The city hosting Trump’s rally on Saturday has declared a Covid-related state of emergency due to the surge of new cases that have overwhelmed Alabama’s hospitals. The declaration will provide additional resources, equipment, and medical first responders to the city of Cullman as it readies itself for the potential superspreader …
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A North Carolina man claiming to have a bomb near the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. has surrendered to law enforcement. Floyd Ray Roseberry drove his black pick-up truck onto a sidewalk near the Library of Congress around 9:15 a.m. on Thursday morning and told police that he had …
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Representative Marjorie Taylor Green (R-Ga.) incorrectly claimed that hospitals are not overwhelmed by Covid patients and downplayed the stark rise in cases nationwide by callously saying, “We’re human, we can’t live forever.” The lawmaker made the comments during a Thursday interview on the right-wing network “Real America’s Voice.” While claiming …
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Twitter has suspended Marjorie Taylor Greene‘s account for one week after the conspiracy-peddling representative violated its policy regarding misleading claims about Covid-19. The tweet that triggered the suspension came on Monday, with Greene writing that the Food and Drug Administration should not approve the vaccines against the disease, which are …
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The world is on a dire climate path, and the commitments of global governments to curb greenhouse-gas emissions are still woefully insufficient to blunt dangerous warming. That’s the takeaway from the latest report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the United Nation’s climate agency, released Monday morning. The U.N. …
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As rates of Covid-19 cases are once again on the rise nationwide, U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy released an advisory calling the spread of health misinformation an “urgent threat” and asked Americans and social media companies to up their efforts to combat the problem. “I am urging all Americans …
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The first scientific judgments on the deadly, record-shattering heat wave that blasted the Pacific Northwest at the end of June are starting to roll in. One rapid attribution analysis, conducted by scientists at World Weather Attribution, found that a heatwave this severe “was virtually impossible without human-caused climate change.” The …
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If it seemed like June was a little hotter than usual, it’s because it was. In fact, it was hotter than it’s ever been in North America. The Copernicus Climate Change Service reported on Wednesday that the average surface air temperature in North America last month exceeded that of any …
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The Trump Organization and Trump Organization Chief Financial Officer Allen Weisselberg have been charged with 15 counts of various financial crimes, including federal tax fraud, falsifying business records, grand larceny, and scheme conspiracy. In the indictment, which was unsealed Thursday afternoon in a Manhattan court, prosecutors describe a 15-year scheme …
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Of all the hot button issues in American politics and culture right now, apparently one can unite liberals and conservative alike: how terribly the NCAA treats its student athletes. Monday morning, the Supreme Court unanimously sided with a group of student athletes who challenged NCAA restrictions on compensation. While this …
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