Dr. Oyetewa Asempa at Baylor College of Medicine often reminds her darker-skinned patients: “All of the problems that you’re coming to see me for are caused or worsened by the sun.”
RUSSELL: We’re happy with the younger following and really diverse following also that Sparks has. It’s just kind of reassuring to us that what we’re doing is connecting in a modern way to younger people and really diverse sorts of people as well. And so that’s almost the most satisfying thing. Obviously, we’re happy that we have fans that have stuck with us from Day 1 and that they’re still there. But then having new fans that are kind of coming with a different reference point to what Sparks is — with some of the older fans, it’s like, “That was the golden era,” or whatever, but the younger fans don’t have those reference points in a really healthy way, we think. And so, from the last few years of albums that we’ve had, those for them are the golden era of Sparks and right now is the golden era.RUSSELL: To even kind of even comprehend that all of the Palisades is just … you know, it was really sad. The elementary school that I went to got completely destroyed so it’s just hard to comprehend. It’s pretty staggering.
COUNSELOR, N.M. (AP) — On a Tuesday in March, Billton Werito drove his son Amari toward his house in Counselor, New Mexico, navigating the bumpy dirt road that winds through a maze of, wellheads and water tanks. Amari should have been in school, but a bout of nausea and a dull headache kept him from class.“It happens a lot,” Amari explained from the backseat, glancing up from his Nintendo Switch. The symptoms usually show up when the sixth grader smells an odor of “rotten egg with propane” that rises from nearby natural gas wells and wafts over Lybrook Elementary School, where he and some 70 other Navajo students attend class. His little brother often misses school for the same reason.
“They just keep getting sick,” Amari’s father, Billton, said. “I have to take them out of class because of the headaches. Especially the younger one, he’s been throwing up and won’t eat.” The symptoms are putting the kids at risk ofStrong winds kick up dust as a facility in the Permian Basin flares natural gas east of Carlsbad, N.M., on Monday, May 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan)
Strong winds kick up dust as a facility in the Permian Basin flares natural gas east of Carlsbad, N.M., on Monday, May 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan)
Lybrook sits in the heart of New Mexico’s San Juan Basin, a major oil and gas deposit that, along with the Permian Basin in the state’s southeast, is supplying natural gas that meets much of the nation’s electricity demand.“I think a lot of people are, you know, you’re grinding at your job all day long and it doesn’t really matter how much money you make at this point, everybody’s just trying to do enough to get by and that just wears you out,” he said. “It’s just the world’s in a weird place, and I think people have seen that it’s possible to break out.”
Green presented Widger with a proclamation. Fans swarmed Widger after the news conference, many holding cameras and seeking selfies.Oliver Widger, (back of boat) a 29-year-old Oregon man who sailed from Oregon to Hawaii, arrives at the Waikiki Yacht Club, on Saturday, May 24, 2025 in Waikiki, Hawaii. (AP Photo/Michelle Bir)
Oliver Widger, (back of boat) a 29-year-old Oregon man who sailed from Oregon to Hawaii, arrives at the Waikiki Yacht Club, on Saturday, May 24, 2025 in Waikiki, Hawaii. (AP Photo/Michelle Bir)The scariest point of the trip came when a rudder failed, Widger said. Highlights included seeing dolphins and whales and periods of calm Pacific waters. “Being in the middle of the ocean when it was completely glass in every direction was an absurd feeling,” he said.