The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention failed repeatedly to provide responsible, reasonable guidance during the pandemic. Under Director Rochelle Walensky, the plan seems to be to keep those failures in place forever.

The National Treasure franchise starring Nicholas Cage was a fun, family-friendly, pseudo-patriotic, entertaining action-adventure film series. It included two films, National Treasure, released in 2004, and National Treasure: Book of Secrets, released in 2007. While neither film broke any box office records or will ever be considered one of cinema's great masterpieces, both films did decently at the box office and were relatively well-received. The same cannot be said for Disney's National Treasure: Edge of History.

The Pentagon wants Congress to restart funding on two top-secret programs meant to allow U.S. Special Operations forces (SOF) to employ Ukrainian operatives to watch Russian military movements and counter disinformation in the war-torn country, according to a report. The programs, suspended last year ahead of Russia’s attack on Ukraine, could resume as early as 2024...

Rep. Angie Craig (D-Minn.) released a new statement on Friday in the wake of the previous day’s assault, noting that she feels “very fortunate” to have escaped the attack with few injuries. “My morning coffee really saved the day yesterday, but not exactly how I expected it to,” Craig said. “On a serious note, I...

President Biden and Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva marked the survival of their democracies in a bilateral White House meeting Friday, a common ground that led to the leaders to taking jabs at their predecessors. “Both of our democracies have been tested of late,” Biden said, referring to the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the...

How is it that these anomalous observations have not risen to the level of other science priorities, such as climate change?

The Energy Department on Friday proposed to require new household refrigerators and clothes washers to meet a more stringent sets of energy efficiency standards. It said that the move will save energy and money for consumers.   Consumers who use appliances meeting the proposed standards will save about $425 on utility bills over the life of...

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) reached a tentative settlement with four ex-employees on Friday, agreeing to pay them $3.3 million after they were fired for reporting him for alleged bribery and abuse of office. In addition to the multimillion-dollar payment, Paxton agreed to provide a statement saying that he “accepts that plaintiffs acted in...

The number of pediatric flu deaths during the current season has officially gone over 100, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) — more than twice the number of the pediatric deaths confirmed in the last flu season. The CDC reported nine pediatric flu deaths this week, bringing the total for this...

President Joe Biden is pursuing an aggressive economic agenda aimed at boosting worker power, taxing the rich, reducing fees and taking on dominant corporations. But with Republicans in control of the House — and eager to block the president’s wishlist — Biden doesn’t have a pathway to enact many of the economic reforms announced at...