Opinion
COVID-19 should have taught us that undermining global health is a risky proposition
Pathogens such as the coronavirus can travel around the world at a speed that too often outpaces governments’ ability to detect, treat, cure, and prevent diseases. Even the best-funded health care ...
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With the move to freeze foreign aid, the international development sector stands at a crossroads, HKS experts say
The Trump administration’s move to freeze U.S. foreign aid and development work is a seismic event. International development ...
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Federal cuts loom as General Assembly passes revised budget and adjourns
Gov. Glenn Youngkin says he appreciates consensus for tax relief, but says it should take a different form. He says he ...
Document exposes $40 million of US taxpayer money sent to Wuhan for bat coronavirus emergence research
A newly released document reveals that the US government, under the Biden administration, allocated over $40 million in taxpayer funds to the Wuhan Institute of Virology for research on bat ...
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Following Trump, Argentina withdraws from World Health Organization
Argentina has declared it will withdraw from the World Health Organization, further imperilling an international ... handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. A United Nations agency, the organisation ...
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USAID’s apparent demise and the US withdrawal from WHO put millions of lives worldwide at risk and imperil US national security
She is the executive director of Global Health Impact (global-health-impact.org) which participates in the Pandemic ... programs of the United States Agency for International Development, or ...
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The White House is making exactly the wrong moves to prevent the next pandemic
We must heed the lessons learned during the past five years since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic ... that is circulating widely in the United States among poultry and cattle and is ...
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Trump and Elon Musk are upending USAID. Here's what to know about its work.
Washington — President Trump and billionaire Elon Musk have set their sights on the U.S. Agency for International Development ... 43 countries during the COVID-19 pandemic, fund more than ...
Politico23d
37 ways Project 2025 has shown up in Trump’s executive orders
Make reinstatement available to all members of the military (active and reserve) who were discharged solely for refusal to receive the COVID-19 ... United States Agency for International ...
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‘What Elon Musk Said Is a Bold-Faced Lie’
In recent days, the Trump administration has taken steps to shutter the United States Agency for International Development ... China in Wuhan [with the Covid-19 pandemic] is because there ...
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‘We really never came back to each other’: Five years after COVID, we’re more divided than ever
Five years ago, the COVID-19 pandemic ... were before the pandemic. “This is probably one of the largest changes in experienced segregation in recent years in the United States,” he said.
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Elon Musk Says USAID 'Criminal', Trump Calls Its Leaders 'Radical Lunatics'
The United States Agency for International Development has "been run by a bunch ... funded bioweapon research, including Covid-19, that killed millions of people?" He did not elaborate on the ...