The cost of ex-US presidents revealed
American taxpayers spent $3.7 million last year on four surviving presidents, and one presidential widow, according to a new report by the Congressional Research Service.
“Let it be that human rights are women’s rights and women’s rights are human rights, once and for all.”
Almost one million veterans are waiting for their benefit claims to be processed, according to an investigation by the Center for Investigative Reporting. One regional office in North Carolina was so overrun with claims folders that the sheer weight of their content exceeded the load-bearing capacity of the building itself.
These photos were included in a 2012 report from the Veterans Affairs Office of Inspector General. To see more photos and learn more about the backlog, go here.
These photos are insane. 1) Because there are so many files and 2) because they are PAPER. Click the link above for even more.
The crisis facing California sea lions
State officials have declared an “unusual mortality event” for California sea lions, after an unusually high number of pups barely clinging to life have recently washed ashore.
For a sense of the sheer number of pups who have reportedly been found washed up:
In Los Angeles County, nearly 400 pups have been stranded since the beginning of the year. Last year, 36 were reported during that stretch.
As of March 24, officials said, 214 sea lions were reported stranded in San Diego County, 189 in Orange County, 108 in Santa Barbara County and 42 in Ventura County.
Read more from reporter Rick Rojas here.
Photos: Allen J. Schaben, Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times
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On opening day, enjoy “Hitting Forty,” this week’s cover by Mark Ulriksen, as well as a slide show of baseball covers from our archives: http://nyr.kr/10p4Zc4
The NYT’s front-page photo of Alex Rodriguez was shot on an iPhone in the Yankee’s locker room bathroom.
Professional photographer Nick Laham, seen above, said he hadn’t planned on shooting w/ his iPhone, but now Getty Images is licensing his entire Instagram series — of A-Rod, Jeter, Teixeira, Sabathia, et al — on its website.
Image of photographer and A-Rod from FStoppers.
In the bathroom.
Of course it was.
Pattycake, the first gorilla born in New York City and seen here while just six days old, died today at the age of 40. (Photo: Jim Hughes / The New York Daily News)
The San Francisco Giants begin defense of their World Series title Monday in Los Angeles against their archrivals, the Dodgers. And, like last year, a championship season hinges on lights-out starting pitching, defense, timely hitting and — technology?
Read the Rest: How the Giants rode technology to the top of baseball.
