USA

COVID hospitalizations hit crisis levels in southern ICUs

Sep 16, 2021 15:53

Hospitals in the southern United States are running dangerously low on space in intensive care units, as the Delta variant has led to spikes in coronavirus cases not seen since last year’s deadly winter wave. One in four hospitals now reports more than 95 percent of ICU beds occupied — up from one in five last month. Experts say it can become difficult to maintain standards of care for the sickest patients in hospitals where all or nearly all ICU beds are occupied.
800,000 New Yorkers just lost federal unemployment benefits

Sep 15, 2021 15:26

From the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, New York City has been pummeled economically unlike any other large American city, as a sustained recovery has failed to take root and hundreds of thousands of workers have yet to find full-time jobs.
F.B.I. releases newly declassified document related to Sept. 11 attacks

Sep 15, 2021 15:16

The F.B.I. released a newly declassified document late Saturday (11 September 2021) describing connections that the agency examined between the hijackers and the Saudi government in the years since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, although it contained no conclusive evidence about whether the kingdom played a role in the attacks.
US spent $21 trillion on war and militarization since 9/11

Sep 13, 2021 10:57

In a new report authored by the National Priorities Project at the Institute for Policy Studies, it has been found that the federal government has spent $21 trillion on war and militarization both inside the U.S. and around the world over the past 20 years.
Research finds animals ‘shapeshifting’ in response to climate crisis

Sep 13, 2021 10:54

Warm-blooded animals are changing beaks, legs and ears to adapt to hotter climate and better regulate temperature.
Pfizer accused of holding Brazil ‘to ransom’ over vaccine contract demands

Sep 13, 2021 10:48

Pfizer has been accused of holding Brazil “to ransom” over demands to shield itself from possible vaccine side-effect lawsuits in its contract to supply the country with 100 million COVID jabs.
Imagine spending $8 trillion to rebuild a society instead of destroying one

Sep 11, 2021 04:20

Since the Cold War began, Washington has engaged in an endless series of interventions around the planet from Chile to Guatemala, as well as in conflicts, large and small.
How post-9/11 US 'war on terror' spawned terrorism

Sep 11, 2021 04:17

The American presence in the war-ravaged Afghanistan often -- described as the graveyard of empires -- not only failed to wipe out the threat of terrorism, but further fanned its flames.
US for-profit health system is worsening a nursing shortage amid delta’s surge

Sep 10, 2021 15:19

As the Delta variant continues to rage in the United States, maxing out many of the nation’s intensive care units, Americans face a severe deficit in direct care nurses and caregivers in their hospitals.
Aid groups warn Afghan health system on verge of 'collapse'

Sep 10, 2021 15:15

International aid agencies working in Afghanistan are sounding the alarm over a health system at "risk of collapse" as the financial support to the war-torn nation was slashed following the Taliban's return to power last month.