If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, we may receive an affiliate commission. Search hard enough and you’ll find N95 masks for sale online — but prices are gouged and the US is reportedly running out of N95 respirators for healthcare workers. For those reasons, people have…Continue Reading
America’s rivers are changing color — and people are behind many of the shifts, a new study said.One-third of the tens of thousands of mile-long (two kilometer-long) river segments in the United States have noticeably shifted color in satellite images since 1984. That includes 11,629 miles (18,715 kilometers) that became greener, or went toward the…Continue Reading
Dr. Anthony Fauci and Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams said on Sunday that America’s COVID-19 deaths are real, in response to a tweet from President Trump that questioned CDC reports. ”The deaths are real deaths,” Fauci said on ABC News. “I mean, all you need to do is to go out into the trenches, go…Continue Reading
For a nation ravaged by the pandemic, this week marks a pivotal moment – the final push by federal regulators to clear the first experimental coronavirus vaccine for a besieged populace. If all goes well over the next few days, the Food and Drug Administration could give emergency authorization to the vaccine as early as…Continue Reading
by Simon Romero, Shaila Dewan, Giulia McDonnell Nieto del RioPHOENIX: In downtown Portland, Oregon, they shouted, “Count every vote!” At the Detroit convention center, they urged those tallying ballots to stop. And outside a Philadelphia vote-counting site, they said they just wanted to watch. In a year defined by protests — for women’s rights and…Continue Reading
Sisyphus finally got the boulder up the hill. And Joe Biden—48 years after he was elected to the Senate and 33 years after he launched his first race for the White House—is president-elect.His belated triumph, which came when the networks in rapid succession called Pennsylvania for the Democrats, was achieved in true Biden fashion—after days…Continue Reading
Doctors couldn’t diagnose the rash spreading across Catherine Flowers’ legs and body. But the activist thought it had to do with the day she wore a dress during a visit to a family whose yard featured “a hole in the ground full of raw sewage.” “I began to wonder if third-world conditions might be bringing…Continue Reading
After mass shootings in Odessa and Midland, Texas, and Mobile, Alabama, this weekend, Americans are confronting the country’s unique relationship with guns. America is certainly an exceptional country when it comes to firearms. It’s one of the few countries in which the right to bear arms is constitutionally protected. But the relationship is unique in…Continue Reading
Over the summer, homegrown American conspiracism surged in tandem with the pandemic. On edge after months of lockdown, widespread infection and death, and a highly acrid political climate, people across the political spectrum nurtured a handful of increasingly fantastical explanations for the dismal state of things. On the right, the assorted delusions of QAnon converged…Continue Reading
The long-feared autumn spike in coronavirus cases has arrived, both in Europe and in the U.S. — and there’s a huge difference in how the two regions are reacting. Europe is on an emergency footing, while America … isn’t.Why it matters: We’ve seen this movie before, and we’ve seen the need for coordinated government action,…Continue Reading
RIO DE JANEIRO – Latin American children have lost four times more days of education from the coronavirus pandemic than students in the rest of the world, a UNICEF report on Monday showed, with over 137 million young people in the region still not back at school.Latin America has been hard hit by COVID-19, with…Continue Reading
