Coinciding with President Joe Biden’s surrender to the CDC's new masking guidance, public optimism about the coronavirus pandemic has tanked.

Dr. Anthony Fauci is pushing back against the idea that face masks are a “personal choice” in the face of the increasingly severe delta variant of the coronavirus.

...Many churches are taking action to increase security for their buildings while some are working to foster reconciliation. 

...The share of Americans donating to any charity fell from two-thirds in 2000 to less than one-half in 2018, the last year for which data is available, according to the new study...

After a number of woke Olympics warriors went down to ignominious defeat this week, many Americans jumped to social media to celebrate their demise, Team USA or no.

Rates of vaccine refusal remained constant or even increased in some groups, however.

Infectious-disease expert cites more contagious Delta variant and surge of new cases.

Thousands turned out in Berlin on Sunday to protest the German government’s anti-coronavirus measures despite a ban on the gatherings, leading to clashes with police and the detention of some 600 protesters.

The American Medical Association (AMA) faced intense backlash late last week and over the weekend after calling for sex to be removed as a legal definition on the public part of birth certificates.

“This is sad, I grew up wearing Converse but seeing that satanic marketing through your shoes, I won’t be buying into this. God help you!”

A judge has ordered Hobby Lobby, the arts and crafts chain whose president is Museum of the Bible founder Steve Green, to forfeit an ancient tablet bearing a rare fragment of the Epic of Gilgamesh.

According to Axios, few Americans are masking up to meet the demands of the CDC in cities like Gastonia, North Carolina, Des Moines, Iowa, Tampa Bay, the Twin Cities and Denver, Colorado.

A Colorado web designer has lost her appeal after refusing to create wedding websites for same-sex couples and her challenge to Colorado's anti-discrimination law.

...There were 259 more homicides in the first half of 2021 when compared to the first half of 2020, and 548 more when compared to the first half of 2019, the study finds.

...“I always think of it as kind of corrupting something that exists,” he told the outlet. “And I don’t mean that in an aggressive way.”