The Daily Populous

Researchers from the University of Texas at Austin looked at the probability of “inversions” in presidential elections, where the popular-vote winner loses the electoral vote.

The researchers pointed to the Electoral College system and the high concentration of Democratic votes in blue states as the driving force behind this trend.

“Democrats have tended to win large states by large margins and lose them by small margins,” the researchers explained, creating an asymmetry in the winner-take-all Electoral College system that favors Republicans. »

(CNN) A Chinese woman who allegedly paid $400,000 in bribes to get her son into UCLA as a fake soccer recruit was arrested in Spain as part of the sprawling college admissions scam, federal prosecutors said Tuesday.

Prosecutors said in a statement they are trying to extradite her from Spain to Boston to face charges.

Over the next two months, Sui allegedly gave Singer her son's transcript and photos of him playing tennis, prosecutors said. »

They have imposed a Sept. 19 deadline for the administration and the Trump Organization to turn over relevant documents.

Democrats have raised concerns that Pence’s stay at Trump’s resort could have violated the emoluments clause in the Constitution.

The vice president’s decision to stay at Trump’s resort can hardly be defended as one of convenience, as Pence previously suggested. »

Algae is much more effective than trees at reducing carbon in the atmosphere, and can be used to create carbon negative fuels, plastics, textiles, food, fertilizer and much more.”.

The machine monitors factors like light, available carbon dioxide, temperature and more to maximize the amount sequestered by the algae.

“One Eos Bioreactor sequesters the same amount of carbon from the atmosphere as an entire acre of trees,” Lamm says. »