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A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers is demanding answers from top infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci about reports that an institute under his leadership funded “cruel” drug toxicity experiments in dogs. Fauci is the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), a division of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Documents show that NIAID spent $1.68 million in taxpayer funds for animal experimentation. The tests were conducted between October 2018 and February 2019 at SRI International, a research group headquartered in Menlo Park, California. The experiment involved injecting and force-feeding 44 beagle puppies between six and eight months old with an experimental drug for several weeks, before…

The UK government has been accused of waging a secret war against transparency, using an array of tactics to block the release of information to the public. In a report published on Monday, the investigative journalism website openDemocracy alleged that last year was the worst year for transparency since the Freedom of Information Act came into force in 2005. It highlighted the government’s own figures that show that in 2020, 41% of freedom of information requests by the public to central government departments were granted in full. Government statisticians acknowledge that “this is the lowest figure since recording started in 2005”. The Cabinet…

The government is to launch a £1.4bn fund to attract more overseas investment into the UK economy, particularly in sectors such as life sciences and electric vehicle production. In his budget announcement on Wednesday, the chancellor, Rishi Sunak, will also announce plans to lure highly skilled foreign workers and amend regulations to make it easier for international companies to relocate to the UK. International companies with “strategically important” investment proposals will receive grants towards their schemes, after they have been assessed to ensure they provide value for the taxpayer. “We want to make the UK the best place in the world…

QUEEN ELIZABETH has missed a church service in Windsor following last week’s health scare. Her Majesty, 95, missed the service after following doctors’ advice, the Sun has revealed. Queen Elizabeth, who was admitted to London’s King Edward VII Hospital, the Palace said: “Following medical advice to rest for a few days, the Queen attended hospital on Wednesday afternoon for some preliminary investigations, returning to Windsor Castle at lunchtime today, and remains in good spirits.” The Queen, who took an oath to “maintain and preserve inviolably the settlement of the Church of England” during her coronation in 1953, was due to…

A defiant Ole Gunnar Solskjær insisted he remains the best manager for Manchester United and is not considering leaving his position despite their 5-0 home humiliation by Liverpool on what he described as his darkest day in charge. United trailed 4-0 at half-time on Sunday for the first time in the Premier League era following goals from Naby Keïta, Diogo Jota and two from Mohamed Salah. The players were booed off at the interval and when the Egyptian became the first visiting player to score a league hat-trick at United since 1991, soon after the restart, some supporters left. To make matters…

After Mayor Bill de Blasio’s announcement of a vaccine mandate for city workers, police union heads say they will take legal actions to oppose the mandate and protect the rights of their employees. On Wednesday, de Blasio said any city worker who is not vaccinated with at least the first dose of the vaccine by 5 p.m. on Oct. 29 will be put on unpaid leave, prompting police unions to fight back. Police Benevolent Association President Patrick J. Lynch said in a statement Thursday that his organization will go to court to protect his employees’ right to make their own medical decisions.…

Boris Johnson is prepared to water down UK demands for European judges’ role in post-Brexit Northern Ireland to be scrapped, in order to seal a deal with the EU. The Prime Minister has made the arbitration role of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) the new battlefront in the row with Brussels over the Northern Ireland Protocol. He and Brexit Minister Lord Frost have argued that one side’s internal court should not be able to rule on disputed in which it is involved, despite signing up to the plan last year. However, Mr Johnson is prepared to agree to a plan that would see a…

Several suburban Chicago sheriffs announced they will not send deputies to Chicago to deal with possible staffing shortages over vaccine mandates. Kane County Sheriff Ron Hain, a Democrat, told The Chicago Tribune that he doesn’t “feel like the onus is on us to go in there in an emergency situation that was created by poor government and a lack of support the officers receive.” A statewide law enforcement coalition sent a notice, known as the Illinois Law Enforcement Alarm System (ILEAS), to its members, encompassing a number of different statewide law enforcement agencies, said ILEAS Executive Director James Page in an interview…

The Belgian Manchester City fan, Guido De Pauw, who was attacked after the club’s 5-1 win over Club Brugge on Tuesday, remains in a coma but is now stable. Two of the five suspects arrested remain in custody and three were released under strict bail conditions after all appeared before a judge in Ghent on Friday. The incident occurred at a service station near Drongen at 10.40pm local time after City’s Champions League victory at the Jan Breydel Stadium, which the 63-year-old De Pauw and his son Jurgen had attended as part of a contingent from the Blue Moon Belgium supporters’ club.…

Minister are being urged to pause their education funding reforms after it emerged they have resulted in less money for the most deprived schools and more for the better off, according to a parliamentary report. The redistribution follows the introduction of the government’s national funding formula in 2018-19 to make the funding of England’s schools more fair and transparent. According to the Commons public accounts committee (PAC), however, the changes – which are not yet complete – have resulted in a 1.2% drop in real terms per-pupil funding in the most deprived fifth of schools and a 2.9% increase for…