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Years after their son left the U.S. to join ISIS, a Minnesota couple learned they had two young grandsons trapped in a Syrian desert camp. Bringing them home was complicated — and took years.

"I just didn't think it would take this long," one veteran head of diversity, who's been job-hunting since last summer, tells NPR.

Schools in Maine have been at the center of a political battle with the Trump administration. Now, many fear after-school programs, critical for low-income communities, could be lost.

Lewis Pugh wants to change public perceptions and encourage protections for sharks — which he said the film maligned as "villains, as cold-blooded killers."

C Fodoreanu: "writings" Exhibition: April 19 - May 26, 2025 Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday from Noon to 4 p.m. and by appointment. For further information and press inquiries, please contact us at info@losnotrequired.com LOS/NR is thrilled to present "writings," a solo exhibition by San Diego interdisciplinary artist and physician C Fodoreanu, on view from April 19 to May 26, 2025. This exhibition marks Fodoreanu’s first solo show in our gallery featuring a selection of paintings alongside photographs, single-channel video works, and a site-specific installation composed of water, wood, acrylics, and silks. C Fodoreanu’s paintings depict religious motifs and stories inspired by his upbringing in the village of Nicula, Transylvania, the cradle of popular religious painting on glass. His maternal grand grandfather, Gheorghe Feur, was in fact the last known painter in the tradition of “writing” icons. Fodoreanu is re-creating these subliminal images into large works, each carrying a story significant to who he is as a person today. The title for the show is 'writings,' in line with the old belief that one cannot paint the word of God, only write it again. In "writings," Fodoreanu assumes the “clumsiness” the icons of Nicula were so often reproach with, and paints almost as children would do when trying to render the world around them: not “the way one sees it” with foreshortenings and in perspective, but by an agglomeration of some characteristic features, structurally necessary to make the surrounding world recognizable. What looks like “clumsiness” to an eye familiar with academic painting is the very essentialization and simplification of forms, the abbreviation and eliminations peculiar to a rapid execution which make this kind of painting so attractive, so expressive and suggestive - it is a painting from which any insignificant detail has been eliminated. The icon painters on glass avoided drawing a straight line with the help of a ruler. They believed that using a ruler, real or fictive, generating perfect shapes and forms was straying away from beauty. The line drawn with a free hand better represents life as it contains the heartbeat of the painter with its perceived slight irregularities. The “clumsiness” stops being “clumsy” and instead is elevated to a norm. Avoiding mastery of the perfect line is an assumed artistic choice to express the living soul, the palpable life force - beauty. Fodoreanu places these paintings in communication with his works in other mediums to parallel his perspective as an adult and physician of today to the old imagery flooding his childhood naïve to understanding self and others, adding a subtle disruptive queerness questioning the familiarity of these old told stories. About the Artist C Fodoreanu lives and works in San Diego, California. He holds a BA in Philosophy from UC San Diego, an MD from Harvard Medical School, and an MFA from School of Visual Arts in New York. He is a full-time practicing Pediatrician. He started painting before inherently transitioning to different mediums and modalities to create his art, from creative writing, photography and collages, to videos, installations and sculptures. His work pursues a poetry of light, and explores the human body as a metaphor for how humans relate to the surrounding nature and each other, faith, mythology, play, love, intimacy, memory, fleetingness of time, and the fragility of life. The first recipient of the Annual Sidney L and Sally F. Saltzstein Endowment on Compassionate Care in 2023, and a selected graduating artist from the School of Visual Arts in New York showcased at the Untitled Art in Miami in 2023, Fodoreanu has exhibited his work through various platforms and at institutions including solo exhibitions at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Cornel/Henry Art and University of California School of Medicine in San Diego, and Ronald Silverman Fine Arts Gallery at Cal State LA. He is the author of three poetry books (Romanian), and a photography monograph (English) that is part of the permanent collection of Maison Europeenne de la Photographie (France,) De Pietri Artphilein Foundation (Switzerland,) and Museum of Photographic Arts in San Diego, to name a few. His visual work belongs to private collections throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia. The gallery is located at 7910 Ivanhoe Ave, La Jolla, CA 92037. Parking is available at El Patio Shops building on 7946 Ivanhoe Ave for a flat fee of $7, or at The Ivanhoe building on 7817 Ivanhoe Ave for a flat fee of $10. Street parking is free after 6 p.m. but likely hard to find during our event. C Fodoreanu on Instagram

Efforts to improve officers' mental health have grown over the past five years. They were sparked in part by the death of George Floyd, which prompted a wave of anti- police protests.

A performance of the masterpiece will be transmitted into space on Saturday. The waltz has been associated with space travel since its inclusion in the film 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Food apps can help you figure out what's in your food and whether it's nutritious. Just scan the barcode on the packet with your phone. But different apps can give very different results. Here's why.

Outdoor concert on Shelter Island at Humphreys Music by the Bay Guitar god Kenny Wayne Shepherd is one of the fiercest young axmen of his generation, and he continues to blow audiences away every time he takes the stage. The self-taught virtuoso is a sight to behold in concert, where his furious fingers and flailing blonde locks serve as the perfect counterpoint to the precision and ease of his razor-sharp riffs. Whether he's playing bluesy originals from 2014's Goin' Home or covering legends like Bob Dylan and Jimi Hendrix, Shepherd always treats fans to electrifying performances that are as heavy on pure gusto as they are on musical chops. Bluesman Bobby Rush embodies the idea that you’re only as old as you feel. When he became more popular than ever in his eighties, he was consistently bringing his fans a live show - one as full of vitality as any you’d see from a performer a quarter his age. Rush doesn’t just stand there and sing, he really pulls out the stops for his ever-growing audience. When he’s not throwing emotion into his singing and harmonica playing, he’s cavorting with his female dancers, telling riveting stories and engaging in a give-and-take with the crowd that makes everybody in the room feel part of the evening’s event. With his crack band serving up Rush’s signature blend of funky grooves, soulful tunes and timeless blues, a Bobby Rush show isn’t just a concert, it’s an experience. Humphreys Concerts by The Bay on Facebook / Instagram

HBO's hit zombie drama spent much of its second season maneuvering Ellie and Abby together. Critic Eric Deggans says it has a pacing issue that many streaming shows share.