[aggregation-styles] Los Angeles Times Texas’ torrid growth over the past decade is paying off with a major boost in political clout — two additional congressional seats and electoral votes deepening its already massive influence in the nation’s politics. New U.S. Census Bureau figures released Monday confirm the relentless population boom...
After Kristin Smart Vanished, Prime Suspect Moved to L.A. Where Sexual Assault Claims Followed.
[aggregation-styles] Los Angeles Times Fourteen years ago, police in Redondo Beach were called to a hospital where a woman had come after waking up in a stranger’s bed, naked and with no memory of what had happened. She believed she had been raped. An examination confirmed she’d had sex with...
Fresno State Awards 4 Honorary Doctorates for 2021 Commencement Season
Fresno State News A Native American basket weaver, two university benefactors with ties to Valley agriculture, and the head of Valley Children's Healthcare will receive honorary doctoral degrees from Fresno State this year, the university announced Monday. Honorary doctorates are awarded on behalf of the California State University system and...
Israel Examining Heart Inflammation Cases in People Who Received Pfizer COVID Shot
[aggregation-styles] Reuters Israel’s Health Ministry said on Sunday it is examining a small number of cases of heart inflammation in people who had received Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine, though it has not yet drawn any conclusions. Pfizer said it has not observed a higher rate of the condition than would normally...
Zakaria: We’re Spending So Much Time Thinking About Risk When We Should be Considering the Reward
[aggregation-styles] Washington Post The pandemic has brought out the crazy in all of us. We’ve all been selective about the science we take seriously and the stuff we disregard. We’ve often been more moved by vivid anecdotes than scholarly studies. But I really start to worry when even the experts...
‘I am Now Truly Afraid of the Woods’: Behind the Hunt for Sasquatch
[aggregation-styles] The GuardianAudiences who hit play on Joshua Rofé’s new documentary miniseries Sasquatch in the expectation that someone’s finally gotten some straight answers about that elusive hirsute bastard will be sorely disappointed. “I wasn’t hung up on whether I believe in Bigfoot or whether I buy the details of this...
What’s Behind Armenians’ Long Battle to Secure a U.S. Designation of Genocide?
[aggregation-styles] Los Angeles Times April 24 is a day of profound sorrow for ethnic Armenians everywhere, marking the date in 1915 when officials of the Ottoman Empire, the forerunner of present-day Turkey, rounded up and killed hundreds of Armenian community leaders. That began a cascade of catastrophic events that left...
The Biden Administration Will Pay Farmers More Money Not to Farm
[aggregation-styles] The Counter The Biden administration announced on Wednesday that it would expand a program that pays farmers to leave land fallow, part of a broader, government-wide effort to cut greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2030. The new initiative will incentivize farmers to take land out of production by...
Opinion: Biden Says He Wants Unity. He Can Prove It by Supporting Tim Scott on Police Reform.
[aggregation-styles] The Washington Post After the murder of George Floyd last spring, Sen. Tim Scott, R-SC, wanted to bring Republicans and Democrats together to get something done on police reform. As a Black man who had experienced police discrimination, he did not want to let the moment pass without bipartisan...
Body of Kristin Smart Moved from Property Belonging to Suspected Killer’s Father, Investigators Say
[aggregation-styles] New York Daily News The body of Cal Poly SLO student Kristin Smart, who vanished nearly 25 years ago, was recently moved from beneath the deck attached to an Arroyo Grande home owned by the accused killer’s father, investigators said. Authorities have spent a significant amount of time combing...