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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Sept. 19, 2017
Attorneys for the cable news station said that Rod Wheeler's lawsuit doesn't show he was defamed ...
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Sept. 18, 2017
The Orange County, California-based pizza chain fired a worker for reportedly printing the phras ...
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Sept. 18, 2017
Some Kroger grocery stores are offering children under 12 years of age a free piece of fruit to ...
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Sept. 15, 2017
Former UKIP leader Nigel Farage cited the conspiracy web site InfoWars in a tweet claiming polic ...
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Sept. 13, 2017
Reports that the Muslim mayor of a Michigan town banned Christmas festivities and decorations ar ...
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Sept. 13, 2017
The scope of the potential operation prompted fears about escalating immigration enforcement.
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Sept. 11, 2017
Right-wing web sites misrepresented Lawrence's assertion that climate change is caused by human ...
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Sept. 9, 2017
No violence erupted at San Diego's landmark park honoring the city's Latino heritage, although p ...
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Sept. 6, 2017
California's capital city has contracted with a nonprofit organization for a pilot program aimed ...
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Sept. 5, 2017
Hopkins, a British commentator known for making outrageous and sometimes morally bankrupt statem ...
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Sept. 1, 2017
A now-viral video of unknown origin shows two men standing in water taking cash from a register.
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Sept. 1, 2017
A photograph appears to show President Trump on a raft in Texas saving a flood victim after Hurr ...
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Aug. 31, 2017
A meme claiming that only 4 percent of churches in Houston opened their doors to Hurricane Harve ...
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Aug. 30, 2017
Their behavior is perhaps unnerving, but it is normal during floods.
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Aug. 30, 2017
Prominent Democrats from the Senate and House intelligence committees said they want to question ...
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Aug. 28, 2017 (Updated: Aug. 29, 2017)
Congress passed a bill authorizing a transit safety committee that contained language one repres ...
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Aug. 28, 2017
The social media giant announced a new measure for penalizing web sites that post fake news.
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Aug. 24, 2017
Chanelle Helm wrote a list of recommendations about what wealthy white people can do to help era ...
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Aug. 24, 2017
The former California governor and future U.S. president made the comment during a 1975 intervie ...
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Aug. 23, 2017
Despite a misleading clickbait headline, Green Bay Packer coach Mike McCarthy didn't put anythin ...
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