The director of NIAID is appointed by the head of the NIH, who must be approved by the Senate. Directors have broad discretion to determine what research to fund and where to award grants, although traditionally those decisions are informed by recommendations from panels of outside experts.

I believe in the rule of law,” President Biden announced Monday morning, but “these are exceptional circumstances, and I cannot in good conscience do nothing” — and so he detonated the rule of law on his last morning in the White House by pardoning every Biden kinfolk with sticky fingers for foreign windfalls,

President Donald Trump had his first official interview in the Oval Office Wednesday and reflected on his return to the

It omitted the fact that the Department of Energy, the federal government's biggest expert on biological research, believes the virus behind COVID leaked from a Chinese lab conducting such research that indirectly received U.S. funding, affirming the FBI's conclusion.

President Biden’s pardon of Dr. Anthony Fauci may protect the former National Institutes of Health official from immediate criminal prosecution, but some critics say he is not completely out of legal jeopardy and that public sentiment might still condemn the man who became known during the COVID-19 pandemic as “Mr. Science.”

President Biden’s pardon of Dr. Anthony Fauci may protect the former National Institutes of Health official from immediate criminal prosecution, but some critics say he is not completely out of legal jeopardy and that public sentiment might still condemn the man who became known during the COVID-19 pandemic as “Mr.

Biden Monday issued several preemptive pardons, some to family members. Following the transition of power, Trump wielded his own clemency power.

Former President Joe Biden’s pre-emptive pardon for retired Gen. Mark Milley, the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, will give the retired military official a shield against any

Hours before his four-year term ended, President Joe Biden issued preemptive pardons early Monday to several officials and lawmakers who have been the target of incoming President-elect Donald Trump’s threats of retaliation as well as several members of his family.

The pardon's 10-year scope "can be considered strong evidence that the Biden administration knows he is responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic," says doctor and Fauci critic.

President Trump flexed his presidential powers Monday, promising executive orders to usher in his agenda. He signaled pardons to come, after President Biden issued his own.