(Natural News) Rising cases of cargo thefts are threatening supplies as the impact of the pandemic remains strong. Based on recent reports from cargo theft recording firm SensiGuard, cargo thefts spiked during the second quarter of 2020 at the height of the COVID-19 crisis. In total, the firm recorded 227 cargo thefts since federal authorities […]

(Natural News) Wildfires across California continued burning, killing five people, injuring at least nine and decimating almost 900 structures as of last count, according to a recent report by The Wall Street Journal. Since the lightning strikes that started on August 15, there have been more than 615 wildfires across the state, which have now […]

(Natural News) More than 360 fires tore across California on Wednesday, amid a record-breaking heatwave and unusual lightning storms that began early Sunday. Despite around 6,900 firefighters and emergency personnel responding to the fires, California asked for additional fire engines and hand crews from neighboring states, a spokesman from the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection Agency (CAL FIRE) told The Wall Street Journal. Strong gusts […]

(Natural News) Bari Weiss, an editor and writer for the New York Times’s opinion section, resigned Monday, citing a hostile work environment and unchecked bullying from her colleagues due to her differences of opinion. In a scathing letter to New York Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger, which she posted on her website Tuesday, Weiss slammed the paper as an echo […]

(Natural News) A new study that looked at the effects of face masks on the spread of the coronavirus in a town in Germany revealed that using face covering can reduce transmission by as much as 40 percent. The study, which was authored by the IZA Institute of Labor Economics, analyzed the city of Jena in the central […]

(Natural News) Facebook is under heavy criticism after CEO Mark Zuckerberg refused to remove a post by President Donald Trump. Now, even its own senior employees are calling for the company to step up its censorship. On Friday, Zuckerberg explained in a post the company’s decision to leave Trump’s post up. He stated that regardless of what his own […]

(Natural News) Japan has, by far, the lowest death toll and number of Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) infections among the Group of Seven major economies. The Japanese government’s expert panel on the pandemic has identified the wearing of face masks — alongside good public hygiene and social distancing — as one of the reasons for this. The wearing of […]

(Natural News) A possible treatment for COVID-19, the disease caused by the Wuhan coronavirus, may be at hand. In a breakthrough study soon to be published in the journal Cell, researchers from the U.S., Belgium and Germany described how two special antibodies produced by an immunized llama can effectively stop the coronavirus from infecting healthy cells. How coronaviruses […]

(Natural News) New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said on Tuesday that hospitalizations due to COVID-19, the disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, have dipped to the lowest number recorded since late March. He also laid out detailed plans for reopening the state, with so-called “lower risk” businesses getting back to work as early as May. New York […]

(Natural News) Canada will be closing its U.S. borders starting Friday night, the Canadian government said. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, speaking to reporters from his Ottawa residence, said that while the flow of trade between the two countries will be left intact, all non-essential travel in both directions will be banned. According to Trudeau, the […]