(Associated Press) Work has begun to stop a decades-old problem of millions of gallons of sewage from Tijuana, Mexico, flowing into the United States and polluting San Diego County beaches, the Trump administration's top environmental protection official said Wednesday.
For more than 40 years, wastewater from Tijuana's dilapidated system has...
(Headline USA) Facebook on Saturday blocked live broadcasts from a chronically ill bed-ridden man who appealed to French President Emmanuel Macron for a medically-assisted death.
Alain Cocq wanted to show what he expects will be a painful end to his life after he announced that he was stopping all food...
(Headline USA) The Trump administration said Wednesday it won't pay more than $60 million in dues it owes to the World Health Organization and will use the money instead to pay down other contributions to the United Nations.
The announcement came just a day after the White House announced the U.S....
(Headline USA) The federal government has told states to prepare for a coronavirus vaccine to be ready to distribute by Nov. 1.
The timeline raised alarm among left-wingers about an “October surprise"---a vaccine approval driven by political considerations ahead of a presidential election, rather than science.
Democrats have insisted since the...
Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, suggested this week that she believes the number of COVID-19 cases and deaths has been overstated, and she urged voters to remain skeptical too.
"These healthcare providers and others are reimbursed at a higher rate if COVID is tied to it, so what do you think...
(Headline USA) Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Tuesday that he will lift the state’s ban on visiting nursing homes that has cut off vulnerable seniors from family since mid-March over fears of spreading the coronavirus.
With his voice cracking at times, he wondered aloud if the actions might have contributed...
Nearly 90 percent of all coronavirus diagnoses in the U.S. were more than likely not contagious, according to a recent report by the New York Times.
Researchers found the vast majority of individuals who had tested positive for COVID-19 potentially carried such “insignificant” amounts of the virus that they weren’t...
Just a few days after quietly changing its guidance on COVID-19 testing, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention flip-flopped once again and said those who do not show any coronavirus symptoms should still be tested.
The CDC revised its testing guidance on Monday, limiting test to only those who...
The Department of Justice launched an investigation into Democratic-run states that experienced disproportionately high rates of deaths from COVID-19 within nursing homes, The Epoch Times reported.
"Protecting the rights of some of society’s most vulnerable members, including elderly nursing home residents, is one of our country’s most important obligations," said...
YouTube's content removal policy has been to ban first, review later. But that approach has led them to a situation in which they are reinstating more than half of appealed content, Reclaim the Net reported.
Google, which owns YouTube, said the increase in wrongful banning is happening because artificial intelligence...
The World Health Organization announced in a press release titled "Immunizing the public against misinformation" that it is partnering with an analytics corporation to develop a "social listening" program.
The social listening program will look through social media posts to root out "coronavirus misinformation," Reclaim The Net reported.
Already, the WHO...
Business shutdowns and house-arrest orders stemming from the coronavirus have caused a significant spike in self-reported mental-health disorders, The Epoch Times reported.
In the June survey, 10% of respondents said they had considered killing themselves in the past month. In a 2018 survey, 1 in 20 people---only 5%---had contemplated suicide.
The...