Florida pastor and son’s $8 million Covid fraud case comes to bizarre end

It was one of the strangest Covid fraud cases brought by the Justice Department, with the kind of wild details that seemed ripped from a Hollywood script. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. There was an $8.4 million pandemic relief loan based on records purportedly signed … Read more

Teen ‘takeovers’ push cities to take action as experts see echoes of the Covid pandemic

The mayhem over Memorial Day weekend in Chicago erupted without warning. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. On Sunday, hundreds of teenagers descended on a housing project on the West Side. Five Chicago officers trying to disperse the crowd sustained minor injuries when they were hit … Read more

FDA panel recommends updating Covid shots to target XFG strain

A Food and Drug Administration advisory panel on Thursday recommended updating this fall’s Covid shots to target the XFG variant, a fast-growing strain nicknamed “stratus.” Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. The recommendation — from the FDA’s Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee — is … Read more

No child deaths definitively linked to Covid shots, FDA says

No child deaths have been definitively linked to Covid vaccines, according to a report from the Food and Drug Administration that was quietly made public last week. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. The analysis comes nearly six months after former FDA vaccine chief Dr. Vinay … Read more

Indictments announced against Chinese container firms for alleged price-fixing during COVID pandemic

Indictments announced against Chinese container firms for alleged price-fixing during COVID pandemic – CBS News Watch CBS News The Justice Department on Tuesday announced indictments against four Chinese shipping container manufacturers for allegedly cutting production to fix prices during the COVID-19 pandemic. CBS News senior White House reporter Jennifer Jacobs has more. Source link

U.S. probing whether Chinese companies cut production of shipping containers before COVID pandemic

Federal authorities are examining whether Chinese companies deliberately restricted the world’s production of storage containers for the shipping trade just before the COVID-19 pandemic began six years ago, sources with knowledge of the probe told CBS News.  Investigators have been looking at a handful of Chinese firms that together control the majority of unrefrigerated shipping … Read more

FDA official who scrutinized COVID shots and antidepressants is out in latest shake-up

WASHINGTON — A Food and Drug Administration official involved in scrutinizing the safety of antidepressants, COVID-19 vaccines and other widely used therapies has been removed from her role leading the agency’s drug program. Dr. Tracy Beth Hoeg will be replaced as FDA’s acting drug center director by Dr. Mike Davis, who has been serving as … Read more

Who is James Erdman III? CIA whistleblower who went from COVID mandate fights to Senate spotlight

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! James Erdman III, a CIA whistleblower who testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs on Wednesday alleging a federal cover-up of COVID-19 origins, has a long history of clashing with the government on the coronavirus issue. Erdman is a former intelligence officer … Read more

Acting CDC director says hantavirus is “very different than COVID,” defends agency’s response

Acting CDC Director Jay Bhattacharya talks to “CBS Evening News” anchor Tony Dokoupil about the U.S. response to the deadly hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship, saying the disease is “very different than COVID. And we should treat it differently than COVID.” Source link