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As reported by the FBI, Americans set a new record in June of almost 4 million background checks to purchase or possess firearms. It is expected that this year will be the highest number of background checks ever recorded. For more information, click here.

At least 162 people have been killed and 54 people injured by a landslide at a jade mine in northern Myanmar. After a massive pile of mine waste collapsed into a lake, a resulting wave of mud and water buried workers. The death toll makes this disaster the worst known in jade mining history. For…

Today, antibiotics are the best bet we have for helping COVID-19 patients who have developed secondary bacterial infections. Doctors are concerned with the dangers of antibiotic resistance, a major health crisis worldwide. For more information, click here.  

After the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled against the state’s “Safer at Home” orders, eager citizens headed out to their local bars. The ruling lead to several policies enacted in counties and cities set by local officials. For more information, click here.

A rare inflammatory disease in children and teens has experienced an increase in incidence mainly in New York, but also across the U.S. and Europe. This disease, named Pediatric Multi-System Inflammatory Syndrome, is believed to be linked to COVID-19. For more information, click here.

With many Taliban loyalists crammed into prisons and the  circulating videos of prisoners with COVID-19-like symptoms, the Taliban has become increasingly angered by the Afghan government. The issue has become more complicated with the deal made with the U.S., involving cease-fires and prisoner…

Over the past few decades, more than 300,000 lives were lost in South Africa due to the government’s spread of misinformation surrounding the lifesaving antiretrovirals to treat HIV. With this devastating loss, health officials are taking serious action with the fight against COVID-19. For more…

While other Nordic countries such as Finland have imposed strict restrictions to limit the spread of the Coronavirus, Sweden has yet to enact strict stay at home orders, leading to a sharp increase in cases. For more information, click here.

With the dangers of going outside, many victims of domestic violence have had to stay home with their abusive partners for longer periods at a time. While domestic violence arrests in New York have fallen 40% over the last month, computer and telephone hotlines for victims have consequently…

Hotspots for COVID-19 have demonstrated how this pandemic has brought great trauma for both patients and healthcare workers. The Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx has been treating a highly vulnerable minority population where obesity and diabetes risk also run high. For more information,…

While both healthcare workers and families have taken steps to disinfect items potentially contaminated with the coronavirus, some experts disagree on the best way to get rid of these germs. It has been debated whether this is any benefit for using these disinfectants, when most transmission of the…

In March, the neighborhoods in New York City that had the most confirmed cases for coronavirus were areas with the lowest median incomes, including cases in the South Bronx and Western Queens. Since then, the disease has spread throughout the city making New York the city with the greatest number…

Interestingly, the Federal Emergency Management Agency had published a warning of a nationwide pandemic that would result in a shortage of hospital supplies and an economic shutdown. The warning was part of a compilation of nine scenarios created by FEMA that aimed to challenge the Nation’s…

Due to widespread cancellations of commercial flights across the world, meteorologists have run into problems with obtaining information for accurate weather forecasts. This is because weather projections rely on temperature and wind data gathered by airplanes. For more information, click here.