Samuel Case, FISM News [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] On Tuesday night, police declared a riot in Portland “near the Multnomah Building” after participants “vandalized, repeatedly smashed first floor windows with rocks and threw burning material into an office.” The Multnomah Building serves as the county’s government building. On the 83rd night of demonstrations and riots, agitators lit dumpster […]
Samuel Case, FISM News [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] California Governor Gavin Newsom officially declared a state of emergency as the state is ravaged by wildfires and a record-setting heatwave. The fires which began on Monday and Tuesday in northern California have already burned through some 145,000 acres. Many of the fires began with lightning setting the dry […]
Samuel Case, FISM News [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] Pfizer has signed a multiyear agreement to make COVID-19 treatment remdesivir for developer Gilead Sciences, which is under pressure to increase supplies of the antiviral drug. Gilead is aiming to make enough of the drug by the end of the year to treat more than 2 million COVID-19 patients […]
Ian Patrick, FISM News [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] The Senate Intelligence Committee recently released its fifth and final report of their investigation into Russia and the Trump Campaign during the 2016 election cycle. This report specifically focused “on the counterintelligence threat, outlining a wide range of Russian efforts to influence the Trump Campaign and the 2016 election.” […]
Ian Patrick, FISM News [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] At least one in four people in India may have been infected with the coronavirus – a much higher number than official government figures suggest, the head of a leading private laboratory says. Dr. A. Velumani said an analysis of 270,000 antibody tests conducted by his company Thyrocare across […]
Madeline Sponsler, FISM News [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill canceled in-class instruction just one week into the new term on Monday after positive cases of COVID-19 shot up dramatically, becoming the latest U.S. school to reverse course on reopening. The university’s chancellor said in a letter to students posted on […]
Madeline Sponsler, FISM News [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] Florida, Wyoming, and Alaska will hold primary elections for U.S. Congress today, Tuesday, August 18th. These three primaries will help set the stage for elections in November to decide the distribution of power in Washington. Republicans want to reclaim Florida’s 26th district from Debbie Mucarsel-Powell, an immigrant from Ecuador who […]
Madeline Sponsler, FISM News [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] U.S. President Donald Trump announced that he will posthumously pardon American activist Susan B.Anthony. The announcement came 100 years to the day after the 1920 ratification of the 19th Amendment, also known as the Susan B. Anthony amendment, which gave women the right to vote. Speaking at a White House […]
Ian Patrick, FISM News [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] More than a dozen rockets struck Kabul on Tuesday, wounding at least ten people, including four children, prompting some foreign embassies to order a lockdown, officials and sources in the Afghan capital said. The identity of the attackers was unknown, though an interior ministry spokesman said two suspects had […]
Samuel Case, FISM News [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] President Donald Trump’s younger brother and entrepreneur, Robert Trump, passed away on Saturday at the age of 71 in a New York hospital. As of right now the cause of his death is unclear. President Trump had mentioned on Friday that Robert was “having a hard time,” but he […]
