Republican members of Congress are demanding the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health to stop awarding grants to EcoHealth Alliance, the nonprofit foundation connected to COVID-19 research in Wuhan, China.
President Joe Biden's Treasury Department is investigating if Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis misused COVID-19 relief funds to transport migrants to Martha's Vineyard.
Inflation from the perspective of business costs—which tend to get passed along to consumers—soared in September, reversing the prior month’s decline and coming in twice as high as markets expected, pointing to a drawn-out Fed fight against high prices.
Certain governments across the globe have established a compensation program to compensate their citizens who suffer injuries or death from the COVID-19 shots and treatments recommended during the pandemic.
The Biden administration’s excessive use of executive orders, regulatory rulemaking power, and lawfare against state governments and other “intermediary institutions”; its dictatorial pandemic decrees; and its ongoing efforts to delegitimize the Republican Party as an organization of dangerous neo-fascists, lawless election deniers, and insurrectionists are all manifestations of this country’s continuing drift toward “democratic despotism,” which didn’t start with President Joe Biden and will not end with him.
Former Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke, along with a few other folks, was awarded the Nobel Prize in economics on Monday for his role in deciding how the world handled major crises such as the 2008 recession and the COVID-19 pandemic.
