COVID-19

A massive heat dome hovering over the southwest of the U.S. is causing record-breaking temperature spikes in California. …

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. …

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 …

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 …

The CDC now recommends looking at symptoms instead of test results to decide when employees can return to work …

Millions are left vulnerable to eviction during a time when shelter is an even more important necessity …

There have recently been a number of demonstrations led by healthcare workers …

Public transit, like the rest of our society is in an extraordinary crisis …

While viruses do occur naturally, there is very little that is natural about the COVID-19 pandemic. …

Workers at Highland Hospital are walking out for the safety of their patients and themselves …

On Monday, July 13, with coronavirus cases in California rising steeply, Governor Gavin Newsom reintroduced some restrictions on the reopening …

At Methodist Hospital in San Antonio, Texas, a 30-year-old man who attended a so-called “COVID party” died after being infected with the virus …

The southern side of the U.S.-Mexico border is dotted with maquilas – companies contracted with U.S. corporations to run factories employing workers at poverty wages …

5.4 million people lost health insurance coverage in the U.S. during the pandemic between February and May …

The administration is “of the belief that people will get over it or if we stop highlighting it…the public will learn to accept 50,000 to 100,000 new cases a day” …

Jair Bolsonaro, has just tested positive for COVID-19. …

Nurses at St. Rose Hospital fight back! …

The U.S. is currently number one in all coronavirus statistics and far ahead of all …

The epicenter for the spread of COVID-19 in the U.S. has been nursing homes, where over 40% of the total number of deaths in the country have occurred. …

On Tuesday, Trump held a rally in Phoenix, Arizona at the Dream City megachurch …

At his political rally in Tulsa last Saturday, Trump said he wants to reduce testing for COVID-19 …

Due to all 50 states in the U.S. reopening after months of shelter-in-place, some are talking about a “second wave” of COVID-19 infections …

Who would have thought in January 2020 that …

Recent drone footage of New York, Pennsylvania, Florida, and Texas has shown long lines of people waiting to get a bit of food …

After the Democratic governor of California proposed $18 billion in budget cuts to education, a recent email from the OUSD Superintendent threatened an additional $16.5 million in budget cuts in Oakland. …

COVID-19 is not the only virus that needs to be stopped, but also for profit healthcare …

In the past several weeks, vaccine development in the U.S has gotten a lot of attention …

The Navajo Nation has suffered more COVID-19 cases than eight U.S. states combined …

In late March, India implemented one of the world’s most severe lockdowns …

As a result of the crippled economy and the costs ofresponding to the COVID-19 pandemic, state and local governments across the country face massive budget crises …

Everyone is affected by the pandemic, but women workers face a terrible combination of challenges. …

This was different. Something changed. People were engaged. …

This year we will surpass 418 parts per million of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere …

Who actually supports Trump and the Republicans’ call to reopen the economy? …

From the start of the pandemic, bosses have demanded the government provide amnesty against lawsuits …

Trump wants to appear as the strong man, in charge amidst the chaos he helped create. …

The attention-grabbing protests to reopen the economy were not what they seemed to be. …

Ford workers forced their assembly line to shut down at the Dearborn, MI truck assembly plant. …

The family of Breonna Taylor, the woman shot down in her home by cops, is still demanding justice …

As businesses reopen, those who still have jobs must think about how much protection there will be …

In mid-May there was a big announcement regarding the development of a vaccine for COVID-19. …

Schools in France re-opened May 11, at least in the areas where the virus has spread the least …

Anybody in the Bay Area knows that housing is a nightmare, but COVID-19 has made it a horror …

Billionaire techies like Bill Gates of Microsoft and Eric Schmidt of Google have been using the COVID crisis to meet U.S. military and other federal officials …