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May 11 2021
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Biden’s biggest remaining personnel decision meets heat from the left
The Biden administration’s top economic aides like him. Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle respect him. And investors lapping up the rewards of loose money seem to love him. Even a potential rival for his job has endorsed him.
Now the biggest force standing between Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell and a second term leading the central bank may be an activist left prepared to create
PoliticoJun 22 2022
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Juul e-cigs could be taken off the market as early as today
E-cigarettes from Juul Labs could be taken off the market in the U.S. as early as Wednesday.
The Food and Drug Administration is expected to announce the decision after a two-year review of data from Juul, which was pushing to keep its vapes on store shelves, reports the Wall Street Journal.
The expected move comes as something of a surprise after the FDA’s clearance of tobacco-
FortuneJan 05 2021
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Trump Pressures Pence to Reject Electoral Votes
President Trump on Tuesday escalated his efforts to force Vice President Mike Pence to overturn President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s victory, falsely asserting that Mr. Pence had the power to unilaterally throw out electoral votes on Wednesday when Congress meets to certify the election results.
But there is nothing in the Constitution or the law that explicitly gives a vice president
New York Times (News)Jun 22 2022
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Buying From Mark Cuban’s Pharmacy Could Save Medicare Billions, Study Says
Medicare’s prescription-drug program could save billions of dollars annually if it purchased generic acid-reflux, cancer and other drugs from a new pharmacy backed by investor Mark Cuban, according to Harvard Medical School researchers.
Mr. Cuban, the billionaire internet entrepreneur and owner of the NBA’s Dallas Mavericks, launched his pharmacy in January with an eye toward disrupting
Wall Street Journal (News)Jun 24 2022
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Trump feeling fallout of Capitol attack hearings as allies abandon ship
Somewhere in Bedminster, New Jersey, on Thursday afternoon, it seems quite possible that an elderly man was sitting in front of a television howling with rage.
Donald Trump, who spends summers at his Bedminster golf club, is a TV guy, a ratings guy. So the widely televised hearings of the congressional committee investigating the January 6 attack on the US Capitol hit him where it hurts
The GuardianJul 12 2022
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Kremlin says Putin will visit Iran next week
The Kremlin said Tuesday that Russian President Vladimir Putin will visit Tehran next week for a trilateral meeting with the leaders of Iran and Turkey, the so-called Astana format of meetings for Syria-related talks, AP reports.
Driving the news: The White House said Monday that Iran is providing Russia with "hundreds" of unmanned aerial vehicles — including weapons-capable drones for
AxiosAug 03 2022
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GOP senators sound alarm over terrorist suspects at southern border
Republican senators said Wednesday it’s a “near certainty” that terrorism suspects have snuck into the U.S. over the porous southern border on President Biden’s watch, and they challenged the administration’s claims the boundary is secure.
The senators pointed to data showing the Border Patrol has nabbed 56 people whose names were flagged in the terrorism database since Oct. 1 — a
Washington TimesMar 13 2022
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ICE report shows sharp drop in deportations, immigration arrests under Biden
Deportations by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement fell sharply last year under President Biden to the lowest levels in the agency’s history despite record-high border crossings, according to statistics released Friday in an annual report.
During the 2021 fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, ICE recorded 59,011 deportations, down from 185,884 in 2020. The lower numbers were partly the
Washington PostSep 13 2022
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FDA schedules meeting to discuss over-the-counter birth control pill
The Food and Drug Administration has slated a joint committee meeting to review pharmaceutical company Perrigo's application to make its birth control pills available over the counter, which would be the first-ever daily birth control medication to be available without a prescription.
The Nonprescription Drugs Advisory Committee and the Obstetrics, Reproductive, and Urologic Drugs
Washington ExaminerJan 04 2021
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Where GOP senators stand on objecting to Electoral College votes
The joint session of Congress scheduled to occur Wednesday for the counting and certifying of Electoral College votes is set to be marked by high drama, as Republicans in the House and Senate have pledged to challenge the results from several battleground states.
A group of at least 12 Republican senators have said they, along with more than 100 GOP House members, will object to the
CBS News (Online)