(Headline USA) California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, the controversial choice to become President Joe Biden's health secretary, was confirmed by a 50-49 vote Thursday after Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, split with the GOP opposition to support him.
"There are, unfortunately, numerous nominees in the Biden administration who are either extreme...
(Headline USA) Former President Donald Trump again urged people to be vaccinated against the novel coronavirus, saying he would recommend vaccination to “a lot of people that don't want to get it, and a lot of those people voted for me.”
In an interview Tuesday night on Fox News, Trump acknowledged...
(Brad Polumbo, Foundation for Economic Education) Billions of people across the globe continue to live under COVID-19 lockdowns or heavily-restricted life.
And for almost all of us, life amid the pandemic in 2020 was an isolating and difficult year.
Yet doctors are warning that children in particular are experiencing grave mental health...
(Jon Miltimore, Foundation for Economic Education) In July, Adam Weinstein of The New Republic wrote that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis was leading Americans “on a Death March” by not embracing the same COVID-19 restrictions as many other US states.
“Keeping churches open—as well as beaches, restaurants, and dividend-yielding commerce—has been a...
(Headline USA) Anthony Fauci said Sunday he wishes former President Donald Trump would use his popularity among Republicans to persuade more of them to get the coronavirus vaccine, which Trump's Warp Speed project created.
In a round of interviews on the morning news shows, the government's top infectious disease expert...
The wife of a top Antifa leader in Charlotte, North Carolina, was fired from a major hospital system for accessing the records of a conservative activist.
Amber Woods, a former employee of Atrium Health, may also have violated federal law by retrieving Brian Talbert's private data four times since 2019...
(Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Children's Health Defense) Over the last two weeks, Facebook and other social media sites have deplatformed me and many other critics of regulatory corruption and authoritarian public health policies. So, here is some fodder for those of you who have the eerie sense that the government/industry...
(Headline USA) President Joe Biden pledged in his first prime-time address to make all adults eligible for vaccines by May 1 and raised the possibility of beginning to "mark our independence from this virus” by the Fourth of July.
He offered Americans fresh hope and appealed anew for their help.
Speaking in...
(Headline USA) The Senate voted on Thursday to advance President Joe Biden’s nominee for health secretary as Democrats muscled past Republican opposition using a new procedure put in place to avoid gridlock in the evenly divided Senate.
The Senate Finance Committee split along party lines, 14-14, earlier this month on the...
(Headline USA) The Supreme Court said Thursday it has called off upcoming arguments over a Trump administration plan to remake Medicaid by requiring recipients to work, agreeing to a request from the Biden administration.
The court had been scheduled to take up the issue on March 29.
But the Biden administration already...
(Headline USA) Leading airline and business groups are asking the Biden administration to develop temporary credentials that would let travelers show they have been tested and vaccinated for COVID-19, a step that the airline industry believes will help revive travel.
Various groups and countries are working on developing so-called vaccine passports...
The Biden White House is attempting to defend the detainment of children at the southern border -- a policy Democrats once blasted former president Donald Trump for -- as the “humane and moral thing to do.”
When the Trump administration opened surge facilities dedicated to temporarily housing unaccompanied migrant children,...