Infant Formula Crisis Highlights Breastfeeding Barriers in Southern States
Despite all efforts by the federal government in recent weeks to address the ongoing infant formula shortageHowever, formula is still elusive for many parents. The Food and Drug Administration announcedThis week, nearly two million cans infant formula from a UK-based company arrived in the United States. Abbott Laboratories — the Illinois-based company whose alleged unsanitary […]
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Gun Lobby Intervened Against a Republican’s Gun Law. Then He Lost His Seat.
Cole Wist was an A-rated NRA member and a Republican state House representative from Colorado. Then, in 2018, he supported a red flag law, sponsoring a bill to allow guns to be taken away — temporarily — from people who pose an immediate threat to themselves or others. In the face of a fierce backlash […]
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Nobel Laureate Calls for Ending Intellectual Property Rules for COVID Vaccines
Social entrepreneur and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus on Saturday called for a comprehensive waiver of intellectual property rules for Covid-19 vaccines and treatments, declaring that “freeing” the technology “from profit and patent is the key” to a global health system that puts human lives above corporate profit. In an op ed publishedSaturday Stat […]
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Will Boris Johnson Resign?- No Confidence Vote
With the Grey report now printed, and the native election outcomes identified, Politics.co.uk has now undertaken an additional replace on the place of Conservative MPs. The connected evaluation reveals there’s a clear and pronounced cut up inside the parliamentary Conservative celebration. There are at the moment 120 Conservative MPs who, on the very least, are displaying […]
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Some Republicans Fume at Michigan GOP for Defending Candidates Busted for Fraud
After spending years pushing former President Donald Trump’s “Big Lie,” the Michigan Republican Party is defending its own candidates who were caught up in a massive fraud scheme. The Michigan Bureau of Elections released a reportMonday’s recommendation that Perry Johnson and James Craig, both leading Republican gubernatorial candidate, be removed from the ballot. too many […]
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The myth of Red Wall MPs propping up Boris Johnson
It is regularly suggested in the media that so called ‘Red Wall’ Conservative MPs are providing a backbone of support for Boris Johnson within the parliamentary Conservative party – the body that remains the single judge, jury and executioner of the prime minister’s future. However, this website has examined the public statements of Red Wall […]
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Liberty Mutual Board Member Just Became the New Lead Director of ExxonMobil
By now, it’s no secret: insurance companies can play a key role in helping the world steer away from mounting climate catastrophe by refusing to underwrite the expansion of dirty oil, gas and coal infrastructure. That’s why climate advocates, environmental justice organizers and concerned stakeholders have been escalating their demands on big insurers to stop […]
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Wall Street-Funded Super PAC Plans to Spend $1 Million to Oust Tlaib in Primary
A new political action committee backed by a major New York hedge fund and Democratic politician turned cable news commentator Bakari Sellers plans to spend more than $1 million in a bid to oust progressive second-term Michigan Democrat Rashida Tlaib from the U.S. House of Representatives in November’s midterm elections. Politico reports Urban Empowerment Action […]
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Biden Administration Sues Alaska Over Opening of Fishing Areas Amid Shortages
If fish stocks are low, who gets the right to continue to harvest fish in rural Alaska. Federal agencies can only speak for rural residents. The state of Alaska claims that all Alaskans are included. The Biden administration filed suiton May 17 against Alaska Department of Fish and Game During fish shortages, over fish openings […]
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After Mass Shootings, Republicans Shield White Supremacists From Scrutiny
Last March, Texas Democrats demandedChip Roy, a Texas Republican, resigned after making blatantly anti-Semitic statements during a House Judiciary Committee meeting on hate crimes against Asian Americans. Eight people were killed in an attack by a racist gunman on Asian women just days prior. Roy called for bringing the “bad guys” to “justice” — and […]
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