I don't think it was that, but it was unclear whether he had been grazed by a bullet or hit by a piece of shrapnel generated when a bullet hit an object near him, and the campaign was far from transparent about it
Zoning has been a state policy thing in the US, not a federal one, so not likely to be a Presidential campaign issue
I suspect that the primary concern is whether a VP can bring a few more voters along in a swing state.
In much of the western US, subterranean termites will eat buried wood.
Unusual events are just a lot more likely to be captured by cameras. This particular basin erupted several times between 2006 and 2012
There is a history channel, but they tend to be focused on stuff like racist conspiracy theories claiming that the people who actually lived in various places long ago didn't do what they actually did, but that it was extraterrestrials instead.
Netflix did a decent documentary on the rise of Hitler recently.
They need peoples' votes. Get even fairly modest numbers of people organized, and they pay attention.
One American has been very interested:
Last April, perhaps in a surge of Czech nationalism, Ivana Trump told her lawyer Michael Kennedy that from time to time her husband reads a book of Hitler's collected speeches, My New Order, which he keeps in a cabinet by his bed.
Which means that it takes bottom-up organizing to force politicians to address climate.
Basically:
- Canada has a lot of boreal forest
- The scale of fires in boreal forests have increased sharply due to higher temperatures (including indirect effects, such as by enabling bark beetles to survive the winter)
More that peoples' movement data isn't worth much, so it wouldn't be a big deal to impose legal requirements on keeping it private.
As Sen. Wyden says: