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from The National Pulse: WHAT HAPPENED: Farmers and truckers across Mexico have blocked major highways, demanding protection from cartel violence and extortion. ?WHO WAS INVOLVED: Farmers, truckers, Mexico’s ruling party MORENA, President Claudia Sheinbaum, and Secretary of the Interior Rosa Icela Rodriguez. ?WHEN & WHERE: The blockades began this week across Mexico’s main highways. ?IMPACT: Commerce across Mexico has been virtually frozen, but […]

This article was originally published by Next City, a nonprofit newsroom reporting on solutions for equitable and just cities. Get Next City’s stories in your inbox here. Painting a crosswalk is cheap and easy. A group of neighbors can paint an entire intersection in one morning for $100 or less. Getting the city of Los Angeles to paint a crosswalk, on the other hand, might take 14 years and the death of a nine-year-old boy. Across L.A., neighbors are banding together to paint crosswalks to protest the city’s failure to protect people outside of cars. Jonathan Hale, a UCLA law student who goes by “Jonny,” spent four Saturday mornings painting crosswalks with neighbors at Stoner Park this summer, covering each corner of the park. After the city removed them, he went to the press and vowed to repaint them. The post People Are Painting Crosswalks Across L.A. to Protect Pedestrians appeared first on Reasons to be Cheerful.

Kris Barras's new group is informed by his time in the all-star Supersonic Blues Machine

2025 has been a year of paradoxes, hasn’t it? For some, it has been their best year ever. For others, it has been a dumpster fire that continues to spark new flames. And, in between, weird things kept happening that no one could explain. As 2025 draws to a close, let’s look at some of […] The post 10 Strange Unexplained Mysteries of 2025 appeared first on Listverse.

Astronomer Jocelyn Bell Burnell detected a strange signal from outer space that would lead to the discovery of the radio pulsar. The signal, once described as coming from "little green men," would earn her adviser the Nobel Prize in physics in 1974.