Tag: COVID-19

Blank stimulus checks are seen on an idle press at the Philadelphia Regional Financial Center, which disburses payments on behalf of federal agencies, in Philadelphia, Thursday, May 8, 2008. The first batch of rebate payments started hitting bank accounts last week through direct deposits. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, Vice President Dick Cheney and other Bush administration officials are visiting government check printing centers around the country on Thursday for events highlighting the fact that millions of rebate checks are in the mail.

Biden is gambling with other people’s money

Washington Examiner · February 22, 2021 5:00 am

Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., will introduce legislation that would give the CDC $10 million a year "for the purpose of conducting or supporting research on firearms safety or gun violence prevention." (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke)

Carolyn Maloney says COVID relief package should help debt-ridden places such as New York

Carly Roman · February 22, 2021 2:21 am

Minimum wages hurt the poor

Dan Hannan · February 22, 2021 12:00 am

Circumstantial evidence of human error ‘far outweighs’ natural outbreak of COVID-19, Matt Pottinger says

Jerry Dunleavy · February 21, 2021 9:14 pm

Trump's postmaster general personally ordered USPS overtime cuts: Report

Carly Roman · February 21, 2021 8:48 pm

PolitiFact top editor says ‘no clear-cut answers’ on Cuomo allegedly covering up nursing home deaths

Emma Colton · February 21, 2021 8:11 pm

Chinese President Xi Jinping speaks during an event to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Message to Compatriots in Taiwan at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2019.

Jake Sullivan criticizes China’s transparency on COVID-19 origin but declines to stand by US intelligence on it

Jerry Dunleavy · February 21, 2021 5:35 pm

Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, speaks about the coronavirus in the Rose Garden of the White House, Monday, March 30, 2020, in Washington.

Fauci: It’s ‘possible’ mask guidance could last into 2022

Kaelan Deese · February 21, 2021 5:00 pm

New Mexico governor spent thousands in taxypayer money on groceries, liquor, and dry cleaning: Report

Jake Dima · February 21, 2021 3:24 pm

President Joe Biden and Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, tour a Pfizer manufacturing site, Friday, Feb. 19, 2021, in Portage, Mich.

White House Report Card: Another Trump trashing week for Biden

Paul Bedard · February 21, 2021 1:45 pm

‘We are a child of the pandemic’: Baltimore bakery defies the odds with debut

Tyler Van Dyke · February 21, 2021 12:00 pm

Sweden moves to strengthen academic freedom after researcher harassed for pandemic study

Michael Lee · February 20, 2021 6:45 pm