California
California recorded its first coronavirus-related death of someone younger than 18 on Friday…
Missteps by corrections officials handling releases from state prisons are fueling fears in some California counties that thousands of inmates eligible for early release will spread the coronavirus in their communities…
Gov. Gavin Newsom’s drive to obtain 10,000 ventilators to help California hospitals treat COVID-19 patients has fallen well behind schedule as coronavirus infections surge…
Coronavirus
Employers across the country are being sued by families of workers who contend their loved ones contracted lethal cases of COVID-19 on the job, a new legal from that shows the risk of reopening workplaces…
Dr. Deborah Birx stated that the US has entered a "new phase" of the coronavirus pandemic…
Dr. Fauci said a vaccine may not immediately be available to everyone once it’s available, but that “over a period of time in 2021” the public would be able to access a vaccine, assuming one is authorized…
President and Administration
The Trump administration will reject new applications for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program as it seeks new avenues to dismantle parts of the program, the administration announced Tuesday, 7/28…
Education
As the start of the fall semester approaches, students enrolled at various colleges across the country are being prompted by their institutions to sign liability waivers and "informed consent" agreements acknowledging, and in some cases even assuming, all the risks of returning to campus…
A new modeling study published Friday, 7/31, by researchers at Harvard and Yale Universities concluded that a safe way to bring college students back to campus this fall would be to test them for COVID-19 every two days using "a rapid, inexpensive, and even poorly sensitive" test, and to couple this testing with strict behavioral strategies to keep the virus’s rate of transmission (Rt) - the average number of individuals infected by a single contagious person - below 2.5…
Most college students plan to return to school in the fall, and they feel comfortable doing so, according to a report from Sallie Mae and Ipsos, a market research company…
Congress
Talks on a new coronavirus aid package turned serious over the weekend, but negotiators made clear they weren't close to a deal but keep meeting...
Technologies to fight climate change by capturing carbon emissions right out of the air will become increasingly cost-effective, Julio Friedmann, a senior research scholar at the Center on Global Energy Policy, told the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee on Tuesday, 7/28…
The House passed a pair of bills Wednesday, 7/29, that together would funnel over $60 billion into the floundering child care sector, setting the stage for what Democrats would like to see come out of the negotiations over the new round of pandemic aid…
Presidential Election
Joe Biden proposed a series of steps Tuesday, 7/28, designed to bridge racial economic gaps in the U.S. and promised he would work toward a more diverse Federal Reserve Board that would help minorities access funds and economic development…