More Than 2,100 Flights Canceled Thursday After Two Weeks Of Disruption
Thursday brought more frustrating news for airlines and their customers with more than 2,100 U.S. flight cancellations as carriers continued efforts to restore flight networks hobbled by bad weather and staffing shortages brought on by coronavirus infections. Southwest Airlines, United Airlines and regional carrier SkyWest Airlines continued to be among the hardest-hit, according to data […]
Former Biden Transition Advisors Call For Change In COVID-19 Strategy
Several health advisers to President Biden’s transition team are calling on the administration to revamp its COVID-19 pandemic strategy and set clear goals for what the “new normal” of living with the virus will look like. In three separate op-eds published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, the authors recommended dozens of strategies that […]
Democrats Quietly Explore Barring Trump From Office Over Jan. 6
In the year since the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, a handful of Democrats, constitutional scholars and pro-democracy advocates have been quietly exploring how a post-Civil War amendment to the Constitution might be used to disqualify former President Trump from holding office again. Calls for Congress to take steps to strip Trump of his eligibility, which […]
Israel Rolls Out Pfizer Covid Pill, Using Digital Health Records To Identify Those Most At Risk
As Omicron infections surge, Israel has begun rolling out a newly approved Pfizer drug, using digital health records kept on nearly every citizen to identify those who are at high risk from covid-19 and likely to benefit most from the treatment even before they become dangerously ill. Israel is one of the first countries to […]
Schumer Says He Was Targeted On Jan. 6 For His Religion
Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Thursday recounted being evacuated from the Senate chamber during the Jan. 6 attack, including a close brush with rioters who he was told made antisemitic remarks about him. “I was within 30 feet of these nasty, racist, bigoted insurrectionists. Had someone had a gun, had two of them blocked off […]
Kamala Harris Compares January 6 To Pearl Harbor And 9/11 In Anniversary Speech At The Capitol
On the one-year anniversary of the attack, Vice President Kamala Harris underscored the severity of the January 6 insurrection by comparing it to Pearl Harbor and 9/11. “Certain dates echo throughout history, including dates that instantly remind all who have lived through them where they were, and what they were doing, when our democracy came […]
Utah Tech Company Founder: COVID Vaccines Extermination Plot By ‘The Jews’
A Utah tech executive acknowledged his email opining about coronavirus vaccines to state lawmakers and business executives “sounds bonkers.” But he sent it anyway. “I believe there is a sadistic effort underway to euthanize the American people,” Dave Bateman, co-founder of Entrata, a property management software company, wrote Tuesday, KSTU first reported. “I believe the […]
1,400 Flights Canceled Today As Airlines’ Troubles Persist
Travelers awoke to more frustrating news Wednesday with more than 1,400 flight cancellations, a sign that staffing shortages and weather-related issues continue to stymie airlines’ efforts to get customers to their destinations. According to flight tracking website FlightAware, more than 1,400 flights within, to and from the United States had been canceled as of midmorning, […]
Toyota Overtakes GM As America’s Top-Selling Automaker
Toyota edged past General Motors to become the nation’s best-selling automaker in 2021, marking the first time a foreign manufacturer claimed the top spot. GM sold 2.2 million cars in 2021, a 13% decline from the previous year that the Detroit-based auto giant attributed to supply chain struggles, namely the semiconductor chip shortage that is […]
A Paramedic Stole Coronavirus Vaccine Cards From His Workplace, Then Sold Them To Unvaccinated Buyers, Feds Say
The illegal sale of coronavirus vaccination cards began as a simple operation out of David Hodges’s home in Lewes, Del., federal prosecutors said. Last February, Hodges, a paramedic who worked at a coronavirus vaccination site, started printing blank vaccine cards he found online, a complaint states. But by the time investigators discovered the scheme months […]