(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...
(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) The Texas Senate approved House Bill 1925, which would outlaw vagrant camping in public places across Texas.
The bill passed with bipartisan support in the Senate after passing the House on May 6.
The bill now heads back to the House to approve amendments added by the...
(Tim Gruver, The Center Square) A bipartisan bill intended to protect personal COVID data from third parties was vetoed by Gov. Jay Inslee this week, making waves across the political aisle.
Lawmakers filed House Bill 1127 to address data collection from contact tracing or the process by which investigators retrace an...
(Associated Press) Anyone who gets vaccinated at select state-run vaccination sites in New York next week will receive a lottery scratch ticket with prizes potentially worth millions, as Gov. Andrew Cuomo tries to boost slowing vaccination rates.
The pilot program will offer prizes from $20 up to $5 million and run...
(Cole Lauterbach, The Center Square) New research on COVID-19 hospitalizations of children in California has found nearly half of them were unlikely to have been because of the disease.
A peer-reviewed commentary from two University of California San Francisco academics – Dr. Monica Gandhi and Amy Beck, associate professor of pediatrics...