Recently, nine of the biotech and pharmaceutical companies working on vaccines for COVID-19 pledged that they’ll only ask the FDA for approval when the vaccines they’re working on are proven to be safe and effective …
Did Trump call the soldiers sent to fight in the U.S.’s endless wars “suckers,” as former Trump associates have claimed? …
Daniel Prude, a Black man visiting relatives in Rochester, New York, died at the hands of Rochester police after being arrested on March 17, 2020 …
As if the COVID pandemic wasn’t enough for Californians to deal with, the state is now seeing record-breaking heat waves, wildfires, and smoke. …
Before COVID-19, the New York Metropolitan Transit Authority served 8 million people daily. Since COVID-19, it’s losing $200 million per week and suddenly has a predicted deficit of $16 billion over four years …
2020 has indeed been the worst year. But further events like the ones that define this year will not end with it, unless the root cause – capitalism – is removed. …
Capitalism is a cancer that disproportionately affects Black people. …
One struggle we can learn from was the struggle of coal miners that led to the “Battle of Blair Mountain” almost a 100 years ago in West Virginia …
The inhumane conditions facing those locked in prisons across the U.S. today are not new …
Lately, there’s been a lot of talk about herd immunity in relation to COVID-19. But what is herd immunity, and what does it mean in relation to COVID-19? …
New York City was the first place where COVID reached critical proportions in the U.S. …
Following the shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin, tens of thousands of people took to the streets around the country to protest this latest violence at the hands of the police …
In a demonstration of the power of the working class, workers in Belarus have gone on strike in support of the protestors against state repression. …
Is it really “lucky” to have to work in the midst of a pandemic? Meanwhile, the super-rich are still getting richer. …
Athletes are right to walk out in opposition to racism and police brutality. But why did Obama tell them to return to playing? …
We must be the generation to decide we will end systemic racism and save our planet. …
Climate change is leading to stronger, deadlier hurricanes. …
Murdering Black boys with toy guns but letting far-right vigilantes kill protesters is not justice. …
The Milwaukee Bucks shocked the sports world on the afternoon of Wednesday, August 26, after the players decided to boycott Game 5 …
The made-for-TV conventions of the Democratic and Republican parties were held to convince us to vote for them. …
A Tennessee a new law could strip protesters of their right to vote. …
As numbers of new U.S. infections, hospitalizations and deaths continue to remain high, as U.S schools reopen and workers are called back into work, and as second waves of infection have begun to show up internationally, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) abruptly changed its COVID-19 guidelines and is recommending less testing in the U.S. …
During the Spring of 2020, an estimated 5.4 million people who lost their jobs, also lost their health insurance. …
The latest coronavirus “cure”? The highly toxic compound oleandrin, found in the poisonous plant, oleander. …
This week the FDA granted Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for another treatment for patients with COVID-19. This treatment relies on blood transfusions from patients who’ve recovered from the virus, and thus are would have antibodies present in their blood. …
Postal workers in Tacoma Washington defied their top management last week by reconnecting the sorting machines post office bosses had ordered shut down …
Trump’s former senior advisor Steve Bannon was charged with fraud for pocketing donations to a campaign to help build more wall on the U.S.-Mexico border. …
As the school year begins, some states and districts have made the unhappy, but smart decision to start the school year remotely. …
As tens of millions find their financial situation more desperate by the day, and millions of small businesses are squeezed into failure, the big tech companies are booming! …
Trump’s recent attacks on the USPS are not the only ones that have happened. The Postal Service has been under attack for decades. …
Women in the U.S. have had the right to vote for a century, but they still suffer from inequality today. …
Even after outrage in the streets, the police cannot control themselves. They shot another unarmed black man. …
For months healthcare workers have been called “heroes.” But what we have also seen is an attack on the working conditions of these very same workers. …
A massive heat dome hovering over the southwest of the U.S. is causing record-breaking temperature spikes in California. …
At the Democratic National Convention, Joe Biden began his nomination acceptance speech with a quote from the civil rights activist Ella Baker: “Give people light and they will find a way.” …
Recently, the Trump administration announced a new development in U.S. pharmaceuticals. The Kodak Film Company is expected to be given a $765 million loan to help launch a new wing of the company producing generic pharmaceuticals and pharmaceutical ingredients. …
On August 16, it was under this slogan that tens of thousands gathered in Minsk with flowers, balloons and flags …
A desperate Trump has decided to speed up the attacks on the U.S. Postal Service, hoping to significantly suppress mail-in voting. …
On August 17, the Trump administration opened up the coastal plane of Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to drilling …
A Gallup poll recently found that 35% of Americans wouldn’t get a COVID-19 vaccine if it were available right now, at no cost to them …
Just days after a massive explosion in Beirut, Baltimore residents were shaken by an explosion that killed two, injured seven, and flattened three rowhomes …
The brutal murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis cops turned out to be the last straw for hundreds of thousands of people in the United States. …
The brutal murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis cops turned out to be the last straw for hundreds of thousands of people in the United States. …
Rather than accept the risks involved for both themselves and students, education workers in an Arizona school district decided enough was enough …
As August began in New Jersey, we were once again forced to pay for transit. …
For months, Democrats and Republicans in Congress have taken turns stalling the passage of any new round of relief for unemployed workers …
The National Basketball Association, along with the millionaires and billionaires who own the teams, and the mega corporations that invest in …
Filthy Rich, a new docu-series on Netflix, uncovers the horrifying story of financier Jeffery Epstein’s extensive underage sex trafficking …
A single massive chemical explosion at the port killed at least a 137 people and injured five thousand …
This public health crisis has provided a rationale for employers to strengthen their hand against workers …
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