by Dylan | Jan 11, 2021 | What You Might Have Missed
Days after social media giant Twitter banned President Donald Trump from its platform, San Francisco police are bracing for a demonstration by his supporters early today at the company’s Market Street headquarters. While there’s been no official word about a mass...
by Dylan | Dec 23, 2020 | What You Might Have Missed
As Americans head home for the holidays, health experts are warning of the possible profound impacts of a potential COVID-19 surge if people don’t observe pandemic prevention measures, including skipping holiday travel and family gatherings. The U.S. saw a...
by Dylan | Dec 23, 2020 | What You Might Have Missed
In a joint statement Wednesday morning, the Department of Health and Human Services and Department of Defense announced the purchase of 100 million additional doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine. This brings the total doses of Pfizer’s vaccine bought by the...
by Dylan | Dec 23, 2020 | What You Might Have Missed
Americans filed an additional 803,000 unemployment claims in the week ending December 19, according to numbers released Wednesday morning by the U.S. Department of Labor. That’s slightly better than expectations and a decrease of 89,000 from the previous week’s...
by Dylan | Dec 23, 2020 | What You Might Have Missed
President Trump is demanding that Congress amends the just-passed COVID-19 relief bill to increase stimulus checks to $2,000 per person and $4,000 for couples, and get rid of “wasteful” items. In a Twitter video Tuesday night, the president declared, in...
by Dylan | Dec 22, 2020 | What You Might Have Missed
The Senate late Monday night approved the COVID-19 relief package and omnibus spending bill by a vote of 92 to 6. The bill now heads to President Donald Trump’s desk for his signature. One of the largest spending packages Congress has ever approved, the bill...