The Derek Chauvin trial for the murder of George Floyd, what could be coming up from the defense, and troubling news of police holding a Black Army officer at gunpoint during a traffic stop are analyzed by legal experts. Attorney Paul Butler, former Watergate prosecutor Jill Wine-Banks, and criminal defense and civil rights attorney John…
Sweeping police reform has passed in the Maryland legislature, overriding a veto by Gov. Larry Hogan, who has been in public disagreement with Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott over the mayor’s goal of reducing the Baltimore Police Department’s spending over the next five years. Mayor Scott says, “The governor simply doesn’t understand because he’s never lived…
One week after the New York Times reported on a federal investigation into Rep. Matt Gaetz, news broke that the Florida Republican would be headlining a Women for America First summit. Organized by a group of Trump-supporting women that has direct ties to the rally that preceded the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, the summit aims…
Vaccine passports are not supported by the Biden administration, despite right wing accusations decrying any COVID-19 vaccination credential. Experts on public health weigh in with the pros and cons on vaccine passports, and the truth that the biggest supporters are big business, not the government.April 11, 2021
Regarding the filibuster, and current Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s dire warnings against abolishing it, former Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid tells Jonathan Capehart, ‘It’s not a question of if, it’s a question of when the filibuster goes away.’April 11, 2021
Axial CT image with i.v. contrast. Macrocystic adenocarcinoma of the pancreatic head. Credit: public domain Giving early-stage pancreatic cancer patients a CD40 immune-stimulating drug helped jumpstart a T cell attack to the notoriously stubborn tumor microenvironment before surgery and other treatments, according to a new study from researchers in the Abramson Cancer Center (ACC) at…
A health worker administers a dose of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine to a Buddhist monk at Nak Prok Temple in Bangkok, Thailand, Friday, April 9, 2021. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit) Thailand’s Health Ministry warned Sunday that restrictions may need to be tightened to slow the spread of a fresh coronavirus wave, as the country hit a…
Mobile Emergency Care Service (SAMU) workers Gabrielle Carlos, top, and Joao Vericimo, move a COVID-19 patient to an ambulance as he is transferred to a municipal hospital dedicated to COVID-19 in Duque de Caxias, Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil, Tuesday, April 6, 2021. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana) April is shaping up to be Brazil’s darkest month…
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Up to 80 percent of people offered the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine In Sicily refuse it out of fears over its safety, according to the southern Italian region’s president Nello Musumeci. Public confidence in the Anglo-Swedish jab has been badly shaken by reports linking it to rare, but potentially fatal, blood clots,…
India has banned the export of remdesivir as infections soared to a new daily high and hospitals grappled with increasing demand for the coronavirus treatment drug India on Sunday banned the export of remdesivir as infections soared to a new daily high and hospitals grappled with increasing demand for the coronavirus treatment drug. The vast…
