80 years ago, on February 19, 1942, Executive Order 9066 was signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, resulting in the relocation and internment of an estimated 120,000 people of Japanese background during the Second World War. It was a sudden mass incarceration,...
After eight months of research, a small company, Afrigen Biologics, has reverse-engineered the Moderna vaccine. In other times, this would be illegal because Moderna owns patent rights to the vaccine’s formula. Although Moderna stated it would not enforce patents for...
Looking at the tension between Russia and Ukraine, it seems very easy to identify Putin as the “bad dictator,” and the United States as the “honest broker,” trying to de-escalate a potential war. After all, Russia went to war against Ukraine in 2014 to...
330 truck drivers, concrete pourers, technicians, mechanics, and yard workers have been on strike since Nov. 19 across King County, Washington. The strike is a result of the same three-year contractual bargaining with the Associated General Contractors (AGC)...
BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) management is warning that without additional funding, BART will start plunging into debt at a rate of $48 million a year in 2024. The system depended on fare revenues before the pandemic for 60% of its budget. Currently ridership stands...
