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Tucker Carlson Announces New Show on Twitter

FORMER FOX NEWS HOST Tucker Carlson has released a video saying he will bring a new show to Twitter.

“Starting soon, we’ll be bringing a new version of the show to Twitter,” Carlson said in his first remarks about his future post-Fox plans. He also praised Twitter, which was bought by Tesla owner Elon Musk late last year, for being one of the few “platforms left that allow free speech.”

GOVERNMENT NIH Renews Controversial Grant to EcoHealth for Coronavirus Bat Study

NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH (NIH) officials have reactivated a previously terminated $576,290 federal grant to EcoHealth Alliance to study how outbreaks of deadly viruses such as SARS, MERS, and now COVID-19 originate from wildlife and can be passed to humans.

The grant was suspended three years ago over concerns about grant term violations.

EcoHealth, the nonprofit organization that for years prior to the COVID-19 pandemic used NIH funds to conduct coronavirus research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China—the Chinese facility under scrutiny for its work on dangerous bat coronaviruses—announced in a statement that the new four-year grant would be used to study “the risk of bat coronavirus spillover emergence.”