Opinion
HILL: ‘I didn’t do that’
President Joe Biden said in his State of the Union address that he would be “the only president ever to cut the deficit by more than one trillion dollars in a single year!” Big deal. […]
COVID
Business
Why you can’t find cheap at-home Covid tests
While developing a rapid test that detects the coronavirus in someone’s saliva, Blink Science, a Florida-based startup, heard something startling: The Food and Drug Administration had more than 3,000 emergency use authorization applications and didn’t […]
News
Scientists explore how Africa has avoided COVID disaster
HARARE, Zimbabwe — At a busy market in a poor township outside Harare this week, Nyasha Ndou kept his mask in his pocket, as hundreds of other people, mostly unmasked, jostled to buy and sell […]
News
Cooper says COVID numbers are down, encourage vaccines
RALEIGH — Governor Roy Cooper a said the state has seen COVID cases “taper off” and that more people had made a decision to receive a vaccination. Cooper and health secretary Mandy Cohen provided an […]
Article
MATTHEWS: Reflections on the 1-year anniversary of my family’s COVID-19 experiences
I was perusing Facebook recently when I came across one of their “memories” posts. It was a photo I’d taken of some breakfast I’d fixed. The caption read, “May not seem like much, but mom […]
Opinion
GINGRICH: Where are they going?
Watching television coverage of people crossing the border illegally at our southern border, I began to wonder: where are they going? I was shocked to learn that the Biden administration refuses to tell the states […]
Opinion
BADGER: Why states should tune out Washington’s COVID-19 noise
The federal government continues to offer garbled COVID-19 messages that undermine its credibility and sow confusion about the pandemic. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention now thinks there are more infections among the vaccinated […]
Opinion
MOORE: How the left has used Covid-19 to bankrupt the United States
I have never bought the conspiracy theories that COVID-19 was a diabolical political plot to undermine the country. But what is apparent with each passing week is that the virus has been the springboard for […]
Article
Tokyo, under state of emergency, won’t allow fans for Olympics
TOKYO — Fans were banned from the pandemic-postponed Tokyo Olympics which will open in two weeks, Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike said after meeting with IOC and Japanese organizers on Thursday. The ban came hours after […]
Article
WOODARD, AGGARWAL, and SLOCUM: Charter schools spur achievement and choice — not segregation
Claims that public charter schools encourage segregation grow louder every day. According to a recent John Locke Foundation/Civitas poll, nearly 23% of North Carolina voters cite de facto segregation as “the most convincing reason” to […]