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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Jan. 8, 2018
A California woman sued UC San Diego, among others, for failing to control anti-Trump protests.
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Jan. 8, 2018
A popular meme attributes an unlikely quote to the then-businessman, who was already making comm ...
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Jan. 5, 2018
Health officials in Canada linked an E. coli outbreak to romaine lettuce in late 2017.
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Jan. 4, 2018
An intern could be seen making the "OK" gesture in an official photograph with the President, bu ...
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Jan. 3, 2018
General Mills will be selling a new Lucky Charms cereal that incorporates glazed cornflakes.
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Jan. 2, 2018
Readers were confused by a story reporting Bloom offered financial assistance to clients, even t ...
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Dec. 28, 2017 (Updated: Jan. 3, 2018)
The Trump administration scaled back an Obama-era policy of levying heavy fines against nursing ...
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Dec. 26, 2017 (Updated: Dec. 27, 2017)
The story about the United Parcel Service losing an inheritance check has been sensationalized f ...
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Dec. 21, 2017
Asbestos was widely used for a variety of purposes before it was recognized as a significant car ...
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Dec. 19, 2017
There are no plans to put UN Peacekeeper boots on the ground in Chicago.
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Dec. 19, 2017
Activist groups have targeted tracks in the area, but there is no evidence that anti-fascists ar ...
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Dec. 18, 2017
The train was carrying 78 passengers and five crew.
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Dec. 15, 2017
A 2006 photograph shows Behar and Williams cutting up with fellow comedians Billy Crystal and Wh ...
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Dec. 14, 2017
A frightening story about President Trump's "deep state spies" citing unnamed sources sparked re ...
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Dec. 14, 2017
Far-right Internet trolls boasted about having documents that could end a senator's career.
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Dec. 13, 2017
A so-called "satire" site published a story falsely claiming black voters committed fraud in Ala ...
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Dec. 11, 2017
Abdul El-Sayed's platform actually puts him in opposition to the beliefs espoused by the Muslim ...
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Dec. 10, 2017
The only White House reporter from an LGBT news organization, as well as a prominent African-Ame ...
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Dec. 7, 2017
The German foreign minister gave a speech calling on Germany and Europe to more aggressively ass ...
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Dec. 6, 2017
Controversy over the commonwealth's budget is not new, but attention on the bonuses as Puerto Ri ...
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