(Jack Elbaum, Foundation for Economic Education) For most of the COVID-19 pandemic, wearing a mask, especially indoors, was the official guidance of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
But, on May 13, the CDC announced that vaccinated people — whether they be indoors or outdoors — no longer have to...
Top GOP congressmen sought additional answers following coronavirus czar Anthony Fauci's formal admission this week that the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases had indirectly funneled money to coronavirus research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
On Friday, Reps. James Comer of Kentucky and Jim Jordan of Ohio announced...
UPDATE 5/28/21 2:30 EDT: Idaho Gov. Brad Little, a moderate, on Friday issued an executive order repealing a 24-hour-old mask-mandate prohibition put in place while he was out of the state by the lieutenant governor, describing her actions as a tyrannical abuse of power and an “irresponsible, self-serving political stunt.”
The...
(Headline USA) California is giving away the country's largest pot of vaccine prize money — $116.5 million — in an attempt to get millions more inoculated before the most populous state fully reopens next month.
Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday announced the prizes, which include $1.5 million each for 10 Californians,...
(Hannah Cox, Foundation for Economic Education) With most sporting events canceled for much of the past year, audiences have tuned into a new kind of sparring to fill the void: political debates. And two opponents have quickly risen to the top of their weight classes—Sen. Rand Paul and Dr. Anthony...
President Joe Biden is scrambling to launch another investigation into the origins of the Chinese coronavirus after it was confirmed this week that he shut down a similar Trump State Department probe.
Biden announced on Wednesday that he has asked the intelligence community to send him a report on the...
Michigan's Department of Health and Human Services failed to conduct a mandatory review of COVID-19 deaths, which indicates that the state significantly undercounted deaths of nursing-home residents, a new investigation found.
An independent analysis by the Mackinac Center for Public Policy and reporter Charlie LeDuff's "No BS News Hour" also...
After more than a year of dismissing and attempting to de-legitimize any suggestion that COVID-19 escaped from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, Democrats and their media allies are now trying to cover their tracks.
As the lab-leak theory gains more credibility, Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra recently called...
Coronavirus czar Anthony Fauci now says he is "not convinced" COVID-19 developed naturally.
Fauci responded with a newfound uncertainty when pressed during a recent Poynter Institute-sponsored forum titled “United Facts of America: A Festival of Fact-Checking.”
“No actually. I am not convinced about that," Fauci answered, according to Fox News. "I...
Recent developments concerning both the past and future of the coronavirus have suddenly turned conservative media into soothsayers.
As I predicted in March, every indication was that the virus panic would evaporate with even the slightest nudging, such as the generous gift bestowed upon us by the Centers for Disease...
(Headline USA) California no longer will require physical distancing and will allow full capacity for businesses when the state reopens on June 15, the state's top health official said Friday.
"We're at a place with this pandemic where those requirements of the past are no longer needed for the foreseeable...
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., introduced an amendment to SB 1260, the Endless Frontier Act, that would prohibit the federal government from financing gain-of-function research in China.
"We don’t know whether the pandemic started in a lab in Wuhan or evolved naturally," said Paul, a medical doctor. "While Washington bureaucrats deny...