Tag Archives: Americans

Mail-in voting backed by most Americans despite Trump push to end it  Axios Opinion | Why Trump has a point on mail-in voting  The Washington Post Does Trump have the power to end mail-in voting? Legal scholar weighs in  PBS DeSantis says Trump’s plan to ban voting by mail won’t apply to Florida  Tallahassee Democrat Trump wants to end vote-by-mail. Oregon won’t give it …

Living in the US poses a major threat to a person’s health, and for people between the ages of 25 and 44, the threat is worse, research has found.  About three million deaths are recorded in the US annually, but the nation’s mortality rate is far higher than that of its peers. Researchers calculate a gap between the US and …

Officials are raising the alarm over a Covid surge in the US, as they advise Americans in five states to be on high alert for infections. Latest CDC wastewater data showed that Covid activity rose to ‘moderate’ nationwide in the week of August 9, the latest available, up from ‘low’ in the previous seven-day spell. Covid levels haven’t risen to this …

The first people to step foot in the Americas were harboring a sliver of DNA from two extinct Eurasian human groups: the Neanderthals and the Denisovans, a new study finds. This genetic relic could have helped the earliest Americans fight diseases they encountered in their new environment, the researchers proposed. Everyone alive today is “a result of like three different …

WASHINGTON (AP) — More Americans filed for unemployment benefits last week, but U.S. layoffs remain in the same historically healthy range of the past few years. Applications for unemployment benefits for the week ending Aug. 16 rose by 11,000 to 235,000, the Labor Department reported Thursday. That’s slightly more than the 229,000 new applications that economists had forecast. Weekly applications …

Americans worry democracy in danger amid gerrymandering fights, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds Most Americans believe that efforts to redraw U.S. House of Representatives districts to maximize partisan gains, like those under way in Texas and California, are bad for democracy, a new Reuters/Ipsos poll found. More than half of respondents – 57% – said they feared that American democracy itself was …

More than 750 current and former employees of the US health department have published a letter rebuking Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr, saying his “dangerous and deceitful statements” contributed to recent violence at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) headquarters. Officials say the man who fired hundreds of rounds at the CDC this month, killing a police …

UK Drops Mandate for Apple ‘Backdoor’ on Americans, Gabbard Says  Bloomberg.com Apple just landed a key win for the global encryption fight  CNBC Tim Cook Keeps Apple’s August Win Streak Going  Business Insider UK backs down in Apple privacy row, US says  BBC US spy chief Gabbard says UK agreed to drop ‘backdoor’ mandate for Apple  Reuters Source link

Americans fear AI permanently displacing workers, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds  Reuters AI is already displacing these jobs  Axios Opinion | The 1970s Gave Us Industrial Decline. A.I. Could Bring Something Worse.  The New York Times AI Revolution Could Require Us to Re-Think Money Entirely  ScienceAlert Blue-collar jobs are gaining popularity as AI threatens office work  NBC News Source link

Fed up with U.S. health care costs, these Americans moved abroad  The Washington Post Source link