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One in five prisoners in the U.S. has had COVID-19. That rate among state and federal prisoners, per an Associated Press and Marshall Project report published Friday, is more than four times higher than the rate of the general population. Current data shows that at least 275,000 prisoners in the U.S. have been infected during the […]
Florida is now the third state in the U.S. to top one million confirmed cases of COVID-19. Texas and California previously topped a million cases, with both states now reporting more than 1.2 million confirmed cases. Florida, per a CBS News rundown of Johns Hopkins University and Florida Department of Health data, surpassed one million […]
In the early hours of Wednesday morning, as the likelihood of a second term began to fade, President Donald Trump prematurely announced a victory for himself in a way that Jake Tapper from CNN unflinchingly called “undemocratic, false, and premature.” And while we await the final certified tallies, we now know, days after the election, […]
For the first time, more than 100,000 new COVID-19 infections have been reported in a single day in the U.S. The New York Times database shows the total number of newly reported infections on Wednesday was more than 107,800. Single-day records were also broken in multiple states including Nebraska, Colorado, Maine, Minnesota, and Indiana. This […]
While the 2020 election votes are still being counted, it’s safe to say Kanye West won’t be America’s next president. Joining the presidential race relatively late, Kanye failed to make it on a good portion of the ballots of many states. Across the 12 states in which he did appear on the ballot, the Guardian reports he […]
Walmart has pulled guns and ammo from store shelves and displays on the sales floors of its U.S. fleet of stores. Customers hell-bent on buying guns and/or ammo from select Walmart locations that typically sell such things will still be able to do so, per the Wall Street Journal‘s report on the move from Thursday […]
As the cold weather sets in, COVID-19 cases are surging in the U.S., exactly what health experts anticipated, with infections mounting across almost every state. Daily average deaths in the country have increased by 10 percent during the last two weeks, from 721 to nearly 794 deaths on Sunday according to Johns Hopkins University, the […]
The U.S. presidential debate that went down last night was an absolute clusterfuck. There’s simply no other way to put it. “Shit show” also works, but CNN already used that term. In between the outbursts and interruptions were actual short spurts of comprehensible adult conversation on topics like the upcoming Supreme Court pick, the COVID-19 […]
In a new interview, Dr. Anthony Fauci—head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases—said that he is “not concerned” about political pressure when it comes to vaccine trials. The interview, published Tuesday, comes amid fears from many that Trump could prematurely push for a COVID-19 vaccine approval as part of an effort to make himself […]
Trump, who earlier this month declined to answer a reporter’s question about “all the lying” he’s done to the American people, is being taken to task for his recent lies about New Zealand’s COVID-19 numbers. Addressing reporters, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern noted the (should-be-quite-obvious) differences between the numbers in New Zealand and those here in the U.S. […]
