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Polls show most Americans support the COVID-19 relief bill. But this bill comes with a slap in the face for people who believe in racial equality and want everyone to benefit. Section 1005 of the bill offers women and minority farm owners a total debt forgiveness of up to hundreds of thousands of dollars per

The stench from Gov. Cuomo’s nursing-home carnage and months-long coverup is finally causing even some Democratic pols in Albany to turn against the governor. At least 14 have now joined Republicans to demand Cuomo be stripped of his pandemic emergency powers. And not a day too soon. Cuomo used those powers to shutter restaurants and other businesses,

America’s small-business owners are struggling to survive the pandemic and the government-imposed lockdowns. And white, male business owners have an added problem: While politicians are offering loans and grants to minority- and female-owned businesses, they could care less about helping those guilty of the “sin” of being born white and male. What’s next? Tax breaks for women

Two straight weeks of good news: COVID-19 cases are declining, hospitalizations are likewise down and the daily pace of vaccinations is on the rise nationwide. What’s not to celebrate? Plenty, sadly. The nation’s leading infectious-disease experts are warning that the situation is dire, because new, more dangerous strains of the novel coronavirus threaten the success of the

State Attorney General Letitia James’ report on New York’s nursing-home horror proves Gov. Andrew Cuomo has been covering up the truth. The death toll is at least 50 percent higher than Team Cuomo admitted. Worse is Cuomo’s years of indifference to the dangerous conditions in many of the state’s nursing homes. The value of James’ report

On Thursday, Anthony Fauci informed the World Health Organization that the Biden administration will participate in WHO’s vaccine-sharing project. That reverses President Donald Trump’s America First approach. Fauci says the goal is to ensure “equitable access” to vaccines for all countries in the world, rich and poor alike. Americans scrambling to get vaccinated have a right to

As the novel coronavirus mutates, it’s becoming more contagious than the version that invaded the United States a year ago. A masked trip to the grocery store is becoming riskier. With cases and deaths spiking, people are upset. They’re spending hours on Web sites and hotlines struggling in vain to get vaccine appointments. President Biden’s vaccine-distribution plan, which

Americans are stressing over how long they will have to endure lockdowns. It all hinges on getting vaccinated. Yet only a third of doses shipped to the states are making it into people’s arms. The public hears the wait will be many months; most states are failing miserably. Washington must turn its attention to rolling

The mob that stormed the Capitol last week was a grave threat to our democracy but just as serious were actions taken by social media companies days later when Twitter shut down President Trump’s accounts and Google and Amazon ousted Parler, a site favored by millions of conservatives. Big tech, which is run by the left, is robbing Americans of their

If you live in Florida or Texas, and you’re 65 or older, you can get in line for a COVID-19 vaccine at a mall, stadium or drive-thru center. You may have to wait hours, but being in line is better than being in the dark. That’s where most New Yorkers find themselves: desperate to get vaccinated,