Category: AMERICA

Senate Votes to Lift Mask Mandate for Public Transport

The U.S. Senate voted to pass a resolution to repeal a mask mandate on airplanes and other public transport on Tuesday, drawing a quick veto threat from the White House. The vote to overturn the public health order was 57–40. The order has been in place since soon after President Joe Biden took office in January 2021….


Pfizer and BioNTech Seek US Authorization for 4th COVID-19 Vaccine Dose for Ages 65 and Over

Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech on Tuesday requested emergency use authorization (EUA) from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for a second COVID-19 booster dose for seniors. This would be the fourth dose to the regimen of the Pfizer-BioNTech (Pfizer) COVID-19 vaccines for those aged 65 and over. In the United States, the primary…


Pfizer-BioNTech Seek FDA Emergency Authorization for 4th COVID-19 Vaccine Dose for Ages 65 and Over

Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech on Tuesday requested emergency use authorization (EUA) from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for a second COVID-19 booster dose for seniors. This would be the fourth dose to the regimen of the Pfizer-BioNTech (Pfizer) COVID-19 vaccines for those aged 65 and over. In the United States, the primary…


Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff Tests Positive for COVID-19

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris’s husband, Second Gentleman Douglas Emhoff, tested positive on Tuesday for COVID-19, announced the White House. Harris tested negative. However, out of an abundance of caution, she won’t participate in an event at the White House late on Tuesday. She will continue to test. Emhoff is the first out of Harris,…


White House Warns of ‘Severe Consequences’ Congress Doesn’t Pass COVID-19 Aid

The White House warned that it will have to make cutbacks to the U.S. COVID-19 response if Congress doesn’t authorize new funding. “As the Administration has warned, failure to fund these efforts now will have severe consequences as we will not be equipped to deal with a future surge. Waiting to provide funding once we’re…


Fewer People Are Getting Married—Why?

Commentary The existentialist Soren Kierkegaard pondered many things—life, death, happiness, sadness, even the importance of birds and lilies. He also pondered the question of marriage. Kierkegaard, a man who was engaged for a year before deciding against tying the knot, once wrote the following: “If you marry, you will regret it; if you do not…


Fauci Suggests More Vaccines Likely Needed: ‘We’re Not Done With This’

White House COVID-19 adviser Anthony Fauci suggested Monday that it’s likely that more COVID-19 vaccines will be needed. In an interview with CNBC, Fauci was asked how many more COVID-19 vaccine doses, or boosters, will be needed. “The answer is: we don’t know. I mean, that’s it … It is likely that we’re not done…


Brooklyn Nets Fined For Letting Unvaccinated Player Into Locker Room

The National Basketball Association (NBA) fined the Brooklyn Nets on March 14 for letting a player who hasn’t received a COVID-19 vaccine into their locker room. Kyrie Irving was permitted to enter the locker room over the weekend when his team, the Nets, played the New York Knicks at Barclays Center, according to the NBA….


EXCLUSIVE: Fauci Said Great Barrington Declaration Reminded Him of AIDS Denialism

Dr. Anthony Fauci tried linking a strategy to avoid lockdowns to scientists who questioned whether HIV causes AIDS, according to an email obtained by The Epoch Times. Fauci, the longtime director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and his former boss, Dr. Francis Collins, both strongly oppose the strategy, which was outlined in…


Vehicles in Truck-Led Convoy Ride Through Washington, DC

Part of a convoy led by trucks rode through Washington, D.C. on Monday after more than a week of circling the nation’s capital to call for an end to the federal government’s COVID-19 emergency declaration, restrictions, and mandates. It was the first time protesters of The People’s Convoy sought to enter the city since arriving…