NIH director sees ‘no signs’ of a Delta peak
“This is going very steeply upward with no signs of having peaked out,” Collins said on “Fox News Sunday.
“This is going very steeply upward with no signs of having peaked out,” Collins said on “Fox News Sunday.
Proposed legislation would raise the state’s minimum marriage age from 14 to 16 and limit the age difference between a 16-year-old and their spouse.
Once, it was said that the eyes were the windows to the soul. Now the cellphone is. Consider Jeffrey Burrill, a man who regularly logged in to the gay dating app Grindr and whose cellphone emitted signals marking his visits to gay bars and a Las Vegas gay bathhouse. Hardly a story there, you might say.Except Jeffrey Burrill was Monsignor Jeffrey Burrill, the secretary-general of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.
The current wave of voter suppression bills targets the Native vote that helped elect President Joe Biden and a Democratic Senate majority.
I light incense on the stovetop, trail cinders
through an empty house. I’ve decided to believein the power of ashes: Here I am,
buying fruit, mending torn shirts, brushing teethin cramped bathrooms, living
someplace new. Wish you were here.I sprinkle sandalwood dust on the ribbon
from my first 5K, the token from my first solo trip—milestones so small and unremarkable,
only you could understand and be proud.
Am I being given a freedom I can never really take advantage of?
The numbers are remarkable. More than 100 million people in the United States have likely been infected by SARS-CoV-2 and 167 million people are fully vaccinated. Yet despite this huge population of people with at least some level of immunity, the Delta variant has sent case and hospitalization numbers soaring. Florida is on its way to having twice as many people hospitalized now than during any previous wave, when essentially no one was vaccinated.
Crashing computers, three-week delays tracking infections, lab results delivered by snail mail: State officials detail a vast failure to identify hotspots quickly enough to prevent outbreaks.
Parenting advice on in-laws, weddings, and twins.
From literally pantsless CEOs to the Reddit mob’s muscle, we’re still living in the meme-stock moment.
A good sign for anyone freaking out about inflation (or shopping for a CRV).
Should I say something?
I warned them, but they’re still insisting I play in the office tournament.
The panel’s action comes after the FDA amended the emergency use authorizations for Pfizer and Moderna shots this week.
Acting Commissioner Janet Woodcock emphasized that people whose immune systems are not compromised — the vast majority of Americans — do not need additional vaccine doses.
The policy announced Thursday will apply to more than 25,000 officials under HHS’ sprawling umbrella.
“We are going to do whatever we can to vindicate the rights of parents,” DeSantis said.
Until now, the recall-threatened governor had stopped short of requiring teacher vaccinations for the upcoming academic year.
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This week, a damning climate-change report from the United Nations warned of Earth’s catastrophic warming.
This is the latest installment in a series that began back in 2019, with an article I did for the print magazine on Americans’ long-standing obsession with the decline-and-fall narrative of Rome.Many people wrote in to agree, disagree, or otherwise react. The online discussion begins here. But the most sustained line of response has been from my friend Eric Schnurer, a writer and long-time advisor to state and local governments.
“The overall look is ‘the circus came to town.
Parenting advice on advanced readers, library meltdowns, and car disagreements.
An ode to the world’s greatest beverage and drug delivery device.
Am I really a bad person for not reposting every social justice meme?
Thursday’s report from the Labor Department showed that jobless claims fell to 375,000 from 387,000 the previous week.
“We’re not trying to hide this,” the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee’s executive director said.
Some economists have already begun to ease back on forecasts for the rest of this year.
The growth is another sign that the nation has achieved a sustained recovery from the pandemic recession.
A new wave of cases followed by the looming expiration of enhanced jobless benefits, a ban on evictions and other rescue programs is sparking concern among lawmakers and economists.