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Republican David Valadao, Democrat George Whitesides win US House races in California

LOS ANGELES — Republican Rep. David Valadao has won reelection in California’s 22nd Congressional District in the state’s Central Valley farm belt, defeating Democrat Rudy Salas for the second time. Valadao is an anomaly — an elected Republican in a heavily Democratic district in a heavily Democratic state. Democrats hold a 14-point registration edge in […]

Politics

Bill Clinton stumps for O.C. Democrats in contentious House races

Greeted by cheers, former President Clinton appeared at two rallies Saturday for Orange County Democrats running in hotly contested House races that could determine which party wins control of Congress. Clinton warned about the dangers of a second administration under former President Trump, urging attendees inside the Carpenters Union Training Center in Buena Park to […]

Business & Finance

EU races to prepare for a Trump win

Unlock the US Election Countdown newsletter for free The stories that matter on money and politics in the race for the White House EU capitals are racing to draw up assessments of the bloc’s biggest vulnerabilities if Donald Trump is re-elected to the White House, as polls suggest the contest is tilting in the former […]

Science

Even as A.I. Technology Races Ahead, the Prehistoric Science of Wildlife Tracking Is Making a Comeback

By Ben Goldfarb Photographs by Mette Lampcov The 28th question of the hardest exam I’d taken since college was a smudged footprint pressed lightly into damp sand. The track possessed four teardrop-shaped toes and a vaguely trapezoidal heel pad; one toe, third from the left, jutted above the others, like a human’s middle finger. I […]

Science

China races to unlock one of the biggest mysteries in particle physics

China hopes a giant laboratory 2,300 feet underground is key to beating the US at discovering the secrets of the universe’s most mysterious particles–neutrinos. Slated for completion next year, after over a decade of construction, the roughly $311 million Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) relies on a nearly 115-foot-wide stainless steel and acrylic spherical machine […]