U.S.-China diplomacy is crumbling
Prosecutors say the Chinese consulate in San Francisco is harboring a researcher after the FBI interviewed her about alleged visa fraud on June 20. The researcher was charged for lying about her affil...
23 Jul 202010min
Parents turn to schooling "pods"
Many school districts are still debating whether to go with a virtual, in classroom or hybrid education model for the year, but some families are taking their children’s education into their own hands...
22 Jul 202011min
The global clash over a vaccine
The U.K. and China made big news with promising results in vaccine development for the coronavirus — the US, Russia and at least five other countries are also working on possible vaccines. But for a v...
21 Jul 202010min
Trump's new legal opening
The latest Supreme Court ruling on the DACA program, which protects the status of people brought into the US as children, gives President Trump a pathway to enact executive orders on policies that Con...
20 Jul 202010min
The burden on teachers
Some of the country’s largest school districts have already made the decision to go online-only for this coming school year. Many are talking about hybrid models that combine distance and in-person le...
17 Jul 202010min
The war on public health experts
This week, the Trump administration ordered hospitals to bypass the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention send all coronavirus-related data straight to the Department of Health and Human Services...
16 Jul 202011min
Covid tests for office buildings
Buildings are getting tested for coronavirus, too. Research teams in Oregon are conducting real-time coronavirus tests on ventilation systems in buildings that could be essential for returning to the ...
15 Jul 202011min
Stuck between U.S. and China
Last week, the Trump administration announced a new policy that could force international students out of the United States if their universities move to online-only classes. This puts more than a qua...
14 Jul 202010min
