January 15, 2020

House Sends Articles Of Impeachment To Senate, Virginity Testing Ban, VA Smoking Ban, New Dinosaur Discovery And Preserving San Diego Black History

43 minutes

The wait is over. The U.S. House of Representatives has transmitted the Articles of Impeachment to the Senate and selected Reps. Adam Schiff and Jerry Nadler as prosecutors for the impeachment trial. Plus, after the Internet uproar over rapper T.I’s admission that he takes his daughter to the gynecologist for a yearly virginity test, San Diego Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez, last week, introduced a bill that would make such a practice illegal. Also, the V.A.’s new smoking ban, while hailed by health advocates, is making it a difficult transition for some patients, visitors and workers. And, dinosaurs have been extinct for more than 65 million years but one San Diego paleontologist helped to discover a new species of microraptors that is 120 million years old. Finally, San Diego History Center is embarking on a major project to scan historical photos of Black life in San Diego and preserve them for posterity.

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