[aggregation-styles] NY Post Dr. Deborah Birx has announced she plans to retire after being outed on Sunday for not following her own holiday travel guidance, calling the experience “overwhelming.” In an interview with Newsy, the White House coronavirus task force coordinator said she would help the incoming Biden administration but...
Palm Springs Killer Becomes 3rd California Death Row Inmate to Die In A Week
[aggregation-styles] KPIX News Death Row inmate Royce L. Scott, condemned for the brutal rape and murder of a 78-year-old woman in her Palm Springs home in 1992, has died while being treated for an undisclosed medical illness, state prison officials announced Tuesday. Scott had been transferred from San Quentin’s Death...
Kern Sheriff’s Office Will be Monitored for Policing Practices Under Agreement with State DOJ
[aggregation-styles] KGET News California Attorney General Xavier Becerra announced a major settlement Tuesday aimed at reforming practices at the Kern County Sheriff’s Office. The agreement comes after an investigation by the California Department of Justice into Kern County’s law enforcement practices, sparked by a 2015 article from The Guardian news...
Valley Assemblyman Defends ’12 Vato Days of Christmas’ Post After Accusations of ‘Racism’
[aggregation-styles] Visalia Times Delta A self-described "comedy satire piece" with racial overtones shared Friday on social media by Assemblyman Devon Mathis (R-Visalia) is raising some eyebrows. The post, a riff on a popular Christmas carol, called "The 12 Vato Days of Christmas” promotes harmful stereotypes about Mexican-American culture, some constituents...
Amazon Plans New Distribution Hub at Boarded Up Kmart in Bakersfield
[aggregation-styles] Bakersfield Californian A former Kmart shopping center in Bakersfield is slated to become an Amazon distribution hub and the e-commerce giant's second warehouse development in Kern County. City records show a 123,000-square-foot warehouse proposed at the site would receive and sort six truckloads of consumer goods per day. Products...
COVID Relief Package Includes $500 Million to Israel for Missiles, Other Military Costs
[aggregation-styles] Middle East Monitor The United States has passed a $900 billion COVID-19 relief bill to support industries and workers affected by the ongoing pandemic, of which hundreds of millions of dollars have been granted to Israel and its defense. In the bill passed by Congress yesterday – part of...
COVID Outbreak Spots in San Diego Include Restaurants, Casinos, and Big Box Stores, Report Shows
[aggregation-styles] San Diego Union-Tribune On Monday, public television station KPBS published an investigation that revealed the addresses of 1,006 COVID-19 outbreaks that occurred in San Diego County between March and December. When categorized by location type, senior living and nursing homes account for 214 outbreaks, the highest in the county....
Milky Way May Be Full of Aliens Who Annihilated Themselves, Study Says
[aggregation-styles] Fox News No one can say for certain whether extraterrestrial civilizations exist, but one new study suggests the Milky Way is full of them, though many could be dead. The research, which can be read on the arXiv repository, was written by experts at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California...
UC Merced Professor Accused of Anti-Jewish Twitter Posts
[aggregation-styles] The Jewish News of Northern California A teaching professor in the UC Merced School of Engineering is the owner of a recently deactivated Twitter account that had a pattern of antisemitic posts, The Jewish News has discovered. The content was described by the Anti-Defamation League as “repulsive” and promoting...
The U.S. Navy Is Surging A Lot Of Firepower Into The Persian Gulf—And It’s Not Clear Why
[aggregation-styles] Forbes The U.S. Navy is concentrating many of its most powerful vessels in and around the Persian Gulf. It seems something could be about to happen—it’s not totally clear what. But the timing, one month before a transition of power in Washington, D.C., is interesting. The appearance of an...