Influenza A and Mpox are among the viruses an infectious disease expert is worried about for 2026.
Trash piles on highways. Smog-filled air. Landfills that were just big piles of trash (like the one in this photo from 1972). Complaints about environmental laws often ignore the progress made in cleaning up America since bipartisan 1970s lawmaking. Our story in @latimes.com
Without the support of Venezuela's Maduro, conditions on the ground in Cuba are so grim that the Trump administration thinks the communist government in Havana could fall without any direct US intervention.
Wildlife managers spent weeks unsuccessfully searching for a grizzly bear in British Columbia that had injured 11 schoolchildren. One solution to situations like this: using facial recognition techniques on bears.
Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act doubled support for the largest farm subsidies while cutting SNAP funding. That disconnect broke the bipartisan political coalition that once passed farm bills, and a comprehensive farm bill may never pass again, according to researchers.
Today Venezuela, tomorrow Iran? The supreme leader is running out of options to counter Trump administration pressure and domestic unrest. An analyst of Middle East affairs focusing on Iran explains:
Chimpanzee mothers lose the ability to supervise their offspring around age 2. Researchers studying wild chimps suggest that loosened parental supervision, not puberty, may explain why adolescent chimps – and human teens – take more risks.
Why does health care reform keep failing? In part because the outsized power of congressional party leaders means that rank-and-file members do not have the time or interest to dedicate to meaningful problem-solving of super-complex issues, according to a public policy scholar.
Child care in Colorado is so expensive that many families spend 30-40% of their income on it. Funding shortfalls have frozen child care subsidies in parts of the state, forcing parents to miss work or quit jobs. Some counties are raising local taxes to help, but it’s just a patchwork fix to a much bigger problem.
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