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The president is in dire need of support from Hispanic voters. But now facing abysmal polling after a bad debate, Biden’s COVID no-show at Wednesday’s UnidosUS conference only punctuated the bitter truth. “He’s completely damaged goods,” said one attendee.

The first-time voter delivered an impassioned speech to the LA County Board of Supervisors, arguing for continued COVID-19 precautions.

As COVID ravaged production lines nationwide, the former president stoked baseless fears about meat shortages and personally ordered plants to stay open, all at the behest of the agribusiness lobby, as Peter S. Goodman writes in an excerpt of his new book, How the World Ran Out of Everything.

The former president’s allies want voters to recall their lives four years back, but March 2020 was a harrowing period most people would rather forget. In this 2024 election cycle, it’s crucial to remember.

A series of previously unreported alarms and clashes over US-funded research in China reveal long-standing friction between two groups of government scientists: those who prioritize international collaboration, and those who are kept up at night by the idea that cutting-edge technologies could end up in the wrong hands.

How an unlikely group of scientists, generals, and government officials supercharged the effort to get us back to some kind of normal.

In this exclusive excerpt from her new book, Doppelganger, the Shock Doctrine author takes on the Beauty Myth author, whose COVID conspiracism has further muddied the Naomi waters.

The "Save Our Stages" grant program was intended to keep arts organizations afloat. A new report says that $200 million went to big-name recording artists instead.

Given a 90-day deadline to share what they know about COVID’s origins, America’s divided intelligence agencies produced a slim report that leaves both major hypotheses on the table—and raises as many questions as it answers.

The small community of researchers studying COVID-19’s origins erupted into open conflict recently over access to data from the pandemic’s early days. With former China CDC director George F. Gao telling VF a lab leak can’t be ruled out, and leading Western scientists sticking to their market-origin guns, is there any hope for a global collaboration to solve the mystery?

“I remember the doctor saying to me, ‘Jeff, you’ve got to fight. You’re not fighting,'" the actor says of a bout with COVID-19 that followed chemotherapy. 

The former president recently rebuked DeSantis as a “Big Lockdown Governor,” despite the potential 2024 contender's history of vaccine skepticism and resistance to public health mandates.

He was for the COVID-19 vaccines before he was against them, but now Florida’s governor is all-in on vaccine skepticism—and hoping to use the issue to outflank Trump on the right. With the presidential primaries looming, and MAGA activists angling to turn Trump against the vaccines he helped fast-track, experts fear anti-vaxxism could soon become an official plank of the Republican Party.

While giving the keynote address at the SXSW Festival, the Oscar winner reportedly revealed that she no longer feels compelled to wear masks on set.

In February 2020, the infamous short seller woke up in a cold sweat when he realized the pandemic might spell pandemonium on Wall Street, as Liz Hoffman writes in her forthcoming book, Crash Landing. “We need to either sell everything,” he told his top lieutenants, “or put on a massive hedge.”

New reports reveal that the Department of Energy and FBI take the laboratory hypothesis very seriously indeed. Could it be enough to prompt a bipartisan inquiry into what caused the pandemic?

Three years of COVID have made it all too clear how clumsy communication, poor coordination, and rampant political division can harm public health. As new threats rise owing to climate change and the spread of risky biotech, experts say action is needed now to stop the next outbreak from becoming even worse.

The Florida governor announced on Tuesday that he will convene a grand jury to investigate “crimes and wrongdoing” related to COVID-19 vaccines.

Rep. Joe Harding faces up to 35 years in prison.

The actor suffered a severe hand injury after trying to break up a fight in the East Village.