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“There really is this extraterrestrial quality to sperm whales,” says Patrick Dykstra, a cinematographer with a fascination for underwater sea life. His interest in whales — and his interactions with them — are captured in the latest installment of the PBS series “Nature.” “Patrick and the Whale” has an appealing, low-key sensibility that’s missing from similar but more frantic programming from NatGeo, which is too often filled with hokey, intrusive music and hyperbolic hosts. Director Mark Fletcher avoids those faux theatrics and the episode’s meditative qualities are reflective of the team’s...
Chicago Tribune
CHICAGO — NBA All-Star weekend featured a new crossover 3-point contest Saturday between the Golden State Warriors’ Stephen Curry and the New York Liberty’s Sabrina Ionescu. Curry, a four-time NBA champion, holds the league’s record for most career 3-pointers made (3,642) and Ionescu has the WNBA record for most 3-pointers in a single season (128). Her 37 points out of a possible 40 — some shots are worth one point, others are two — in last season’s WNBA All-Star 3-point contest topped Curry’s shootout mark for a record across both leagues. It was truly a matchup of two of basketball’s best sh...
Chicago Tribune
The history of this nation is regrettably rife withstories of children being exploited, exhausted, injured and robbed of their educational potential by employers who saw them as little more than commodities. For all too brief a time, Florida leaders viewed that as a bad thing. They voted, often overwhelmingly, for laws that were even stronger than federal protections. Now, however, this state’s lawmakers appear eager to join other states that are abandoning those safeguards one by one. At the start of the 2024 legislative session, a quartet of bills that would tear gaping holes in Florida’s ch...
Orlando Sentinel
MIAMI — While the ex-premier of the British Virgin Islands remains locked up in Miami after being convicted of cocaine smuggling, a federal judge still cannot figure out how to resolve doubts raised by a couple of jurors about their guilty verdicts nearly two weeks ago. U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams said this week that she wants both sides — federal prosecutors and defense attorneys who are at loggerheads — to return to her courtroom on March 7 with a potential legal solution to the seemingly intractable problem. “From the start, this has been an unusual case in many respects,” William...
Miami Herald
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Lyndell Mays, 23, of Raytown, Mo., appeared for the first time in Jackson County Circuit Court Wednesday since being charged with murder for his alleged role in the shooting at the Chiefs Super Bowl victory rally. Mays faces one charge each of second-degree felony murder and unlawful use of a weapon and two counts of armed criminal action. He appeared in court Wednesday afternoon with bandages on his face. Judge R. Travis Willingham reviewed the charges against Mays and read him his Miranda rights. Mays is being held on a $1 million cash bond. Willingham scheduled a bond rev...
The Kansas City Star
Beyoncé has hit a new high with her new country song “Texas Hold ‘Em.” Although much hay has been made about the single, it debuted in the No. 1 position on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart — which tallies streaming, airplay and sales. According to Rolling Stone, the former Destiny’s Child frontwoman holds the distinction as “the first Black woman artist ever to top [the chart] in the modern history of country music.” “16 Carriages,” which also dropped after the premiere of Beyoncé’s Verizon commercial during Super Bowl LVIII — entered the ranking at No. 9. As buzz builds for the March 29 r...
New York Daily News
MESA, Ariz. — On the final day of the 2023 season, after the Chicago Cubs collapsed to blow a National League wild-card spot, Chairman Tom Ricketts told reporters in Milwaukee that manager David Ross was still “our guy.” “He’s a great manager, he creates a great clubhouse culture, the players love playing for him,” he said. A month later, Ross was fired and Brewers manager Craig Counsell was now “our guy,” signed for a record $40 million over five years. Addressing the media Monday at the Cubs spring training complex for the first time since Ross’s dismissal, Ricketts reiterated he “expected t...
Chicago Tribune
I’ve reviewed more than a few projectors, and I’ve discovered they are not a “one size fits all” kind of gadget. Unlike flat screen TVs, which all basically look alike, projectors vary in size and features, and before you buy one, you need to ask yourself some questions about your needs. Is the projector going to be mounted permanently in a home theater? Do you need one for meetings at the office? Perhaps you travel a lot for work and need a projector that’s easy to pack in a briefcase. Today I’m reviewing the Dangbei Atom smart home projector ($899 from dangbei.com or Amazon). Early purchaser...
Tribune News Service
Next month, my bride, Elvira, and I will celebrate 45 years of marriage. Forgive me, but I’m pretty impressed with the longevity of our union. In this case, I make the rare exception of seeing no shame in my pride at this accomplishment. I feel this all the more so because my generation — baby boomers, born between 1946 and 1964 — is increasingly getting divorced more than any other. Between 1990 and 2021, the rate of divorce among people age 65 and older tripled, growing more than any other age group, according to an analysis published in 2023 by Bowling Green State University’s National Cent...
Chicago Tribune
Back in 1998, Madeleine Albright, then the secretary of state, called the United States the “indispensable nation.” She meant that this country, armed with unmatchable force and influence, stood at the helm of a web of alliances and global organizations that guided world events. More than 50 years after the invention of nuclear weapons, the U.S. had presided over a Pax Americana that had kept the peace among the nuclear powers. Today, more than a quarter century later, are we still the indispensable nation? The answer is yes — but probably not for much longer. The era of Pax Americana is endin...
Chicago Tribune
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