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California’s COVID state of emergency officially ends Tuesday, to which Newsom says California is finally ready to move forward after previously resisting GOP pressure to end the said emergency. Although the pandemic solidified Newsom’s legacy as the crisis governor, his use of power turned him…

Hit with another winter storm on Monday, California expects the new winter storm to bring more rain and snow across the state through Wednesday. The National Weather Service has forecast up to 6 feet of additional snow through Wednesday in the Sierra and up to 2 feet in the mountains. There was…

Even with current improvements and updated vaccinations in the latter part of the pandemic, it still poses significant dangers for older Americans. Statistics show that nearly 3/4th of COVID-19 deaths have occurred in people over the age of 65, with the highest casualty among people over the age of…

Since 1939, this has been Turkey’s most powerful earthquake disaster and its deadliest since 1999. The death toll has exceeded 25,00, and in northwestern Syria, rescue efforts are ending. Criticism has been directed towards the international community for not providing enough aid or equipment to…

According to a new global analysis, children experienced learning deficits and had not recovered from those losses more than two years later. Even more severe effects are seen in developing countries and students with low financial backgrounds. This only furthers the idea that the challenges of…

ChatGPT is an artificial intelligence known to generate long-form written content in response to user input prompts. Since its introduction to society in November, educators are scrambling to understand how to handle student work produced with the help of artificial intelligence. Some public…

President Joe Biden approved sending 31 M1 Abrams tanks to Ukraine to counter Russian aggression. Human rights judges have set cases against Russia for the shooting down of flight MH17 and other alleged war crimes. The UN’s cultural agency UNESCO has also designated the historic center of Odesa a…

With one mass shooting after another, California is already in talks of more stricter gun laws. Governor Gavin Newsom, whose core tenet is gun control, acknowledges the limits of state-level policy. With California at the forefront in gun control policy, Newsom supports proposed legislation to…

Ebola is a severe, often fatal illness affecting humans, but there are limited licensed therapeutics and vaccines available. In January 2023, the Ministry of Health of Uganda declared the end of the Ebola disease, 42 days after the last confirmed case tested negative. The outbreak was declared in…

With China’s latest coronavirus outbreak, the World Health Organization tries to push Beijing to share data. As opposed to early 2020 when Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus praised China’s “transparency,” there had been deliberate undercounted cases. Despite the increased contagion and travel increase,…

The RSV surge is currently taking over pediatric units all over United States.

CVS and Walgreens reached a settlement to pay approximately $5 billion over their role in the opioid crisis, which could only be the beginning of several long years of opioid litigation. Since 2013, local governments have attempted to make companies reduce the ongoing costs of addiction, death, and…

With more cases of rainbow fentanyl (fentanyl pills and powder that come in a variety of bright colors, shapes, and sizes), the DEA warns of the alarming rise of these deceiving drugs that are potentially sold by drug cartels. The DEA are working to stop the trafficking of rainbow fentanyl and the…

With updated COVID booster shots for children as young as 5, the FDA hopes to protect people from the dominant form of the Omicron variant that makes up the majority of the cases in the US. Previously, Moderna’s updated booster was available to those 18 and older, whereas Pfizer’s was cleared for…