mask mandate

Masks are not required in most places starting Wednesday, including the public transit, Gov. Kathy Hochul has announced. “Department of Health will be issuing new guidance regarding masks based on the CDC guidance and starting today, masks will be optional,” she said during a press conference on Wednesday. Masks are optional on public transportation, in for-hire […]

A group of doctors urged policymakers in Los Angeles County to remove mask mandates, citing them being ineffective. Though that letter was issued months ago, it just recently became public. Community members held a forum in San Francisco in response to attacks on elderly members of the Asian community. This time, it was several juveniles […]

A city in Los Angeles will refuse any potential mask mandates that the county may impose. At the council meeting, most of the public speakers were also in favor of the decision.

On July 28, Los Angeles County will make a decision on whether to impose an indoor mask mandate or not. Officials of Long Beach, Pasadena, and El Segundo said on July 26 they would not follow such an order after evaluating the hospitalization metrics and local COVID case rates. The Beverly Hills City Council led the march on […]

Firefighters continue to battle the current largest fire in the state. They’re saying fires are getting worse every year. We also hear from evacuees who escaped. A California county is being sued for allegedly encouraging racial quotas in its contracts awards. The suit says such practices are a violation of the state and U.S. constitutions. […]

San Diego Unified School District on Sunday reinstated an indoor mask mandate on the heels of rising COVID-19 transmission rates. NTD spoke with parents’ advocate and founder of Let Them Breathe Sharon McKeeman, who says the mandates have gone too far.

NEW YORK—In another sign that the world of entertainment is returning to pre-pandemic normal, Broadway theaters will no longer demand audiences wear masks starting in July. The Broadway League announced Tuesday that mask-wearing will be optional next month onward, a further loosening of restrictions. In May, most Broadway theaters lifted the requirement that audience members […]

The Senate voted Tuesday on a bill that could overturn the Biden administration’s mask mandate for small children in Head Start facilities in a 55–41 vote. “Even though most Americans stopped wearing masks in almost every setting, children are still required to wear masks all day long in Head Start locations. Current HHS guidance demands […]

The CDC is one of the organizations pushing all of the COVID-19 guidance in this country—which says, among other things, that everyone above the age of 5 should be getting vaccinated. Politicians in this country took their guidance and used it as justification for the various concrete policies that we’ve been seeing for the past […]

Mask requirements are changing in cities across the nation. Philadelphia is dropping its mask mandate just four days after reinstating it. And Los Angeles County is reimposing the mandate on public transit.

As the dust settles from the Florida federal judge’s order, ruling the CDC’s mask mandate on public transportation is unconstitutional, there is some confusion for some folks. NTD spoke with the Texas Public Policy Foundation’s Matt Miller to get some perspective.

The new mask freedoms are sparking mixed messages. The Justice Department will likely appeal the ruling based on the CDC’s direction. North Carolina Congressman Dan Bishop sits on the Homeland Security Committee and he joins us to discuss the dangers stemming from a porous southern border. The White House hopes to revive U.S. nuclear power […]

The court ruling to end the mask mandate on public transit has many travelers excited. But the Justice Department may appeal that decision.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is trying to determine whether a mask mandate on airplanes and other modes of other transportation is still needed after a federal judge ruled the mandate violated federal law, the agency told The Epoch Times. “CDC continues to recommend that people wear masks in all indoor […]

A group of local businesses and residents in Philadelphia is suing over the city’s reinstated mask mandate. The renewed mandate became effective on Monday.

The federal judge’s decision to strike down the mask mandate on public transportation went against CDC guidance. President Biden on Tuesday was asked what he thinks about it and whether he’s going to appeal the judge’s ruling.

President Joe Biden’s administration will appeal the April 18 ruling that struck down the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) mask mandate, if the CDC recommends an appeal, the Department of Justice announced Tuesday. The department and the CDC “disagree with the district court’s decision and will appeal, subject to CDC’s conclusion that the order […]