Author: Keshav Bhardwaj

Chef Jose Andres is known to have spent most of 2020 in feeding people on the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic . He expressed that the inability of the United States government to prevent millions of Americans from going hungry was a natural disaster. He was commenting on the food insecurity in the United States. He was of the opinion that the federal government had many things, listed that looked good on paper, but was “missing in action.” Political will according to him was an essential prerequisite for feeding Americans. Currently Andres is in San Andres – the Colombian Island,…

It was revealed on Tuesday, by FireEye which is one of the largest cybersecurity companies in the US that it had been hacked. It said that it was likely that a government had done this and hacking tools that were used to test the defenses of its clients had been stolen. FireEye’s hack can be said to be the most significant breach in recent history. This company has a number of contracts spanning the national security space in the United States and its allies. After news of this breach broke out, the company’s shares dropped by 8% in the after-hours…

It was made amply clear by President Trump’s legal team that they will continue their legal battle challenging the election results though January. The “safe harbor” deadline was on Tuesday. Under Federal law this is meant for states to resolve any legal issues before the Electoral College convening on December 14th. It was revealed by Jenna Ellis and Rudolph W. Giuliani the attorneys who are representing the President, that the courts have considered election challenges beyond the December 8th Deadline. The date of ultimate significance will be January 6, when the Congress will count and certify the votes of the…

According to several reports released on Monday, President-elect, Joe Biden is expected to explore the possibility of retired Army Gen. Lloyd Austin, to be the next secretary of defense. If the reports are confirmed then, this paves the way for Gen. Austin retired in 2016 to be the first African-American defense secretary. Austin had earlier created history by being the first Black Commander. He was leading the U.S Central Command. Until 2013, this four –star general had also served as the vice chief of staff of the U.S army. He was the associated with as the last commanding general of…

In another desperate bid to overturn the election results, Donald Trump is reported to have called the Pennsylvania state house speaker for assistance. As informed by the speaker’s office Trump was seeking his help in overturning the election result certified by the state.  A spokesperson of the office of the House informed the media that two calls had been made in the past week to the House speaker, Bryan Cutler, who was a Republican.  Michael Straub, spokesperson for Cutler, said that Trump reportedly wanted to fix the election results. Disclosing more from the conversation, he went on to add that…

Rebekah Jones, had been under investigation by Florida authorities for an alleged hack into the state’s emergency alert health system, since early November. This followed the discovery that somebody had accessed the state’s emergency alert health system illegally. She had been fired in May for unauthorized public comments pertaining to the data. She had rasied many questions about the COVID-19 data in Florida. After being warned not to do that, she had finally been fired for making public remarks about the information. Subsequent to her firing she had been very active on social media, criticizing Ron De Santis the Republican…

Scientists found that the island’s surface area has increased by 13% since 1943. It is mainly due to a build-up of sediments from the existing coral reef. Healthy coral reefs naturally produce sediment. That is what these tiny islands are made of, said a researcher. Some islands in the Pacific Ocean in the low line areas have long been considered some of the most affected areas to climate change, as rising sea levels pose a danger to submerge them. But over the last ten years, scientists have been puzzled to note a strange phenomenon of some islands that are growing bigger.…

On this Sunday, more than 23 million people in Southern California were preparing to brace a strict new lockdown in the wake of a huge spike in coronavirus cases. Governor Gavin Newsom has ordered the restrictions in California. This will take effect region by region. The intensive care units of hospitals are filled to capacity. There is a call to close down bars, hair salons, nail salons and tattoo shops once again.  From Sunday onwards the affected regions were to be shut down 11.59 pm onwards. Newsom is a first time Democrat and he has forced to hold back funds…

Moncef Slaoui, the chief adviser for the US Efforts on the coronavirus vaccines said that he planned to meet President-elect Joe Biden in the upcoming week. The vaccine is expected to be available for the first batch of Americans later in the month. Slaoui said that he has not yet met Biden, who has spoken against the Trump administration’s plan for vaccine distribution. Biden had mentioned that his team had not yet seen the vaccine distribution plan to various states by the Trump administration. He mentioned that the vaccine needed to be out of a container into a syringe and…

A former senior intelligence official who is well aware of intelligence transition discussions has disclosed that the Trump administration prevented Joe Biden’s transition team from meeting its counterparts this week at the Pentagon Intelligence agencies. Although all other meetings of Biden are now happening smoothly after weeks of delay, Biden’s team has not been able to meet military intelligence agencies within the Defence department. The Pentagon has however denied such news and mentioned that a few meetings were taking place but did not give any details of those meetings. The General Services Administration has given the go ahead on November…