Today’s comic by Ruben Bolling is News of the times: Science cannot explain everything:
• Norwegian prime minister draws short straw:
Prime Minister Erna Solberg of Norway will be the first foreign leader to call on President Donald Trump in the new year.
The White House announced Tuesday that Trump will welcome Solberg to the White House on Jan. 10. The White House says Trump looks forward to exchanging views with Solberg on relations between the U.S. and Norway, as well as on how to make progress on regional and global security issues and economic prosperity.
• Erica Garner, daughter of police chokehold victim Eric Garner, labeled brain dead after heart attack:
Doctors have listed the daughter of police chokehold victim Eric Garner as brain dead with no chance of recovery — five days after the mother of two suffered a massive heart attack, the Daily News has learned.
Family members were being called early Thursday to Woodhull Hospital to say final goodbyes to Erica Garner, who became an outspoken critic of police brutality after her father’s death in 2014.
MIDDAY TWEET
• Here’s a 40-second animated visualization of U.S. gun deaths in 2013.
• Electric vehicles are not crashing the grid:
"Clean up the grid. Electrify everything."
That's a brief summary of what Southern California Edison and a growing number of U.S. electric utilities are aiming for to decarbonize the power and transportation sectors in a mighty one-two punch. Some may worry that charging hundreds of thousands—and then millions—of electric vehicles (EVs) will spell trouble for electric grid maintenance and reliability. However, a new analysis of real world data from California brings good news: EVs are not crashing the grid.
• 26 stunning photos of natural disasters in 2017:
• How hospitals are failing black mothers:
It’s been long-established that black women like [Dacheca] Fleurimond fare worse in pregnancy and childbirth, dying at a rate more than triple that of white mothers. And while part of the disparity can be attributed to factors like poverty and inadequate access to health care, there is growing evidence that points to the quality of care at hospitals where a disproportionate number of black women deliver, which are often in neighborhoods disadvantaged by segregation.
Researchers have found that women who deliver at these so-called “black-serving” hospitals are more likely to have serious complications — from infections to birth-related embolisms to emergency hysterectomies — than mothers who deliver at institutions that serve fewer black women.
On today’s Kagro in the Morning show: Greg Dworkin tells us Roy Moore is now molesting the election results. Everybody draws lessons from AL-SEN. Armando discusses the lol yolo nothing matters recusals & emoluments cases. Twitter sides with the Nazis. Milo’s book, hahahahahahaha!
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