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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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Into the void: how Trump killed international law | International law
‘The old world is dying,” Antonio Gramsci once wrote. “And the new world struggles to be born.” In such interregnums, the Italian Marxist philosopher suggested, “every act, even the smallest, may acquire decisive weight”. In 2025, western leaders appeared convinced they – and we – were living through one such transitional period, as the world of international relations established after…
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What is the new peace initiative proposed by Sudan’s PM Kamil Idris? | African Union News
Sudanese Prime Minister Kamil Idris on Monday presented a proposal before the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), seeking to end the country’s nearly three-year war that has created the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, with some 14 million people displaced. The North African nation descended into civil war in April 2023 after a power struggle broke out between Sudanese Armed Forces…
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The threat of demolition escalates at the Cohen Building in Washington, D.C.
Following the change in presidential administrations, the Living New Deal (LND) has been closely tracking potential threats to the federal government’s art and architecture collection, managed by the General Services Administration (GSA). GSA is the steward of over 500 of the government’s historic buildings and the nation’s largest collection of public art, which includes 26,000 objects dating from the 1850s through…
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