California
Tomorrow, 6/15, is the constitutional deadline for lawmakers to pass some sort of plan for the next fiscal year - otherwise, they run the risk of not getting paid…
During primary day, California voters weren’t very excited - it wasn’t a complete surprise…
California contests that will shape control of Congress came into focus in the midterm primary last week…
As wildfires intensify, thousands of overworked California firefighters carry a heavy load of trauma, pain and grief…
California could become the first state to explicitly enshrine abortion rights in the state constitution if a Senate bill introduced last week clears the Legislature this month…
Coastal Southern California - an area that includes Los Angeles and more than half the state’s population - increased water usage by more than 25 percent for the month of April compared to April 2020, lagging behind most other parts of the state in conservation and appearing to dismiss dire warnings of supply shortages…
Last week, in a brief filed in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, five automakers rallied to California’s defense, saying the state’s tough mandates are helping them transition to an era of electric vehicles…
Coronavirus
Today, 6/14, the Department of Education launched the National Parents and Families Engagement Council to facilitate strong and effective relationships between schools and parents, families, and caregivers…
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are scheduled to meet this week to consider approving a vaccine for children under 5 and the Biden administration has already released its plan to quickly inoculate them…
The FDA said on Sunday, 6/12, that three doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine appeared to be effective in preventing COVID illness in children under 5, judging by the level of virus-blocking antibodies the shots induced…
An outside advisory panel voted overwhelmingly to recommend that the FDA authorize a COVID-19 vaccine made by Novavax for use in adults, a move that could lead to the addition of a fourth vaccine to the U.S. arsenal…
A new study from researchers at Harvard Medical School, Boston Children’s Hospital and the FDA shows that fewer than 10 percent of kids who contracted COVID-19 in 2020 or early 2021 developed antibodies capable of warding off the Omicron variant of the virus…
A new poll of teenagers and their parents suggests the pandemic substantially altered how students relate to their families, friends, and peers at school…
On Sunday, 6/12, the Biden administration lifted pre-departure testing requirements for all travelers coming into the United States from overseas, one of the last COVID-19 travel restrictions still in place in America…