Hunger, and especially childhood hunger, has been exacerbated by the COVID-19 crisis. The federal government has struggled to address the problem, but a new bill from Virginia congressman Bobby Scott attempts to tackle the issue through universal free school meals. Surveys have indicated that hunger has hit families with children especially hard during the pandemic. […]

On Monday, California Governor Gavin Newsom called the Central Valley “our biggest area of concern.” That’s not great news in a state that has the most COVID-19 positive tests in the country, and which broke the single-day COVID-19 death toll three times in the past week. The Central Valley, though, has seen test rates, deaths, […]

The USDA has issued some updates on the hundreds of reports from across the country about those mysterious, unsolicited seeds that showed up in the mail. Those packages of seeds, many of which originated from China and various Central Asian countries, aroused widespread suspicion and conspiracy theories. The USDA announced last week some preliminary findings […]