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A look back at the battle for women’s suffrage | KPCC-FM’s “AirTalk”

This year marks the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, which gave women the constitutional right to vote. To commemorate the anniversary, noted historian Ellen Carol DuBois is joining the show to discuss her new book, “Suffrage: Women’s Long Battle For the Vote.”… A pioneer in her field, DuBois retired from UCLA in 2017.

The latest on the pandemic | CNN

“The bottom line here is that nothing is happening in a vacuum. Everything is happening all at the same time. So here’s the deal. What we need to do in order to reopen schools safely and not run into this problem of our immediately having cases, having to quarantine, all of these issues happening, is that we have to drive down community transmission to a very low point. And then, open up slowly,” said UCLA’s Anne Rimoin. (Rimoin was also quoted in the Los Angeles Times and the Philadelphia Tribune.)

The cost of excluding undocumented people from CARES Act | KQED-FM

A new UCLA study finds that excluding undocumented people from the stimulus checks that many taxpayers received through the CARES Act cost the United States economy $10 billion in potential economic activity… “But at the same time, they and their families are systematically excluded from any federally mandated relief,” said UCLA’s Raul Hinojosa.

The increasing frequency and severity of gunshot wounds | Scienmag

“Taken together, our findings suggest that gun violence has increased in numbers, at least for the sector that meets surgical criteria, and that these injuries result in a substantial financial burden in addition to the obvious psychosocial burden and other downstream effects,” said lead study author Peyman Benharash, MD, MS, with the Cardiovascular Outcomes Research Laboratories and an associate professor-in-residence of surgery and bioengineering at the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California Los Angeles.

‘Boomerang’ earthquake detected under the Atlantic | National Geographic

Shaking from a quake can focus near one the end of the fault, in the direction the temblor is traveling, which is similar to the muting of the high pitch tones of a horn as a train rushes by. “Like the Doppler effect,” says seismologist Lingsen Meng of the University of California, Los Angeles, who was not part of the study team.