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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Dec. 6, 2017
Although a jetliner was captured on video climbing steeply, it was probably not ascending at an ...
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Dec. 4, 2017
Although gruesome photographs were misrepresented by a Nigerian politician, men from sub-Saharan ...
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Dec. 1, 2017
No explanation has been offered as to why the LA Weekly's reporters and editors were laid off.
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Nov. 30, 2017
Although the term "slush fund" signals secret money stashed for illicit purposes, Congress has a ...
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Nov. 29, 2017
Hate crime charges were not dropped, and there is no evidence any of the suspects are associated ...
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Nov. 28, 2017
The Amish do breed dogs for sale, but the portion of commercial kennels they own is not known.
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Nov. 27, 2017
The 93-year-old former president is not only alive and well but has remained active.
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Nov. 23, 2017
A private company that runs concessions at Shenandoah National Park in Virginia has been selling ...
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Nov. 17, 2017
Mall representatives say they don't have records from the time frame in question.
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Nov. 16, 2017
The state had been using completely paperless voting machines, prompting a lawsuit alleging that ...
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Nov. 14, 2017
YouTube personality Blaire White initiated a confrontation at an anti-Trump protest, according t ...
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Nov. 14, 2017
The letter was re-posted by Moore's wife after allegations of sexual abuse emerged in November 2017.
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Nov. 13, 2017
A conspiratorial web site shared a story based solely on unsourced tweets claiming the venerable ...
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Nov. 9, 2017
A "news" article reported that an elderly woman had succeeded in herding cats.
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Nov. 8, 2017
An African-American man painted racist language on his car as a Halloween prank that law enforce ...
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Nov. 7, 2017
Notorious fake news sites falsely reported the Democratic lobbyist had been taken into custody.
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Nov. 6, 2017
Two locals chased Devin Kelley as he tried to flee the scene of the Sutherland Springs church sh ...
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Nov. 3, 2017
A conspiratorial web site is falsely insinuating the deaths of several Las Vegas shooting witnes ...
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Nov. 1, 2017
Sections of the book cast the forced displacement of an indigenous American Indian community as ...
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Oct. 31, 2017
Kushner departed for a surprise trip to Saudi Arabia as Special Counsel Robert Mueller's team wa ...
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