A city in California declared that it is the state's first "Constitutional Republic City," differentiating itself from the rest of the state and the country, where tyrannical and federal COVID-19 mandates are not allowed.
An Israeli immunologist suggested this week that the spread of the newly detected Omicron variant — which has sparked panic and resulted in travel bans worldwide — may actually signal the beginning of the end of the global COVID-19 pandemic.
The U.K.'s competition regulator ordered Facebook’s parent company, Meta, to sell the animated image-sharing platform Giphy on Tuesday, a move that is set to unwind an 19 month-old acquisition and deal a blow to the recently rebranded company.