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SAN DIEGO — The 2024 edition of San Diego's Wonderfront Music & Arts Festival will feature a mix of veteran music stars — including Beck, Weezer and the Roots — along with such rising young acts as singer-actor Dominic Fike, Samm Henshaw, Abby Anderson and the hip-hop duo Paris Texas. This will mark the first San Diego-area festival performance by the Roots — the longtime house band on TV's "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon" — since 2015. To be held May 10-12 alongside San Diego Bay, the festival is again receiving underwriting and in-kind services from the Port of San Diego and the San ......

Taylor Swift is Time’s Person of the Year — and we’re being rewarded with new details. As the magazine’s 96th recipient of the honor, she becomes the face of Time’s next issue, participated in a photo shoot, and is featured in a cover story penned by the outlet’s West Coast editor Sam Lansky. The lengthy profile on Swift — spanning about 7,000 words — acknowledges the artist’s success over the years while giving fans a new peek behind the curtain. Over the span of months, Swift and Lansky had candid conversations — including in Swift’s home — about her personal life, her career over the years,......

An Australian cattle farmer is set to leave the hospital nearly a month after he got bitten by a crocodile — and escaped by biting back. Colin Deveraux, who’s in his mid-60s, was walking toward a river in northern Australia to take care of some fencing when he saw fish clustering in a billabong, a pond left behind when the river changes course or flood waters ebb. Realizing there was something else in the water besides the fish, he abandoned his idea of catching some and turned to leave. “The water had receded, and it was down to this dirty water in the middle,” Deveraux told Australian broadc......

“Mummified” mice were recently discovered atop towering volcanoes in Peru where the Incas once performed ritual sacrifices. Thirteen of the whiskered rodents were found across three peaks in the Andes, where archaeologists first began encountering mysterious rodent remains in the 1970s and 1980s. At the time, it was presumed that the animals — known as leaf-eared mice — had traveled with the Incas, and had perhaps fallen victim to their sacrifices (The Incan Empire lasted from 1400 to 1532, and it covered a large swath of South America, according to the British Museum). But new research indica......

CHICAGO — After 14 dark days, Uri Raanan expects the best day of his life to be about a week away. Raanan’s daughter Natalie Raanan and her mother Judith Raanan, Uri’s ex-wife, were released into Israel Friday after two weeks spent as hostages of the terrorist group Hamas. Natalie and Judith plan to fly back to Chicago in about a week, Uri Raanan told reporters from his home in Bannockburn, near Deerfield, Friday evening, hours after the first news reports of their release. “I’ve been waiting for this moment for a long time,” Uri said. “I haven’t been sleeping for two weeks.” Hamas operatives ......

NEW YORK — Subway shooter Frank James, who unleashed a terrifying hail of bullets in a crowded Brooklyn train last year, wants an 18-year prison sentence for multiple terrorism charges. James, 64, who set off smoke bombs, fired 32 bullets and injured 10 people in the April 12, 2022, rush-hour attack, didn’t care who died — but he didn’t mean to kill anyone, his lawyers said in a letter to a Brooklyn Federal Court judge on Tuesday. “Mr. James is not evil. He is very, very ill,” wrote Mia Eisner-Grynberg of the Federal Defenders, describing how “his entire life had been defined by trauma and har......