Experts across the country worry that forcing the nation’s already-stressed hospitals to implement vaccine mandates may push needed workers to quit.
Author: Trevor Hughes, USA TODAY
As Biden vaccine mandates loom, protests for personal freedoms swell. What happens next?
Experts say getting people vaccinated against COVID-19 should be a top priority. Is the Biden administration’s vaccine mandate the right way to do it?
As climate change deepens, Lake Mead and Lake Powell continue drying up
Experts say climate change is exacerbating Western drought, raising concerns about food prices, hydroelectric generation and mega wildfires.
Poor health choices are killing rural Americans, and COVID-19 makes it worse
What you eat, whether you smoke and how far you live from a hospital help determine whether you’re more likely to die of illnesses such as cancer and diabetes.
Rising seas, sinking land: Life on this Hurricane Ida-battered Louisiana barrier island may never be the same
Experts say the choices faced by residents and leaders of Grand Isle after Hurricane Ida mirror what other communities will deal with as oceans rise.
History curriculum, books were written by and for white people. What about kids of color?
The critical race theory debate has brought new scrutiny to history textbooks and curriculum. Why don’t kids of color learn about their history?
‘Nothing you can do but wait’: In New Orleans, frustrations rise over Hurricane Ida outages; death toll rises
Hurricane Ida damaged or destroyed 30,679 poles, 36,469 spans of wire and 5,959 transformers, says Entergy, the power provider for New Orleans.
‘I can’t believe the numbers’: Mass shootings, homicide rates, gun sales hit highest levels since 1990s
Fatal shootings, mass shootings and homicide rates have skyrocketed this year amid economic woes and the pandemic.
In Colorado, Aurora police, medics indicted for 2019 death of Elijah McClain
Elijah McClain died after being injected with tranquilizer and choking on his vomit crying “can’t breathe.”
Hurricane Ida rips off part of roof at Lady of the Sea hospital after Louisiana landfall
Video posted to Twitter showed a large section of the Lady of the Sea hospital roof peeling off as Ida’s winds whipped through Galliano, Louisiana.