>"Los Angeles City Council member Nury Martinez has resigned as the legislative body's president after making racist remarks about a fellow council member and his Black child."

CNN: Biden issues proclamation revoking southern Africa travel restrictions. >"President Joe Biden issued a presidential proclamation Tuesday _...Read More_

CNN: Photos: Deadly tornadoes strike central, southern US. >"Deadly storms hit the central and southern United States late Friday and early Saturday, _...Read More_

CNN: At least 50 likely dead in Kentucky alone, governor says, after tornadoes hit central and southern US. >"Storms unleashed devastating tornadoes late _...Read More_

>"Covid-19 vaccines helped to prevent tens of thousands of deaths among seniors in the US between January and May of this year. Despite their widespread availability and efficacy, many people are refusing a shot."

"The chief medical adviser to the U.K. Health and Security Agency warned that the new variant found in southern Africa is the “most worrying we've _...Read More_

"The EPA allows polluters to turn neighborhoods into “sacrifice zones” where residents breathe carcinogens. ProPublica reveals where these places are in a first-of-its-kind map and data analysis."

>"North Carolina and Georgia are similar in population and demographics; one went blue, one didn't."

>"The latest Covid-19 deaths were concentrated in the South, and included more younger people than before. Every age group under 55 saw its highest death toll of the _...Read More_

There's definitely something to this -- look forward to the rest -- but as a southerner born & raised, there's also a sense that, even as it spread & took over rural America, southern-ness became ... less southern? The cheap totems _...Read More_

The drought is revealing for California that perhaps even more than rainfall it is money and infrastructure that dictate who has sufficient water during the _...Read More_

"The State Department has named a new special envoy to direct its efforts in seeking to stem migration from a trio of nations in Central America."

There are a lot of people who are getting vaccinated who aren’t in high risk categories,” he said. “If that’s the case, it’s going to take longer to see a reduction in serious disease and death. Everyone needs a vaccine at some point, but _...Read More_

Every Saturday night from my doorstep, I witness the agony and stupidity that is the coronavirus in Southern California. I live in Santa Ana, a _...Read More_

"Death and case counts are unreliable during the holidays, but hospitalizations are hitting new records in the South and West."