by Jim Heath | May 21, 2021 | coronavirus, Headlines, Health, Olympics
As she struggled to breathe, Shizue Akita had to wait more than six hours while paramedics searched for a hospital in Osaka that would treat her worsening COVID-19. When she finally got to one that wasn’t overwhelmed with other patients, doctors diagnosed severe...
by Jim Heath | May 21, 2021 | Headlines, Space
In a flier distributed on Capitol Hill last week, Elon Musk’s SpaceX warned that legislation now being considered would reward “Jeff Bezos with a $10 billion sole-source hand-out” that would tie up NASA’s moon plans and hand “space leadership to China.” Bezos’s Blue...
by Jim Heath | May 21, 2021 | Headlines, Trump
The Trump administration secretly sought and obtained the 2017 phone and email records of a CNN correspondent, the latest instance where federal prosecutors have taken aggressive steps targeting journalists in leak investigations. The Justice Department informed CNN...
by Jim Heath | May 19, 2021 | Entertainment, Headlines
Demi Lovato, two-time Grammy nominee and former Disney star, has come out as nonbinary. In the first episode of their new podcast 4D, Lovato says “Over the past year and a half I’ve been doing some healing and self-reflective work. And through this work,...
by Jim Heath | May 19, 2021 | 2020, Headlines
Firms hired to run a partisan audit of the 2020 election for Senate Republicans in Arizona said today that data was not destroyed, reversing earlier allegations that election officials in the state’s most populated county eliminated evidence. The claim of deleted...
by Jim Heath | May 19, 2021 | Headlines, Trump
New York Attorney General Letitia James’s investigation into the Trump Organization is now considered a criminal matter, James’s office said last night, noting that officials with the former president’s company were recently apprised of the...
