Gottlieb: White House 'can still catch up' after monkeypox emergency declaration

Former Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Scott Gottlieb on Sunday said that the Biden administration “can still catch up” and control the monkeypox outbreak in the U.S. with ramped-up testing. “I think they can still catch up. I think there's a potential to get this back in the box. But it's going to be very difficult at this point,” Gottlieb told CBS “Face the Nation”

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Fourth set of human remains discovered at Lake Mead since May

LAS VEGAS (KLAS)– Another set of skeletal remains was discovered at Lake Mead on Saturday morning, the National Park Service said. National Park Service Rangers received an emergency call reporting the discovery of human skeletal remains at Swim Beach in the Lake Mead National Recreation Area around 11:15 a.m. Rangers responded to recover the remains with help from a dive team from the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department.

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Maloney knocks Kinzinger criticism of DCCC funding GOP election denier

Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney (D-N.Y.) on Sunday defended the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) after the group that he chairs took out an ad aimed at splitting Republican support between a moderate GOP incumbent and a far-right House challenger in a Michigan race. “It’s flat wrong to say that we were promoting an election denier. We were attacking an election denier,” Maloney said on MSNBC's “The Sunday Show with Jonathan Capehart.”

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Graham warned to follow decorum rule after he attacks Democratic colleague

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) received a warning early Sunday morning to follow the Senate’s decorum rules after he accused Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.) of being “deceitful” and “dishonest” and vowed “we’re going to call you out.”   “This gives phony and cynical a bad name,” Graham exclaimed when Hassan introduced her amendment.   Graham’s outburst at Hassan prompted Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) to remind the South Carolina senator sternly not to impugn the motives of a fellow senator.   Murphy reminded Graham and all senators not to

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Why aren’t we treating child sexual abuse like the crisis it is?

This September will mark six years since the world first learned about the horrific abuse that occurred at Michigan State University and USA Gymnastics and exposed the institutional failures that allowed one man to abuse hundreds for decades.  Six years later, although this now defamed doctor Larry Nassar is in prison, the painful reality is that we have done far too l

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