Mississippi has only 10% of ICU beds available as the Delta variant surges in the state. An increase in rare “breakthrough” cases––that is, cases in which a vaccinated person gets COVID––show that the unvaccinated pose some threat to the vaccinated by dint of their sheer numbers. Major tech employers, including Google, Facebook, and Netflix, are …

Some San Francisco bars are requiring proof of vaccination for entry. Anthony Fauci has said that the CDC is considering recommending that everyone wear masks, regardless of vaccination status, as cases in the United States continue to rise. As COVID cases soar around the world, some countries are considering imposing restrictions. Pakistan has banned domestic …

Fourteen new Chinese companies have been added to the U.S. blacklist over human rights violation in Xinjiang. Just after the January elections, in his first call with Chinese official Yang Jiechi, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has pressed China over its treatment of the Uighur and Tibetans. The U.S. State Department has also labeled …

There are now an estimated 31,000 cases of the rare but deadly condition called “black fungus” (mucormycosis) in India. Almost exactly a month ago, more than 7,000 Indians had been diagnosed with black fungus disease, which has a 50% mortality rate. The disease often follows extended use of antibiotics or steroids, which weaken the immune …

According to her lawyer, Ghislaine Maxwell is suffering under terrible conditions in jail: raw sewage, water deprivation, and “hyper-surveillance” by guards and other inmates.” Considering she is being charged with trafficking young girls for the infamous abuser Jeffery Epstein, I doubt anyone is losing sleep over her plight. Recently, Maxwell once again requested bail and …

The Lithuanian government, like many others, has been ramping up its condemnation of the Chinese treatment of the Uighur people, coming close to calling it genocidal. The Chinese government has called such talk a “farce.” A Uighur woman imprisoned in a 40-square meter cell with 40 other women has detailed her experiences, including electroshocks and …

The Australian Uighur community is outraged following the Canberra Chinese embassy played five propaganda films about how great things are in Xinjiang. The Chinese state-run media has released a La La Land-esque musical set in Xinjiang. The film portrays an idyllic world, one in which there is, you know, no genocide against the Uighur people. The …

Democrats are urging Joe Biden to clear out Trump’s picks from the United States Post office, especially Postmaster General Louis DeJoy. Since DeJoy was instated, he has worked to systematically dismantle the Post Office. Despite multiple court orders, the Post Office did not do the slowdown measures instituted by Postmaster General DeJoy in the weeks …

Ambulances are waiting up to eight hours in COVID-ravaged Los Angeles. Despite record numbers of COVID cases and deaths, some 30% of Californians are violating stay-at-home orders. Meanwhile, as the state prepares to extend the stay-at-home orders, groups of maskless protestors are gathering to sing Christmas carols in protest. Perhaps that is why a whopping 6 people …

Despite record numbers of COVID cases and deaths, some 30% of Californians are violating stay-at-home orders. Meanwhile, as the state prepares to extend the stay-at-home orders, groups of maskless protestors are gathering to sing Christmas carols in protest. California continues to break COVID records, and as a result hospitals in the state are being “crushed” …

Donald Trump has raised $207 million for the alleged purpose of fighting voter fraud, but he has only used about $8 million. Trump is set to leave the White House with $850,000 of campaign rally debts. Some cities, like El Paso, are planning to bring the Trump campaign to court to get their money. There …

The final NBC/Wall Street Journal poll of the election season has Joe Biden up 10% on Trump nationwide. Six out of ten voters say that the country is headed in the wrong direction after Trump’s presidency. The Presidential Predictor, a measure of how well the market performs in the three months before an election, suggests …