Climate Change Makes It Difficult to Fight Fires With Controlled Burns

It’s more than a month and a half until summer, but massive forest fires They’ve already consumed the landscapes and dark skies in Arizona, New Mexico, and Nebraska. Whipping winds threw flames across the land around Boulder, Colo. December and March. In Boulder, wildfire concerns intensified in August and late summer when lightning strikes could …

Covid-19 Misinformation Is Not Controlled on Radio and Podcasts

Self-described “citizen reporter” pastor Rick Wiles endorsed a conspiracy theory in a recent episode of his podcast: Covid-19 vaccines were “the product of a global coup by the worst human gang in human history.” “It’s an egg that turns from an egg into a synthetic parasite and grows inside your body,” Mr. Wiles said on …

Covid-19 Misinformation Is Not Controlled on Radio and Podcasts

“People develop really close relationships with podcasts,” said Evelyn Douek, senior research fellow at Columbia University’s Knight First Amendment Institute. “This is a parasocial environment. There’s something about sound that people are really into. ” Marc Bernier, a talk radio host in Daytona Beach, Fla., whose program is available to download or stream on iHeart …

Affidavit Says Gun Given to Alec Baldwin Wasn’t Thoroughly Controlled

Sheriff Mendoza said about 500 rounds were collected from the set, including blanks, fake bullets, and what the sheriff’s department believed to be real ammunition. There has been more and more scrutiny in recent days as Mr Halls and Ms Gutierrez-Reed held the gun in their hands before it went off. An industry veteran who …