the southland journal

The Government Donald Trump Left Behind - Donald Trump was elected president in 2016 following a campaign of pledges to build a wall along the border with Mexico, repeal and replace his predecessor’s signature health care legislation, “drain the swamp” of special interests in Washington, D.C., and cut through the federal government’s bureaucracy, all to “Make America Great Again.”

FBI investigation under way into the Chicago Heights Library.

A federal economic relief package passed by Congress in March promised to provide a lifeline for hospitals, particularly those in rural communities where many facilities struggled to survive even before the coronavirus pandemic.

Lawmaker Questions Facebook on Broken Election-Related Promise - Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) is demanding answers from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg after The Markup published evidence last week that Facebook failed in its promise to stop recommending political groups to users during the presidential election and transfer of power. 

Bulls fail to beat Celtics in 2nd loss in a row after 3-game win streak.

Jack Franks publicly acknowledges his role in falsely alleging fraud .

The Climate Crisis Is Worse Than You Can Imagine. Here’s What Happens If You Try. - Peter Kalmus, out of his mind, stumbled back toward the car. It was all happening. All the stuff he’d been trying to get others to see, and failing to get others to see — it was all here. The day before, when his family started their Labor Day backpacking trip along the oak-lined dry creek bed in Romero Canyon, in the mountains east of Santa Barbara, the temperature had been 105 degrees. Now it was 110 degrees, and under his backpack, his “large mammalian self,” as Peter called his body, was more than just overheating. He was melting down. Everything felt wrong. His brain felt wrong and the planet felt wrong, and everything that lived on the planet felt wrong, off-kilter, in the wrong place.

Bulls fall to the Lakers at home, breaking their 3 game win streak.

Caroline Chen reflects on the current COVID pandemic, the lives lost, and the vaccine chaos.

A look into the use of "illegal" chokeholds by the New York Police Department.