The SEC was conspicuously absent from Monday night’s College Football Playoff national championship game. But the conference is all over the first USA TODAY Sports edition of bracketology for the 2024-25 college basketball season, with a tournament-best 13 teams in the field and multiple earning a No. 1 seed. Auburn is the top overall seed…
Logging of native forest in the proposed great koala national park (GKNP) in northern New South Wales has intensified since the Minns government took office, according to new analysis by conservation advocates. The report, which the state’s forestry corporation disputes, found 7,185 hectares (17,700 acres) were logged within the promised park in the 21 months…
Here’s an unexpected addition to our 2025 bingo card: young women across the internet have been devastated by the demise of a nightmarish fanged fish. A black seadevil anglerfish (unflatteringly described by one marine biologist as “pretty much evolved to be a giant head”), usually a deep-sea dweller, was recently caught on camera swimming close…
The US president, Donald Trump, and his Mexican counterpart, Claudia Sheinbaum, have announced a one-month “pause” in threatened US tariffs after what Sheinbaum described as a “a good conversation” between them. The US president upended ties between the countries over the weekend when he announced the 25% levies and accused Sheinbaum’s administration of engaging in…
As the wildfires besieged Los Angeles, marauding through hillside suburbs at an impossibly fast and ferocious pace, 500 miles away Garrett Needles and the volunteers with the North Valley Animal Disaster Group started making plans. The northern California-based group specializes in helping evacuate, rescue and shelter animals during catastrophes, and has responded to some of…
The prosecution: Lian Jing doesn’t want to eat the same thing twice in a week. It’s ridiculous to waste food My little sister Jing and I live together in an apartment owned by our parents. I work in finance, while Jing is doing her master’s. We split some of the cooking duties, but in reality I end…