Colin Powell, first Black secretary of state, dies at 84 from COVID-19 amid cancer battle
CBS News - Mon Oct 18, 2021
Washington — Former Secretary of State Colin Powell died Monday morning due to complications from COVID-19, his family announced, amid an ongoing battle with cancer. More»
Oregon County Declares "State of Emergency" for Having Too Much Weed
Associated Press - Thu Oct 14, 2021
SALEM, Oregon — A county in southern Oregon says it is so overwhelmed by an increase in the number and size of illegal marijuana farms that it declared a state of emergency Wednesday, appealing to the governor and the Legislature's leaders for help. More»
Social Security Checks To Get Biggest Cost-Of-Living Boost In 4 Decades
Associated Press - Wed Oct 13, 2021
WASHINGTON — Millions of retirees on Social Security will get a 5.9% boost in benefits for 2022. More»
Police Violence Deaths Are Twice As High As Official U.S. Count
Bloomberg - Mon Oct 11, 2021
More men died of police violence than of testicular cancer, or lymphoma, or STDs in the US in 2019. More»
U.S. Navy engineer, wife charged with selling submarine secrets
Reuters - Sun Oct 10, 2021
WASHINGTON - A US Navy nuclear engineer and his wife have been charged with selling secret information about nuclear submarines to an undercover FBI agent who posed as an operative for a foreign country, the Justice Department said on Sunday. More»
The supply chain crisis has hit the Bay Area - partly because of epic cargo backlogs in Southern California
San Francisco Chronicle - Sun Oct 10, 2021
Nathan Rundel ordered a new refrigerator for his Orinda home remodel in April. More»
A Deaf Man Who Couldn't Hear Police Commands Was Tased And Spent 4 Months In Jail
NPR - Wed Sep 29, 2021
IDAHO SPRINGS, Colorado - When Brady Mistic drove into the parking lot of a Colorado laundromat one day in September 2019, he thought he was about to run a routine errand. More»
Stars Begin Phone-Hacking Claims Against Murdoch Empire
The Guardian - Mon Sep 27, 2021
A group of 1990s pop stars are among the latest individuals to launch phone-hacking cases against Rupert Murdoch’s media empire, as the scandal that has dogged the company for more than 15 years continues to rumble on at the high court. More»
CIA officials under Trump discussed assassinating Julian Assange
The Guardian - Mon Sep 27, 2021
Senior CIA officials during the Trump administration discussed abducting and even assassinating WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, according to a US report citing former officials. More»
Atlanta VA Begins Processing Mail That Sat for Ten Months Following Investigation
WSB-TV - Tue Sep 21, 2021
ATLANTA, Georgia — Thousands of pieces of mail were moved to a basement at the Atlanta Veterans Affairs Medical Center and left there for months. More»
QAnon Followers Threaten Hospital After Outspoken COVID Denier Dies Of COVID
Huffington Post - Mon Sep 13, 2021
QAnon believers and other conspiracy theorists have inundated a Chicago hospital with threats after a prominent COVID-19 denier who sought treatment for the disease died Monday. More»
FBI Warns of Ransomware Threat to Food and Agriculture
Malwarebytes Labs - Sun Sep 12, 2021
The FBI has issued a Private Industry Notification (PIN) about cybercriminal actors targeting the food and agriculture sector with ransomware attacks. More»
Far-Right Proud Boys Attack Three Schools
Daily Beast - Sun Sep 5, 2021
VANCOUVER, Washington - Three schools in Vancouver, Washington went into lockdown Friday after a group of anti-mask protesters that included the Proud Boys attempted to gain entry and disrupt the school day. More»
Arkansas Inmates Not Told They Were Given Anti-Parasite Drug
Associated Press - Sun Sep 5, 2021
LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas - Several inmates at a northwest Arkansas jail said they weren't told a medication they were given to treat COVID-19 was actually an anti-parasite drug that federal health officials have warned should not be used to treat the coronavirus. More»
Anti-vaxxers forced a mobile COVID-19 vaccine site in Georgia to shut down after threatening health workers
Business Insider - Wed Sep 1, 2021
Georgia's health department chief said workers at state COVID-19 vaccination events have been the victims of "threats" — and that one mobile inoculation site had to shut down due to "bullying". More»
Ida collapses Mississippi road; kills 2, injures at least 10
Associated Press - Tue Aug 31, 2021
LUCEDALE, Mississippi - Barbara Cochran said she was about to get ready for bed late Monday when she heard a loud crash outside her home in rural southeastern Mississippi. More»
'There is no room to put these bodies,' Alabama health official says as Covid-19 deaths climb
CNN - Sat Aug 28, 2021
The rate of Covid-19 deaths has increased in 42 US states in the last week, according to new data, as the spread of the more virulent coronavirus Delta variant has upended a spring of reopenings and led to increasing concern headed into autumn. More»
Florida Judge Throws Out Governor Ron DeSantis' Order Prohibiting School Mask
NPR - Fri Aug 27, 2021
A Florida judge has ruled that school districts in the state can require students to wear masks. More»
A Nest Of Nearly 1,500 Asian Giant 'Murder Hornets' Has Been Eradicated
NPR - Fri Aug 27, 2021
SPOKANE, Washhington — Officials in Washington state said Thursday they had destroyed the first Asian giant hornet nest of the season, which was located near the town of Blaine along the Canadian border. More»
Unvaccinated US school teacher spread COVID to 26 people
AFP - Fri Aug 27, 2021
An unvaccinated teacher at an elementary school in California spread the Delta variant of the coronavirus to at least 26 other people, including 12 students in their classroom, a new study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said Friday. More»
Texas Veteran Dies of Treatable Pancreatitis While Waiting for Hospital Bed
Daily Mail - Fri Aug 27, 2021
A US Army veteran died of a treatable illness while waiting for a hospital bed as doctors struggled to find a facility that would accept him. More»
A Wildfire Is Heading For Lake Tahoe, Sending Ash Raining Down On Tourists
NPR - Wed Aug 25, 2021
SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, California — A California fire that gutted hundreds of homes advanced toward Lake Tahoe on Wednesday as thousands of firefighters tried to box in the flames and tourists who hoped to boat or swim were enveloped in a thick yellow haze of the nation's worst air. More»
Front-Runner For Country's Dumbest Governor Signs Order Letting Georgia Businesses Ignore Covid-19 Rules
CNN - Fri Aug 20, 2021
Georgia Governor Brian Kemp signed an executive order Thursday allowing businesses to disregard local rules regarding Covid-19 - a move decried by Democrats, as coronavirus cases in the state rise. More»
New criminal charges filed in SC’s nuclear plant failure, revealing how project unraveled
The State - Thu Aug 19, 2021
A second high-ranking employee of Westinghouse Electric is facing criminal charges in connection with the multi-billion dollar failure of the doomed SCANA nuclear project in Fairfield County. More»
Over 10,000 students in Florida school district isolated or quarantined a week into school year
ABC News - Wed Aug 18, 2021
Just a week into the school year, over 10,000 students and staff in the Hillsborough County Public Schools district in Florida have been isolated or quarantined as districts across the state grapple with COVID-19. More»
Chicago Announces Indoor Mask Mandate For All, Regardless of Vaccination Status
WMAQ-TV - Tue Aug 17, 2021
The city of Chicago announced Tuesday an indoor mask mandate for all individuals 2 years and older, regardless of vaccination status, beginning Friday, August 20. More»
Full ICUs Are Creating a Dangerous ER Backlog and Forcing Hospitals to Cancel Surgeries
CNN - Sat Aug 14, 2021
Michael Kagan, a professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, says the cancerous lymph nodes in his neck are like a "ticking time bomb" - But there's little he can do. More»
US border agents in Tennessee have seized thousands of counterfeit Covid-19 vaccination cards
CNN - Sat Aug 14, 2021
US Customs and Border Protection officers in Memphis, Tennessee, have seized thousands of fake Covid-19 vaccination cards so far this year. More»
Forest Service is Running Out of Firefighters Amid West Coast Wildfire Chaos
Daily Mail - Sat Aug 14, 2021
Firefighters in the West are being stretched to the limit by the blazes ravaging the state, the US Forest Service said on Friday - adding that it is operating in crisis mode. More»
Anti-Vax Radio Host Who Called Fauci a ‘Power Tripping Lying Freak’ Dies of COVID
Daily Beast - Mon Aug 9, 2021
An anti-vaccine right-wing radio host in West Palm Beach, Florida died Wednesday from COVID-19 complications. More»