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Cientos de millones de jóvenes estadounidenses están expuestos cada año al consumo de tabaco y cigarrillos en películas, programas de televisión y vídeos musicales populares, según el séptimo informe anual “While You Were Streaming” de la organización sin ánimo de lucro Truth Initiative. Las representaciones del tabaco han descendido...
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Hundreds of millions of American young people are exposed to vaping and smoking in popular movies, TV shows and music videos each year, according to the 7th annual “While You Were Streaming” report from the nonprofit Truth Initiative. Tobacco depictions are down in the most popular Hollywood shows but...
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In the wake of the recent spate of plane crashes, four of them in the United States since Donald Trump took office, it is reasonable to ask whether commercial flights are still the safest way to travel.a Thanks to decades of engineering advances and strict regulations that reduced accident...
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Tara García Mathewson CalMatters In 1953, Bárbara Flores entered kindergarten at Washington Elementary School in Madera, California, a small city in the Central Valley surrounded by farm fields. Her mother and grandmother had talked it up: You’re going to learn a lot. You’re going to like it. She believed them....
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Nebraska was among the states affected by the recent E. coli outbreak traced to onions in McDonald’s hamburgers. Federal officials said they are now certain about the source but broader questions about the overlap with beef production linger. The outbreak caused at least one death and sickened dozens of...
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Khari Johnson CalMatters La Comisión de Servicios Públicos de California rechazó el 20 de junio la solicitud de AT&T para dejar de proporcionar líneas fijas y otros servicios en áreas donde no hay otra opción. Su votación de 4-0 se produjo después de que un juez determinara que la...
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Khari Johnson CalMatters California’s Public Utilities Commission on June 20 rejected AT&T’s application to stop providing landlines and other services in areas where there is no other option. Its 4-0 vote came after a judge determined the application by AT&T California was “fatally flawed.” AT&T is the “carrier of...
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Yue Stella Yu & Sameea Kamal CalMatters Lisamaría Martínez no está segura de cuándo votó en persona por última vez. Pero recuerda las botas que usó ese día: sus “fabulosas”, nuevas botas azul marino con tacones gruesos, que le provocaron ampollas en su caminata de una milla de largo...
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Yue Stella Yu & Sameea Kamal CalMatters Lisamaria Martinez isn’t sure when she last voted in person. But she remembers the boots she wore that day — her “fabulous,” new navy blue boots with chunky heels, which gave her blisters on her mile-long walk back home from the polling...