A top official at the World Health Organization urged world leaders to stop “using lockdowns” as the “primary control method” when fighting the coronavirus pandemic.
Studies have shown that the lockdowns many countries adopted to stop the spread of COVID-19 have resulted in hundreds of thousands of job losses, plunging...
Dozens of black employees at Planned Parenthood reported encountering racism in the workplace, according to a recent investigation.
The Anti-Oppression Resource and Training Alliance conducted an internal audit of the national organization, which was based on interviews with 64 current and 12 former black employees.
Almost every one said they were...
Portland rioters tore down historical statues of Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt, shattered the entrance to the Oregon Historical Society, and vandalized several storefronts during the “Day of Rage” protest.
Organizers created the “Indigenous Peoples Day of Rage” in response to Columbus Day, which is a federally recognized holiday.
They called...
CNN’s Jake Tapper on Sunday rebuked Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden’s deputy campaign manager for arguing that President Donald Trump’s appointment of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court is “unconstitutional.”
Kate Bedingfield tried to argue that Republicans are acting unconstitutionally by moving forward with the confirmation process for...
Thursday's announcement of the Nobel Literature Prize (to American poet Louise Glück) found this former English teacher sentimentally reflecting on past works of high-minded literary expression.
Like so many other fields, literature has lately become a victim of the pernicious PCism and partisan cancel-culture that threaten any empirical, truth-seeking explorations...
Thousands of epidemiologists, doctors and health experts published a letter this week calling for a return to normalcy for everyone besides those severely at risk for the coronavirus.
COVID-19 is proven to only seriously affect the elderly and those with pre-existing conditions, said the letter, which was signed by more...
Several GOP representatives who are also doctors pushed back on criticism of Operation Warp Speed (OPS), a multi-agency wide effort to develop and deliver a coronavirus vaccine, and urged Americans to trust the process.
OPS is a public--private partnership that relies on federal research dollars to supplement and accelerate private...
Yelp announced this week that it will allow customers to report “overtly racist actions” in their reviews and attach a warning to a business’s page based on those reviews.
If a business “gains public attention for reports of racist conduct, such as using racist language or symbols,” Yelp will place...
A group of progressives, including the “Squad,” unveiled their new agenda on Thursday that they hope will push Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden farther to the left.
The Working Families Party---which is made up of Black Lives Matter leaders, congressional leftists, organized labor groups and environment avtivists---introduced its “People’s Charter,”...
Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested more than 100 illegal immigrants with criminal histories in California over the past few weeks as part of an ongoing sting operation.
ICE officers took into custody 128 people in Los Angeles, San Diego, and San Francisco between Sept. 18 and Oct. 3, according to...
Disney Parks and several other amusement parks in California slammed Gov. Gavin Newsom this week for refusing to allow theme parks in the state to reopen.
Newsom did not offer an explanation for why theme parks in the state could not open, but said during a press conference that California...
Democratic Senate candidate Cal Cunningham of North Carolina refused to answer questions Friday about whether he carried on other extramarital affairs after he admitted last week to sending inappropriate text messages to a married woman who is not his wife.
In his first press conference since the scandal broke, Cunningham repeatedly...