The US Coast Guard spotted Chinese warships off the coast of Alaska last month. China’s increased bellicosity in recent months has inspired the United States to send dozens of its stealth fighters, the F-22, to the western Pacific for military exercises. Two months ago, China sent a massive force of 28 aircraft into Taiwanese airspace, …

The first trial in the massive Operation Varsity Blues college admissions fraud scandal has begun. The defendants, Former casino executive Gamal Aziz and private equity firm founder John Wilson, both face charges for paying hundreds of thousands of dollars to get their children into USC. UCLA’s ex-men’s soccer coach was been sentenced by a judge …

President Biden has announced new vaccine requirements that will affect as many as 100 million Americans: all employers with more than 100 employees must mandate vaccines or weekly tests, and the same goes for all health facilities receiving federal funding. Huge chunks of the private sector are already enacting their own mandates. The Seattle Seahawks …

There were nearly 300% more COVID cases this Labor Day than last––a sign of both the transmissibility of the Delta variant and number of Americans who remain unvaccinated. The US has hit a new COVID milestones: 40 million cases. And the Delta variant is only just warming up––the former commissioner of the FDA has said …

The former commissioner of the FDA has said that we haven’t seen the real Delta surge yet. It will come, he suggests, after Labor Day travelers spread the variant. There’s no end to the COVID surge in sight, but Tennessee is already running out of hospital space. Hospitals in high-COVID areas, especially the South, are …

Infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci backs a suggested vaccine mandate for school children. As the nation grapples with another COVID surge right in the middle of the back-to-school rush, the mandate makes a lot of sense…especially considering what’s happening throughout the South. Sixty-eight Florida hospitals are running out of oxygen––they have only two days left …

The Chinese policies aimed at wiping out the Uighur people could lead to a population loss of about 4.5 million people by 2040. The current Uighur population is around 10 million. Oxus Society for Central Asian Affairs and the Uyghur Human Rights Project has released a report detailing the vast extent to which the Islamic …

A small Texas town called Iraan, popular 1,200, has effectively shut down. First the school district closed, and then the city building. At least one resident has been airlifted out of Texas due to a lack of hospital beds.25 Houston is in similarly dire straits. An ER doctor in Houston has described hundreds of patients …

Phil Valentine, an influential conservative talkshow host in Tennessee who often voiced skepticism about the COVID vaccine, has died of COVID. Texas Governor Greg Abbott, who famously forbade mask mandates, has tested positive for COVID. Schools, meanwhile, are trying to circumvent that mandate. One school district has done so by making masks a part of …

A 13-year-old Mississippi girl has died after testing positive for COVID, an alarming reminder of how serious the return to school is this year. Texas Governor Greg Abbott, who famously forbade mask mandates, has tested positive for COVID. Schools, meanwhile, are trying to circumvent that mandate. One school district has done so by making masks …

Hospitals in Florida in Mississippi are reaching a breaking point as they’re overrun with critical COVID patients. Even as the Feds might have to rush in to help these hospitals, citizens in other states with high COVID rates, like Tennessee, are protesting masks and heckling mask supporters. The state of Florida has requested 300 ventilators …

  More children are getting sick from COVID, largely due to the Delta surge. According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, some 15% of COVID cases are children, and some doctors say they’re getting sicker. An infant in Houston, for example, was airlifted 150 miles because there weren’t enough beds there. An increase in rare …