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On Oct. 2, days after Hurricane Ian swept through Florida, Rep. Val Demings, a Democrat vying to unseat Sen. Marco Rubio, took to Twitter. “In the United States Senate, I’ll never put partisan politics over delivering disaster relief for Floridians,” she wrote. It was a veiled broadside against Rubio who, in 2012, voted against a $50 billion relief bill for New York and New Jersey after they were decimated by Hurricane Sandy, and last month skipped a vote on $18.

If the Shangri-Las, Turtles, Monkees, Joe Cocker, Flying Burrito Brothers, et al. have never gotten nominated by now, it's probably not going to happen in the Eminem-vs.-Duran Duran age. But we've got a long list of early rockers and pop worthies that got forgotten along the way. Anyone who’s had a longtime preset for a rock or pop oldies station is well aware of the generational shift: “Oldies” now almost entirely means the late ’70s and especially 1980s and ’90s, with rarely a pre-1970 tune to be found that isn’t the Beatles.

Snow crab legs, the pale-pink centerpiece of any self-respecting seafood platter, are no longer on the menu. They are the victim of a massive population crash that led Alaska to cancel its 2022 Bering Sea snow crab harvest for the first time in history. As fishery officials announced the closure of one of the state’s most lucrative harvests—the Alaskan snow crab industry is worth some$132 million a year—they said that the state’s snow crab population had dropped87%, from 8 billion in 2018 to a billion last year.

One of the most memorable YA books of the last 50 years begins with a mother abandoning her four children, who range in age from 6 to 13, in a shopping mall in Connecticut in the middle of a road trip. Homecoming, published in 1981, follows the four Tillerman siblings, with 13-year-old Dicey serving as the narrator, as they realize their mother does not intend to return and embark on a journey to complete the road trip and find a relative they have never met.

After I gave birth to my first daughter, Susan, the nurse wrapped her in a pink blanket and put a tiny yellow knit hat on her head. Stan, my husband, sat by my side. We were both exhausted but elated, and in that moment, everything was clear: I loved my daughter from the second I saw her, and I felt a primal desire to protect her, to give her the best life possible, to do whatever it took to help her succeed.

April 2, 2014 2:48 PM EDT At least 24 people have been arrested over an alleged plot to assault St. Mark’s Square in Venice with a homemade tank in order to spark the secession of the wealthy region in northern Italy. Police said they had converted a bulldozer into a makeshift tank, complete with a cannon. The 24 were arrested on suspicion of terrorism, subversion of the democratic order and making and possessing weapons of war, according to police.

Today we revisit Cameroon as we share the recipe for Kwacoco Bible, a meal that's native to the Bakweri tribe in the South Western region of Cameroon. Prepared much like moin moin, Kwacoco Bible is a delightful recipe that can either be eaten alone or with a kpomo sauce as is eaten in the villages of Bakweri tribe. So join us as we take this senseory trip down west. ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7scHLrJxnppdktKq%2F02igratdqbWmecWopp1lkp6vrbGMnqWjp6liwamxjK2YrKypYrSwu8OnnKyrXaSzbrfWmpqom59ir6quy55mb6Zmpr54sg%3D%3D

J.K. Rowling and Elon Musk are among the high-profile names condemning the Olympics for allowing Algeria’s Imane Khelif to compete in the women’s boxing competition at the Paris 2024 games. Khelif was disqualified from last year’s Women’s World Championships after she failed a gender eligibility test due to elevated levels of testosterone in her system. At the Paris Olympics, Khelif’s boxing match against Italy’s Angela Carini ended in 46 seconds after Carini decided to bow out of the fight after taking some punches from Khelif.

It was no surprise that the 1936 Summer Olympics were going to be complicated. The wrangling had begun months before the games, as the U.S. considered whether to pull out of the games over the suspicion that Jewish athletes were not being allowed to compete for spots on teams for the host nation, Germany. By the time Hitler and the German team opened the games that August, TIME noted that the athletic events were being overshadowed by “other doings in Berlin.