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Pop star Billie Eilish has been hit with calls to either return her $3 million Los Angeles mansion to a Native American tribe or welcome migrants inside following her controversial Grammys declaration. The 24-year-old singer won a Grammy for her hit song Wildflower on Sunday, but it was her acceptance speech that got the country talking. 'As grateful as I feel, I honestly don’t feel like I need to say anything but that no one is illegal on stolen land,' Eilish said, referencing the colonization of the Americas by Europeans. As she stood alongside her brother Finneas, who co-wrote and...

Orange County and the Inland Empire went from having half of normal rainfall at the end of February to 90% or more today, he said. That ignited a bloom. Sure, the bloom isn’t as dramatic as it was last year, when a rare superbloom lit up social media and drove hundreds of thousands to travel to Riverside County, where Lake Elsinore’s Walker Canyon offered miles of rolling hills painted brilliant orange. But 2020 went from being a disappointment to an above-average wildflower year, said Naomi Fraga, director of conservation programs at the 86-acre California Botanic Garden in Claremont.