deeper follows cave diver Richard “Harry” Harris, best known for his role in the […]EXCLUSIVE: International documentary sales, distribution, and production company Dogwoof has acquired worldwide sales rights to Deeper from BAFTA and Emmy-nominated filmmaker Jennifer Peedom (Solo). The film is set to have its world premiere at this year’s SXSW Film Festival in March. Deeper follows cave diver…
Gardaí are appealing for information after a Claddagh ring, cash and car keys were stolen from Twin Towns house last week. The burglary occurred at Meetinghouse Street (Letterkenny road), Stranorlar on Wednesday, January 29, between 1am and 7.30am. A house at that location was entered and ransacked between those times. A gold Claddagh ring, a sum of cash and two VW Passat car keys were stolen from the house. A door and a window were left open by the intruder/s. No damage had been caused in order to gain entry. “We appeal to anyone who may have observed suspicious activity…
LIVING in a shed might sound awful, but this family have turned one into their dream home, even if it is slightly cramped. The shed houses the family of six, despite there only being one bedroom and a total of 768 sq ft. YouTube The mum showed off her tiny home on YouTube[/caption] YouTube Inside, the space looks nothing like a shed and has plenty of storage too[/caption] Natalie, who is based in South Carolina, explained how they transformed it with a few savvy DIY tricks on YouTube, leaving people amazed. “There’s one bedroom, one full bathroom, a large kitchen,…