USAID-Funded Pandemic Research Failed To Spot COVID or Ensure Chinese Transparency
President Donald Trump's effort to unilaterally wind down the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has ...
California Historical Society to Dissolve and Transfer Collections to Stanford
The society faced financial challenges that were exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic. Its nearly 600,000 items stretch ...
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Mortality and hospitalizations fully attributable to alcohol use before versus during the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic period was associated with increased alcohol consumption. We sought to estimate excess ...
CIA believes COVID-19 most likely originated from a lab but has low confidence in its own finding
The CIA now believes the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic most likely originated from a laboratory, according to ...
California bosses cut hours as wages soared
Amid that chaos, California’s average hourly wages rose 22% to a record $39. So, California’s average paycheck was a record ...
CIA says COVID-19 more likely to have come from lab than nature
The Central Intelligence Agency has assessed that the COVID-19 pandemic is more likely to have emerged from a lab than from ...
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Walters: California schools continue to struggle with test scores in reading and math
That’s the current term for phonics, which California’s education establishment has often resisted despite ample evidence that it improves kids’ ability to read. CalMatters is a public interest ...
Alcohol-related deaths and hospitalizations spiked during the pandemic. Could policy have made a difference?
The COVID-19 pandemic threw a wrench in Dr. Peter Butt's retirement plans. Not because of an influx in patients infected with ...
B.C. marks 5 years since province’s 1st COVID-19 case
Jan. 28, 2020 was the date that provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry and then-health minister Adrian Dix announced the ...
Walters: Money still hasn’t fixed California school performance failures
One of state’s starkest letdowns is consistently poor elementary and middle school test scores in basic educational skills ...
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CA School Test Scores Trail Those of States Newsom Considers Culturally Backward
California's education system faces persistent challenges in improving student performance in reading and math.