AUGUST 16, 2021
A member of the US Armed Forces administers a shot of the Pfizer vaccine at a FEMA community vaccination center in Philadelphia. Mark Makela/Getty Images
The CDC has said COVID-19 vaccine booster shots are not necessary at this time.
Studies show vaccines are highly effective at preventing hospitalization and death.
Still, a government document obtained...
AUGUST 15, 2021
FILE PHOTO: General view of the consular section at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul. - Reuters/STRINGER
The U.S. Embassy in Kabul said in a security alert on Sunday that the security situation in the Afghan capital was changing quickly, including at the airport, where there were reports of gunfire as U.S. troops aid an evacuation of most...
AUGUST 15, 2021
Canadian PM Trudeau visits Charlottetown. - Reuters/JOHN MORRIS
OTTAWA, CANADA - Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Sunday called an early election for Sept. 20, saying he needed a new mandate to ensure voters approved of his Liberal government's plan to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Canada's Prime Minister Trudeau announces federal election, in Ottawa. -...
AUGUST 15, 2021
During the 2020 political campaign, President Biden presented himself as a globe-trotting leader who had helmed the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, served as President Barack Obama’s point man on complex international issues and who was determined to bring a steady hand to national security.
Yet the turmoil that has engulfed Afghanistan, which has led Mr. Biden to send...
AUGUST 15, 2021
Trader John Panin, left, works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2021. Stocks rose in morning trading on Wall Street Tuesday as energy companies and banks clawed back some of the ground they lost a day earlier. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
Stocks rose to fresh highs Wednesday to extend gains from a...
AUGUST 11, 2021
Danilo Lima Flower of Triantha occidentalis in a bog at Cypress Provincial Park, British Columbia, Canada.
An unassuming herb found on the western coast of North America known as Triantha occidentalis, or western false asphodel, has now joined the ranks of carnivorous plants.
Scientists affixed fruit flies to the sticky stems of T. occidentalis growing in a bog near...
AUGUST 10, 2021
The long-feared era of disastrous climate change has arrived.
Fire burns during a wildfire near the village of Schinos, Greece, on May 19, 2021. - Valerie Gache/AP Photo
For the first time, the planet's top scientists said in a monumental report released on Monday they have definitively linked greenhouse gas emissions to the type of disasters driven by...
AUGUST 9, 2021
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Senate Democrats released an outline of the $3.5 trillion antipoverty and climate plan on Monday, further detailing their ambitions for a major overhaul of the nation’s education and healthcare systems that they hope to advance alongside a bipartisan infrastructure bill.
The antipoverty plan is set to offer universal prekindergarten, two free years of community college,...
AUGUST 9, 2021
Philly paid $5 million to a man who said he was jailed for murder because of…
Public health experts and state officials are raising alarms about a surge in COVID hospitalizations among children -- now at their steepest and seeing the most significant increase since the onset of the pandemic.
After declining in the early summer, child COVID-19 cases...
AUGUST 9, 2021
Gigabyte has been the victim of a cyberattack, which was reportedly the work of a ransomware outfit called RansomEXX. According to The Record, the attack didn’t have an impact on any of the company’s production systems, but it did affect some internal servers. Currently, some parts of Gigabyte’s website, including its support section, are down, giving customers...
