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ITALIANS who were once proud of their place in the European Union are beginning to grow weary with the bloc over its less than sympathetic response to the coronavirus crisis. Italy was the first country in Europe to be placed on strict lockdown as it struggled to cope with the spread of COVID-19. As the …

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey emailed employees this week to say they could work from home permanently after the coronavirus pandemic lockdown passes. Twitter was one of the first major tech companies to order its employees to work from home in response to the pandemic. Last week, Facebook and Google told their respective employees they can …

A federal judge in North Carolina has blocked Gov. Roy Cooper’s executive order that limits indoor religious services to just 10 people during the coronavirus outbreak, ruling that there is “no pandemic exception” to the U.S. Constitution. Judge James C. Dever III’s ruling on Saturday highlighted that Cooper’s “stay-at-home” did not set the same standard …

Slovenia is declaring itself as the first European country to bring an end to the coronavirus within its borders. The European Union state’s government said Friday the COVID-19 spread is under control and there is no longer a need for extraordinary health measures. “Today Slovenia has the best epidemic situation in Europe, which enables us to call off the …

Republican-led efforts to hold China accountable for the spread of the Wuhan coronavirus are being watched closely by the communist regime. State-run media reported Thursday that Republican lawmakers will “face severe consequences” for speaking out against China, pursuing lawsuits, and pushing “anti-China” legislation. “Republicans who have been groundlessly accusing China and inflaming the ‘holding China …

The coronavirus pandemic has revealed how the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has corrupted the World Health Organization (WHO), under the leadership of Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. The WHO pursued politics over public health by helping Beijing spread disinformation about the outbreak and excluding Taiwan and its wealth of knowledge about the disease. American decision-makers …

The pernicious health effects of covid-19 are concentrated among older people, but it is the young and especially low-income Americans who suffer the greatest harm from the country’s disease-mitigating shutdown policies. The bleak jobs data released last week, showing that more than 20 million Americans were thrown out of work in April, was just the …

The new bill includes another round of stimulus checks for all Americans, funds additional coronavirus testing, and spends billions to bail out states and government agencies straining under pension debt. Another stimulus bill could be on its way through Congress by the end of the week, as House Democrats on Tuesday announced plans for $3 …

We’ve seen what happens when you hold an election during a pandemic without taking the necessary precautions. In Wisconsin, voters were sent to the polls in the height of the COVID-19 outbreak. Health officials there say they can trace dozens of cases to the elections.  Here in Florida in our March primary, we had poll …

Civil disobedience may be key to recovering our liberty and prosperity in a post-COVID world. Elon Musk restarted production at Tesla’s car plant in Fremont, California, in defiance of county officials who ordered the plant to stay closed. He announced the move publicly by tweeting yesterday: Tesla is restarting production today against Alameda County rules. …