The Biden administration, anticipating a green light, has already begun packing and shipping vaccine doses for kids. Earlier this week, an FDA advisory panel unanimously recommended (including one abstention) that kids aged 5-11 get the low-dose version of Pfizer’s vaccine. Now, the FDA has authorized the vaccine for that age group. Almost one month ago, …

Ahead of a global summit on climate change, the United Nations has warned that current climate goals will still lead to a 2.7C rise in global temperatures. In an interview, Greta Thunberg said the public needs to “uproot the system” because “change is going to come when people are demanding change. So we can’t expect …

Thirty-five percent of the Chicago police force have not reported their vaccine status by the October 15 deadline. They risk being put on no-pay status. Last week, it half of Chicago officers were facing unpaid leave if they indeed refuse the vaccine. They were goaded on by the head of the Chicago police union, who …

Federal prosecutors have indicted a Capitol police officer for advising a January 6th rioter to hide evidence. He is being charged with obstruction of justice. A federal judge is consistently giving people who stormed the Capitol on January 6 more time than prosecutors ask for, saying “There have to be consequences for participating in an …

A hairdresser who was connected with QAnon and stormed the Capitol has been sentenced to two weeks in jail. The Capitol rioter who said she wanted to shoot Pelosi “in the friggin’ brain” has pled guilty to a misdemeanor for illegally protesting. Recently, Chief U.S. District Judge Beryl A. Howell of Washington has challenged the …

Google has announced it will stop running ads on YouTube channels that deny climate change, effectively cutting off revenue for content creators capitalizing on misinformation. More than two feet of rain fell in Italy in a single day, the first time that’s happened in European history. Nobel prize winner Giorgio Parisi, an Italian, has called …

When Facebook and its related sites went down recently, traffic to actual news sites went up. Frances Haugen, the whistleblower who revealed that Facebook knew it was bad for people, and especially young women, has appeared on 60 Minutes. She revealed that Facebook was aware of how divisive its platform was, but refused to make …

California is set to enforce the nation’s first vaccination mandate for schoolchildren. The order won’t take effect until the vaccines have been fully approved for children. AT&T is requiring 90,000 frontline employees be vaccinated. This represents an expansion of its vaccination policy from August requiring managers to be vaccinated. Almost all Fox News employees have …

Los Angeles County is planning to dismiss nearly 60,000 marijuana convictions going back three decades, part of a larger, nation-wide trend that began last year when t29he governor of Illinois has signed into a law a bill making marijuana legal for recreational use. Residents can now purchase one gram of pot at a time, while non-residents …

The FDA has authorized booster shots for people over 65 and those at high-risk of severe COVID. More than 60,000 people have died in Texas as a result of COVID. 23Western states are struggling with the COVID virus, pushing their healthcare systems to the limit. In addition, Anchorage, Alaska has run out of ICU beds, …

With climate change causing increasingly extreme weather throughout the United States, President Biden is planning to address heat related deaths The world has lost half of its coral reefs since the 1950s, according to a recent study. More than 220 medical journals have warned that climate change is causing such harm to peoples’ health that …

India gave out 25 million vaccines in a single day, setting a new world record for inoculations in one day. It’s critical that as many people get vaccinated as quickly as possible because COVID is here to stay, and the longer it has to mutate in bodies, the more likely it is to do increasingly …