A series of states have passed restrictive voting laws recently in the wake of Donald Trump’s loss. While Texas Democrats walked out to prevent passage of a bill there, the new voting law in Florida passed easily with Republican support in late April. While Florida’s election officials and statewide leaders praised the November election as […]
Viewers could be excused for thinking Robert De Niro was just being a good fella in an ad promoting safe buildings amid the covid pandemic, along with the likes of Jennifer Lopez, Lady Gaga and Michael B. Jordan. They would be wrong. De Niro and the other A-list celebs are backing something called the Well […]
Lots of people still have questions about the COVID-19 vaccines. What’s in them? Who developed them? Do they have legal liability? Are they effective? These are some of the questions we came across in a recent Instagram post that lists things “critical thinkers” are asking about the vaccines. It also disparages the reasons why other people […]
To say that federal guidance on mask-wearing has been confusing would be an understatement. Back in 2020, during the earliest days of the coronavirus outbreak in the U.S., mask-wearing was discouraged. Then officials changed this guidance, citing clearer findings that the virus could be transmitted by people who showed no symptoms. The advice to wear […]
Thousands of people protested in cities and towns across the U.S., day after day and night after night, demanding racial justice and police reform. George Floyd’s death on May 25, 2020, launched one of the loudest, most sustained national calls for lawmakers to reexamine decades-long practices that outraged critics say allow police to avoid accountability. […]
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican, is pushing forward on a reworked civics education curriculum for K-12. For DeSantis, the new plan is as much on what it bans, as what it promotes. “Let me be clear, there’s no room in our classrooms for things like critical race theory,” DeSantis said at a March press […]
Since Jan. 6, calls for an independent commission to investigate Capitol insurrection have been growing. Recently, all House Democrats and 35 Republicans voted in favor of a bill that sets up a commission similar to the one that investigated 9/11. After House passage, the measure moved to the Senate, where Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., […]
As the U.S. Postal Service struggled and COVID-19 raged, millions of 2020 voters chose to return their mail ballots using official ballot drop boxes rather than risk unreliable mail delivery or crowded spaces. These drop boxes — often big, sturdy, slotted, steel receptacles — had been used in blue and red states for about two decades […]
Confronting Dr. Anthony Fauci at a Senate committee hearing on the COVID-19 pandemic, Sen. Rand Paul argued that the United States collaborated with the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China to make a more deadly coronavirus. The Kentucky Republican made the explosive allegation the day after Fox News talk show host Tucker Carlson made another […]
Over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, Washington has committed over half a trillion dollars to cushion laid-off workers from economic pain. The most recent move came in the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan that added $300 a week to unemployment checks. The money provided welcome relief to millions of households. But now a debate […]
Question: The federal government approved the Pfizer vaccine for 12- to 15-year-olds. What does this mean for my child? Answer: Children in this age group now can receive the two-dose vaccine without a waiting period between other routine vaccinations, giving parents an opportunity to immunize their children before summer camps or a return to in-person […]
PolitiFact interviewed Dr. Anthony Fauci, longtime chief of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, for the first time May 11 as part of United Facts of America: A Festival of Fact-Checking. Managing editor Katie Sanders asked Fauci about the origins of the coronavirus, COVID-19 vaccines for children, and what he makes of the […]