Los Angeles Times
China's summer air travel surges to 147 million trips as international routes rebound
China's civil aviation sector is expected to wrap up its summer travel season Sunday with a total of 147 million passenger trips, highlighting a steady rebound in travel demand.
1 min |
September 24, 2025
Los Angeles Times
Silkworms, camellias create livelihoods from rocky soils
Shuanglong Village in rural Chongqing starts the day before sunrise. Local workers gather to pick white mulberry leaves, which are collected by silkworm raisers to feed the larvae of silk moths.
5 min |
September 24, 2025
Los Angeles Times
Guangzhou, Xiamen witness record cross-border summer trips
Guangzhou and Xiamen, two of China's major transportation hubs, report record cross-border passenger trips this summer, as the travel season is close to end.
1 min |
September 24, 2025
Los Angeles Times
Massive N.Y. telecom threat is foiled
While close to 150 world leaders prepared to descend on Manhattan for the U.N. General Assembly, the U.S. Secret Service was quietly dismantling a massive hidden telecom network across the New York area — a system investigators say could have crippled cell towers, jammed 911 calls and flooded networks with chaos at the very moment the city was most vulnerable.
2 min |
September 24, 2025
Los Angeles Times
Reading Prop. 50 polls is tricky
Evaluate quality of surveys by sample size, languages offered, duration
4 min |
September 24, 2025
Los Angeles Times
Poll finds legal immigration gaining support
Fewer want cuts to lawful migration, citing economic growth as a benefit.
4 min |
September 24, 2025
Los Angeles Times
Nvidia to invest in OpenAI for data centers
Nvidia plans to invest $100 billion in OpenAI, giving the ChatGPT maker a huge war chest to build data centers with the chip maker's chips.
2 min |
September 24, 2025
Los Angeles Times
Victim’s son wants execution halted
Alabama is scheduled to put Geoffrey West to death on Thursday for a 1997 murder.
3 min |
September 24, 2025
Los Angeles Times
Auto makers seek EV rollbacks
Major automakers want the Trump administration to weaken ambitious tailpipe emissions standards that are pushing the industry to sell electric vehicles in larger numbers.
1 min |
September 24, 2025
Los Angeles Times
Amazon trial will focus on Prime
The FTC has accused the retail giant of deceiving customers with the service.
3 min |
September 24, 2025
Los Angeles Times
Bonta demands an FCC reversal
He urges agency to end 'campaign of censorship' after Kimmel dust-up
3 min |
September 24, 2025
Los Angeles Times
Collaborative exhibition of SCO countries' cultural heritage kicks off in Beijing
A collaborative exhibition featuring cultural heritage collections from museums in Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) member states kicked off in Beijing on Wednesday.
1 min |
September 24, 2025
Los Angeles Times
Patricia Lockwood takes us on a feverish descent
Author draws from her COVID struggles in ‘Will There Ever Be Another You.’
4 min |
September 24, 2025
Los Angeles Times
Coachella’s rock lineup mystery
The festival’s 2026 act list left Radiohead and Nine Inch Nails fans with questions.
3 min |
September 24, 2025
Los Angeles Times
Shooting suspect's note cited Epstein, Bondi
The man accused of opening fire on the lobby of a Sacramento ABC television station cited the government's handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case as a motive and promised several members of the Trump administration would be \"next,\" according to a federal court filing made public Monday.
3 min |
September 24, 2025
Los Angeles Times
GIVING SOME LOVIN' BACK TO MINNIE RIPERTON
Ahead of a Hollywood Bowl tribute concert featuring Stevie Wonder and others, those close to the late R&B singer reflect on her life and legacy
7 min |
September 24, 2025
Los Angeles Times
Where Mexicans are cool and ICE is a joke
Last week, I was in Colorado to give a speech at the University of Denver about my career covering Mexican food in the United States.
4 min |
September 24, 2025
Los Angeles Times
Foraging tufted deer spotted in Yunnan
Infrared cameras installed by researchers in the wild scene in which a captured a tufted deer was foraging with her child and licking the cub at the Gaoligong Mountain National Nature Reserve in southwest China's Yunnan Province.
1 min |
September 24, 2025
Wine Spectator
Regina King Creates a Tribute to Her Son With a New Wine Project
Actor, director and executive producer Regina King has been a major player in film and television for four decades, including her roles in Ray, Jerry Maguire and as Sharon Rivers in If Beale Street Could Talk, which won her the 2019 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. In her latest film, she plays a New York City cop in director Darren Aronofsky’s Caught Stealing. Now she’s adding vintner to her resume as she launches her wine label, MianU, beginning with an orange wine sourced from California’s Mendocino County. Pronounced “me and you,” it represents making a connection through shared experiences, she says.
2 min |
November 15, 2025
Wine Spectator
The Biggest Mistake With 2022 Cabernet
I generally don't wade into the price argument. But dropping prices on a lesser vintage should have been a no-brainer.
3 min |
November 15, 2025
Wine Spectator
Gigondas Blanc: Exciting and New
There are fewer things more change-resistant than French wine appellation laws. It took the winegrowers in Southern Rhône's Gigondas region more than a decade of lobbying to secure the right to produce white wines that could bear the name of their esteemed cru. Finally, the Gigondas blancs, which debuted with the 2023 vintage, are making their way to the market.
2 min |
November 15, 2025
Wine Spectator
A Taste of the European Blues
Strong, salty blue cheeses with plenty of bitterness and peppery bite are easy to find. Sorting through the many options to identify those capable of achieving delectable balance by orchestrating multiple intriguing flavors and aromas—from sweet and fruity to nutty, yeasty and chocolaty—can be more of a challenge.
2 min |
November 15, 2025
Wine Spectator
COMPOSING OPUS ONE
Robert Mondavi and Baron Philippe de Rothschild announced their revolutionary partnership in 1980. Today, a young team led by winemaker Michael Silacci is forging its full identity
10+ min |
November 15, 2025
Wine Spectator
NAPA CABERNET 2015: Ten Years After
While shy of a classic rating, the vintage offers plenty of solid Cabernets still packed with fruit
3 min |
November 15, 2025
Wine Spectator
COOMBSVILLE
AVA SPOTLIGHT
3 min |
November 15, 2025
Wine Spectator
OPUS ONE 1979-2023
A 45-vintage vertical tasting shows the evolution of a California first-growth
9 min |
November 15, 2025
Wine Spectator
Napa's Dominus Buys Yountville Ranch Vineyard
Dominus Estate, the Napa Valley winery owned by Bordeaux’s Christian Moueix, has purchased the 86-acre Yountville Ranch vineyard from Markham Vineyards, next door to Dominus’ Napanook vineyard. Neither party disclosed a purchase price.
1 min |
November 15, 2025
Wine Spectator
TOO HOT TO HANDLE
Even Napa's top producers struggled in the scorching 2022 vintage for Cabernet
10+ min |
November 15, 2025
Reader's Digest US
The Angel of Indian Rocks
A once-in-a-lifetime flood didn't stop a man on a paddleboard from rescuing his neighbors
4 min |
October / November 2025
Reader's Digest US
Cinder the Hardware Cat
THE MOST BELOVED fixture at our hardware store isn't a tool or piece of equipment—it's our cat, Cinder.
1 min |