Pfizer on Tuesday said it submitted a request for emergency clearance for a pill designed to treat COVID-19. The treatment, known as Paxlovid, is meant to keep COVID-19 patients with mild or moderate symptoms out of hospitals. It reduced the risk of hospitalization or death in a clinical trial, according…

U.S. price inflation will remain high until the coronavirus pandemic is officially over, says Deputy Treasury Secretary Wally Adeyemo. Speaking in an interview with CNBC‘s Hadley Gamble at the Adipec energy industry forum in Abu Dhabi on Tuesday, Adeyemo noted that President Joe Biden has tackled many issues but conceded that more…

WASHINGTON—U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Tuesday said she would visit tribal communities over the next year as her department continues to expand its engagement with Native American tribes, which were hit disproportionately hard by the COVID-19 pandemic. Yellen told the second day of a White House Tribal Nations Summit…
Commentary The U.S. government just gave the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) a victory, and violated international law, by repatriating a former bank manager to China. The repatriation will chill internal resistance in China. On Nov. 14, China’s anti-graft watchdog announced that Xu Guojun, former president of the Bank of China’s…
LOS ANGELES—The City of Los Angeles’ ordinance banning restaurants from offering disposable utensils and napkins to customers took effect Nov. 15. The ordinance prohibits facilities from having self-service disposable foodware dispensers and from offering them to dine-in and take-out customers, except when requested. The city council approved the ordinance in April…
Border Patrol agents are being fired and otherwise disciplined for posting in a private Facebook group. The group included thousands of Border Patrol agents and higher ups. Some Democrats are concerned that penalties for most of the agents who posted in the group have been reduced extensively; only two agents…
Democrats fear that they are on track to lose their Congressional majorities in the 2022 elections as President Biden’s approval ratings continue to slump and the party agenda fails to translate into workable policy. Representative James Clyburn, a South Carolina Democrat, has said that he fears that his party lacks…

The mainstream media is at their most pathetic when they are so thoroughly in denial of a cultural moment that the entire nation inescapably realizes how disconnected and deceitful they are. The latest wide-angle miss from the press has been in the #LetsGoBrandon phenomenon that first began with NASCAR spectators…