Sen. Kamala Harris Announces 2020 Presidential Candidacy
Updated at 9:10 a.m. ET California Sen. Kamala Harris is running for president in 2020. The first-term Democratic senator made the announcement on ABC's Good Morning America Monday morning. "I love my country, and this is a moment in time that I feel a sense of responsibility to fight for the best of who we are," Harris said. The 54-year-old Harris has been seen as a rising star in the Democratic Party even before she won a Senate seat in 2016. She received national attention as San Francisco...
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The Rams And The Patriots Will Face Off For Super Bowl LIII
The Los Angeles Rams and the New England Patriots will face off in this year's Super Bowl after winning the NFC and AFC conference championships, respectively, on Sunday. The Rams, who overcame a 13-point deficit to beat the Saints, last played in the Super Bowl in 2002 — against none other than the Patriots. The St. Louis Rams won the NFL title two years before that. The Patriots defeated the Chiefs to return to the Super Bowl for a third consecutive year. Los Angeles Rams beat New Orleans...
Analysis: How The Rise Of The Far Right Threatens Democracy Worldwide
A new president is elected. Within days of being sworn in, he pulls his country out of a U.N. migration pact . His path to power has been pockmarked by disparaging comments about women , including a congresswoman. His preferred choice for top posts are members of the armed forces. When he appoints a fifth military official to his cabinet, he makes the announcement via Twitter , his favored means of communications. Sound familiar? These are the tactics of Brazil's new president, Jair Bolsonaro...
Food Assistance Payments Came Early But Have To Last Until March
Sabrina Rubich shopped for milk, bananas and other basics this week at an Albertson's grocery store in Missoula, Mont., with her nine-month-old son, Kenny. When she got to the checkstand she paid for some of her groceries with money from the USDA's Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP—which is issuing its February payments early. Rubich is one of about 39 million people who are now spending their SNAP payments not knowing when the next one will come due to the federal government...
You Don't Have To Go No-Carb: Instead, Think Slow Carb
If you like this article, you should check out Life Kit , NPR's new family of podcasts for navigating your life — everything from finances to diet and exercise to raising kids. Sign up for the newsletter to learn more and follow @NPRLifeKit on Twitter. Email us at lifekit@npr.org . Follow NPR's Allison Aubrey at @AubreyNPRFood . It's trendy to go low-carb these days, even no carb. And, yes, this can lead to quick weight loss. But ditching carbs is tough to do over the long haul. For starters,...
Researchers Find A Web Of Factors Behind Multiple Sclerosis
As the story goes, nearly 80 years ago on the Faroe Islands - a stark North Atlantic archipelago 200 miles off the coast of Scotland — a neurologic epidemic may have washed, or rather convoyed, ashore. Before 1940 the incidence of multiple sclerosis on the Faroes was near, if not, zero, according to the tantalizing lore I recall from medical school. Yet in the years following British occupation of the islands during World War II, the rate of MS rose dramatically, leading many researchers to...
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Medical Students Push For More LGBT Health Training To Address Disparities
When Sarah Spiegel was in her first year at New York Medical College in 2016, she sat in a lecture hall watching a BuzzFeed video about what it's like to be an intersex or a transgender person. "It was a good video, but it felt inadequate for the education of a class of medical students, soon to be doctors," says Spiegel , now in her third year of medical school. The video, paired with a 30-minute lecture on sexual orientation, was the only LGBT-focused information Spiegel and her fellow...
Republican Congresswoman Warns GOP Leaders Of Gender 'Crisis'
New York Republican Rep. Elise Stefanik is deeply worried about her party. "We are facing a crisis level of Republican women in Congress," Stefanik said on Thursday, noting that there are only 13 Republican women in the U.S. House, down from 23 last session. Stefanik stepped down as House Republicans' recruitment head last month. But with a new group she's launching, dedicated to boosting women candidates, she still has top Republicans' full attention. At a Thursday launch event for her group...
Joshua Tree Artist Built A Crystal Cave Of Wonder With Chicken Wire, Spray Foam
Last summer, All Things Considered and Atlas Obscura took a road trip up the West Coast . Along the way, they met Bob Carr, the creator of Bob's Crystal Cave near Joshua Tree, Calif., where he welcomed visitors for 15 years. Bob died earlier this month at age 80. He is survived by his wife Elizabeth and daughter Zena. Bob "died as he lived — on his own terms and with dignity and grace," Elizabeth says. Dylan Thuras of Atlas Obscura first met Bob on a family road trip and has this remembrance....
Progress Report: President Trump's Campaign Promises, 2 Years Later
Sunday marks the second anniversary of President Trump's inauguration. At the midpoint of his four-year term, Trump has already delivered on some of his campaign promises , such as boosting funding for the military . Other pledges have been all but ignored, like his promise to lead a $1 trillion infrastructure push . With many of Trump's promises, however, the record is somewhere in between — not exactly "mission accomplished," but not "mission forgotten" either. Loading... Don't see the...
Welcome To The World's Largest Gathering Of Humans
Shivering and blue-lipped but smiling, Niraj Shukla emerged from the Ganges River this week, flanked by his parents and millions of other people, feeling renewed. "The water is very cold, but once you have a bath – it's sort of a miracle, you know?" said Shukla, a 32-year-old engineer who lives in India's capital New Delhi. The Shukla family were among the first of what's expected to be 150 million pilgrims all taking a dip in India's holy river through March 4 as part of the Kumbh Mela , a...
Is That An Elephant On The Hill Above The 60 Fwy? No, It's An Ancient Mammoth... And A Fun Discovery
If you live in the Inland Empire and are driving on the 60 Freeway from Riverside towards Los Angeles, you might have seen the HUGE steel "elephant"-like statue looming in the distance on the hill above the freeway. Many people don't know it's acutally a sculpture of an ancient mammoth. Lots of drivers have wondered what it is, how it got there, and why it sits on that Jurupa Valley hill. As part of our listener-interactive reporting project, The Inland, KVCR's Shareen Awad went on a mission...
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Growth In Beaumont, Part 1: As Population Explodes, How To Pay For More Schools?
Over the past 20 years, the population in the city of Beaumont has nearly quadrupled. That prompted KVCR listener Mario Gonzalez to ask us: with all of the people moving to Beaumont, what are the plans to build more schools and infrastructure to keep up? In Part 1 of a series, we're looking at Beaumont's plans to build more schools, and the challenges they've been facing. KVCR's Danielle Fox has the story. Over the past decade, the Inland Empire has experienced massive population growth. Take...
