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MINNEAPOLIS, MN — As the massive $250 million Feeding Our Future fraud case moves into its final stages, the legal consequences for those who exploited child nutrition programs are becoming clear.
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Teaneck NJ, a New Jersey tax preparer was found guilty by a jury for his scheme seeking more than $170 million in fraudulent tax refunds from the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) by causing more than 1,900 false tax returns to be filed with the IRS claiming COVID-19-related employment tax credits, Acting U.S. Attorney and Special Attorney Alina Habba announced.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved updated COVID-19 vaccines for fall, but with the tightest restrictions yet on who should receive them.
Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced the approval on Aug. 27, stating that emergency-use authorizations have ended and that updated vaccines from Pfizer, Moderna, and Novavax are now approved for people considered at high risk of severe illness.
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New York NY, file this under “it’s about time”, former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is under federal investigation following a criminal referral from House Republicans over allegations he lied to Congress regarding his administration’s handling of COVID-19 policies involving nursing homes.
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Ridgewood NJ, oh wow, The New York Times finally caught up to reality—only took them five years! You have to hand it to them: their commitment to being spectacularly wrong about COVID is truly impressive.
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Washington DC, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and a key figure in the nation’s COVID-19 pandemic response, announced on Monday that he plans to accept a preemptive pardon offered by President Joe Biden.
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Ridgewood NJ, a recent court ruling requiring the release of key COVID-19 vaccine trial documents has fueled public skepticism, with a majority of voters believing federal officials may have concealed harmful side effects of the vaccines.
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Ridgewood NJ, a recent Census Bureau report reveals that despite some economic recovery since the pandemic, many Americans are still financially worse off than they were before COVID-19. While headlines may suggest otherwise, real median household income under the Biden administration has yet to reach its 2019 level, leaving working-class families struggling to regain lost ground.
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Washington DC, on Tuesday, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the former top infectious disease official in the U.S., appeared before a House subcommittee to testify about the origins of COVID-19 and the government’s response to the pandemic. This marks Fauci’s first public testimony since he left government service in 2022. His testimony followed two days of closed-door sessions in January.
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WASHINGTON DC, Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX and owner of social media platform X, called for the arrest and prosecution of Dr. Anthony Fauci on Friday. This demand followed the National Institutes of Health (NIH) admission to Congress that it had funded risky “gain-of-function” research in Wuhan, China, prior to the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak.
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New Brunswick NJ, NJ Senator Declan O’Scanlon commended the decision by Rutgers University to no longer require students, faculty, and staff to be immunized against COVID-19, but criticized the delayed decision.
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Trenton NJ, as part of the transition to routine, commercial access to COVID-19 vaccines, the New Jersey COVID-19 Vaccine Call Center is closing operations on March 28, the New Jersey Department of Health (NJDOH) announced today.
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Trenton NJ, State Senator Joe Pennacchio released his review of the administration’s report of the Covid pandemic and the State’s response. The report commissioned by Governor Murphy was compiled by the Law Firm of Montgomery McCracken at a cost of $9 million to the State’s taxpayers.
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Ridgewood NJ, a recent study conducted by the University of Cambridge, published in Nature Immunology, has identified iron deficiencies as a significant factor contributing to prolonged recovery from COVID-19, commonly known as long COVID.
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Ridgewood NJ, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has announced the discontinuation of its five-day COVID-19 quarantine guidance. Individuals who test positive for COVID-19 are no longer mandated to stay at home for a five-day period.
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