Coronavirus
Nationwide school choice: a winner for Trump — and America's kids
Trump is now tied with Biden on the question of who Americans trust on education policy, according to a June 30 poll from the highly regarded AtlasIntel.
The week in whoppers: Team Biden denies campaign reality, NY Times flips on Trump's bleach-and-COVID advice
Biden's Deputy Campaign Manager Quentin Fulks claimed that the president's campaign is actually in a "strong position" — despite Democrats calling on him to drop out of the race.
What really fueled Ukraine war, a case study in enabling and other commentary
“Could it be the Ukraine war is about fighting for people?” asks Ivan Krastev at The Spectator World.
Ben Affleck's daughter Violet hinted at her viral condition with a book months before calling for mask mandate
The recent high school graduate revealed in a local government meeting on Tuesday that she "contracted a post-viral condition in 2019."
COVID pandemic caused whopping $18T in economic damage to US: report
The pandemic was "the most disruptive and costly event of the 21st century" and that the worldwide excess deaths from COVID were estimated to be 28 million.
Dear Abby: My daughter's biological mother told her I'm not her 'real mom'
Dear Abby weighs in on an adoptive mother's struggle with her daughter's biological mom and a husband who changed during the pandemic.
Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin 'shielded' biotech firms in gain-of-function research audit, GOP senator claims
A recent audit of Pentagon funding of gain-of-function research outside the US “may have shielded” collaborations with Chinese biotech firms — including at least one linked to Beijing's military, a...
China must pay the price for unleashing COVID-19
Now that we’ve pieced together the puzzle of the origin of COVID-19, there must be accountability for a pandemic that killed more people than WWI and cost the US alone $14 trillion.
Years after the end of COVID, NYC remains trapped in 'Long Lockdown'
The virus and quarantine may be over, but the effects are still hurting the city's recovery.
Pentagon watchdog doesn’t know how much overseas gain-of-function research is done with US funds — despite $1.4B spent: report
The Department of Defense Office of Inspector General released the inconclusive results Thursday of its congressionally mandated audit into funding that could have resulted in diseases becoming more virulent.
Dear Abby: My tenant isn't vaccinated for COVID, what do I do?
Dear Abby weighs in on a tenant who isn't vaccinated for COVID and a relationship that broke up do to financial woes.
Dr. Anthony Fauci writes COVID-19 lab leak is a 'conspiracy theory' in memoir — but told Congress it wasn't
Fauci, 83, writes in his memoir "On Call" of a now-infamous exchange with Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) during a 2021 hearing about SARS-CoV-2 possibly escaping through a lab accident.
Nevada is years away from healing COVID wounds, report says
A newly released report from the Nevada Department of Health and Human Services said it may take a long time to recover from the economic, education and behavioral health impacts of the COVID-19...
Fauci finally reverses course, agrees keeping schools closed during COVID was a 'mistake'
Dr. Anthony Fauci, a top adviser to two presidential administrations during the COVID-19 pandemic, reversed course in a Tuesday interview and agreed that shutting down schools for more than a...
Scientific expert declares there is 'zero' evidence for natural COVID-19 origin
Scientists in a Capitol Hill hearing fiercely debated whether COVID-19 sprung from a laboratory accident or naturally spilled over from animals to humans.
How society survives the world after the Truth is set on fire
At some point during the COVID-19 pandemic, we stopped believing our institutions of science.
Dr. Anthony Fauci brags about turning down $7 million-per-year private sector job
Fauci, 83, retired from his NIAID post in 2022 as the highest-paid government employee.
Andrew Cuomo is still fibbing about his deadly COVID nursing-home order
Four years after ordering COVID-positive patients into New York nursing homes, Andrew Cuomo's excuses for that fateful mistake have gotten older but no better.
Amanda Kloots details 'financial magnitude' of late husband Nick Cordero's hospital bills: 'Death is a business'
"I never thought I was going to lose my husband. Until the day he passed away, I really thought he was going to make it," the "Talk" co-host shared.
Andrew Cuomo repeats infamous 'who cares?' line on nursing home COVID deaths in congressional interview
"When pressed to explain the discrepancy between the reported death count and the true mortality rate, Mr. Cuomo was shockingly callous -- testifying '6,500 versus 9,000…who cares, what difference did...