The farm worker who died from injuries he sustained after falling from a greenhouse roof during an Ice raid of a California cannabis farm was a “hard-working, innocent farmer” and the sole provider for his wife and daughter, his family says. Jaime Alanís died a day after a frenzied immigration raid of Glass House Farms in Ventura county where authorities …
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Andrea Gibson, a poet known for their ability to drill into the details of a moment and to draw those experiences out in captivating spoken word performances, died Monday. Gibson’s poetry was rooted in real life, and spoke to issues that they thought affected everyday Coloradans, including queer rights, political division, environmental issues, gun reform and the health care system. …
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A remarkable discovery of ancient fish fossils has revealed a chilling and unusual pattern: Tharsis, a now-extinct genus of ray-finned fish, may have met its end in the same tragic way. Analysis of fossilized specimens has shown that these carnivorous fish, which lived during the Jurassic period, frequently died with belemnites—large cephalopods—lodged in their gullets. This bizarre and fatal phenomenon …
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Stellan Skarsgård has weighed in on famed director Ingmar Bergman’s Nazi sympathies as a young adult. The actor was speaking at the Karlovy Vary film festival in the Czech Republic, where he was promoting Joachim Trier’s film Sentimental Value, inspired by the late Swedish director. Skarsgård expressed his personal dislike of Bergman, with whom he worked on a 1986 stage …
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