(Richie Malouf, The Center Square) Generic drug manufacturers oppose Democrats’ bill allowing Medicare to negotiate drug prices.
The Senate passed its new spending bill on Sunday, which permits Medicare to negotiate what it pays for drugs.
“For seniors who’ve faced the indignity of rationing medications or skipping them altogether, the Inflation...
(Headline USA) On Friday Indiana became the first state in the nation to ban abortion since SCOTUS overturned Roe v. Wade in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health.
The Republican governor quickly signed a near-total ban on infanticide shortly after lawmakers approved it.
The law, which takes effect Sept. 15, includes some...
(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) Just in time for the upcoming 2022 midterms, President Joe Biden and his administration have declared monkeypox to be a "Public Health Emergency," despite the fact that it almost exclusively affects gays.
BREAKING: Biden administration to declare monkeypox a public health emergency - WaPo
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(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) A parent group in Iowa has filed a federal lawsuit against one of the state's school districts over its policy of facilitating gender transitions for students without parental consent or warning.
According to the Washington Examiner, Parents Defending Education sued Linn-Mar Community School District near Cedar Rapids,...
(Richie Malouf, The Center Square) President Joe Biden has appointed two federal officials as the administration's monkeypox coordinators, the White House said Tuesday.
Biden named Federal Emergency Management Agency's Robert Fenton as the White House National Monkeypox Response Coordinator and Dr. Demetre Daskalakis as the Deputy Coordinator.
"We look forward to...
(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) The Justice Department is suing the state of Idaho over the state's law greatly restricting abortion—the first of many such lawsuits that will be coming out of the Biden administration in an effort to defy the Supreme Court's recent ruling that overturned Roe v. Wade.
The...
(Headline USA) Coronavirus czar Anthony Fauci said this week that he is fed up with people who still won’t “adhere to public health commonsense measures” regarding COVID-19.
Even though the vast majority of the country has moved on from the pandemic, Fauci has not and probably never will.
After recently...
(Madison Hirneisen, The Center Square) California's Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom declared a monkeypox state of emergency Monday in response to the rapidly spreading outbreak in the Golden State.
The emergency declaration enables Emergency Medical Services personnel to administer the monkeypox vaccine---a move Newsom’s office says will bolster the state’s vaccination...
(Chris Woodward, The Center Square) Kansas voters will decide Tuesday whether to amend the state constitution so that it says there's no right to abortions.
The proposed amendment would also give state lawmakers the power to pass abortion-related legislation.
The measure, titled the "Kansas No State Constitutional Right to Abortion and Legislative...
(Ezekiel Loseke, Headline USA) The Biden Administration is preparing to declare monkeypox a national health emergency, according to Politico.
The Health and Human Services is the agency responsible for making such a declaration. Far from an unbiased source, HHS stands to gain funding and staffing because of the announcement, per the...
(Headline USA) Hunger is a problem in Illinois every summer. When schools are closed, families don’t have school meals to help feed their kids. Record inflation is compounding the issue.
Steve Ericson, executive director of Feeding Illinois, the state association for food agencies, told The Center Square that this summer, inflation...
(Ben Sellers, Headline USA) Less than a day after receiving two negative COVID tests, President Joe Biden was flouting the guidance of his own Centers for Disease Control and Prevention authorities.
Those included quarantining for a full week after the first sign of symptoms and continuing to wear a mask...