Samuel Case, FISM News [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] On Friday the Supreme Court chose not to hear the Texas lawsuit, backed by 18 other states, which alleged Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin “violated statutes enacted by their duly elected legislatures, thereby violating the Constitution” by “unlawfully enacting last-minute changes.” In a short order the court said, “The […]

Samuel Case, FISM News [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] On Friday the FDA approved the Pfizer / BioNTech vaccine for emergency use authorization. The move may mark the beginning of the end of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States.  Over the weekend hospitals across the country prepared for the vaccine rollout. Roughly 2.9 million doses are in […]

[elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] Hong Kong democracy activist and media tycoon Jimmy Lai, 73, has been charged under the city’s national security law on suspicion of colluding with foreign forces, his Apple Daily newspaper reported on Friday, citing a police source. Lai, an ardent critic of Beijing, would be the highest profile person charged under the sweeping […]

Samuel Case, FISM News [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] On Friday the Senate passed a $740 billion defense bill.  The National Defense Authorization Act, or NDAA,  passed 84-13. Both houses of Congress passed the bill with a veto-proof majority. President Trump had threatened to veto the bill if it did not include provisions to remove Section 230 of […]

[elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] Last year the WWF International released a shocking study revealing we could be ingesting a credit card’s worth of plastic a week. Recently Reuters used the findings of the study to illustrate what this amount of plastic actually looks like over various periods of time and we thought we’d take a look.