Another day, another anti-vaxxer death. As the delta variant continues to spread across the country, anti-vaxxers are not only filling up hospitals but facing death. Almost every day, news of a popular anti-vaxxer being hospitalized or dying as a result of COVID-19 seems to make headlines.
During meetings last week, the Arizona Democrat joined Joe Manchin in giving the president what was described as a wake-up call on the reconciliation bill.
This story was originally published at Prism.
By Jennifer Chowdhury
On Sept. 1, Hamed Ahmadi tweeted a picture of a few slices of stale chicken breast and melon in a styrofoam container with the caption, “Not complaining but this is what I got last night for dinner and the next meal is 12 hours later. Refugee life might be safe but never easy & favorable.”
Twenty-eight-year-old Ahmadi had worked on the ground in Afghanistan for several years.
By Heidi de Marco, for Kaiser Health News
Desperation led José Luis Hernández to ride atop a speeding train through northern Mexico with hopes of reaching the United States 13 years ago. But he didn’t make it. Slipping off a step above a train coupling, he slid under the steel wheels. In the aftermath, he lost his right arm and leg, and all but one finger on his left hand.
He had left his home village in Honduras for the U.S.
This certainly wasn’t what I expected out of those 10 days!
This story was originally published at Prism.
By Jessica Helen Lopez
After 140 years, nine young Lakota relatives who lost their lives at a Carlisle, Pennsylvania, boarding school were recently brought home and ceremoniously laid to rest at the Sicangu Rosebud Reservation of the Sioux Tribe in South Dakota.
Gov. Tate Reeves said the federal government is attacking “hardworking Americans.
Both said that they are following the data.
Through a bevy of bills and rule changes, Georgia Republicans are trying to codify the essential goal of the Jan. 6 riots: a rigged system in which Democrats can’t win elections.
What is the role of poetry in the world? Writers have been wrestling with that question for centuries. In 1821, Percy Bysshe Shelley said that poetry helps us strengthen the muscles of our morals, and that “poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.” Fast-forward to Joe Biden’s inauguration in January: Amanda Gorman recited her poem “The Hill We Climb,” a call not just for unity but for justice.
I’m with her out of guilt more than anything.
Parenting advice on dating after kids, death, and teenage responsibility.
“Let the public service be a proud and lively career,” President John F. Kennedy proclaimed in his January 1961 message to Congress. “Let every man and woman who works in any area of our national government,” he continued, “say with pride and with honor in future years: ‘I served the United States government in that hour of our nation’s need.
COVID-19, one of the most formidable viral foes that the world has faced in a century, has caused more than 4.5 million deaths. The United States and nearly every other country besides were correct to declare it a public-health emergency. But now federal, state, and local officials are grappling with when to end the temporary emergencies declared in early 2020, in many cases with the expectation that they’d last just weeks. The U.S.
When President Joe Biden rolled out his plan requiring vaccinations on a mass scale, he sounded a bit like a gambler at a point of desperation. Biden’s presidency, and much of his legacy, hinges on defeating the prolonged pandemic. During a dismal summer of rising infections and deaths due to vaccine holdouts and the Delta variant, the pandemic seemed to have defeated him. Under the new rules, Biden hopes to pressure about 80 million more Americans to get their shots.
“For several weeks now, states have had to operate without clear guidance from the federal government regarding these booster shots,” Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan said.
Hollywood has peddled the “Black friend” fantasy of racial progress forever.
It will take a lot more than California’s historic duplex bill to make the state affordable.
The French capital is quickly cutting automobiles out of daily life. David Belliard is the deputy mayor behind it.
However, all of the FDA-approved Covid-19 vaccines work well at protecting against Covid-19 hospitalization, the study showed.
The panel unexpectedly broke with the Biden administration’s push for a widespread booster campaign this fall.
The GOP governor has been drifting toward the movement for months.
U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman’s order keeps the law in effect and allows Texas to make its case opposing the request from Biden’s Justice Department by Sept. 29.
The moderates’ stand could complicate Democrats’ push to reform a slew of federal health programs as part of their $3.5 trillion bill.
Parenting advice on protecting your children, sibling resentment, and being unhappy with a move.
Four Slate staffers attempt to unpack what happened this week with the rapper, Twitter, the White House, and swollen testicles.
