Rachel Stevens, FISM News [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] This year’s Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to the World Food Program (WFP) because of its efforts to end global hunger. WFP is an organization founded in 1961 as an arm of the United Nations that supplies food to over 100 million people each year experiencing food insecurity […]
Samuel Case, FISM News [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] Democrats in Congress proposed creating a commission to help decide whether to transfer a future U.S. president’s powers when incapacitated. This is in reaction to President Trump’s COVID-19 diagnosis. House Democrats said their legislation would activate a provision of the 25th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution that says Congress […]
Samuel Case, FISM News [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] Vice President Mike Pence and Democratic challenger Kamala Harris clashed on Wednesday in the only vice presidential debate. Trump’s COVID-19 diagnosis, along with his age and that of Biden, added weight to the debate, as both Pence, 61, and Harris, 55, sought to demonstrate they were capable of assuming […]
Samuel Case, FISM News [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] President Donald Trump rejected plans to hold the next debate with Joe Biden virtually to reduce the risk of spreading COVID-19. Trump argued he’ll be cut off and a virtual debate wouldn’t be worth his time. “I’m not going to waste my time on a virtual debate, that’s not […]
Ian Patrick, FISM News [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] Thirteen people, including seven men associated with the Wolverine Watchmen militia group, have been arrested in alleged plots to kidnap Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer and attack the state capitol building. The alleged plot included reaching out to a militia group, according to an affidavit by FBI special agent Richard […]
President Donald Trump took to Twitter praising Regeneron’s antibody therapy as the reason for his quick apparent recovery from COVID-19. Dr. Anthony Fauci agreed with the president that Regeneron was likely a key to helping Trump overcome the virus. “There is a reasonably good chance that in fact it made him much better,” Fauci said […]
Samuel Case, FISM News [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] A Texas grand jury has indicted Netflix over their original film “Cuties,” a French film that has been the cause of much controversy over claims that it depicts children in a sexually provocative light. The Tyler County jury charged the media company with promoting “visual material which depicts the […]
Ian Patrick, FISM News [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] According to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, the “August Complex” of fires in the northwestern part of the state has now burned over 1 million acres. This news followed a previous update that all the fires in California this year had burned a total of 4 […]
Samuel Case, FISM News [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] Hurricane Delta left a trail of toppled trees, torn roofs and downed power lines in Cancun on Wednesday. Beachside roads were flooded, small boats overturned in a marina, while roof tiles and broken glass littered sidewalks in what looked like a ghost-town early on Wednesday, with 39,000 residents and […]
Samuel Case, FISM News [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] A new study suggests patients with asthma who become infected with the new coronavirus appear to have no higher risk of hospitalization or need for mechanical breathing assistance compared to COVID-19 patients without asthma. Not only does there appear to be no greater risk, but the study actually shows […]
