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Plant-based meat alternatives are trying to exit the culture wars – an impossible task?
Increasingly, vegans, vegetarians and others looking for meat alternatives are seeing a new option on the menu: patties that look, taste and even appear to bleed like beef hamburgers, but are actually made of soy, pea ...Read more
Preying on white fears worked for Georgia’s Lester Maddox in the ’60s − and is working there for Donald Trump today
In January 1967, after a gubernatorial election that saw neither candidate gain enough votes to win, the Georgia Legislature was faced with a vital decision: the selection of the state’s 75th governor during the ...Read more
You should call House members ‘representatives,’ because that’s what they are − not ‘congressmen’ or ‘congresswomen’
For most of the nation’s history, members of the U.S. House of Representatives have been addressed as “Congressman” or “Congresswoman.” By contrast, a senator is referred to as, well, “Senator.”
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‘Don’t Say Gay’ rules and book bans might have felt familiar in medieval Europe − but queer themes in literature survived nonetheless
Americans have been challenging books at an unprecedented rate. According to the American Library Association, people requested that more than 4,200 titles be removed from public and school libraries in 2023, the ...Read more
A lonely desert fire station, the only lifeline for millions of Vegas travelers
The rain was pounding in the Mojave Desert on the Saturday before Easter when the first call came in about a crash along Interstate 15. Details were sketchy: head-on collision, Mercedes versus another car, a 7-year-old not...Read more
Atlanta is best place to start a career right now, analysis finds
ATLANTA — An estimated 96,030 college students will be graduating in Georgia this year — a state that gained 116,077 new residents in 2023 alone. That’s a lot of people looking for work. Luckily, the Peach State’s ...Read more
Their first baby came with medical debt. These parents won't have another
Heather Crivilare was a month from her due date when she was rushed to an operating room for an emergency cesarean section.
The first-time mother, a high school teacher in rural Illinois, had developed high blood pressure...Read more
Meet Laura Friedman, the pool-playing assemblywoman who'll likely succeed Adam Schiff
There are certain candidates who have lived their lives like perfectly calibrated political arrows, arcing ever upward through all the right stops toward higher office.
Not Laura Friedman.
The Glendale Assembly member, ...Read more
Trial over mass evictions at Barrington Plaza in Los Angeles could hinge on meaning of 'permanent'
LOS ANGELES — What does "permanent" mean?
For more than 100 people still living at the massive Westside apartment complex Barrington Plaza one year after their owner sought to evict them, a judge's answer to that ...Read more
Undergrads are unionizing, in a sign of labor's resurgence
Junior psychology major Erin Green works part time at the children’s preschool at Sonoma State University, caring for university employees’ kids ages 1 to 5. Some of the non-student workers in her center belong to a ...Read more
Abortion bans made Minnesota a health care island. Could the same happen with IVF?
Meta Getman heard the news out of Alabama and, suddenly, she was right back in it.
Getman and her husband had spent more than three years struggling with infertility — including four rounds of intrauterine insemination ...Read more
Navy jet noise could mean long-term health impacts for Washington's Whidbey Island
SEATTLE —More than 74,000 people on Whidbey Island could face long-term health impacts from the U.S. Navy jet noise that's blasted over residents several days a week for over a decade, new research shows.
A study from ...Read more
FDA said it never inspected dental lab that made controversial AGGA device
The FDA never inspected Johns Dental Laboratories during more than a decade in which it made the Anterior Growth Guidance Appliance, or “AGGA,” a dental device that has allegedly harmed patients and is now the subject ...Read more
In inaugural campaign, Fulton Trump judge stresses law over politics
He started his presentation to the Sandy Springs Rotary Club by explaining how the Fulton County Superior Court works. But after a few minutes Scott McAfee switched gears, delving into what he described as his “personal ...Read more
Police converge on UC Irvine, make arrests after protesters occupy science building
IRVINE, Calif. — Police began making arrests Wednesday evening on the campus of UC Irvine several hours into a pro-Palestinian demonstration in which protesters occupied and barricaded a university building.
A Times ...Read more
Texas is warned of blackout risk as sun sets this summer
The risk of power failures this summer remains elevated for many parts of North America amid soaring demand and generator shutdowns.
The main Texas grid is especially vulnerable at sunset when solar generation plunges ...Read more
After long legal saga, Gerald Reed acquitted at retrial for Chicago double murder
CHICAGO — Gerald Reed, who has long alleged he was a victim of police torture, was acquitted Wednesday after a retrial of his double-murder case, killings for which he had spent some three decades in prison.
In a ...Read more
University of California students OK strike over campus protest
Thousands of unionized graduate student workers at University of California campuses across the state are poised to walk off the job after members voted to authorize leadership to call a strike, escalating tensions ...Read more
California insurance leader defends department's work amid pressure and home, auto challenges
Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara on Wednesday defended his department’s efforts to roll out a series of rule changes this year to try and stabilize California’s insurance market as he faced pointed questions and ...Read more
King Charles' new portrait elicits interesting reactions: 'Looks like he's bathing in blood'
If the British royal family was looking for a public relations win after Princess Catherine's Photoshop fails, the unveiling of King Charles' newest royal portrait was not it.
"I'm sorry, but this portrait looks like he's...Read more
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