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Press secretary Jen Psaki on Friday refused to say how White House staffers select reporters allowed into recent presidential events. The secretive practice has outraged journalists as officials give inconsistent explanations on how they screen who is allowed within earshot of President…

The country’s Parliament chose Sandra Mason, the governor general, to assume the symbolic title, a decisive move to distance itself from Barbados’s colonial past. The island nation of Barbados has elected a female former jurist to become its next head of state,…

Good health may be written in the stars. More anti-vaxxers are Scorpios than any other astrological sign while Leos and Aquarians have the highest rates of getting COVID-19 jabs, according to a Utah heath department. In an effort to keep locals talking…

Questions President Biden was asked during CNN’s town hall Thursday night were posed by mostly Democrats — only giving two Republicans the opportunity to quiz the president on the various crises his administration is facing.  The town hall, hosted by CNN’s Anderson…

WASHINGTON — President Biden has granted one-fifth as many interviews as Donald Trump, one-eighth as many as Barack Obama and half as many as a nearly assassinated Ronald Reagan did at this point in their presidencies, data shared with The Post reveal…

It’s another Fauci flub. The National Institutes of Health has stunningly admitted to funding gain-of-function research on bat coronaviruses at China’s Wuhan lab — despite Dr. Anthony Fauci repeatedly insisting to Congress that no such thing happened. In a letter to Rep.…

MOSCOW — Authorities in Moscow on Thursday announced plans to shut restaurants, cinemas and non-food stores and introduce other restrictions later this month, as Russia registered the highest daily numbers of new coronavirus infections and deaths since the start of the pandemic.…

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed an executive order Wednesday directing multiple state agencies to identify different solutions to alleviate the supply chain crisis that has seen a massive bottleneck at two prominent ports in the state.  “California’s ports are critical to our…

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and 159 of his colleagues slammed the Biden administration Wednesday, accusing the White House of pushing “radical policies” that are worsening the ongoing supply chain crisis rather than focusing on solutions. “We must address the…

The FDA expanded the reach of COVID-19 booster shots Wednesday, authorizing tens of millions of additional Americans to roll up their sleeves for booster shots, and allowing patients and doctors to mix and match shots from different drug providers. Regulators approved a…