Portland’s flagship luxury high-rise, the $600 million Ritz-Carlton tower, may soon change hands as its developers prepare to surrender the property to their lender. Struggling with the economic aftershocks of COVID-19 and years of downtown unrest, the 35-story tower—Block 216—has failed to reach profitability.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order prohibiting federal funds from going to gain-of-function research in China, Iran, and other countries.
Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico announced that his government will stop its procurement of COVID-19 vaccines in light of a recent report highlighting the presence of DNA within them.
Dr. Robert Redfield, former CDC Director under President Donald Trump, expressed approval of the White House's recent acknowledgment that COVID-19 originated from a laboratory in Wuhan, China.
U.S. District Judge Mary McElroy issued a temporary restraining order on the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) move to cut $11 billion in public health funding.
U.S. District Judge Katherine Polk Failla dismissed a lawsuit against former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo (D) that blamed his administration for COVID-19-related deaths in nursing homes.
