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."
Written by: Bethania Palma
July 26, 2019
Attacks on Omar have frequently taken her comments out of context to paint them in an inflammato ...
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July 25, 2019
Online hoaxes about the congresswoman from Minnesota seem never-ending these days.
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July 25, 2019
Let's just say there is no such thing as "Republican Senator Owen Humperlam," who supposedly aut ...
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July 24, 2019
U.S. President Donald Trump has made a number of incendiary remarks attacking Ilhan Omar and oth ...
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July 23, 2019
The "Top Gun" actor did make an appearance at the 2019 San Diego Comic-Con, but so did an impers ...
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July 23, 2019
The figures cited by President Donald Trump supposedly were "leaked" to Axios by Democratic oper ...
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July 22, 2019
The claim was one in a series of incendiary attacks against "the Squad" from U.S. President Dona ...
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July 19, 2019
A site posing as satire often pushes racial rumors.
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July 18, 2019
Users should always consider privacy and security before uploading personal data to an app.
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July 17, 2019
A horrifying video shows one arm of the pendulum-style ride breaking off and falling.
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July 16, 2019
Viral social media posts claimed Democratic lawmakers might care about the couple's well-being i ...
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July 15, 2019
A disturbing claim about a migrant girl has been circulating for months with no proof of its ver ...
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July 15, 2019
U.S. soccer star Rapinoe is definitely an outspoken critic of President Donald Trump.
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July 5, 2019
Missing from the debate? The many things that have changed since 2012.
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July 5, 2019
The U.S. president blamed a teleprompter for the flub during his Fourth of July address in 2019.
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July 3, 2019
No proof has been presented for claims that milkshakes thrown during a political protest contain ...
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July 3, 2019
An image of an older man with a bloody face was widely shared, but video shows he was an aggress ...
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July 2, 2019
While under scrutiny for treatment of migrants, the Trump administration has been shifting blame ...
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June 28, 2019
Harris claimed she was part of only the second class to integrate the Berkeley public schools. ...
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June 27, 2019 (Updated: July 1, 2019)
A picture taken in 2018 captured Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, before she was elected to the U.S. Ho ...
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