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Opening statements are expected Monday in the fraud trial of seven people charged in what federal prosecutors have called a massive scheme to exploit lax rules during the COVID-19 pandemic and steal from a program meant to provide meals to children in Minnesota. The seven will be the first of 70 defendants to go on trial in the alleged scam. …

Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., snapped at MSNBC host Katy Tur Monday for saying that the job market during Trump’s presidency was impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. “I have sympathy and respect for everybody who votes,” Pelosi said on “Katy Tur Reports.” “I’m just glad people vote. I know some of them would never – will always reject those of us …

Police departments across the United States are reporting an increase in their ranks for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic and the 2020 killing of George Floyd, which led to a historic exodus of officers, a survey shows. More sworn officers were hired in 2023 than in any one of the previous four years, and fewer officers overall resigned …

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the former director of the National Institution of Allergy and Infectious Disease, will testify publicly before a congressional panel in June, marking the first time he has done so since retiringfrom government at the end of 2022. Fauci has agreed to testify before the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, a House panel investigating the origins …

The World Health Organization and around 500 experts have agreed for the first time what it means for a disease to spread through the air, in a bid to avoid the confusion early in the COVID-19 pandemic that some scientists have said cost lives. The Geneva-based U.N. health agency released a technical document on the topic on Thursday. It said …

Newly released emails between a top colleague of Dr. Anthony Fauci and the president of a non-governmental organization being funded to conduct coronavirus research in Wuhan, China, said the group had over 700 identified but un-sequenced coronaviruses in its lab when its government grant was first pulled in 2020. On Tuesday, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., highlighted a series of email …

Veteran NPR editor Uri Berliner detailed his employer’s “absence of viewpoint diversity” this week in a stunning piece about liberal groupthink invading the newsroom that rocked the media industry. Berliner’s Free Press bombshell offered an inside look at NPR’s drift from only being “a bit to the left” in 2011 to its current form, where he said an “open-minded spirit …

The H5N1 virus, which for 30 years affected mostly birds, is rapidly evolving and spreading globally. The Biden administration is dangerously unready. Over the last two years, H5N1 has jumped from birds to mammals, infecting at least 26 species. South American scientists publishing in the prestigious journal Nature Communications report massive “sea lion die-offs” and warn about avian influenza viruses …

After Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., sent letters to 15 federal agencies requesting information on their purported newfound connections to a 2018 grant proposal that sought to experiment with a COVID-19-type microbe, the lawmaker told Fox News the development is the “smoking gun” critics had long sought. Paul claimed the developments — to which he credited a Marine Corps whistleblower — …

Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., lambasted Congress on Tuesday for “out of control” federal spending and “unserious” efforts to hold the government accountable. Johnson, the ranking member on the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, spoke at the Heritage Foundation’s Weaponization of U.S. Government Symposium in the morning, where he discussed his investigations into the COVID-19 pandemic response and great difficulty conducting oversight …