The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) debarred EcoHealth Alliance Inc. and its former President Dr. Peter Daszak, formally blocking both the firm and the doctor from receiving federal funds for five years. EcoHealth allegedly failed to report dangerous gain-of-function experiments to the government, which eventually led to the debarment. In the notice of debarment for Daszak, an HHS official wrote that the actions taken were...

Californians may have a “reawakening” that could trigger a “political shock” among the nation’s top decision-makers after the state’s highly criticized response to the Los Angeles wildfires brought to light the state’s vulnerability and leadership failures, historian Victor Davis Hanson predicts. “So, there is a group of people in California that could fuel a revolt of liberals or Democrats,” Hanson, a Hoover Institution public policy think tank senior...