Aimee Bock, the former executive director of the now-defunct Feeding our Future, as well as her co-defendant, Salim Said, are accused of scheming to steal $250 million in federal funding meant to feed children during the COVID-19 pandemic.

A federal judge on Wednesday ordered defendants in all upcoming cases stemming from a major COVID-19 pandemic fraud case in Minnesota to stay away from her courtroom after allegations of witness tampering surfaced in the trial of the alleged ringleader.

By disparaging public-health methods and discrediting vaccines, the COVID‑19 minimizers cost hundreds of thousands of people their lives. By keeping schools closed longer than absolutely necessary, the COVID maximizers hazarded the futures of young Americans.

Minneapolis City Council Member Jamal Osman’s former nonprofit, Stigma-Free International, was used in the Feeding Our Future fraud.

Nearly three-quarters of U.S. adults (72%) say the COVID-19 pandemic did more to drive the country apart than to bring it together.

Minnesota announced that it would begin testing the raw milk from its dairy cows to see if any of them have H5N1 bird flu beginning on Monday. The announcement comes after evidence suggested that there might be undetectible cases of bird flu spreading from cattle to humans across the U.

Five years after the pandemic began, Americans largely see COVID-19 through the rear-view mirror. Overall, they don’t feel the virus is nearly as much of a danger as they did in 2020. Still, deep political divides persist about the disease.