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Hawley's book ranks sixth in the nation for hardcover frontlist nonfiction and has already sold nearly 21,000 copies.

Despite banning Donald Trump for incitement, Twitter has allowed Iran’s Ayatollah to continue calling for more attacks on Israeli civilians.

The Biden administration was slapped with a lawsuit on Friday after Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton launched a suit countering changes to the state’s federally funded portion of Medicaid last month.

Dozens of volunteers answered the call from a frantic mother to look for her 2-year-old son who was missing and possibly kidnapped. Days later, the police arrested her boyfriend and charged him with first degree murder. Tayler Nicholson stood next to her boyfriend on Friday speaking to KVVU-TV abo...

Before 'turning on' with Bitcoin, Elon Musk once warned: 'Promising money, but invest with caution'

MK Naftali Bennett gave the terror group Hamas a clear choice Wednesday: stop attacking Israel or risk annihilation.

The United States suffered the consequences of the chip crisis: factories closed.

On Thursday, May 13th, the left planned to pay people to protest against the Arizona audit at the Arizona State capitol.When they arrived, they were welcomed...

Trump plans to start holding campaign rallies within weeks as he hints at plan to launch 2024 presidential run#DonaldTrump #DonaldJTrump #USA

We all know New York was never a beacon of leadership on COVID. The state was the mecca of COVID. The state had the most deaths and infections, some of

The dominos are falling. We’re inching towards normalcy. It may not be the pace we like but any step in the right direction is a good thing. At the same

Congresswoman Maxine Waters made headlines and raised eyebrows when the California Democrat showed up in the middle of a volatile crowd in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota in April. She called for

Imagine getting to portray one of your favorite characters, the beloved Finley Sinclair, from Jenny B. Jones' "There You'll Find Me." It's no wonder, then, that actress Rose Reid emphasized

Joe Biden does not think any of these American heroes should be honored, even those that that would mirror his ideology.

Based on his connections to the Wuhan lab, Dr. Fauci should not have been allowed to be put forward as the face of our COVID-19 response.

On 30 December 2019, the Program for Monitoring Emerging Diseases notified the world about a pneumonia of unknown cause in Wuhan, China ([ 1 ][1]). Since then, scientists have made remarkable progress in understanding the causative agent, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), its transmission, pathogenesis, and mitigation by vaccines, therapeutics, and non-pharmaceutical interventions. Yet more investigation is still needed to determine the origin of the pandemic. Theories of accidental release from a lab and zoonotic spillover both remain viable. Knowing how COVID-19 emerged is critical for informing global strategies to mitigate the risk of future outbreaks. In May 2020, the World Health Assembly requested that the World Health Organization (WHO) director-general work closely with partners to determine the origins of SARS-CoV-2 ([ 2 ][2]). In November, the Terms of Reference for a China–WHO joint study were released ([ 3 ][3]). The information, data, and samples for the study's first phase were collected and summarized by the Chinese half of the team; the rest of the team built on this analysis. Although there were no findings in clear support of either a natural spillover or a lab accident, the team assessed a zoonotic spillover from an intermediate host as “likely to very likely,” and a laboratory incident as “extremely unlikely” [([ 4 ][4]), p. 9]. Furthermore, the two theories were not given balanced consideration. Only 4 of the 313 pages of the report and its annexes addressed the possibility of a laboratory accident ([ 4 ][4]). Notably, WHO Director-General Tedros Ghebreyesus commented that the report's consideration of evidence supporting a laboratory accident was insufficient and offered to provide additional resources to fully evaluate the possibility ([ 5 ][5]). As scientists with relevant expertise, we agree with the WHO director-general ([ 5 ][5]), the United States and 13 other countries ([ 6 ][6]), and the European Union ([ 7 ][7]) that greater clarity about the origins of this pandemic is necessary and feasible to achieve. We must take hypotheses about both natural and laboratory spillovers seriously until we have sufficient data. A proper investigation should be transparent, objective, data-driven, inclusive of broad expertise, subject to independent oversight, and responsibly managed to minimize the impact of conflicts of interest. Public health agencies and research laboratories alike need to open their records to the public. Investigators should document the veracity and provenance of data from which analyses are conducted and conclusions drawn, so that analyses are reproducible by independent experts. Finally, in this time of unfortunate anti-Asian sentiment in some countries, we note that at the beginning of the pandemic, it was Chinese doctors, scientists, journalists, and citizens who shared with the world crucial information about the spread of the virus—often at great personal cost ([ 8 ][8], [ 9 ][9]). We should show the same determination in promoting a dispassionate science-based discourse on this difficult but important issue. 1. [↵][10]“Undiagnosed pneumonia—China (Hubei): Request for information,” ProMED post (2019); . 2. [↵][11]World Health Assembly Resolution 73.1: COVID-19 response (2020); [https://apps.who.int/gb/ebwha/pdf\_files/WHA73/A73\_R1-en.pdf][12]. 3. [↵][13]WHO, “WHO-convened global study of the origins of SARS-CoV-2” (2020); [www.who.int/publications/m/item/who-convened-global-study-of-the-origins-of-sars-cov-2][14]. 4. [↵][15]WHO, “WHO-convened global study of origins of SARS-CoV-2: China part” (2021); [www.who.int/publications/i/item/who-convened-global-study-of-origins-of-sars-cov-2-china-part][16]. 5. [↵][17]WHO, “WHO director-general's remarks at the Member State Briefing on the report of the international team studying the origins of SARS-CoV-2” (2021); [www.who.int/director-general/speeches/detail/who-director-general-s-remarks-at-the-member-state-briefing-on-the-report-of-the-international-team-studying-the-origins-of-sars-cov-2][18]. 6. [↵][19]US Department of State, “Joint statement on the WHO-Convened COVID-19 origins study” (2021); [www.state.gov/joint-statement-on-the-who-convened-covid-19-origins-study/][20]. 7. [↵][21]Delegation of the European Union to the UN and other International Organizations in Geneva “EU statement on the WHO-led COVID-19 origins study” (2021); . 8. [↵][22]1. J. Hollingsworth, 2. Y. Xiong , “The truthtellers: China created a story of the pandemic. These people revealed details Beijing left out,” CNN( 2021). 9. [↵][23]1. A. Green, 2. L. Wenliang , Lancet 395, 682 (2020). 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New York prosecutors have subpoenaed a Manhattan private school as they seek the cooperation of the Trump Organization’s chief financial officer in their investigation of former President Donald Trump and his company.

The New York lawmakers said they need more time to review the new guidelines.

On a flight back to Minnesota in April, Democrat Rep. Maxine Waters reportedly asked for accompaniment from air marshals on her plane and then at the airport.

Five years ago next month, British voters, in the largest turnout ever, voted to leave the European Union by a 52 percent to 48 percent margin. It was an

Greene told the local reporter who uncovered the tax snafu to “mind his own business.”

As over-leveraged investment houses began to fail in September 2008, the leaders of the Republican and Democratic parties, of major...

Neutral application of property law becomes an international incident because a landlord is a Jew.

Susan Hennessey’s appointment suggests the department will be politicized again.