European Council President Charles Michel announced this week that leaders from Armenia and Azerbaijan, two nations who engaged in a brief war over disputed territory in 2020, had engaged in meaningful talks during an EU summit.
The operations of two government agencies in Virginia have been crippled by separate cyberattacks occurring just days apart.
Negotiations between President Joe Biden and moderate Senate Democrat Joe Manchin of West Virginia made little headway Wednesday, and any hopes the administration had of passing Build Back Better before Christmas seem to have evaporated.
Lauren Moye, FISM NEWS [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] Wednesday, Australia opened its borders for the first time in nearly two years to vaccinated skilled migrants and foreign students. The nation’s borders were originally supposed to open earlier in December. However, officials voted to delay this date by two weeks due to concerns over the Omicron variant of […]
Lauren Dempsey, MS in Biomedicine and Law, RN, FISM News [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] A major study out of South Africa suggests that the Omicron variant causes less severe symptoms than previous variants, but is more vaccine resistant to the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine that has been widely used. The study has not yet been peer reviewed , […]
Chris Lange, FISM News [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] Concerns over President Biden’s pick for U.S. ambassador to India, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, who is accused of failing to address sexual harassment allegations made against one of his top advisers, were raised only briefly during his confirmation hearing Tuesday on Capitol Hill. Both Republicans and Democrats have […]
Matt Bush, FISM News [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] Hundreds of migrants have been arriving in Northern Mexico as the Biden administration has returned to the Trump era method of processing asylum seekers’ requests for entry into the country. The Biden Administration was forced by judge’s order to reinstate the “remain in Mexico” policy, which requires asylum seekers […]
Chris Lange, FISM News [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] The U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday voted 222-208 to seek criminal contempt of Congress charges against former President Trump’s chief of staff, Mark Meadows, for refusing to fully cooperate with a probe into the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. Meadows handed over requested text messages he and Trump exchanged […]
Lauren Moye, FISM NEWS [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] The first metaverse app released by Meta Platforms, Inc. publicly launched last week. Horizons World is available for free to certain users. Horizons World, which has been compared to Minecraft and Roblox, offers users the chance to create personal avatars, build worlds together, and play mini-games. The game is […]
Chris Lange, FISM News [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] Senate Democrats on Tuesday approved raising the federal government’s debt ceiling by $2.5 trillion, bypassing a GOP filibuster as part of a deal struck by congressional leaders. The 50-49 vote fell along party lines following an agreement by GOP senators last week to pass legislation allowing for a simple […]