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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Nov. 28, 2018
An image meant to demean a woman's weight is not only cruel but taken out of context.
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Nov. 28, 2018
The Department of the Interior reversed an Obama-era decision to put Mashpee Wampanoag land in f ...
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Nov. 27, 2018
A Grand Rapids woman posted the denial letter recommending she fundraise $10,000 on social media.
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Nov. 26, 2018
"The illegal alien mother ‘fleeing’ from the border wall was all a lie. It was a setup."
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Nov. 21, 2018
Almost two years into his presidency, questions about how President Trump's personal business in ...
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Nov. 19, 2018
The State Department spent $174,000 for hotel rooms in advance of a visit by the First Lady to T ...
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Nov. 16, 2018 (Updated: Nov. 21, 2018)
A Twitter gadfly who was recently involved in an unsuccessful plot to frame Robert Mueller for s ...
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Nov. 15, 2018
The Daily Caller, a web site co-founded by Carlson, resurrected the issue in an interview with P ...
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Nov. 14, 2018
Roberson, an African-American security guard who held a suspected shooter at gunpoint, was 26.
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Nov. 13, 2018
A temp worker signed an affidavit in 2016 stating she saw elections officials filling out blank ...
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Nov. 13, 2018
A vague U.S. government press release ambiguously stated that some 270 people with criminal hist ...
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Nov. 12, 2018
"The fundamental responsibility is commonsense gun safety legislation in Georgia, making sure we ...
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Nov. 12, 2018
Sketchy reports claimed the thousands-strong migrant caravan was being chartered to the U.S. bor ...
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Nov. 8, 2018
Some commenters claim the video Sarah Sanders posted to the official Press Secretary account was ...
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Nov. 7, 2018
Some members of the caravan accepted the offer, some spurned it, and some returned home.
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Nov. 5, 2018
Misinformation runs rampant during election time, either through deliberate campaigns or inadver ...
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Nov. 2, 2018
A report of children rescued from 'human smugglers working inside' the Central American caravan ...
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Nov. 1, 2018
Junk news and mendacious memes falsely reported the United Nations had declared "war" on the Uni ...
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Nov. 1, 2018
Junk sites pushed a white supremacist conspiracy theory in the days leading up to the Pittsburgh ...
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Oct. 30, 2018
News reports from 2017 quoted the Pennsylvania attorney general recounting a conversation with t ...
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