The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released a report claiming that a single unvaccinated and unmasked teacher in Marin County, California infected half of her students and caused a community-wide COVID-19 outbreak. The incident occurred in May, prior to the rise of the Delta variant. The report reads,[Read More…]

Over 700,000 Louisiana residents are without power as Hurricane Ida makes landfall on August 29, according to state power outage monitors. The category 4 hurricane threatens to become a category 5 and burdens the state with storm surges, extremely high winds, and dangerous rainfall flooding. After announcing a state of[Read More…]

An Air Force veteran has been left couch-surfing and living in her car with her daughter after tenants refuse to pay rent under the protection of the Biden administration’s eviction moratorium. Brandie LaCasse told reporters that she is owed over $23,000 in unpaid rent, however, she can not force her[Read More…]

Eatonville High School in Washington state required student-athletes and coaches to wear ankle monitors as part of their COVID-19 contact tracing efforts. After receiving national online backlash and complaints from parents, the school revoked the policy. In a letter to parents, released after the criticism, Superintendent Gary Neal wrote, “We[Read More…]

South Dakota’s COVID-19 cases increased by over 450 percent after 525,000 riders attended the 81st Annual Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in Meade County. Before the rally, the latest state data reported 657 active cases, two weeks after the rally ended 3,655 active cases were reported. The event was held in the[Read More…]