Bianca Bruno

The California Senate has passed a bounty-hunter law modeled after Texas’ 2021 ban on abortions performed after six weeks gestation — but targeting firearms rather than bodily autonomy.

Wild animals forced to relocate to areas where humans have settled due to a warming climate could dramatically increase the chances of another pandemic caused by a zoonotic disease, researchers said Thursday.

The H5N1 strain of the highly infectious avian influenza virus has already caused millions of deaths of wild birds and poultry. It’s threatened whole populations of wild migratory birds due to mass casualties of certain species in the UK, Israel and Greece.

Former President Barack Obama joined Democratic candidates vying to take over key battleground California congressional districts in the November election in the hopes of gaining control of the House of Representatives.