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The sun sets behind power lines in Los Angeles, California. (Getty Images)

West faces drought, "climate emergency"

Andrea Germanos - Common Dreams

"The West has never seen a drought like this, especially so early in the dry season. We are in a climate emergency.

Conan O'Brien of TBS’s CONAN speaks onstage during the WarnerMedia Upfront 2019 show at The Theater at Madison Square Garden on May 15, 2019 in New York City. (Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for WarnerMedia)

This time leaving was Conan's choice

Melanie McFarland

"I have devoted all of my adult life ... to pursuing this strange phantom intersection between smart and stupid"

"The Metamorphosis" novel or "Die Verwandlung" in German by Franz Kafka (Marka/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Unsettling facts about The Metamorphosis

Jeff Wells - Mental Floss

Let's take a look at a few things we do know about Franz Kafka's mysterious novella

Operating room staff performing hospital surgery (Getty Images/Shannon Fagan)

Modern-day segregation in hospitals

John M. Hollingsworth, Ekow N. Yankah, Brahmajee K. Nallamothu

A higher Black mortality rate in surgeries speaks to the squirrelly way that racism leaks over into medicine

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The best cheese for cheeseburgers

Marissa Mullen - Food52

Our Resident Cheese Plater tested eight cheeses to find out which reigns supreme

Wedding cake decorated with figures of two brides (GABRIEL BOUYS/AFP via Getty Images)

Platonic friends are saying "I do"

Nausica Palazzo - The Conversation

Because any two consenting adults can get married in the US, a platonic marriage could pretty easily be pulled off

Fox host Tucker Carlson (Getty Images/Chip Somodevilla)

USAA pushed to drop Tucker Carlson ads

Brett Bachman

The insurance company, which primarily serves veterans and their families, is one of his few remaining advertisers

Rachel Bitecofer (Brad Barket/Getty Images for Fast Company)

Can Dems stop the "red wave" of 2022?

Paul Rosenberg

Rachel Bitecofer forecast Democrats' big wins in 2018. Now she's trying to stop them from losing it all in 2022

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Singer Britney Spears walks the red carpet at the 2017 Pre-GRAMMY Gala And Salute to Industry Icons Honoring Debra Lee at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on February 11, 2017 in Beverly Hills, California. (Scott Dudelson/Getty Images)

Who's protecting who in Britney's case

Kylie Cheung

"I've been offered a hysterectomy so many times," says one disability justice advocate speaking to Salon.

Michael Cimino as Victor and George Sear as Benji in "Love Victor" (Hulu)

Finally an honest teen virginity story

Kylie Cheung

As one character points out, “sex is scary for everyone the first time" — including teenage boys

K.FLAY (Hannah Edelman)

K.Flay on Spotify, Lennon and Sgt Pepper

Nicole Michael

On this episode of "Everything Fab Four," K.Flay discusses how she channels John Lennon in her songwriting

Metropolitan Police Officer Michael Fanone (R) answers questions while leaving the office of House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), with U.S. Capitol Police Officer Harry Dunn (C) at the U.S. Capitol on June 25, 2021. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Jan. 6 cop blasts McCarthy after meeting

Bob Brigham - Raw Story

When asked how the meeting went after leaving McCarthy's office, the officer replied, "I need a drink"

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A mobile vaccination site is seen on Flatbush Avenue on June 09, 2021 in the Flatbush neighborhood of the Brooklyn borough of New York City. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

The future of mobile vax clinics

Nicole Karlis

Roving vaccine clinics on wheels, delivering other vaccines beyond COVID-19, could be commonplace in the future

A view of a USA Swimming flag (Maddie Meyer/Getty Images)

Inside swimming's sex abuse scandal

Irvin Muchnick

The governing body for U.S. Olympic swimming tried to keep sexual abuse charges under wraps — and it nearly worked

Radio transmission to the Milky way galaxy and star dusts in deep space (Getty Images)

No more "mystery of missing matter"

Emmanuel Fonseca - The Conversation

Fast radio bursts, milliseconds-long bursts of radiation, shed light on the mysteries of the universe

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (Megan Varner/Getty Images)

GOP ousting local election officials

Igor Derysh

Republican “election subversion” plan kicks into high gear with ouster or replacement of many local officials

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A 7-foot tall statue (with a 17-foot tall cross) of evangelist Billy Graham graces the front entrance to the headquarters of the Southern Baptist Convention in Nashville. (Getty Images)

Why Southern Baptists rejected Trumpism

Alex Henderson - Alternet

Rev. Ed Litton of Alabama was elected president of the organization on Tuesday, disappointing Trump supporters

US President Donald Trump holds up a Bible outside of St John's Episcopal church across Lafayette Park in Washington, DC on June 1, 2020. (Getty Images)

Trump aides almost used Insurrection Act

Bob Brigham - Raw Story

New information is surfacing about the extraordinary actions almost taken against last year's BLM protests

Former President Donald Trump (JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump Org. may face charges next week

Travis Gettys - Raw Story

Prosecutors have been probing the Trump family business for months

White House press secretary Jen Psaki (Getty Images)

Psaki asked about Trump reinstall prep

Zachary Petrizzo

"The president is prepared to continue to govern," Jen Psaki responded

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Erik Prince (Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

The undercover scheme to infiltrate Dems

Zachary Petrizzo

The group, funded by a Gore-Tex heiress, also targeted moderate Republican officials like Wyoming Gov. Mark Gordon

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks to the media about the 12-story Champlain Towers South condo building that partially collapsed on June 24, 2021 in Surfside, Florida. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

DeSantis eyes border despite condo crash

Brett Bachman

One day after a domestic catastrophe made international headlines, DeSantis was focused on a "crisis" at the border

U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the Senate's bipartisan infrastructure deal at the White House on June 24, 2021 in Washington, DC. Biden said both sides made compromises on the nearly $1 trillion infrastructure bill. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Biden whispers — and the right loses it

Zachary Petrizzo

"There is some level of dementia," says Fox News contributor (with zero medical expertise) about Biden's whisper

Sex/Life (NETFLIX)

"Sex/Life" is fifty shades of oy vey

Melanie McFarland

Netflix steps into the void left when premium cable abandoned softcore, and the result is just as silly and bad

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