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Read the latest national and world news, including stories from Newsday's reporters in Washington, D.C. Young brother and sister dead, several hurt when vehicle crashes into Michigan birthday ... Read More

Toxic: How the search for the origins of COVID-19 turned politically poisonous

The Chinese government froze meaningful efforts to trace the origins of the coronavirus pandemic, despite publicly declaring that it supported an open scientific inquiry, an Associated Press investiga ... Read More

Takeaways from AP report on how the search for the coronavirus origins turned toxic

The Chinese government froze meaningful efforts to trace the origins of the coronavirus pandemic, despite publicly declaring that it supported an open scientific inquiry, an Associated Press investiga ... Read More

The Great COVID Cover-up: Shocking truth about Wuhan and 15 federal agencies

Disturbingly, not one of these 15 agencies spoke up to warn us that the Wuhan ... the world know this was no sleepy animal virus with poor transmission. No, all evidence suggests COVID-19 was ... Read More

World News

By Lara Jakes Horses Run Loose Through Central London in Surreal Spectacle Having a team in the world’s richest sports ... his publisher and the United States vehemently reject. Read More

Tuberculosis cases at highest level in a decade in US: report

Experts say the 2023 number is in part a combination of a surge in TB cases internationally — the World Health Organization said TB was behind only COVID-19 in ... in the United States and ... Read More

Covid-19

The COVID-19 pandemic, caused by the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, began in late 2019 in Wuhan, China. The first case of the virus was identified in December 2019 and was linked to a seafood market in ... Read More

Trump faces criminal trial, first for an ex-US president, in hush money case

NEW YORK, April 8 (Reuters) - Donald Trump next week is set to become the first former U.S. president to face a criminal trial - a case involving ... US Supreme Court lets Idaho enforce ban ... Read More

Wuhan Open to return for first time since 2019

The Wuhan Open is back on the women's tennis schedule for the first time since 2019 after organizers announced it will be staged in the Chinese city in October, Xinhua News Agency reported ... Read More

Donald Trump to appear in NYC court for ‘hush money’ case — on same day $454M fraud bond comes due

found that prosecutors had given Trump a “reasonable” amount of time to sift through thousands of pages of newly disclosed evidence relating to Manhattan US Attorney Damian Williams’ case ... Read More

What is the abortion case in front of the US supreme court right now?

The case was first ... the coronavirus pandemic, telehealth abortions now account for about 16% of all US abortions and are available even in states that ban the procedure, thanks to blue state ... Read More

CDC: US tuberculosis cases at highest level in a decade

Experts say the 2023 number is in part a combination of a surge in TB cases internationally – the World Health Organization said TB was behind only COVID-19 in ... in the United States and ... Read More