On Monday August 23, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine. Until now, Pfizers version of the vaccine has been in the testing phase. Now, the Pfizer is the first COVID-19 vaccine to be FDA approved.
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California will be having a recall election for Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) on Sept. 14. Every registered voter in the state has received a mail-in ballot. Voters also have the choice to go in-person to vote.
After being back in school for eight days, middle-schooler Mykayla Robinson, died Saturday, Aug. 14 hours after testing positive for COVID-19.
Since the beginning of the pandemic there has been a search for a vaccine, and now there are three options available; Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna and Johnson
Protests have been taking place all over Myanmar after a military coup d’etat on Feb. 1. Over 3,000 people have been detained and over 500
Elon Musk has been named the richest man in the world, surpassing Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. Musk owns luxury car brand, Tesla, and private space exploration company, SpaceX. Tesla’s stock has skyrocketed in the past week, pushing the business over the 700 billion dollar mark.
Over 250 million workers participated in a nationwide strike against India’s new anti-labor and anti-farmer policies enacted by the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi
NASA opened up a competition of naming the 2020 Mars Rover. They started judging the essays in November of 2019 and picked nine names for people to vote on worldwide. The winner and name will be announced in March.
The EU is pushing for a measure to instate a universal phone charger. This measure would make it required for all producers of electronics to produce a common charger compatible with all smartphones, tablets, e-readers, digital cameras, etc., according to the New York Times.
With menacing missiles and ultimatums being thrown across the Atlantic Ocean and Twitter, the relationship between Iran and the United States is starting to crumble. Iran and the U.S have gone in and out of agreements and threats that has put a strain on their relationship throughout time.