North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper vetoed on Feb. 24 Senate Bill 173—the Free the Smiles Act—which would have given parents discernment on masking their children in K-12 public school. The decision comes a week after he encouraged local school boards to lift their mask mandates; however, Cooper said he wants the school boards to retain the…

Anne Quiner’s husband Scott died in an undisclosed Texas hospital on Jan. 22 after Anne sought legal counsel to have him transferred out of Mercy Hospital in Coon Rapids, Minnesota, where doctors planned to take Scott off life support. “We got him too late in the process,” Quiner’s lawyer, Marjorie Holsten, told The Epoch Times. “We should…

Anne Quiner’s husband Scott died in an undisclosed Texas hospital on Jan. 22 after Anne sought legal counsel to have him transferred out of Mercy Hospital in Coon Rapids, Minnesota, where doctors planned to take Scott off life support. “We got him too late in the process,” Quiner’s lawyer, Marjorie Holsten, told The Epoch Times. “We should…

SANTA ANA, Calif.—Orange County officials reported declining infection and hospitalization rates from the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus prior to the first confirmed case of the Omicron virus variant in San Francisco on Dec. 1. In Orange County, CCP virus case rates dropped from 7.5 to 6.3 per 100,000 people between Nov. 24 and Nov….