From Jenna Orkin

Mexico missing students: Former top official arrested over probe

Britain signs up old coal units as back-up in case of winter power crunch

How Americans’ love of beef is helping destroy the Amazon rainforest

Want to see how climate change is stressing bees? Look at their wings.

Amid covid surge, Iran cut corners to approve yet-unproven vaccin

A Chernobyl tour group secretly helped track Russia’s invasion

COVID-19 associated with increased risk of brain disorders 2 years after infection: study

Ants can be better than pesticides for growing healthy crops, study finds

China’s J-20 Stealth Fighter: A True Game-Changer?

SB 731, as amended, Durazo. Criminal records: relief.

(1) Existing law establishes the Commission on Teacher Credentialing to, among other things, issue teaching and services credentials. Existing law requires the commission to appoint a Committee of Credentials and requires allegations of acts or omissions for which adverse action may be taken against applicants or holders of teaching or services credentials to be reported to the committee, including conviction for a controlled substance offense, as defined. Existing law requires the commission to deny an application for the issuance of a credential or the renewal of a credential who has been convicted of a controlled substance offense.

This bill would prohibit the record of a conviction for possession of specified controlled substances that is more than 5 years old and for which relief was granted from being presented to the committee or from being used to deny a credential.

A biotech company wants to take human DNA and create artificial embryos that could be used to harvest organs for medical transplants

Jacob Hanna, who led a successful mouse "embryo" experiment, wants to recreate it with human cells but other experts say much more research is needed.

Daughter of 'Putin's brain' killed in car explosion near Moscow, state media says