February 3, 2015

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The November elections brought a record number of female lawmakers to Washington. With 20 in the Senate and 84 in the House, women for the first time in history hold more than 100 seats in Congress. But the Republican takeover of the Senate has also cost women powerful committee leadership posts

77 percent of 18- to 34-year-olds  can not name even one US senator in their home state.

Rare photos of Beatles and Rolling Stones taken by their manager


Labor dispute at Politico

NYC homelessness hits record high

Orange County Register - Low weights among sea lion pups on remote Channel Island breeding grounds and effects of a warmer ocean on adult females and yearlings could bring record-high strandings to Southern California beaches. Already this year, staff at marine centers from Sea World in San Diego to the Marine Mammal Center in Sausalito are doing nearly daily rescues.  In the first three weeks of the year, sea lion rescues were up almost 20 percent over 2013 at some of the marine rescue centers.


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