Chief U.S. District Judge Beryl A. Howell of Washington has challenged the Justice Department’s punishments for the Capitol rioters, wondering why they are being fined $1.5m when taxpayers are footing a whopping $500 bill. Paul Hodgkins, a crane operator from Florida, has the dubious honor of being the first felony sentenced in the Capitol riots. …

Juan Antonio Samaranch Salisachs, the chairman of the IOC’s coordination commission for the 2022 Beijing Olympics has allowed his sports charity,  the Samaranch Foundation, to take donations from a Chinese company known to use Uighur slave labor from Xinjiang, despite his claims to be “dead serious” about human rights. Authorities in Morocco have arrested a …

Facebook has shut down the personal accounts of two NYU researchers and halted their research into the spread of misinformation via political ads on the network. Although many conservatives believe Facebook is biased against them, employees of the social media giant worry that the opposite is true. They say that conservative outlets and voices like …

Major tech employers, including Google, Facebook, and Netflix, are requiring proof of vaccination of employees. Apple is requiring both customers and employees to wear masks, regardless of vaccination status. Similar things are happening outside the tech world. Disney World, for example, will require guests to wear masks indoors. The rapid spread of the Delta variant …

Nevada has issued an emergency order in 12 of 17 counties requiring everyone––vaccinated or unvaccinated––to wear masks. 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. …

Dr. Jerome Adams, Trump’s surgeon general, recently told Face the Nation that the United States will have to impose some kind of restrictions “because this pandemic is spiraling out of control yet again. And it’s spiraling out of control because we don’t have enough people vaccinated.”And indeed, Anthony Fauci has said that the CDC is …

COVID infections are on the rise in nursing homes, and unvaccinated staff may be to blame. The US has extended its public health emergency as the Delta variant causes a new COVID surge. The number of COVID cases has tripled in the States––mostly among the unvaccinated––and misinformation about the virus and vaccine has only hindered …

The Chinese government has struck back at the international community, calling allegations of genocide the “biggest lie of the century.” Oxus Society for Central Asian Affairs and the Uyghur Human Rights Project has released a report detailing the vast extent to which the Islamic world has collaborated with China’s campaign against the Uighur people. News …

Indonesians are desperately search for oxygen amid a COVID surge, a reminder that the pandemic is far from over. Russia set a new record for COVID deaths––the fifth in as many days––as the Delta variant spreads. In a move with terrifying echoes of March 2020, Hong Kong has banned all flights from the United Kingdom …

More than a billion animals living on the British Colombia seashore may have died during the last heatwave. Animals like mussels, clams, sea stars, and others died en masse along the shore, leading to a horrible smell and a ravaged ecosystem. Canadians on the west side of the country had to ditch the usual light …

According to Anthony Fauci, a touch over 99% of COVID deaths involve people who have not been vaccinated. Dr. William Schaffner, a professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, has called unvaccinated people are “variant factories,” increasing the likelihood that new variants, like the highly-infectious Delta variant, will emerge. Johnson …

Canadians on the west side of the country had to ditch the usual light sweaters for bathing suits as temperatures soared this week to nearly 116º, shattering heat records for the region. So far, at least 230 people have died from the heat and a thousand people had to be evacuated from a town as …