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.

President Trump wasted no time Monday initiating the conservative agenda he’d promised on the campaign trail, signing a slate of executive orders and issuing pardons for Jan. 6 insurrectionists.

WASHINGTON DC, – President Biden Monday pardoned science advisor Anthony Fauci in the final hours of his remaining presidency to ensure protection against potential “revenge” that the Trump administration may act on, according to MedPage Today.

Joe Biden has set the presidential record for most individual pardons and commutations issued. He pardoned Dr. Anthony Fauci, retired Gen. Mark Milley and members of the House committee that

President Donald Trump declared Monday that the "golden age of America begins right now" and vowed that the nation's challenges would be "annihilated" by his MAGA movement in a bare-knuckled inaugural address that echoed the themes and grievances of his trademark rally speeches.

In a bold and unprecedented move in the final hours of his presidency, President Joe Biden issued pardons for several high-profile figures, including General Mark Milley, Dr. Anthony Fauci, and members of Congress who served on the Select Committee investigating the January 6,

The Wyoming congressional delegation joined Donald Trump on Monday in slamming President Biden’s final-hour pardons. On his way out of office,

President Joe Biden has pardoned Dr. Anthony Fauci, retired Gen. Mark Milley and members of the House committee that investigated the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, using the extraordinary powers of his office in his final hours to guard against potential “revenge” by the incoming Trump administration.

President Donald Trump signed a slew of executive orders on the first day of his second term in office on Monday, and among them were motions to withdraw the United States from the Paris Climate Agreement and the World Health Organization (WHO).

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