Authorities in St. Louis, Missouri, have rescinded their recently-announced mask mandate while acknowledging they did not properly present the current levels of infection. Dr. Matifadza Hlatshwayo Davis, the health director of St. Louis, told city workers recently that they would be required starting Jan. 5 to wear masks indoors and when riding with at least […]
Jeffrey Tucker, the founder and president of the Brownstone Institute and the author of ‘liberty or lockdown,’ discussed the House’s possible ban on the president from issuing mask mandates.
Jeffrey Tucker, founder and president of the Brownstone Institute, said the warnings and response to the COVID variant BA.2.86 are reminiscent of Spring 2020 when COVID first emerged. NTD spoke with him for his take on the re-emergence of talk about COVID measures like mask mandates and school closures.
Kaiser Permanente in Santa Rosa, California, on Aug. 24 reversed a recent policy that would require masks in its facility after it reinstated the mandate days before. A Hollywood studio also said it would do away with its mandate. Officials for the hospital system told the Santa Rosa Press Democrat that the mask policy applies […]
A bill that would have legalized drug consumption sites in major California cities has stopped at the governor’s desk. He vetoed it, but one city is still going forward with the project. A Silicon Valley school principal called the police on a 4-year-old boy for not wearing a mask. His father is speaking out against […]
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) on Tuesday asked a federal appeals court to overturn a prior ruling by a U.S. District Court judge that found mask mandates for planes and other public transports unlawful. Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle struck down the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) mandate on April 18, ruling that […]
Democratic Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly on Friday vetoed a bill to limit the power of state health officials to mandate measures for contagious diseases, including face masks and vaccine passports. Kelly said the bill went beyond COVID-19 and would considerably limit government response to any infectious disease outbreak. Senate Bill 34, brought by the Republican-controlled Legislature, […]
Two months after the federal government eased mask recommendations for most Americans, some colleges and universities have reinstated mask mandates, along with other measures, citing surges in COVID-19 cases on their campuses. Several prominent institutions—including American University and Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.; Columbia University in New York; Johns Hopkins University in Maryland; and Rice […]
Several major U.S. airlines announced plans this week to restore flight privileges to thousands of customers previously barred from flying commercial planes for breaking mask rules earlier in the COVID-19 pandemic. The flurry of activity comes just days after federal judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle struck down the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) rule […]
Last week, the Biden administration made two simultaneously astonishing moves. On the one hand, the CDC suddenly decided to extend the mask mandate, citing the fact that they believe COVID-19 is a danger to society. However, that very same week, the Biden administration also announced that they would be scrapping Title 42, the emergency health […]
The White House launched a new initiative to ease the supply chain crisis. The Transportation Department will serve as a broker and provide real-time data for private companies. Did you know Congress just passed another $1.5 trillion in spending over the weekend? We take a look at what’s inside the bill and why 19 Republican […]
SACRAMENTO, Calif.—Schoolchildren in California, Oregon and Washington will no longer be required to wear masks as part of new indoor mask policies the Democratic governors of all three states announced jointly on Monday. “With declining case rates and hospitalizations across the West, California, Oregon and Washington are moving together to update their masking guidance,” the […]
President Joe Biden is under pressure to do more to help struggling Afghans. On Friday, he divided frozen Afghanistan funds, sending half to victims of 9/11, the other half to the country to help Afghan people. But could the money get into the wrong hands of the Taliban? Biden has called for all American citizens […]
Parents in Loudoun County, Virginia, are continuing to fight against mask mandates and critical race theory in their children’s schools. Many of the parents say they don’t feel that anyone is listening. And that has left them no choice, they say, but to serve papers to the members of the school board.
A crime wave has swept across the nation—more robberies and the largest spike in murders in six decades. As President Joe Biden works to shed the “Defund the Police” label from the Democratic Party, a bipartisan push is underway on Capitol Hill to invest more in law enforcement. Crime is up all across the country, […]
A bipartisan push is underway on Capitol Hill to invest more in law enforcement amid a crime wave across the nation, the fight over mask mandates and critical race theory continues in Loudoun County, Virginia, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says she wants tougher penalties for Congress members who violate insider trading laws.
President Joe Biden welcomes investment from an Australian maker of electric vehicle chargers as it builds its first U.S. factory, the vice president and Senate Democrats remind parents not to miss out on the second half of payments from the expanded child tax credit, and Virginia passes a bill to ban mask mandates for school children.
The campaign of Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams responded Feb. 6 after rivals attacked the Democrat for posing maskless in a room full of masked children. “It is shameful that our opponents are using a Black History Month reading event for Georgia children as the impetus for a false political attack, and it is pitiful […]
The day Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin took office, he signed an executive order that let parents decide whether their children should wear masks in school. Now a judge has blocked the governor’s order, allowing the mask mandates to stay in place.
