It will take months to vaccinate everyone against Covid-19, once a good vaccine is available. Only after massively vaccinating people will we find out how effective the vaccine is, for various groups.

Human rights lawyers that make reports to help the International Criminal Court are threatened by sanctions that the US placed on anyone "providing support".

Since that threat is unconstitutional, they have gone to court asking for a ruling that the sanctions don't apply to them.

It was obvious that faster processing and less inspection would make meat plants more dangerous. And it has.

US companies evade regulations on toxic PFAs by switching to newer chemicals that are probably just as bad, but have not been studied yet.

*Signalling to his base, as he did referring to the Proud Boys on Tuesday, the [wrecker] is following a playbook from 1930s Germany.*

An FBI memo warns about violent right-wing extremist violence, perhaps after the election.