Several states have received communications from the USPS General Counsel, which outlines standard postal delivery times and prices and prices leading up to the November election and warns state secretaries that election laws enacted by states would not necessarily guarantee post-in ballots in time will be received counted. The letters …
Read More »American eyes controversial trials for human challenge for COVID-19 vaccine | News
U.S. government scientists have begun efforts to create a strain of the new coronavirus that could be used in human challenge tests of vaccines, a controversial type of study in which healthy volunteers would vaccinate and then deliberately infect with the virus, according to the Reuters news agency. The work …
Read More »Fortnite Vs. Apple: Players respond to lawsuit, removal from App Store
After a wild day of unexpected updates, discounts on V-Bucks, removal of app store, parody video cards, and legal action, the dust settled – and Fortnite remains missing in the Apple App Store and the Google Play Store. Although recordings are still flying in now, and probably will not stop, …
Read More »Why Derechos are so devilishly difficult to predict
At 8:30 p.m. on Monday, Mark Licht sat in his home outside Ames, Iowa, for a conference call with other agronomists and meteorologists from around the state. Iowa had a dry spell, the western half of the state was hit by severe drought. What farmers needed was a big storm, …
Read More »Chad Wolf and Ken Cuccinelli, Trump’s top DHS officials, were named invalid, watchdog finds
A federal government watchdog said Friday that Chad Wolf and Ken Cuccinelli, senior officials at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), had been illegally appointed to their current positions in the department accused of implementing President Trump’s immigration agenda. In a decision published Friday, the Government Accountability Office, the …
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