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California’s new law just signed into effect by Gov. Gavin Newsom reclassifies many Glock handguns as “machinegun-convertible pistols.” Let’s go through what this means and whether the state has the legal authority to do it.

Since August of this year, the FDA has issued no fewer than five warnings and recalls for shrimp contaminated with cesium-137, a radioactive isotope that’s created only during nuclear fission. And finally, after many months, a new report sheds light on how this shrimp (sold in America) was actually contaminated with cesium-137. Let’s go through it together.

Today, let’s go through a CDC update—both in terms of a viral outbreak onboard a cruise ship and some incoming major changes to the childhood vaccine schedule.

In Utah, a state judge recently awarded a family nearly $1 billion in compensation after a local hospital completely botched the delivery of their baby girl—such that the baby will likely suffer a lifetime of disabilities. Let’s go through the details.

On Sept. 29, court documents were filed showing that YouTube had agreed to pay nearly $25 million in order to settle its lawsuit with President Donald Trump and others. Let’s go through the details of the case, as well as the where the money will go.

In one of the largest settlements in U.S. history, Amazon settled a case with the Federal Trade Commission on Sept. 25 for a staggering $2.5 billion. And it’s worth mentioning that more than half of that money is earmarked for customers—meaning that if you are an Amazon Prime member, you can get a small piece of that settlement. Here's the history of the case, as well as how you can check whether...

The Department of Homeland Security has been relatively busy recently, with the most recent topline developments including a serious warning issued to three states: California, New York, and Illinois.

The IRS just released an important update to the “no tax on tips” provision included within the One Big Beautiful Bill Act of 2025. Let’s go through what the provisions say, as well as see if your job qualifies.

President Donald Trump has filed a new defamation lawsuit against The New York Times. A New York judge has dismissed two terrorism charges against Luigi Mangione. The federal government is sending the National Guard into Memphis, Tennessee. Let’s discuss all these stories together.

Let’s go through the most recent developments in the aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s assassination—both from the government and civil side.

The U.S. Supreme Court issued a 6–3 decision on Sept. 8 in favor of the Trump administration, allowing it to, once again, set up ICE checkpoints in Southern California. Let’s go through the backstory of this ruling as well as what it means going forward.

Chagas disease has become so ubiquitous in the southern part of the United States that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently put out a report saying that it’s now time to consider it “endemic.” Let’s go through what the disease is, how it’s spread, and what you can do to keep yourself safe.

Scammers on Amazon have become more creative and brazen. Let's go through the top 6 scams that they use to try to steal your hard-earned money, so that you can avoid them.

Aside from the sanctions, war, and inflation, Iran is facing another major problem: a water crisis that is forcing the country's citizens to ration water (if they can find it). Let’s go through the causes of the crisis.

On Aug. 25, the FDA informed the public that the agency officially suspended its approval for Valneva’s Ixchiq vaccine. Ixchiq is a vaccine for Chikungunya, a mosquito-borne disease. The vaccine was initially approved to be administered in the United States in November 2023, under the FDA’s fast-tracked accelerated approval pathway. Let’s go through what the data showed, as well as why the FDA dec...

In a recent statement, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced his intention to work alongside Attorney General Pam Bondi to overhaul the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program. Let’s go through the history of this program, how it works, and the problems that Kennedy is attempting to fix.

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission recently announced that it has been able to get more than $55 million in compensation to American workers who were impacted by the COVID-19 vaccine mandates, including those who had sought religious accommodation. Let's go through some of the more recent cases.

After discovering a case of bird flu jumping from a dairy cow to a human, scientists have been scrambling to reverse engineer that strain of the virus and test it in laboratory settings. To that end, let’s discuss several papers that came out of this effort.

One of the surprising aspects of the American electoral system is that while regular gerrymandering is frowned upon, racial gerrymandering is actually required by law. Meaning that if you redraw a congressional district to benefit your political party, you might get criticized for it, but that’s about all. Under certain circumstances, however, if you redraw a state’s congressional districts and do...

With midterm elections coming up next year, GOP state lawmakers in Texas are taking action. In a newly designed congressional redistricting map, they created five new right-leaning districts—the populations of which voted for Trump in the last presidential election. Texas Democrats fled the state in order to avoid voting on the map, but warrants for their arrests have now been issued. Let’s go thr...

On July 23, Alina Habba, the acting U.S. Attorney for the state of New Jersey, released a statement regarding a former Atlantic City official who was being sentenced to 2 years behind bars for the crime of submitting fake mail-in ballots. He was found guilty for his role in the procurement, casting, and tabulation of fraudulent mail-in ballots submitted in connection with the general election on N...

Let’s go through the most recent update from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention regarding Long COVID—and then crunch some numbers to see how many people might be collecting disability payments for it.

With a new Department of Agriculture report showing a nationwide cattle shortage—alongside a corresponding spike in the price of ground beef—let’s examine the monopoly that’s developed in the beef processing sector and how it’s affecting American ranchers.

An audio recording of President Donald Trump was recently leaked, in which the president claimed to have threatened Chinese Communist Party leader Xi Jinping that he would bomb Beijing if China invaded Taiwan. The leak came as tensions continue to grow in the Asia-Pacific region, with the Chinese regime acting with ever more aggression and increasing its air and sea incursions into Taiwan’s air de...

On Friday, July 18, the Trump administration formally announced that the United States will be rejecting a certain World Health Organization agreement. Specifically, this was an agreement that U.S. officials say would have granted the WHO certain powers over America in the event of another pandemic. Let’s go through the details together.