Bethania Palma
Bethania Palma is a journalist from the Los Angeles area who started her career as a daily newspaper reporter and has covered everything from crime to local government to national politics. She has written for a variety of publications as a staffer and freelancer, including the Los Angeles News Group, the LAist, LA School Report, the OC Weekly and Raw Story. She earned a B.A. in political science from the University of California at Irvine and an M.A. in history from California State University at Northridge. When researching bizarre phenomena, she's holding out for the day when the conclusion will be, "Aliens did it."
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Feb. 16, 2022
Scam offers of deep discounts on Forever Stamps took off around the winter holidays in 2021.
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Feb. 14, 2022
It's a pithy line for the lovelorn and screenwriters to say, but is it true?
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Feb. 6, 2022
We honestly don't know what's wrong with "YASSQWN," though.
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Feb. 6, 2022
The video appears to show a total of three helicopters, with one of them using a spotlight to se ...
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Feb. 3, 2022 (Updated: Feb. 7, 2022)
The news created a backlash among privacy experts and legislators.
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Feb. 1, 2022
A viral photograph showed Granbury Independent School District officials carting books out of th ...
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Jan. 29, 2022
The little contraptions are now hard to find.
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Jan. 29, 2022
Romney supposedly tweeted that the first lady ought to win an Oscar for portraying "an Alzheimer ...
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Jan. 26, 2022
Internet news articles reporting the alleged controversy are based on a single tweet that contai ...
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Jan. 25, 2022
Bugs found in food make for viral phenomena.
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Jan. 23, 2022
A faked image mocked up to look like a message from the restaurant chain circulated online.
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Jan. 23, 2022
No space men to be found in "Back to the Future," so we're a bit confused about this.
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Jan. 22, 2022
No word from Wayne and Garth on this one.
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Jan. 20, 2022
The soldier's skull had been broken in battle.
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Jan. 19, 2022
California's population boom came to a screeching halt during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Jan. 17, 2022
A viral copypasta meme left out key context.
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Jan. 15, 2022
He is living the high life as a tourist attraction in Saint Helena.
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Jan. 14, 2022
The substance has been promoted as an alternative health remedy, but there's no evidence it work ...
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Jan. 10, 2022 (Updated: Dec. 20, 2023)
The plan has been raised periodically since the days following the attack on the U.S. Capitol on ...
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Jan. 7, 2022
The explanation is, like many things in real life, much more boring than the conspiracy theory.
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