July 6, 2021 Washington Post calls for 'serious' investigation into COVID origins The Jeff Bezos-owned Washington Post wrote Tuesday about the need for a "serious investigation" into the origins of the coronavirus -- after the mainstream media spent more than a year either dismissing or casting doubt on the distinct possibility the virus escaped from a laboratory in Wuhan, China; rather than being the causation of a zoonotic transmission between a bat or a civet from a nearby "wet market" and a human.
June 15, 2021 California reopens, lifts most COVID-19 rules California, the first state in America to put in place a coronavirus lockdown, is now turning a page on the pandemic.
May 19, 2021 New York City works to turn page on COVID-19 pandemic More than a year after coronavirus shutdowns sent “the city that never sleeps” into a fitful slumber, New York could be wide awake again this summer.
April 23, 2021 Interior Secretary Haaland says people still have to wear masks at national parks U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland said Friday that the nation's national parks would still require visitors to wear face masks.
April 17, 2021 Florida Keys to see release of first genetically modified mosquitoes In an effort to fight insect-borne viruses like Zika, dengue fever and malaria, genetically modified mosquitoes are set to be released in the Florida Keys.
March 28, 2021 Fauci warns children should continue wearing masks while playing Fauci believes that natural adaptation of the virus is "more likely" than the theory that it escaped from a lab.
March 20, 2021 International spectators to be barred from Tokyo Olympics Spectators from abroad will be barred from the Tokyo Olympics when they open in four months, the IOC and local organizers said Saturday.
March 19, 2021 Zoos, scientists aim to protect animals from people spreading coronavirus The coughing among the western lowland gorillas at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park in January was the first warning sign. Soon the fears were confirmed: A troop of gorillas became the first apes known to test positive for the coronavirus.
March 5, 2021 Who is NASA astronaut Kate Rubins? NASA flight engineer Kathleen "Kate" Rubins set out on her fourth career spacewalk on Friday, in an effort to ready the International Space Station (ISS) for solar array upgrades.
March 4, 2021 CDC to require US-bound travelers from Ebola-stricken countries to give contact information The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced this week that travelers from Guinea and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the United States will be required to give contact information because of two separate Ebola outbreaks in the countries.
