Pfizer to announce Single-pill Treatment for Covid-19

Pfizer to announce Single-pill Treatment for Covid-19

Pfizer is a famous drug manufacturer and currently testing a single-pill treatment for COVID-19. The drug will be available during the current year after its final trials. The new drug will be called PF-07321332, but it is currently in a Phase One clinical trial with healthy adults. The Telegraph also reported that the protease inhibitor […]

Senator Bernie Sanders and other legislators asked President Biden for Medicare Expansion

Senator Bernie Sanders and other legislators asked President Biden for Medicare Expansion

On Sunday, Senator Bernie Sanders and other legislators have forwarded a letter to President Joe Biden and asked for an expansion of Medicare benefits to be included in the upcoming American Families Plan. Point to be noted that it is a roughly $1.8 trillion spending and tax plan designed at rebuilding the US economy. Sanders, […]

US Senate passed Hate Crimes Bill with 94-1 amid increasing Attacks against Asians

US Senate passed Hate Crimes Bill with 94-1 amid increasing Attacks against Asians

On Thursday, the US Senate voted 94-1 to approve anti-Asian hate crimes legislation designed at expanding the efforts of the federal government to address the recent increase in these crimes. The bill would identify and appoint a person at the Justice Department to quickly review hate crime incidents and provide more guidance to state and […]

Gun Sales Hit All-time High in the United States

Gun Sales Hit All-time High in the United States

An increase in gun sales to an all-time was widely attributed to nationwide anxiety due to the pandemic as well as social unrest following the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer in 2020. One year later, gun retailers say firearms sales are on pace to surpass their peak at the height of […]

Derek Chauvin convicted of all 3 charges in George Floyd’s death

Derek Chauvin convicted of all 3 charges in George Floyd’s death

On Tuesday, former Minneapolis Police officer Derek Chauvin was convicted on all counts in the death of George Floyd. The killing of Floyd sparked worldwide protests and reckoning on race in the US. The jury found Chauvin guilty of unintentional second-degree murder, third-degree murder, and second-degree manslaughter after about a day of deliberations. Judge Peter […]

President Biden sent invitations to 40 Nations for Summit on Climate

President Biden sent invitations to 40 Nations for Summit on Climate

US President Joe Biden has invited 40 nations to participate in the two-day virtual Leaders Summit on Climate and it will take place later this week. The invited countries include those 17 that make up the Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate. It was a US-led coalition created in 2009 and designed to convene […]

US House of Representatives voted a Bill to advance Slavery Reparations

US House of Representatives voted a Bill to advance Slavery Reparations

The US House panel advanced a decades-long effort to pay reparations to the descendants of slaves. On Wednesday, the panel approved legislation that would create a commission to study the issue. Point to be noted that the House Judiciary Committee has acted on the legislation for the first time. The vote to advance the measure […]

Kamala Harris is planning a visit to Guatemala and Mexico

Kamala Harris is planning a visit to Guatemala and Mexico

On Wednesday, US Vice President Kamala Harris informed reporters that she is planning to visit Mexico and Guatemala very soon. Her statement came several weeks after President Biden tapped her to lead the administration’s efforts to address migration at the southern border by focusing on the Northern Triangle countries and Mexico. The VP has been […]

White House administration to Lift Restriction on Abortion Pills

White House administration to Lift Restriction on Abortion Pills

The administration of President Biden will temporarily lift a medication abortion restriction. It requires abortion pills to be dispensed in person. The temporary lift will reverse a Trump-era policy and handing abortion-rights groups one of their first major victories of the new administration. The acting FDA Commissioner Janet Woodcock announced that her agency would “exercise […]

Troops from Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras will now Stop Migrant flow at Borders

Troops from Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras will now Stop Migrant flow at Borders

The Biden administration officials said that agreements have been reached to bolster troop support in 3 Central American countries. The new measures are designed to discourage the flow of migrants into the United States. The White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki confirmed that agreements represent the latest attempts by President Joe Biden’s administration to mitigate […]