And another day of vaccines, explanations, embraces, gatherings, pulling the plug, adopting bitcoin as legal tender, young adult self-identifications, and Gohmert (R-TX) asks if the US Forest Service can change the orbit of the moon to battle climate change come to a close:
“The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.” -- John F. Kennedy
Deaths
US: 613,494 (+442)
World: 3,776,639 (+14,014)
Cases
US: 34,264,727 (+21,861)
World: 175,167,097 (+428,335)
If COVID-19 trends continue, it could be years before virus is controlled.
US to buy 500M Pfizer vaccines to share globally. The U.S. will buy 500 million more doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine to share through the global COVAX alliance for donation to 92 lower income countries and the African Union over the next year.
Seattle is first major US city to see 70 percent of residents fully vaccinated, mayor says.
It was supposed to be an innovative way to get people vaccinated. But Washington state's "joints for jabs" program is so far failing to ignite due to logistical and legal concerns. But few things are simple in an industry that’s illegal under federal law, and the hurdles to offering the free joints are substantial enough that few of the state’s legal pot shops are saying they will participate, even if they would like to do so.
Africa desperately short of COVID vaccine. In the global race to vaccinate people against COVID-19, Africa is tragically at the back of the pack. In fact, it has barely gotten out of the starting blocks.
Why on earth is Biden’s DOJ backing Trump in a rape denial case? Carroll, in other words, forced the Justice Department to choose between its institutional responsibilities and avoiding the repugnance of being associated with Trump’s behavior. It ultimately decided that its larger responsibilities must prevail.
Biden embraces a Trump policy in backing Arab-Israeli deals. The Biden administration is laying the groundwork for a renewed push to encourage more Arab countries to sign accords with Israel and working to strengthen existing deals after last month’s devastating war in the Gaza Strip interrupted those diplomatic efforts.
Thousands gather at London vigil for family run down in hate-motivated attack. Thousands of people, including political and community leaders, gathered outside a London mosque Tuesday night to remember the members of a Muslim family who police say were intentionally struck down by a vehicle in a hate-motivated attack over the weekend.
Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, suggested at a Congressional hearing that climate change could be combatted by altering the orbit of the moon, and asked an official from the U.S. Forest Service if there was anything her agency could do to do so...Gohmert is an outspoken opponent of Democrats' plans to combat climate change, and has said previously he does not believe it is a manmade problem.
The developer of the Keystone XL pipeline announced Wednesday it is pulling the plug on the controversial project after the Biden administration revoked its permit in January.
El Salvador has become the first country to adopt bitcoin as legal tender. The law states that "all economic agents shall accept bitcoin as a form of payment when it is offered by the purchaser of a good or service." It also says that tax payments can now be made in bitcoin.
Senate Democrats threaten to block 2026 World Cup funds unless Women's Soccer get equal pay.
An increasing number of young adults identify as nonheterosexual and noncisgender, according to a new global survey from Ipsos. — There is quite a bit of information in this one.
An internal government investigation has determined that the decision to forcibly clear racial justice protesters from an area in front of the White House last summer was not influenced by then-President Donald Trump’s plan to stage a Bible-toting photo opportunity at that spot. The report released Wednesday by the Interior Department’s inspector general concludes that the protesters were cleared by U.S. Park Police last June 1 so that a contractor could get started installing new fencing.
US deaths from heart disease and diabetes climbed amid COVID. The U.S. saw remarkable increases in the death rates for heart disease, diabetes and some other common killers in 2020, and experts believe a big reason may be that many people with dangerous symptoms made the lethal mistake of staying away from the hospital for fear of catching the coronavirus.
Megalodon shark was even more massive than previously thought, according to new calculations.
Hundreds of mysterious fast radio bursts detected in space. The origins of these bright, millisecond-long flashes of light are unknown because the bursts, or FRBs, are unpredictable and vanish quickly. Scientists first observed them in 2007. In the decade following, they only observed about 140 bursts across the universe.
How to see this week's 'ring of fire' solar eclipse. The so-called annular eclipse will take place early Thursday when the moon passes between the sun and Earth.
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Until next time, my friends. Stay safe and stay sane. Good night.
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