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Epstein texts and yelling at Trump: US House’s year of censures | US Congress
They also spent plenty of time seeking to reprimand each other by passing censures, as the House’s formal mechanism for discipline is known. A search on Congress.gov reveals at least 17 attempts since the start of the year to condemn another lawmaker, in the form of a censure or a less formal disapproval resolution. If a censure resolution is approved…
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Winter storm pummels New York, New Jersey, Connecticut with snow and ice. See the forecast.
11:27 PM Dangerous mess in New Jersey The winter storm quickly turned into an icy and dangerous mess in New Jersey, as state officials went on high alert after declaring a state of emergency and warning drivers to stay off the roads. Across the state, roads were pelted with heavy bands of snow, sleet and freezing rain; the Friday evening commute…
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Both of these influencers are successful
Sakshi VenkatramanUS reporter Kaaviya Sambasivam/Simone Mckenzie / Google Veo 3 Kaaviya Sambasivam, left, is a popular influencer. Gigi, right, is an AI influencer In some ways, Gigi is like any other young social media influencer. With perfect hair and makeup, she logs on and talks to her fans. She shares clips: eating, doing skin care, putting on lipstick. She even…
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Behind SoCal’s wettest Christmas, a drought-to-deluge cycle
A year ago, officials were sounding alarms about a bone-dry winter that days later would combine with wind gusts of up to 100 mph to bring about the worst fires in Los Angeles history. Now, Southern California just experienced its wettest Christmas in modern history. This Christmas Eve and Christmas Day were the rainiest in the modern record for many…
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Defunding fungi: US’s living library of ‘vital ecosystem engineers’ is in danger of closing | Fungi
Inside a large greenhouse at the University of Kansas, Professor Liz Koziol and Dr Terra Lubin tend rows of sudan grass in individual plastic pots. The roots of each straggly plant harbor a specific strain of invisible soil fungus. The shelves of a nearby cold room are stacked high with thousands of plastic bags and vials containing fungal spores harvested…
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A murder, a manhunt and the grandmother who wouldn’t stop the search for her daughter’s killer
She’d waited years for the news. But when the message arrived Aug. 26, 2022, Josephine Wentzel suddenly had to confront an agonizing possibility. She’d spent six years tracking the man authorities believed was responsible for killing her daughter, a search that spanned thousands of miles, international borders and dozens of possible sightings that, in the end, had produced little. Wentzel…
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Melodee Buzzard’s mother fatally shot her in the head, police say
Missing California girl Melodee Buzzard, 9, was found dead in a rural part of Utah’s Wayne County from multiple gunshot wounds to the head, authorities said. Her mother, Ashlee Buzzard, was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of murder. Cartridge cases found at the Utah crime scene in December were linked to a cartridge case that was found at Buzzard’s Vandenberg Village…
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Christmas brings respite from heaviest rain, flooding risks persist
Misty Cheng described what happened as the “nightmare before Christmas” — when tons of water, mud and rock flowed through her Wrightwood home Wednesday. Her experience was among the worst caused by a winter storm that drenched Southern California and also underscored risks faced across the region, especially for those who, like her, live below the burn scar of a…
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How a fast-moving $50 cash relief program buoyed needy families when SNAP payments were paused
Finances already looked tight for Jade Grant and her three children as she entered the year’s final months. “Everyone’s birthday is back-to-back,” the 32-year-old certified nursing assistant said. “You have holidays coming up. You have Thanksgiving. Everything is right there. And then, boom. No (food) stamps.” Grant is among the nearly 42 million lower-income Americans who get help buying groceries…
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How effective is protesting? According to historians and political scientists: very | Protest
Trump’s first and second terms have been marked by huge protests, from the 2017 Women’s March to the protests for racial justice after George Floyd’s murder, to this year’s No Kings demonstrations. But how effective is this type of collective action? According to historians and political scientists who study protest: very. From emancipation to women’s suffrage, from civil rights to…
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