A shortage of resources, such as intensive care unit beds, has pushed some states into crisis mode.
Environment & Health
Experts hope that the vaccine, which has been in development for decades, could save thousands of children’s lives.
Black communities have been denied the same resources and protections afforded to wealthy, white neighborhoods.
Youth activists held a three-day youth climate conference ahead of the United Nations COP26 climate summit.
Huntington Beach Mayor Kim Carr called the spill “a potential ecological disaster.”
Conservative Democrats have been fighting to keep a drug price negotiation provision out of the reconciliation bill.
Medical experts stress that prevention, namely through vaccinations, is still the “foundation” for beating COVID.
Experts say counterfeits are meeting demand for prescription pills as prescribing rates drop.
Activists say the Hyde Amendment targets poor, nonwhite populations by barring Medicaid from funding abortions.
The fossil fuel industry already receives massive amounts of subsidies from the government.