[aggregation-styles] Visalia Times Delta Growing up in Visalia, it seems, might be good preparation for being in a Superman show. At least, that’s how Inde Navarrette sees it. She plays Lana Lang’s daughter in “Superman & Lois,” which debuts at 8 p.m. Tuesday on CW. The story transports Clark Kent...
‘Low-Cost’ Plan for Bullet Train Segment Through Kings County Now $800 Million Over Budget
[aggregation-styles] Los Angeles Times A 65-mile section of California’s bullet train through the San Joaquin Valley that a contractor assured could be constructed much more cheaply — with radical design changes — has become another troubling and costly chapter in the high-speed rail project, a Times investigation found. The segment...
Study of Fresno Children Finds Exposure to Air Pollution Damages Immune System
[aggregation-styles] Stanford News Children exposed to air pollution, such as wildfire smoke and car exhaust, for as little as one day may be doomed to higher rates of heart disease and other ailments in adulthood, according to a new Stanford-led study. The analysis, published in Nature Scientific Reports, is the...
For COVID-19 Survivors, One Shot May Be Enough, Preliminary Studies Show
[aggregation-styles] Wasll Street Journal Covid-19 survivors who have gotten a first dose of Covid-19 vaccine are generating immune responses that might render a second shot unnecessary, potentially freeing up limited vaccine supply for more people, several new research papers suggest. The research, while preliminary, found that the previously infected people...
Claims That Vaccine Will Make You Infertile Are False. But Some Women Hesitating on Shots.
[aggregation-styles] The Washington Post Niharika Sathe, a 34-year-old internal medicine physician in New Jersey, first heard the fertility rumor from another doctor. The friend confided that she would decline the coronavirus vaccine because of something she’d seen online — that the shot could cause the immune system to attack the...
Zakaria: Mainstream Republicans Have Tolerated Extremism for Years. Can They Finally Control It?
[aggregation-styles] Washington Post The central question in American politics right now — one with global implications — is whether the Republican Party can purge itself of its most extreme elements. Obviously this relates to former president Donald Trump, but it goes beyond him as well. The current Republican congressional delegation...
Opinion: Biden’s CFPB Pick Wants a New Agency to Control Politics and Speech.
[aggregation-styles] Wall Street Journal In our age of a powerful administrative state and weak Congress, some of the most consequential government officials are the little-known heads of alphabet-soup federal agencies. One of them is the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), which was designed as its own regulatory fiefdom insulated from...
One Night in Cancun: Ted Cruz’s Disastrous Decision to Go on Vacation During Texas Storm Crisis
[aggregation-styles] Washington Post Usually, it takes at least one full day in Cancún to do something embarrassing you’ll never live down. But for Ted Cruz (R-Tex.), it took just 10 hours — from when his United plane touched down at Cancún International Airport at 7:52 p.m. Wednesday to when he...
Fresno Pair Jailed in Hawaii for COVID Quarantine Violations
[aggregation-styles] Honolulu Star Advertiser Visitors to Hawaii continue to violate the state’s COVID-19 travel and quarantine rules, with the latest arrests including two people from Fresno who reportedly attempted to check in to a Waikiki hotel this week without evidence of a negative coronavirus test or quarantine exemption. Special agents...
Newsom Recall Backers Submit 1.1 Million Signatures as Deadline Approaches
[aggregation-styles] Los Angeles Times Almost 1.1 million signatures have been submitted in support of a recall election against Gov. Gavin Newsom, state elections officials reported Friday, though supporters said a sizable number of voter petitions have yet to be reviewed as the effort approaches next month’s official deadline. The tally...