No ‘smoking gun’: Why Eaton fire report didn’t name names or assign blame

Consultants who reviewed the delayed Altadena evacuation orders said their report wasn’t designed to investigate wrongdoing or assign blame, something that fire victims and some experts worry will help officials dodge accountability.

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The Biophysical Journal Names Marcel P. Goldchen-Ohm the 2024 Paper of the Year-Early Career Investigator Awardee

Marcel P. Goldschen-Ohm, of the University of Texas at Austin, USA will be honored as the recipient of the Biophysical Journal Paper of the Year-Early Career Investigator Award at the 69th Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society, held February 15-19 in Los Angeles, California. This award recognizes the work of outstanding early career investigators in biophysics.
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RFK Jr. names lawyer Nicole Shanahan as his running mate

The independent candidate announced his choice at an event in Oakland.
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California banned a slur from geographic place names. Fresno County won’t let go.

Native Americans won state backing to ban a term used to denigrate Native women from geographic place names. Fresno County says the state should butt out.

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Rutgers Names Danielle Dick as Inaugural Director of the Rutgers Addiction Research Center

Newswise imageThe accomplished researcher in addiction and substance use disorders also will serve as the Greg Brown Endowed Chair in Neuroscience and Cell Biology and as a tenured professor in the department of psychiatry at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
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Acting Navy secretary resigns after carrier remarks, Esper names replacement

Acting Navy Secretary Thomas Modly has submitted his resignation over his faulty handling of aircraft carrier infected by coronavirus.
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