The Biden administration on Friday announced plans to provide billions of dollars in American Rescue Plan funding to help rural communities battle the COVID-19 pandemic.The money will be targeted to assist rural hospitals and health care providers, acc…
The List recognizes and celebrates the generosity of changemakers from across the world who serve as an inspiration for future philanthropists. SAN FRANCISCO and WASHINGTON, Aug. 12, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Indiaspora, a nonprofit community of global Indian leaders from diverse backgrounds and professions, released today their list recognizing one hundred Indian and diaspora leaders who…
Top U.S. infectious-disease expert Anthony Fauci said Thursday that vaccine booster shots were “inevitable” to provide additional protection against COVID-19, but added that the data indicated most healthy, vaccinated people didn’t need them now.During…
NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA – Stephen Feehily lives in a suburb of New Orleans, Louisiana, an area where, as in much of the American South, hesitancy to get vaccinated against COVID-19 has been high. While his two sons are too young to get the shots, he reg…
California will require that all teachers and school staff be vaccinated or undergo weekly COVID-19 testing, Governor Gavin Newsom announced Wednesday. No other state has enacted such a requirement.”We think this is the right thing to do, and we think …
Oregon Governor Kate Brown on Wednesday announced she was restoring a statewide indoor mask requirement for public settings as her state suffers from a record-breaking number of new coronavirus cases and hospitalizations, largely among unvaccinated ind…
Giant pumps whir deep underground at a plant in Singapore that helps transform sewage into water so clean people can drink it while reducing ocean pollution. The tiny island nation has little in the way of natural water sources and has long had to rely…
