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The entire West Coast is now covered by an earthquake early warning system 12:32 a.m. As of Tuesday morning, the U.S. earthquake early warning system can issue earthquake alerts to cellphone users in California, Oregon, and Washington. Launched in Los Angeles in late 2018, the ShakeAlert early warning system aims to let people know about incoming shaking, so they can have at least a few seconds to find a safe spot to ride out the earthquake. The alert system is successful because communications systems are now faster than the speed of shaking waves moving through the ground, the The earthqua...

House GOP leaders have reportedly landed on a replacement for Liz Cheney House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.p) and Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.), the top two House Republicans, are backing Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) to replace Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) in the No. 3 leadership spot, GOP Conference chair, Stefanik, who gained national prominence defending former President Donald Trump during his first impeachment hearing, has also gotten public backing from Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), a McCarthy ally, and as "momentum began to build for Stefanik on Tuesday," a top male contende...

Late night hosts marvel at that photo of the Bidens and Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter, mark Star Wars Day 2:59 a.m. "The Jimmy Carter Library just released this photo of the Bidens visiting the Carters last week," and "it looks like a second-grader made a presidential diorama," Jimmy Fallon said on Tuesday's Tonight Show, filmed before an audience of teachers for Teacher Appreciation Day. "I learned two things from the photo: the the two families are very close, and Biden is the size of Jason Momoa." He shared a second photo of Biden and Carter, this one inspired by The Lion King.

U.S. birth rate dropped 4 percent in 2020 In 2020, the U.S. birth rate dropped 4 percent — dipping to the lowest level in 42 years, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Health Statistics. The data shared in the report, published Wednesday, comes from more than 99 percent of the birth certificates issued in the United States in 2020. Last year, 3,605,201 births were recorded, down from 3,747,540 in 2019; 2020 was the sixth year in a row where the number of births in the U.S. dropped. The birth rate for teenage girls between th...

Control of the party. >> it was sticking to the president. >> they were using the shutdown for political purposes. not because they were blamed for causing the shutdown. >> david, jerome powell, david from, pinash, take your point. >> this goes to your point at the beginning. sh shutdowns happen for a rational reason. they've been happening more and more frequently since the 70s. they're tests of strengths. the parties have different views about what they can accomplish. one of them is usually more mistaken than the other. they shut down the government to test public opinion and to see how the...