How Manchin holds the future hostage
Sen. Joe Manchin, the Maserati-driving maverick Democrat from West Virginia, must be feeling the stings of slings and arrows right now. He is being chastised by his fellow Democrats, climate scientists, climate-action advocates and the rest of the chattering classes for his latest rejection of President Biden's plan to fight global warming. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schum
Read MoreCruz says marriage equality, like abortion, should be left to states
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) on Saturday said Obergefell V. Hodges, the 2015 U.S. Supreme Court precedent that legalized same-sex marriage, should be overturned with states left to decide their own marriage laws. On his podcast "Verdict with Ted Cruz," the Texas lawmaker compared Obergefell to Roe V. Wade, which the Supreme Court overturned last month, ending 50 years of the constitutional right to abortion. "Obergefell, like Roe V. Wade, ignored two
Read MoreDC mayor estimates districts needs 100K monkeypox vaccine doses
The nation’s capital needs 100,000 monkeypox vaccine doses to respond to the new virus, Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) said on Sunday. A “robust testing regime” is already in place, Bowser told CBS “Face the Nation” host Margaret Brennan, but the city currently has just 8,000 vaccine doses. “We need more doses for sure,” Bowser said, noting the city is using its COVID-19 response as a model for dealing with the new disease.
Read MoreExperts divided on whether taking Juul off market would dent teen vaping
Experts are divided over whether efforts to keep Juul products off the market will put a dent in the youth vaping epidemic. The Food and Drug Administration made international headlines late last month when it stripped vaping giant Juul's products from the e-cigarette market, drawing praise from anti-tobacco advocates and lawmakers. The agency said Juul did not prove that keeping its products on the market “would be appropriate for the protection of the public health.” But less than two weeks later, FDA backpedaled after Juul sued. The agency said it will temporarily all
Read MoreGottlieb says window for containing monkeypox 'probably has closed'
Former U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Scott Gottlieb said on Sunday he wouldn’t be surprised if there are thousands of monkeypox cases in the United States, warning that the window to get control of the virus may be closed. “I think they're going to be reluctant to use the word pandemic, because it implies that they've failed to contain this, and I think at this point we’ve failed to contain this,” Gottlieb told CBS “Face the Nation” moderator Margaret Brennan. “We’re now at the cusp of this becoming an endemic virus, with this now become som
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