The Great Salt Lake in Utah is one of the few natural wonders of the world. It is popularly regarded as America’s Dead Sea as it closely resembles the Dead Sea in the Middle East. Due to the widespread and extreme draught plaguing the Western US, the Great Salt Lake is close to its lowest point in the last 58 years.

On Thursday California’s lawmakers approved the creation of a state-funded guaranteed-income plan that will cost $35 million dollars of the state budget. The plan will be entirely taxpayer funded, and is the first of its kind in the U.S. It passed both chambers with no opposition, as final counts showed 36-0 votes in the state’s Senate and 64-0 votes in the state’s Assembly.

Approximately two dozen US officials staffed in Vienna, Austria have experienced systems of a mysterious disease referred to as Havana Syndrome since the beginning of the year. The Austrian government has announced that they will be assisting the US as they investigate the disease and its source.

Karley Cicale details why and how companies sell smaller products for the same price.

The Olympic Village, the area that houses the athletes and staff participating in the Olympics, has recorded its first case of COVID-19 on Saturday. This comes only six days prior to opening ceremonies when the games begin. The Japanese government has not released who contracted the disease but did indicate that it was a foreign national and not an athlete.

54 congregations chose to leave the denomination in 2020, and already 38 have abandoned ship in 2021.

The weapon acquisition, sustainment, and development offices at the Pentagon are facing significant vacancies in the first year of the Biden administration. These offices constitute 58 Senate approved officials and so far only six individuals have been appointed.