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TRENDING TOPICS, MOST CREDIBLE STORIES | | #1 in U.S. News • 24 articles How are officials trying to contain an oil spill off coast of California? |  | |
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Massive oil spill sends crude onto Orange County beaches, killing birds, marine life.
Los Angeles Times (Moderate Left) • Factual Grade 73% • 13 min read
The spill, first reported Saturday, originated from a pipeline off the coast of Huntington Beach connected to an offshore oil platform known as Elly. The failure caused at least 126,000 gallons of crude to spill into coastal waters creating a slick that spanned about 8,320 acres— larger than the size of Santa Monica.
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Oil from the spill also infiltrated Talbert Marsh, a 25-acre ecological reserve in Huntington Beach that is home to dozens of species of birds. It is not clear when the leak started. The 17.5-mile pipeline has been suctioned at both ends to stop the flow of oil into the water, and divers are working in the area to determine what went wrong.
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Huntington Beach officials deployed 2,050 feet of floating barriers known as booms to try to stop further incursion and protect other sensitive wildlife areas including Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve. County officials also built large sand berms near Talbert Marsh to keep ocean water and oil from continuing to flow into the habitat.
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Disaster relief sought as major oil spill closes beaches, kills wildlife in Huntington Beach.
Orange County Register (Moderate Right) • Factual Grade 73% • 15 min read - Top long-read
Offshore drilling has dug itself a deeper hole since Deepwater Horizon. (2020)
The Verge (Left) • Factual Grade 82% • 8 min read
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| | | 286 votes, 19 comments Context: Chinese military make repeated incursions into Taiwan's claimed airspace HIGHLIGHTED COMMENTS " Yes - To stop doing this would basically be conceding the island to the Chinese who would likely invade if not kept at bay with the threat of significant resistance through military conflict. It would be Hong Kong 2.0. If a free Taiwan is a priority, the US must continue supplying them with military weaponry." " No - This is a regional conflict that I'm not sure the US should wade into further...." " Unsure - On the one hand, the Chinese government has no legitimate claim to Taiwan, so Taiwan has a right and..." | | | #2 in U.S. News • 26 articles Why has conspiracy theorist Alex Jones been found guilty of defamation? | 
District Judge Maya Guerra Gamble in Texas gave the ruling after Jones failed to provide evidence to support his claim that the shooting was a "false flag" carried out by actors. He was ordered by the court in two l...
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| | #1 in World News • 39 articles What do the "Pandora Papers" reveal about finances of the global rich? |
In what's being called the "biggest-ever leak of offshore data," a cache of nearly 12 million files published Sunday laid bare the hidden wealth, secret dealings, and corruption of hundreds of world leaders, billionaires...
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| | #1 in Business News • 14 articles How has the global chip shortage affected auto sales in the US? |
On Friday, GM reported its new vehicle sales in the U.S. plummeted 33% from the year-ago period. It sold 446,997 vehicles in the U.S. compared with 665,192 a year ago. GM...
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| | #1 in Science News • 11 articles What has BepiColmbo's flyby of Mercury revealed about the planet's surface? |
The two linked probes, known together as BepiColombo, snapped their first image of Mercury during a flyby that sent them zooming around the planet. The encounter marked t...
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