A newly released study out of Johns Hopkins University found that COVID-19 lockdowns in the spring of 2020 had “little to no effect” on mortality rates. 

States all over the country are seeing a decrease in Omicron cases and daily death counts, potentially signaling an end to the Omicron wave of the pandemic, and possibly pushing the US into an endemic.

Newsom announced the plan to empty San Quentin State Prison’s death row by transferring inmates into seven other facilities on Monday.

Seven House Republicans are demanding the release of the Biden administration’s investigation into allegations that Texas border patrol were whipping Haitian migrants while they attempted to illegally enter the United States. 

The database the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives uses to compile data about guns sold at shops that have gone out of business is much larger than previously reported.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau accused protesters at this weekend’s “Freedom Convoy” of spewing “hateful rhetoric” and “violence” on Monday, despite media reports that the massive weekend rally was overwhelmingly peaceful. 

Tensions between Russia and the United States spilled over at a United Nations Security Council meeting on Monday, with both nations accusing the other of being “provocative.”

More than 80 guns were stolen from cargo containers near downtown Los Angeles including 36 .22-caliber handguns and 46 shotguns, most of which remain missing.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott named TikTok as one way that Mexican cartels are recruiting smugglers during a roundtable meeting on border security on Thursday.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was shuttled off to an “undisclosed location” by his security detail on Saturday as a sea of protesters stood shoulder to shoulder in of Ottawa.