COVID-19 can be felt here and abroad in various stages of impact. Here are a few making news today. BROADWAY RETURNS Multiple news outlets reported the return of Broadway Tuesday after a year and a half of the COVID-19 pandemic. COVID-19 forced all 41 Broadway theaters to go dark. If all goes as planned, 39…

Hurricane Ida made landfall in southern Louisiana as a Category 4 storm on August 29. In its wake, it left a trail of damage that Americans living on the Gulf and Atlantic coasts have found depressingly familiar. Total recovery costs will not be known for weeks, but $80 billion is being floated by some insurance…

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with U.S. President Joe Biden at the White House Wednesday. President Zelenskyy’s name first popped up in U.S. headlines shortly after he took office in May 2019. The Ukraine president was quickly caught up in Former U.S. President Donald Trump’s first impeachment inquiry. The inquiry came following a 2019 phone…

President Joe Biden is turning to top executives from some of the country’s leading technology companies to help in the fight against cybersecurity attacks. He met with those executives at the White House Wednesday. The video above shows remarks President Biden made before the meeting. “The reality is most of our critical infrastructure, owned and…

Vice President Kamala Harris’s trip to Asia hit a snag Tuesday, as officials looked into a possible case of Havana Syndrome in Vietnam. The video above shows Vice President Harris in Singapore before heading to Vietnam. Her flight was delayed several hours after a possible case was reported in Hanoi. Eventually, officials deemed it safe…

One year from the day Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was poisoned, the United States announced additional sanctions against Russia. Friday’s announcement came from the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) and the U.S. Department of State. OFAC sanctioned nine Russian individuals and two Russian entities involved in either Navalny’s…

On New Year’s Eve, just minutes before the dawn of 1992, the Soviet flag was lowered from the Kremlin for the last time. Arguably the Cold War had been over for a few years already. Glasnost and perestroika had defanged the thorny grip of the KGB and made Soviet citizens less afraid of their own…

President Joe Biden announced Tuesday the United States has donated more than 110 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine to 65 countries around the world. The video above includes clips from President Biden’s announcement. “According to the United Nations, this is more than the donations of all 24 countries that have donated any vaccine to…

Athletes from the Russian Olympic Commission, or ROC, racked up medals at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and are poised to earn more in Beijing at the 2022 Winter Olympics. While independent from Russia, their success has renewed attention to a scandal that sidelined their home country for two years. The World Anti-Doping Agency banned Russia from…

7/28 UPDATE: In a statement released early Wednesday morning, USA gymnastics announced star gymnast Simone Biles has withdrawn from the final individual all-around competition. —————————————————————————————————————————————————— Ariake Gymnastics Centre, Tokyo, Japan – July 27, 2021. Simone Biles of the United States in action on the vault. REUTERS/Lindsey Wasson Ariake Tennis Park – Tokyo, Japan – July…