Skeptics have maintained that there were scant grounds for the assertion that raccoon dogs were the pandemic’s intermediate species, if the only evidence for that claim was the presence of viral and animal DNA in the same market stall in a crowded marketplace.
The director of the World Health Organization declared Friday that the coronavirus emergency was “over,” after three years of a world transformed by the COVID-19 pandemic, which killed at least 7 million people.
At a time when many Americans and some of the legislators who represent them in Washington are growing weary of supporting the defense of Ukraine, a new bipartisan House resolution to be introduced Tuesday calls on the United States to support an outright victory over Russia.
Article: Anti-Semitism Is the Default Hate - This column presents a) a brief history of antisemitism since before the Common Era, the development of political anti-Semitism on late 19th century Europe, the current adoption of central elements of anti-Semitic propaganda in the wide-spread attacks that a wide variety of Republican politicians are launching against the upcoming trial of the Stormy Daniels [and maybe Karen McDougall] case against Trump in New York City.
In his statement condemning the Manhattan grand jury indictment of former President Donald Trump, Florida governor and likely Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis mentioned neither the former president nor the district attorney who will prosecute the case, Alvin Bragg, by name. But he did name-check George Soros, a favorite target of antisemitic conspiracy theories twice.
To a faction of researchers who maintain that the coronavirus was the result of a laboratory accident, recent findings involving raccoon dogs failed to produce convincing evidence.
Tuesday evening’s hearing on how the U.S. should challenge the Chinese Communist Party was the first primetime congressional panel since the Jan. 6 hearings.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was initially predicted to be a days-long siege, but Ukraine prevailed. Nearly a year later, Ukraine’s resistance poses an uncomfortable question: Now what?