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The Food and Drug Administration wants all U.S. blood centers to start screening for Zika, a major expansion intended to protect the nation's blood supply from the mosquito-borne virus. The new advisory means all U.S. states and territories will need to begin testing blood donations for Zika.
Two congressmen are calling for an investigation into the apparent suicide of a former Navy gunner on the grounds of a veterans' hospital in New York. Peter Kaisen, of Islip, was found dead of a gunshot wound Sunday in a parking lot at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Northport.
The controversy surrounding the skyrocketing costs of Mylan's EpiPens, medication that counteracts potentially deadly allergic reactions, is "a product of their own success," according to a Wall Street Journal reporter on the pharma beat. "For a long time, this wasn't a product that many people knew about or wanted and it's really a credit to Mylan for making it into a brand with a name that is as well-recognized and highly sought as Band-Aids," Jonathan Rockoff said on Friday's MetroNews "Talkline."
"Hi! How's everybody doin'?" McGinty said, as she entered the Western Learning Center, an early childhood program for local families. McGinty stopped here Tuesday to tout her economic agenda with a small group of local parents, but first, it was story time.
Welcome to Clout Street: Morning Spin, our weekday feature to catch you up with what's going on in government and politics from Chicago to Springfield. The board that oversees the Teachers Retirement System is scheduled to vote on whether to lower the expected rate of return on investments, a move Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner 's office has warned could blow a massive hole into the state's already shaky finances.
The mounting congressional scrutiny of pharmaceutical giant Mylan over its 400 percent price hike for EpiPen has created an awkward situation on Capitol Hill for Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin -- his daughter runs the company at the center of the scandal. Colleagues on both sides of the aisle, as well as Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, are now slamming Mylan and demanding investigations into why prices were jacked so high on the lifesaving allergy treatment drug.
A Brooklyn, N.Y.-based design studio is making America great again by giving ordinary citizens a chance to own a little piece of Donald Trump. FCTRY has created a doll that looks like the Republican nominee, only this doll has a middle finger flipped straight up to the sky.
" Hillary Clinton said Thursday that Donald Trump has unleashed the "radical fringe" within the Republican Party, including anti-Semites and white supremacists, dubbing the billionaire businessman's campaign as one that will "make America hate again." Trump rejected Clinton's allegations, defending his hard-line approach to immigration while trying to make the case to minority voters that Democrats have abandoned them.
Sen. John McCain's primary opponent emphatically declared Thursday that the soon-to-be 80-year-old Arizona Republican is too old to be re-elected. "John McCain has fallen down on the job.
Kaine said on 'The Late Show' that Clinton has a track record "all the way back to being a middle schooler in trying to advance priorities for others. Donald Trump is for himself."
Donald Trump defeated 16 rivals in the Republican primaries by being the most anti-immigrant of them all, promising to build a giant wall on the border and deport millions. He labeled opponents like Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio as weak and amnesty-loving, and his extreme rhetoric pushed the entire immigration debate to the right.
Minnesota officials unveiled a last-ditch proposal Thursday to fund the state's share of a proposed light-rail line to southwestern Minneapolis suburbs, tapping a mix of state and local funds as they scramble to meet a funding deadline for the controversial project. The proposal was presented at a public meeting called by Gov. Mark Dayton to discuss funding options for the Southwest Light Rail project.
The state is on the hook for $144 million of the proposed $1.8 billion line between Minneapolis and Eden Prairie. But mass transit projects have divided the Legislature for years.
Sen. John McCain's primary opponent emphatically declared Thursday that the soon-to-be 80-year-old Arizona Republican is too old to be re-elected. "John McCain has fallen down on the job.
Donald Trump defeated 16 rivals in the Republican primaries by being the most anti-immigrant of them all, promising to build a giant wall on the border and deport millions.
Washington, Aug 26 : More than half of the likely voters, or 53 per cent, said they had "strongly unfavourable" views of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, while 46 per cent said the same about his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton, according to a national poll released on Thursday. Clinton now holds 10-point lead over Trump, 51 per cent to 41 per cent, among likely voters in a two-way race, the Quinnipiac University poll finds, Xinhua reported.
The tone of the US presidential campaign has darkened, with Hillary Clinton skewering Donald Trump as a man who flirts with racism and paranoid ideas, while he in turn labelled her a racist whose family foundation was a "criminal enterprise". Mr Trump says Mrs Clinton views minorities only as a source of votes, Mrs Clinton says Mr Trump has "long history of discrimination" Speaking at a campaign event in Reno, Nevada, Mrs Clinton employed unusually tough language as she detailed a history of what she said were the Republican real estate mogul's discriminatory actions.
More than 20 years before he took over Trump's presidential campaign, media executive Stephen K. Bannon was the investment banker hired to rescue Fort Worth philanthropist Ed Bass's Biosphere 2 environmental research project. It was Bannon who ousted the original residents of the 3-acre Arizona laboratory as dysfunctional and reshaped the project from - his words - a "space colonization" test to what is now a University of Arizona science program.