Tag: COVID-19

An animal rights group launched a billboard campaign on Monday accusing the Department of Veterans Affairs of illegally experimenting on dogs. (Marin County Fire Department via AP)

Cutting the red tape requiring animal testing saves lives

Anthony Bellotti, Alyssa Hackbarth · December 3, 2020 2:19 pm

Gov. John Bel Edwards talks about an expected $300 million-plus surplus Louisiana will have from the last budget year, while Commissioner of Administration Jay Dardenne and Revenue Secretary Kimberly Robinson listen to his remarks, on Thursday, Sept. 20, 2018, in Baton Rouge, La.

Democratic Louisiana governor says he did not violate virus restrictions after blowback over viral photo of him at country club

Emma Colton · December 3, 2020 2:06 pm

More than $400M in unemployment payments went to California inmates this year

Washington Examiner · December 3, 2020 2:00 pm

Pompeo invites 900 people to State Department holiday parties amid pandemic

Mica Soellner · December 3, 2020 1:15 pm

Missouri lawmakers itching to cuff local governments’ emergency powers in 2021

Washington Examiner · December 3, 2020 1:00 pm

The European flag, left, and the Union Jack, right, fly with other European flags outside the European Parliament in Strasbourg, eastern France, Friday Jan.31, 2020. Britain officially leaves the European Union on Friday.

EU excited to build ‘post-corona world’ with Biden after four years of ‘bilateral tensions’

Joel Gehrke · December 3, 2020 11:30 am

Pedestrians cross a street as one of them prepares his face mask in western Tehran, Iran, Saturday, Feb. 29, 2020. Iran is preparing for the possibility of "tens of thousands" of people getting tested for the new coronavirus as the number of confirmed cases spiked again Saturday, Health Ministry spokesman Kianoush Jahanpour said, underscoring the fear both at home and abroad over the outbreak in the Islamic Republic.

US coronavirus hospitalizations exceed 100,000 for first time, data shows

Tyler Van Dyke · December 3, 2020 2:07 am

In this May 27, 2005 file photo, former French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing, with an EU Flag at right, attends the debate of the new European constitution at the German Upper House Bundesrat in Berlin. Valery Giscard dâEstaing, the president of France from 1974 to 1981 who became a champion of European integration, has died Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2020 at the age of 94, his office and the French presidency said.

Former French president dies after coronavirus diagnosis

Zach Halaschak · December 3, 2020 1:33 am

‘He would have been the hero’: Brad Parscale says Trump needed to show more empathy

Katherine Doyle · December 3, 2020 1:15 am

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer declared a state of emergency in response to a water main break north of Detroit, leaving thousands under a boil water advisory.

Gretchen Whitmer won’t budge on ending three-week ‘pause’ in Michigan

Washington Examiner · December 3, 2020 1:00 am

Obama says he might get coronavirus vaccine on TV to show it’s safe

Zach Halaschak · December 3, 2020 12:38 am

The vaccination rollout is underway

Cassidy Morrison · December 3, 2020 12:06 am