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NIH Gave Millions to Chinese Entities to Study Infectious Diseases
The National Institutes of Health has doled out nearly $46 million in taxpayer funds to 100 Chinese institutions in the form of subgrants since 2011 to conduct research into infectious diseases, drug addiction, mental health, and other scientific fields, according to a Daily Caller News Foundation analysis of federal spending data. The National Institutes of… -
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De Blasio Warns ‘Voluntary Phase Over’ for COVID-19 Shots
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio told MSNBC that the “voluntary phase is over” for COVID-19 vaccinations. “We’ve got to shake people at this point and say, ‘Come on now.’ We tried voluntary. We could not have been more kind and compassionate,” de Blasio said on MSNBC. “Free testing, everywhere you turn, incentives, friendly,… -
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What the Pandemic Can Teach Us About Vulnerabilities in Our Defense Supply Chain
You only have to go back to March 2020, when grocery store shelves were stripped bare and toilet paper became a scarce commodity, to understand how vulnerable people are when supply doesn’t meet demand. Unfortunately, the U.S. military can easily be put in the same position. America’s defense supply chain—that is, the large network of… -
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5 American Athletes Whose Olympic Dreams Got Dashed by COVID-19
Five U.S. athletes have tested positive for COVID-19 before the start of the Tokyo Olympics, crushing their dreams of competing in the world’s largest sporting event. U.S. men’s basketball player Bradley Beal tested positive July 15, which made him unable to travel to Tokyo, the USA team announced in a tweet. U.S women’s tennis star… -
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Pelosi’s Archbishop Rebukes Her for Saying She Supports Abortion as ‘Devout Catholic’
Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone rebuked Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., Thursday for calling herself a “devout Catholic” in her defense of taxpayer-funded abortion. “Let me repeat,” the San Francisco archbishop said in a statement. “No one can claim to be a devout Catholic and condone the killing of innocent human life, let alone have… -
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How This Pastor Resisted Government to Keep His Church Open During COVID-19
Churches, synagogues, and other places of worship faced extraordinary challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic, especially in liberal states such as California. Rob McCoy, senior pastor of Godspeak Calvary Chapel of Thousand Oaks in California, joins a bonus episode of “The Daily Signal Podcast” to talk about how he kept his church open during COVID-19 amid… -
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COVID-19 Cases Jump by 55% in Week
Coronavirus cases are spiking in nearly every state, fueled by the spread of the highly contagious delta variant. The overwhelming majority of cases are appearing in Americans who are not vaccinated against the virus, with many of the highest increases coming in states where vaccination rates are the lowest. Cases nationwide are up 55% in… -
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Fauci v. Paul and 3 Other Takeaways From Senate COVID-19 Hearing
Another heated exchange between Sen. Rand Paul and Dr. Anthony Fauci stole the show Tuesday at a Senate hearing on COVID-19, although participants also raised other key points. Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, clashed publicly with the Kentucky Republican for at least the third time in recent months. “Sen…. -
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De Blasio to Keep Masks in Schools Despite CDC Guidelines
Masks will be required in New York City grade schools this fall, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Monday at a press briefing. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released new guidance Friday that vaccinated students and teachers could go maskless and stressed “the importance of offering in-person learning, regardless of whether all of the prevention strategies… -
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Tested by COVID-19, Doctors’ Direct Primary Care Model Demonstrates Resilience
The COVID-19 pandemic has proven to be one of the most chaotic and destructive global events in history. Beyond the obvious direct human toll of illness and death, COVID-19 has led to massive upheaval in nearly all sectors of the economy. Yet, one sector proved to be surprisingly resilient; namely, direct primary care. These low-cost… -
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Scalise Calls on Pelosi to Hold Hearings on Origins of COVID-19
House Minority Whip Steve Scalise is accusing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of not being honest about China over the origins of the coronavirus. “Today, we are here with the [GOP] Doctors Caucus to talk about something we’ve been calling on for a long time, and that is demanding actual accountability and demanding that Speaker Pelosi… -
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Economic Freedom Would Be Fastest Route to COVID-19 Recovery for Spain
Spain has been on an economic roller-coaster ride throughout the past decade. Economic freedom for the European Union’s fourth-largest economy has improved remarkably over the past few years. Now, however, in trying to spur economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, Spain may be pushing economic freedom to the sidelines. As documented by The Heritage Foundation’s… -
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McCarthy Offers ‘8-Pillar’ Plan to Hold China Accountable for COVID-19 Pandemic
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., has introduced a plan comprising “eight pillars” for “holding China accountable” for the coronavirus pandemic. “The unfortunate reality is that countless friends and family members could have been saved, had it not been for the deception of the Chinese Communist Party,” McCarthy said in a letter posted Sunday on his… -
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Mysterious Origins of COVID-19 Raise Alarming Possibilities
For over a year, the American establishment and media have ostracized anyone who dared to connect the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic with the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Then, suddenly and without apologies for their past demagoguery, “journalists” and “experts” conceded that the Wuhan lab may well have been the most likely genesis. Why the… -
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Why Are Our Leaders Not Protecting America From China and COVID-19?
What happens when a country loses interest in protecting itself? That’s what we are living through in America today. COVID-19 has killed 600,000 Americans. Yet the U.S. government and top American leaders have generally been passive, or even uninterested, in learning how it all started. How can that be? It’s almost unimaginable that every single… -
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Suicide Attempts Among Adolescents Skyrocketed During Pandemic, CDC Report Shows
Suicide-related emergency room visits among both adolescent girls and boys spiked amid the pandemic and continued to surge as lockdowns persisted, according to a government health report. Emergency room mental health visits increased 31% among children aged 12-17 years old in 2020 compared to the previous year, according to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report released Friday…. -
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8 Things to Know About Whether COVID-19 Leaked From Chinese Lab
The trove of newly public emails from Dr. Anthony Fauci only has intensified calls for more answers about the origins of COVID-19. On some level, the executive branch and Congress are investigating the origins of the pandemic that has killed millions around the world and almost 600,000 in the United States. The renewed attention comes… -
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Pandemic Challenged Us, but Did Not Derail Us
At long last, we can finally see the light at the end of the tunnel. We are inching closer and closer each day to the end of the COVID-19 pandemic here in America. We are not quite there yet. There are still 500 of our countrymen dying every day from complications of this insidious virus…. -
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Rep. Michael McCaul Outlines How to Hold China Accountable for COVID-19
Rep. Michael McCaul says the United States needs to hold China accountable for COVID-19. The Texas Republican joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to discuss how we might do that. “I think it’s becoming more and more clear as the evidence unfolds, when we talk about the origins of COVID-19, that it’s more likely it came… -
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Biden Budget Would Scrap Decades of Consensus on Not Funding Abortion
President Joe Biden released his budget proposal on May 28 as Americans headed into the long Memorial Day weekend. The “unreasonable and irresponsible” measure, as my Heritage Foundation colleague Matthew Dickerson described it, calls for dizzying amounts of spending across the federal government, paid for by American taxpayers. (The Daily Signal is the news outlet…