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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May 29, 2019
The senator actually proposed rectifying a system that doesn't allow immigrants to pay or receiv ...
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May 28, 2019
The RNC has been mailing out fundraising forms disguised as "census" surveys for years.
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May 23, 2019
Fifty years and a whole lot of cultural differences separate these two events.
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May 23, 2019
The story stemmed from 2012 reports citing statements Republican Scott DesJarlais made under oath.
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May 20, 2019
Attempts to make political points by bringing up DoD spending on erectile dysfunction drugs don' ...
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May 17, 2019 (Updated: May 20, 2019)
HB 182 would limit access to, but not criminalize use of, certain types of birth control.
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May 15, 2019 (Updated: Aug. 20, 2020)
Two leaders of the online fundraising campaign plead guilty to fraud in April 2022.
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May 13, 2019
It's unknown whether the political leanings or purported gender identity of either suspect is re ...
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May 9, 2019
A swastika-flag-carrying group was angry over efforts to take an accused Holocaust denier's name ...
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May 8, 2019
The spreading of salacious stories about candidates and their families typically coincides with ...
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May 7, 2019
The "bake sale" offered different prices for different ethnicities and for females in a parody o ...
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May 3, 2019
Medical professionals are reacting to an incendiary remark made by U.S. President Donald Trump i ...
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May 1, 2019
The claim appears to reference an incident on the shores of a beach in Spain in 2017.
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April 29, 2019
There's a difference between voicing one's own opinion and describing the opinions of others.
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April 29, 2019
The bank created an internet backlash in April 2019 with a now-deleted tweet advising people to ...
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April 26, 2019
Always good to do some research before attributing quotes to famous historical figures.
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April 24, 2019
Although real cases of human trafficking are plentiful, the topic is the frequent focus of viral ...
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April 24, 2019
Always be on the lookout for websites that attempt to impersonate legitimate news organizations.
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April 23, 2019
"I was a first-time offender, too. A lie is a lie."
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April 19, 2019
Hoaxes and reality sometimes overlap.
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