KAISER HEALTH NEWS – Meanwhile, in Hawaii, health officials are distributing monkeypox shots to close contacts of people who've contracted the virus.
Media outlets report on the rising number of cases across the country, and the world. A report in NBC News covers one man's painful experience with the illness.
Politico: Technical Bug Bungles New York City's Monkeypox Vaccine Rollout:
New Yorkers struggled mostly in vain to book appointments for one of the city’s scarce monkeypox vaccines...
HANNITY.COM – Texas Governor Greg Abbott has signed an executive order authorizing and empowering the Texas National Guard and the Texas Department of Public Safety to return illegal immigrants to the border.
“I have authorized the Texas National Guard and Texas Department of Public Safety to begin returning illegal immigrants to the border to stop this criminal enterprise endangering our communities,” continued Governor Abbott.
“As the challenges on the border continue to increase, Texas will continue...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Democrats want to boost taxes on some high earners and use the money to extend the solvency of Medicare, the latest step in the party's election-year attempt to craft a scaled-back version of the economic package that collapsed last year, Democratic aides told The Associated Press.
Democrats expect to submit legislative language on their Medicare plan to the Senate's parliamentarian in the next few days, the aides said. It was the...
THE WESTERN JOURNAL – When Sam Brinton was tapped for a position at the Department of Energy in February, the new Deputy Assistant Secretary of Spent Fuel and Waste Disposition in the Office of Nuclear Energy was already a controversial hire.
Brinton, who is a “gender-fluid” drag queen, calls the national COVID czar “Daddy Fauci” and bragged in his bio that he “has worn his stilettos to Congress to advise legislators about nuclear policy and...
HEADLINE HEALTH – A U.S. Department of Justice web page reveals a stunning number of prosecution in progress for fraudulent coronavirus schemes.
More that two dozen such prosecutions have been announced in just the past two weeks, including:
A West Palm Beach nursing home that conspired to let friends of the organization and its leadership cut the line to get the first COVID vaccines ahead of nursing home residents.
A Boston-area man who became a...
BLOOMBERG LAW – Jorge Perez and Ricardo Perez, of Miami, Fla., were convicted by a federal jury in the Middle District of Florida of a conspiracy to unlawfully bill for approximately $1.4 billion of laboratory testing services, the Department of Justice said Monday.
The defendants used rural hospitals as billing shells to submit claims for services mostly performed at outside laboratories, according to the Justice Department.
They were convicted of conspiracy to commit health care fraud...
The Difference is Life – Primary, nationwide abortion statistics for the United States are available from two sources—privately from the Guttmacher Institute (AGI) and publicly from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC).
In recent years, California, Maryland, and New Hampshire have not publicly released their abortion totals—rendering the CDC numbers incomplete.
The following information has been gleaned from both sources to provide an overview of the frequency and demography of abortion.
Additional, secondary statistics have been taken...
DAILY CALLER – Democratic Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren told a Washington Post reporter the government should build Planned Parenthood clinics on national parks Monday.
“They could put up tents, have trained personnel — and be there to help people who need it,” Warren said, according to Washington Post reporter Caroline Kitchener.
“It’s time to declare a medical emergency,” Warren added ...
Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called for similar proposals at a rally in New York...
WASHINGTON (AP) — South Dakota's Republican governor pledged on Sunday to bar mail-order abortion pills but said women should not face prosecution for seeking them.
In apparent defiance of legal guidance by the Justice Department after the Supreme Court last week stripped away women's constitutional protections for abortion, Kristi Noem indicated in national television interviews that she would put in place a plan approved by state lawmakers to restrict the pills.
The majority ruling Friday by...
Reactions To Supreme Court Abortion Ruling – Hillary Clinton Refers To Unborn As "Child"
WASHINGTON, June 24 (Reuters) - Public figures across the political spectrum reacted to the U.S. Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe v. Wade.
HILLARY CLINTON: "Most Americans believe the decision to have a child is one of the most sacred decisions there is, and that such decisions should remain between patients and their doctors ... "
DONALD J. TRUMP: "This is following the Constitution,...
LEGAL INSURRECTION – “The hell with the Supreme Court. We will defy them. Women will be in control of their bodies. And if they think black women are intimidated or afraid, they got another thought coming,” Congressperson Maxine Waters stated.
“We are going to make sure we fight for the right to control our own bodies.”
As expected, pro-abortion Democrats went absolutely bonkers Friday in the aftermath of the anticipated decision from the Supreme Court...
USA TODAY – LGBTQ people are three times likelier to be incarcerated and more than twice as likely to be arrested compared to straight people.
Prison rates are even higher among LGBTQ people of color.
“Being poor, a person of color and LGBTQ puts you at the intersection of being arrested and incarcerated," one LGBTQ advocate said.
ICYMI: Reuters "Fact Checks" Pregnant Ken Gag
By the time she'd approached the Transformative Justice Law Project of Illinois for help...
INSIDER – President Joe Biden accidentally flashed a cue card at a White House meeting on Thursday, offering a glimpse of simple instructions for the process of the meeting.
Biden gave remarks in the Roosevelt Room to a gathering of state governors about a partnership with 11 states to speed up the growth of the offshore wind industry and its domestic supply chain in the US.
The photographer documenting the event captured one of the documents...