United States

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 …

Economist Jack Rasmus provides a clear analysis of the current economic situation and what the prospects are in the near future. …

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 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. …

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. …

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. …

For months, Democrats and Republicans in Congress have taken turns stalling the passage of any new round of relief for unemployed workers …

This public health crisis has provided a rationale for employers to strengthen their hand against workers …

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 …

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

John Lewis was a civil rights leader and activist that fought to end racial segregation in the United States …

Joe Biden recently announced his policy proposals for addressing climate change. So what does this supposedly revolutionary plan entail? …

In West Virginia, there is only one abortion care clinic to serve the population of the entire state …

For nearly ninety years, Native Americans have protested that a racist slur was the name and mascot of the Washington, D.C. NFL team …

We’re only halfway through the year and 2020 is already expected to break global temperature records. …

At the height of the recent Black Lives Matter protests, the Supreme Court ruled that doctors performing abortions did not have to have admitting rights at a nearby hospital …

In Portland, Trump has taken advantage of ongoing demonstrations against police brutality to send in officers from the Department of Homeland Security …

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

On July 10, Trump’s administration announced that international students had the option of either taking in-person classes or losing their student visa …

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 …

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

It was recently announced that the Dakota Access Pipeline, the largest oil pipeline out of North Dakota, will be shut down, as well as the Atlantic Coast Pipeline. …

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” …

The Supreme Court ruled in favor of oil and gas companies on Monday when they approved fast-track permitting for pipeline construction …

ICE has announced that they will deport any immigrant on a student visa in the US who is enrolled only in online classes this fall …

Workers at a Whole Foods in MA staged a walkout on July 1 to protest management’s decision to not allow employees to wear Black Lives Matter masks …

July 4, the United States celebrates Independence Day. But what does that mean? And independence for whom? …

people across the country are focusing their anger on tearing down and demanding the removal of monuments and other symbols of the Confederacy …

On June 22, shipbuilders at Bath Iron Works in Bath, Maine, went on strike due to a contract dispute …

“The master class has always declared the war, the subject class has always fought the battles …

Nurses at St. Rose Hospital fight back! …

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

BAND-AID recently released a new line of skin colored bandages, featuring shades for black and brown skin tones …

Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) bus driver Erek Slater was suspended from his job in early June after attempting to …

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. …

Last week, a member of a right-wing armed militia group shot an anti-racist protestor in Albuquerque …

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