China’s real COVID death toll
Throughout the pandemic, China has consistently claimed very few deaths from the coronavirus. Over the weekend, China’s National Health Commission announced a significant revision, raising the officia...
17 Jan 202312min
A lying congressman and a 2024 Senate race already underway
Lots of news in Washington this week – California’s 2024 senate race is heating up before Sen. Dianne Fienstein even announces if she will be stepping down. And New York Rep. George Santos is being ca...
13 Jan 202310min
The latest fiasco to snarl US air travel
Air travel across the U.S. was at a standstill for several hours on Wednesday morning because of an outage to a system the Federal Aviation Administration uses to send real-time safety alerts to pilot...
12 Jan 202311min
The escalating fight over Big Tech and kids
Seattle Public Schools are suing big tech for helping cause a youth mental health crisis. The school district is going after TikTok, Meta, Snap and other companies, and this is just one of many cases ...
11 Jan 202311min
Why there’s still not enough children’s Tylenol
Many parents around the U.S. still can’t find children’s Tylenol and Motrin, after a shortage began weeks ago in the middle of the “tripledemic” of flu, RSV and Covid. Plus, the effort to restore orde...
10 Jan 202310min
Why America's public school enrollment is down
During the pandemic, enrollment in public schools went down by more than a million students, according to the National Center for Education statistics. And as we approach three years since the start o...
9 Jan 202310min
Our democracy two years after Jan. 6
California Rep. Kevin McCarthy lost a stunning 11 rounds of voting for the House speaker position this week, and there’s no end to the standoff in sight. Of course all of this has been unfolding in th...
6 Jan 202311min
Major layoffs for Amazon
Amazon announced on Wednesday that it will cut more than 18,000 jobs. This is the largest of the recent tech layoffs. Plus, after another day of voting, there’s still no speaker of the U.S. House. A...
5 Jan 202311min
