Gov. Gavin Newsom has proposed allocating an additional $110 million towards vaccinations and testing of asylum seekers, as well as isolation and quarantine requirements in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
BY PETER SULLIVAN - 03/03/22
THE HILL – The Biden administration is requesting $22.5 billion from Congress for the COVID-19 response, setting up a tussle with Republican lawmakers who have resisted new funding.
In a letter to Congress dated Wednesday, the White House said the additional funds are crucial for efforts around vaccines, treatments, and testing.
In addition, $5 billion of the funding will go towards the global COVID-19 response, including vaccinating other countries, which is key...
Dr. Mehmet Oz, who is running in Pennsylvania's competitive U.S. Senate Republican primary, called on Dr. Anthony Fauci to resign, warning that when you "mix politics and medicine, you get politics."
WASHINGTON, Feb 28 (Reuters) - The White House told federal agencies late on Monday they can drop COVID-19 requirements that employees and visitors wear masks in federal buildings in much of the country, according to a document seen by Reuters.
The White House-led Safer Federal Workforce Task Force said in new guidance that the mask requirement could be ended by federal facilities in counties with low or medium COVID-19 community levels, regardless of vaccination status....
THE NEW YORK TIMES – Mayor Eric Adams announced on Sunday that New York City was poised to eliminate school mask mandates and vaccine requirements for restaurants, gyms and movie theaters, by March 7, if case numbers remain low.
The rollback of pandemic restrictions, which had served as a crucial weapon in the city’s battle against the coronavirus, is a milestone that many hope will help to restore a sense of normalcy in the city...
Headline USA – Texas plans to investigate and possibly prosecute sex reassignment surgery as child abuse, The Daily Wire reported.
Governor Greg Abbott directed the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS) to investigate so-called “transition” procedures found to “constitute child abuse under existing Texas law.”
Abbott wrote in a letter to DFPS:
“t is already against the law to subject Texas children to a wide variety of elective procedures for gender transitioning, including reassignment surgeries...
USA TODAY NETWORK – FLORIDA – A day after his state surgeon general was confirmed along party lines by the Florida Senate, Gov. Ron De Santis Thursday announced a new statewide, non-compulsory COVID policy that he claims "bucks CDC policy."
And the next day, the feds came around to his approach, announcing guideline changes that allow most Americans to unmask indoors.
The news release and tweet proclaiming the new guidelines seemed to coincide with his barnstorming...
CAMDEN, N.J. (AP) — Drugmaker Johnson & Johnson and three major distributors finalized nationwide settlements over their role in the opioid addiction crisis Friday, an announcement that clears the way for $26 billion to flow to nearly every state and local government in the U.S.
Taken together, the settlements are the largest to date among the many opioid-related cases that have been playing out across the country. They're expected to provide a significant boost to...
LOS ANGELES (KCAL/KCBS) - A woman who said she was wrongfully arrested last year is suing the Los Angeles Police Department.
Bethany Farber said she spent nearly two weeks behind bars after she says authorities mistook her for a woman with the same name who had an outstanding warrant.
“This was an experience that no one should go through, especially a law-abiding citizen,” Farber said.
She was surrounded by her attorneys and family as she recounted what she...
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The trial of an Ohio doctor accused in multiple hospital deaths began Tuesday with the defendant turning down a possible last-minute plea deal, and jurors hearing two sides of what led to the deaths of 14 patients under the doctor's care.
Dr. William Husel was indicted in cases involving at least 500 micrograms of the powerful painkiller fentanyl.
Prosecutors said ordering such dosages for a nonsurgical situation indicated an intent to end...
PEOPLE – Eric Kay, former Los Angeles Angels communications director, has been convicted on two drug charges related to the 2019 overdose death of Tyler Skaggs.
A jury in Fort Worth, Texas, found Kay guilty of providing Skaggs — then a pitcher for the Los Angeles Angels — with fentanyl, which led to his death at age 27 in a Dallas-area hotel room in July 2019, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Chad...