More hospitals forced to ration care amid delta surge
Coronavirus patients are flooding and straining hospitals across the U.S., particularly in Western states, where administrators are put in positions of needing to ration care as their facilities are pushed to their breaking points by the delta variant.Alaska this past week joined Idaho in adopting statewide crisis standards of care that provide guidance to health…
America isn’t first — it’s far behind — and studies point to Republicans
Why is the U.S. falling behind the rest of the developed world in COVID-19 vaccinations? As of mid-September, according to Oxford University, 63 percent of Americans had been fully or partially vaccinated. That’s lower than Canada (75 percent), France (74), Italy (73), the U.K. (71), Israel (69), Germany (66) and Japan (66).A lot of the…
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California Gov. Newsom signs law to replace term ‘alien’ with ‘noncitizen’ or ‘immigrant’
California will strike the word “alien” from its state laws, getting rid of what Gov. Gavin Newsom called “an offensive term for a human being” that has “fueled a divisive and hurtful narrative.”Newsom on Friday signed a law that removes the word from various sections of the California state code. California passed laws in 2015…
Canada Starts Cracking Down on Fringe Medical Groups
In his Twitter profile picture, Patrick Phillips, MD, poses with a stethoscope. He tweets about how ivermectin could end the COVID-19 pandemic, encourages his over 36,800 followers to seek vaccine exemptions, and compares getting vaccinated to what Jewish people endured in Nazi Germany. Sound familiar? He wouldn’t be out of place in America’s Frontline Doctors,…
Abbott bows to Trump pressure on Texas election audit
Texas Gov. Greg AbbottGreg AbbottWhere election review efforts stand across the US The Memo: Trump’s Arizona embarrassment sharpens questions for GOP Texas limits business with Ben & Jerry’s over Israel move MORE is barreling forward with an audit of the 2020 election in his state’s four largest counties after mounting pressure from former President TrumpDonald…
Judge erupts at Capitol rioter: ‘You’ve disgraced this country’
A federal judge in Washington, D.C., erupted at a Capitol riot defendant on Friday after the individual pleaded guilty to a single charge in connection with the Jan. 6 attack.U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton made the comment to defendant Anthony Mariotto of Florida during a plea hearing, CNN reported.According to court records, Mariotto pleaded guilty to a…
Under U.S. sanctions, Iran and Venezuela strike oil export deal
An oil tanker is seen at Jose refinery cargo terminal in Venezuela in this undated file photo./File PhotoCARACAS/HOUSTON/WASHINGTON, Sept 25 (Reuters) – Venezuela has agreed to a key contract to swap its heavy oil for Iranian condensate that it can use to improve the quality of its tar-like crude, with the first cargoes due this…
Witness: Taliban hang dead body in Afghan city’s main square
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Taliban hanged a dead body from a crane in the main square of Herat city in western Afghanistan, a witness said Saturday, in a gruesome display that signaled a return to some of the Taliban’s methods of the past.Wazir Ahmad Seddiqi, who runs a pharmacy on the side of the…
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US clears encampment of Haitian migrants in Texas
There are no more migrants crowded under the Del Rio bridge in south Texas, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said Friday, days after viral images of Border Patrol agents using reins against Haitian asylum-seekers drew widespread condemnation.“As of this morning, there are no longer any migrants in the camp underneath the Del Rio international bridge,”…
The GOP’s election review in Arizona is over. Its influence is just beginning, experts say.
Arizona Republicans on Friday championed the results of their extraordinary partisan election review — which again affirmed President Joe Biden’s victory in Maricopa County — and called for similar examinations around the country.“We need to do bigger audits on every election, just to make sure that everybody’s following the rules,” said Senate President Karen Fann,…
Alleged constitutional violation in Ohio
By Basil Beltran Gerrymandering is a practice intended to establish an unfair political advantage for a particular party or group by manipulating the boundaries of electoral...
Former Rittenhouse attorney Lin Wood wants $2M bail back
Pro-Trump attorney Lin Wood, who previously served on Kyle Rittenhouse’s defense team, is requesting that a foundation get back the $2 million it raised to post bail for the 18-year-old charged with fatally shooting two Wisconsin protesters last year.In a letter sent to Kenosha County Circuit Court Judge Bruce Schroeder, dated Sept. 17, local attorney…
Marjorie Taylor Greene starts screaming match with Democrats over abortion rights bill
WASHINGTON — Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., instigated a shouting match with a group of House Democrats who were holding an event outside the U.S. Capitol on Friday.“You should all be ashamed,” Greene yelled at the crowd of Democrats standing on the House steps, according to a video posted on Twitter by Insider reporter Bryan…
A daily pill to treat Covid could be just months away, scientists say
Within a day of testing positive for Covid-19 in June, Miranda Kelly was sick enough to be scared. At 44, with diabetes and high blood pressure, Kelly, a certified nursing assistant, was having trouble breathing, symptoms serious enough to send her to the emergency room.When her husband, Joe, 46, fell ill with the virus, too,…
Maricopa County: Draft of Cyber Ninjas election review says Biden won
Maricopa County, Arizona, said Thursday that a draft report from a company in a contentious, partisan review of November’s election has confirmed the winners.The “draft report from Cyber Ninjas confirms the county’s canvass of the 2020 General Election was accurate and the candidates certified as the winners did, in fact, win,” Maricopa County tweeted Thursday…
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House committee probing Jan. 6 Capitol riot subpoenas four Trump allies, including Mark Meadows and Steve Bannon
The House select committee investigating the deadly Jan. 6 Capitol riot announced Thursday it issued subpoenas to four of former President Donald Trump’s closest allies, including his former chief of staff Mark Meadows and his onetime close advisor Steve Bannon.The subpoenas, which were also sent to former White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Communications Daniel Scavino…
Footprint Discovery Hints at Humans in the Americas More Than 20,000 Years Ago
Seeds found in fossilized tracks fuel new speculation about when—and how—people arrivedFossil tracks in White Sands National Park document 2,000 years of human presence during the ice age. Credit: Karen Carr The tale is embedded in the footprints. Along the edges of a vanished ice age lake are the fossilized tracks of people who lived…