Tag: urgent

Cadell Walker rushed to get her 9-year-old daughter Solome immunized against COVID-19, not only to protect her, but also to help prevent the coronavirus...

Can humanity be saved by a nudge rather than a bang if an asteroid is hurtling toward Earth? NASA is planning a first-of-its-kind mission to...

More than 60 major corporations have signed an open letter calling on Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) to retract comments he made late last...

Activists in Mexico have applauded a Supreme Court decision to decriminalize abortion, claiming that it will put an end to the legal prosecution of...

The first blasts of the day occurred during the morning rush hour at a central intersection, killing a police officer on his way to...

Since Russia's invasion of Ukraine, President Joe Biden and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy have spoken by phone whenever the US announces a new package...

The rise in consumer prices, which pushed inflation to a four-decade high of 6.8 percent in November, has prompted the Federal Reserve to drastically...

In retaliation for "war crimes" in Ukraine, the US announced sanctions against Russian President Vladimir Putin's two adult daughters and said it was toughening...

Millions of homeowners are missing out on hundreds of dollars in savings by refinancing their mortgages. According to the most recent report from a mortgage...

California will begin setting aside 40% of all vaccine doses for the state’s most vulnerable neighborhoods in an effort to inoculate people most at...

It was once a luxurious five-star resort floating directly above Australia's Great Barrier Reef. It now sits dilapidated in a North Korean port, a...

Last month, Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick announced a plan to phase out all tenure in Texas' public colleges and universities, as well as...

Republicans, not Democrats, are seeing greater erosion of Latino voter support, owing in part to the overturning of the landmark ruling that legalized abortion,...

The trial of former Brooklyn Center Police Officer Kim Potter, who was charged in the death of Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old Black man killed...

Next week the House Budget Committee will put together the final draft of the proposed stimulus package. A lot of the members align with...

On Thursday, The Federal Communications Commission approved regulations for a broadband subsidy program that could help families who have struggled during the pandemic afford...

According to new research, Cobalt Strike is being weaponized in campaigns that use malware ranging from the Trickbot banking Trojan to Bazar. On Wednesday,...

Google announced today that it will postpone plans to phase out third-party cookies in the Chrome browser until 2023, a year or so later...

According to Chinese health officials, a man died in China after contracting the Monkey B virus, a rare infectious disease from primates. The victim,...

Pro-Francis bishops were largely defeated by anti-Francis bishops in elections for the conference's top positions at the recent U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops fall...

Sofia Suarez, a receptionist at a Chicago dental office, was out of work for about three months during the COVID-19 pandemic. Due to reduced hours,...

Republicans are growing increasingly frustrated by former President Trump's renewed focus on the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol Hill riot, fearing that it will jeopardize...

President Joe Biden signed an executive order on Sunday directing the federal government to promote voting access in a move meant to commemorate the...

The United States military announced in 1984 that they had signed an international treaty committing them to destroying all of the country's stored chemical...

When the United States opened trade relations with communist China, we were promised great things. Free trade, we were told, would expose the Middle Kingdom...

With COVID-19 numbers skyrocketing over the Holidays and death tolls steadily on the rise, the country’s top expert on Coronavirus, Dr. Fauci gives his warnings...

There's a lot going on at the end of Netflix's battle royale thriller Squid Game, which is a cross between Bong Joon-Oscar-winning ho's film...

The tropical storm On Tuesday, Elsa was already bringing rain and winds to the Florida Keys, as much of the state braced for the...

As the turbulent 1960s came to an end, California Governor Ronald Reagan convened a welfare summit. He was hoping to test one of his...

Alexei Navalny, the imprisoned Russian opposition leader, is facing new charges that could lengthen his sentence by 15 years. With the international community and media...

The “vast majority” of the almost 550,000 coronavirus deaths in the US could have been prevented if Donald Trump’s administration had acted earlier and...

SpaceX prepared a Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon capsule for launch early Wednesday to ferry four professional astronauts to the lab complex for...

When Boris Johnson's Conservative Party won a landslide election victory in 2019, he loomed as a colossus over British politics, the man who had...

NATO's Communication and Information Agency (NCI Agency) is starting its annual Locked Shields cyber defense simulation as the West prepares for Russian cyberattacks amid...

President Biden and Chinese leader Xi Jinping signaled an effort to repair strained relations between Washington and Beijing, instructing officials to resume talks on...

The head of the Food and Drug Administration will testify before Congress for the first time Thursday about the baby formula shortage, which has...

As the operations in response to a visit by US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi entered their second day, China touted its military exercises around...

China announced on Monday that all married couples would be allowed to have three children, ending a two-child policy that had failed to increase...

In an odd way, the Portland Trail Blazers have become the poster child for NBA stability over the last half-decade or so. They had...

Amber Heard has hired new lawyers in her latest legal battle. The actress has hired Ballard Spahr as her lead appellate counsel, less than a...

  Russia on Tuesday called the United States an adversary and told U.S. warships to stay well away from Crimea “for their own good”, calling...

Shortly after President Joe Biden announced new sanctions on Russian banks and elites on Thursday – but not on Russian President Vladimir Putin –...

Governor Andrew Cuomo and the State of New York have issued warnings to hospitals about giving vaccines to elderly people before they finish fully...

President Biden's support among black voters is dwindling. And it's difficult to imagine them returning anytime soon. President Biden's poll numbers have recently plummeted. According...

The Oklahoma Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that non-Native Americans can be prosecuted for crimes committed on tribal land when the victim is Native...

The American Library Association (ALA) reports that books for children and young adults with themes of race, gender, and sexual identity faced an "unprecedented"...

Lithuanian cybersecurity experts are urging the country's government agencies to stop using Chinese smartphone brands after an investigation revealed security flaws and censorship concerns...

After President Biden outlined his proposal for a massive $2.2 trillion spending bill on Wednesday, a bevy of Senate Republicans are speaking out against the plan...

Many advocates and former students seeking relief have applauded President Joe Biden's decision to cancel some student loan debt for millions of Americans, but...

The Biden Administration will be launching a new program on February 19 that processes asylum-seekers. According to the program, around 25,000 people will be...

Three Russian navy submarines punched their way through several feet of sea ice in the Arctic to surface simultaneously within a few hundred feet...

On Wednesday, October 12, a Connecticut jury determined that conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, who hosts the popular online show "Infowars," spread egregious lies about...

Any country that interfered with his invasion of Ukraine would face "consequences greater than any you have faced in history." He put his nuclear...

Community leaders have questioned the New Zealand government’s decision to temporarily close the border to people travelling from India, and say they fear the...

The criminal tax fraud trial of Donald J. Trump's family business could come down to three uninteresting words: "on behalf of." Despite all the...

Parler, a social media company and app similar to Twitter that caters to conservative and right-wing users, announced that it would be relaunching its...

The assassination of British lawmaker David Amess has reignited concerns about a government program aimed at preventing at-risk young people from becoming radicalized, with...

Naomi Osaka tells the story. It comes from Florida, where the world's best young tennis players gather and compete. Osaka, about ten years old,...

To pay for new Covid-19 vaccines, testing, and therapeutics, Congress is considering taking back some of the money it authorized last year for a...

As California's attorney general, Xavier Becerra led a national effort to preserve the Affordable Care Act and fought the Trump administration on issues ranging...

Human activities, such as the use of fossil fuels for transportation and electricity, have exacerbated the intensity of extreme rainfall and snowfall over land...

An investigation has turned up new information about the shady deals that made Roman Abramovich wealthy. In 1995, the Chelsea owner made billions by...

If it's Monday, President Biden says he'll meet with Putin "in principle" if Russia doesn't invade Ukraine. The United States warns that Russia has...

With Britain slowly easing its way out of its third nationwide lockdown, people across the country are enjoying a return to a sense of...

The trial of Derek Chauvin, the ex-Minneapolis police officer charged in George Floyd’s death, resumes Tuesday with further testimony from an MMA fighter who witnessed Floyd’s...

Ernest Johnson was executed in Missouri on Tuesday, despite claims by his attorney and death penalty opponents that he had an intellectual disability and...

Advisers to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo influenced state health officials to remove data from a public report that showed coronavirus-related nursing-home deaths in...

He's well-known in the United Kingdom, and his picture has appeared on the front pages of European newspapers on a regular basis. However, as...

In Haiti, nearly 150 people have been killed and scores have been injured in gunfights between warring gangs, as the latest wave of violence...

Pick-up truck drivers pull up to a white trailer in a parking lot on Fallon Paiute-Shoshone land in Nevada's high desert and are handed...

With feared pandemic loan losses not materializing, most major U.S. banks are expected to report a stunning rebound in quarterly profits next week, despite...

In a forecast from the University of Washington’s pandemic forecasting team, it is estimated that close to another 200,000 Americans are likely to dies...

According to research, women who are operated on by a male surgeon are much more likely to die, experience complications, and be readmitted to...

Bomb-throwers in the House Freedom Caucus derailed Kevin McCarthy's bid for speaker in 2015. Members of the ultraconservative, Trump-aligned group are causing major headaches for...

With the current surge of COVID-19 cases, New York City's new mayor, Eric Adams, who was sworn in just after midnight on New Year's...

Despite overwhelmingly vaccinated player populations, COVID-19's second winter has decimated North American sports leagues at a level not seen since the industry reopened in...

Following the shocking leak last week of a draft Supreme Court opinion indicating the court's conservative majority may soon overturn Roe v. Wade, Senate...

Ordinary Americans may be unaware of this, but political science buffs who live in and write about Washington are arguing about how bad things...

Jeff Bezos fulfilled his long-held dream of going into space on Tuesday, potentially paving the way for space tourism, which could be the next...

The question hanging over the mountain of paperwork after FBI agents carted away about a dozen boxes of presidential records from Donald Trump's opulent...