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Nov 03 2020
Analysis
Anxious About Election Results? Here’s What’s Happening in Your Brain as You Wait
If you’re feeling nervous about the looming U.S. election, and results that may take longer than a single day to resolve, you’re not alone.
“I joked with my friends that I wished someone would, like, knock me over the head on election morning and wake me up when the decision is made,” says Kate Sweeny, a professor of psychology at the University of California, Riverside (UCR).
Smithsonian Magazine
Reference
National Institutes of Health
According to its About page, the National Institutes of Health, "a part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is the nation’s medical research agency — making important discoveries that improve health and save lives."
Nov 01 2021
News
19 States Sue Biden Administration Over COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate
Several U.S. states on Friday mounted multiple federal lawsuits against the Biden administration over its COVID-19 vaccine mandate for federal workers and contractors.
Texas sued individually in a federal court in Galveston. Another lawsuit, filed in a federal district court in Missouri involves Alaska, Arkansas, Iowa, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Dakota, South
The Epoch Times
Dec 14 2020
News
Surge in border crossings spells early test for Biden’s immigration plans
70,000 migrants were caught crossing the Southwest border of the U.S. last month — a 64% increase compared to last November that came in spite of the pandemic and strict immigration enforcement policies, border officials told reporters Monday.
Driving the news: Acting Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Mark Morgan — a Trump appointee with hardline immigration views — sought to
Axios
Apr 19 2021
News
Biden feels heat on emissions goal as climate summit nears
As President Joe Biden convenes a virtual climate summit on Thursday with 40 world leaders, he faces a vexing task: how to put forward a nonbinding but symbolic goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions that will have a tangible impact on climate change efforts not only in the U.S. but throughout the world.
The emissions target, eagerly awaited by all sides of the climate debate, will
Associated Press
May 21 2021
News
ICE Detention Center Shuttered Following Repeated Allegations of Medical Misconduct
THE DEPARTMENT OF Homeland Security announced on Thursday the agency will be shutting down the controversial immigration prison in Georgia where dozens of detained immigrant women were subjected to nonconsensual gynecological procedures, including hysterectomies.
The memo, sent by Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, instructs U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to
The Intercept
Jan 07 2021
Analysis
Could the Capitol Riot Become a Superspreader Event?
On Wednesday, a violent mob, mostly mask-less and incited by the president, stormed the U.S. Capitol and wreaked havoc, forcing many lawmakers, staff, and members of the press to shelter in place in locked offices before moving to other secure locations. The attack, unprecedented in its own right, is compounded by the fact that it occurred on the deadliest day of the pandemic so far. On top of
New York Magazine
May 21 2021
News
US seeing wave of 'textbook anti-Semitism' amid Israel-Gaza tensions
From New York and California to Illinois and Utah, the recent conflict between Israel and Gaza has generated a disturbing backlash against American Jews – who have found themselves the targets of death threats, hate speech and violent physical attacks.
"Stop telling me this is about Israel and Gaza," said a New Yorker who was confronted by a pro-Palestinian mob on his way to synagogue
Fox News Digital
Feb 21 2021
News
Jake Sullivan criticizes China’s transparency on COVID-19 origin but declines to stand by US intelligence on it
White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan criticized China for blocking data on the origins of COVID-19, but declined to stand by declassified U.S. intelligence released at the end of the Trump administration, and said coronavirus origin investigations still must be led by the World Health Organization.
China has done its utmost to thwart investigations into the origins of the
Washington Examiner
Sep 14 2021
Data
Americans' Ratings of CDC Communication Turn Negative
More Americans now disagree (41%) than agree (32%) that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has communicated a clear plan of action in response to the COVID-19 situation. This is the first Gallup reading since the CDC in late July changed its guidance on the need for face masks for unvaccinated people in areas of high coronavirus transmission.
The public's opinions
Gallup