LAW AND POLITICS

Is Legislation to Safeguard Americans Against Superbugs a Boondoggle or Breakthrough?

Kaiser Health News – With time running out in the 2022 congressional session, a bipartisan coalition of lawmakers and infectious disease specialists is scrambling to pass a bill aimed at spurring the development of antibiotics to combat the deadly spread of drug-resistant pathogens. The PASTEUR Act, as amended, would provide $6 billion in federal funding over several years to give drugmakers incentive to develop and manufacture lifesaving medications for the small but growing number of...

Texas Republicans Move To Restrict Drag Queen Shows

NBC NEWS – Texas Republicans introduced several bills this week that target the transgender community, including one looking to prevent children from attending drag performances. GOP legislators officially unveiled an updated party platform over the summer that defines homosexuality as an “abnormal lifestyle choice” and is opposed to “all efforts to validate transgender identity.” A bill filed Monday would classify any business that decides to host a drag show under the state’s statutory definition of...

Abortions in Texas dropped 97% the month after Roe v. Wade was overturned

WASHINGTON EXAMINER – The number of abortions Texas residents received dropped by 97% the month after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. Only 68 abortions were performed for Texans in the month of July, according to preliminary data from the Texas Health and Human Services Commission, down from the 2,596 procedures performed in June, the month that the Supreme Court found in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization that there is no constitutional right...

Working at 76: Inflation forces hard choice for older adults

PHOENIX (AP) — Lenore Angey never imagined she'd have to go back to work at age 76. With an ailing husband and the highest prices she can remember for everything from milk to gasoline, the retired school lunch worker from Cleveland, Ohio, now works part time as a salesperson at a local department store to cover the costs of food and medicine. "The holidays are going to be tough, and it's not just for seniors," said...

Newsom says California about to ‘break’ amid flood of illegal migrants when Title 42 expires

Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom of California warned Monday that President Biden's plan to reverse former President Donald Trump's border policies could "break" his state. The Biden administration is planning to lift the Trump-era Title 42 policy, which allows police and border officers to expedite the expulsion of illegal immigrants.

Biden Caught Smelling A Girl’s Hair, Again

President Joe Biden has once again been photographed hugging and sniffing the hair of a woman or girl, this time Sandy Hook survivor Jackie Hegarty, 17, during an event in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2022. Creepy Joe strikes again! | 15 October 2022, Daily Mail President Joe Biden was speaking at a community college in California on Friday when he was seen grabbing a girl by the shoulder as he gave dating advice After posing...

DeSantis targets Covid vaccine manufacturers and CDC in latest anti-vaccine moves

CNN – Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Tuesday asked his state’s Supreme Court to green-light an investigation of “any and all wrongdoing in Florida with respect to Covid-19 vaccines,” his latest move to cast doubt on the vaccines’ effectiveness and amplify fears about side effects. In the petition filed with the Florida Supreme Court, the Republican governor requests the empaneling of a grand jury to investigate a broad group of entities associated with the development,...

Face masks come back to forefront amid triple threat of Covid-19, flu, RSV

CNN – Months after most mask requirements have come to an end and many people have stopped wearing them, some of the nation’s leading health experts are encouraging people to put their face masks back on – but this time, it’s not just because of Covid-19. As a triple threat of respiratory illnesses – flu, RSV and Covid-19 – sweeps the nation this holiday season, health officials are urging people to take precautions to protect...

Dems Turn Against Imprisoned Tranny Legislator

NASHUA PATCH CONCORD, NH — After weeks of waiting for official comment, Democrat’s New Hampshire House leader has formally requested a Nashua Democrat to resign from her seat due to multiple criminal allegations against her. State Rep. Stacie Laughton (D-Nashua), a prior felon and one of the first transgendered persons to be elected to a state legislature in the United States, is being held in jail on multiple charges, accused of stalking a woman in...

NHS should pay for biological women wanting a penis to undergo surgery ABROAD to bypass record waiting list, trans rights campaigners say

DAILY MAIL (UK) – Taxpayers should pay for trans men wanting a penis to get one abroad because of lengthy NHS queues, campaigners have controversially said. Biological females transitioning to become men can ask for a penis — sometimes called bottom surgery — so they can better match their gender identity. But waiting lists for the complex op, called a phalloplasty, which is also offered to men who lose their genitalia in serious accidents, can be...

Victim Advocacy Group: ‘No Place’ in NH House for Dem Accused of Stalking

NH JOURNAL – As New Hampshire Democrats remain silent about one of their own sitting in jail on stalking charges, the state’s leading victim advocacy group is speaking out. State Rep. Stacie Laughton (D-Nashua) is currently being held without bail in Manchester’s Valley Street Jail on grounds she presents an ongoing danger to the public as well as the victim of her stalking and harassment. "When charged as a class A misdemeanor, conviction for misdemeanor offenses...

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