Texas Governor Gregg Abbott has outlawed all vaccine mandates with an executive order, including enacted by private corporations. The move is an open attack on Biden’s own executive order. For their own part, two Texas-based airlines––American and Southwest––will not abide by Gregg Abbott’s mandate. Southwest has recently become the latest airline to require vaccines, joining …

A Sudden Stratospheric Warming event may be on the way this winter, a phenomenon in which the Polar Vortex is disrupted and extreme weather strikes in unusual places––like the winter storm in Texas last year. North Dakota is in the midst of a drought so bad that it is being compared to the Dust Bowl, …

Last week, Chinese President Xi Jinping vowed to achieve a “peaceful reunification” with Taiwan, despite the threatening presence of Chinese fighters in Taiwanese airspace over the past months. In response, the Taiwanese president has vowed to defend Taiwan’s sovereignty. Biden has sided with China as tensions heat up between China and Taiwan, reiterating that the …

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 climate change a “huge threat” to humanity. Hundreds of thousands of people around the globe have taken to the streets to call for systemic changes …

A Chinese detective in exile spoke to CNN about the torture Uighurs have been subjected to in China, including sexual assault, electrocution, starvation, and waterboarding. Marchers gathered in Paris to demand that the EU ban products made with Uighur labor. Fourteen new Chinese companies have been added to the U.S. blacklist over human rights violation …

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 any changes to the algorithm because it brought it more ad revenue. According to internal documents, …

Taiwan has recorded a record number of Chinese jets in its airspace. This past summer, Chinese jets entered Taiwanese airspace multiple times. In June, China  sent a massive force of 28 aircraft into Taiwanese airspace, including nuclear-capable bombers, the largest and most threatening show of force yet. The Chinese government, angered by recent developments between the …

Forty-nine employees of Kentucky public schools have died of COVID, the most recent a 46-year-old woman. The COVID death toll in the United States has reached 700,000. Canadian psychologists tracking pandemic anxiety since March 2020 report that higher levels of anxiety persists, even though life is returning to normal. Partly responsible: continued news of rising …

The National School Boards Association has asked President Biden for federal help in policing increasingly school board meetings made increasingly tense and unruly by COVID. Police were called to the scene of an Arizona school, where a father threatened to zip tie principal over a COVID quarantine policy. A vocal anti-mask father in Florida has …

When United mandated that workers get vaccinated, some were reluctant…that is, until they were threatened with termination. 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 now been vaccinated, even as hosts go on the …

Canadian psychologists tracking pandemic anxiety since March 2020 report that higher levels of anxiety persists, even though life is returning to normal. Partly responsible: continued news of rising COVID cases. The rate of daily COVID deaths has climbed to the highest levels since March. It is timely, therefore, that the FDA has authorized booster shots …

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 now been vaccinated, even as hosts go on the air and cast doubt on vaccine efficacy. The US Army mandated that all active duty soldiers must …