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Moderna said on Wednesday the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has agreed to review its influenza vaccine, reversing an earlier decision to reject the application, after the company made modifications. The reversal, which comes just a week after the FDA’s surprise decision to not review the company’s experimental flu vaccine application, lifted shares of the …
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Saturday he would like to see Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene resume her political career at some point, despite their recent falling out. Trump’s comments came the day after Greene, one of the best-known faces in the Republican arena, made the stunning announcement that she will resign in January. In …
In a reversal, President Trump says House Republicans should vote to release the Jeffrey Epstein files. In a post on his Truth Social platform late Sunday night, Mr. Trump wrote, “As I said on Friday night aboard Air Force One to the Fake News Media, House Republicans should vote to release the Epstein files, because …
President Donald Trump said Thursday that he’s backing off a planned surge of federal agents into San Francisco after speaking to the mayor, as protesters gathered outside a U.S. Coast Guard base where they were located. Trump posted on social media that Mayor Daniel Lurie told him Wednesday night that the city was making progress …
Studies in rodents and humans suggest that low levels of the metal contribute to cognitive decline. Replenishing the brain’s natural stores of lithium can protect against and even reverse Alzheimer’s disease, suggests a paper published1 today in Nature. The paper reports that analyses of human brain tissue and a series of mouse experiments point to …
Days after announcing it would stop purchasing over 50 traditional American liquor products made in Canada as a response to U.S. tariffs, the Government of Saskatchewan has reversed its decision. “Government has since heard concerns about some of these products that are produced in Canada,” the province said in a statement released Monday afternoon. “As …
WGNTV reported: The Illinois Supreme Court has reversed the conviction of actor Jussie Smollett. The former “Empire” actor took his case to the Illinois Supreme Court in September in a last-ditch effort to have his 2021 conviction overturned. A statement from the IL Supreme Court on Thursday said: “Today we resolve a question about the …
In a major reversal from her guidance just days ago, Secretary of State Jane Nelson now says non-citizen driver’s licenses may not be used as a form of voter identification. The Texas Department of Public Safety issues driver’s licenses and personal identification cards to lawfully present noncitizens, which are clearly marked “Temporary Visitor” or “Limited-Term” …
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled on Friday that mail-in ballots with incorrect dates will not be counted in November, reversing a previous ruling from a lower court in the battleground state. The decision from last month named only Philadelphia and Allegheny Counties, which the state’s Supreme Court argued the lower ruling lacked jurisdiction. “HUGE election …
Speaker Mike Johson (R-LA) backtracked and caved to the deep state and Democrats, moving to slip a deep state authorization into the defense bill. Reports say that congressional leaders, including Johnson, agreed to put an extension of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) in the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). The bill …
by confoundedinterest17 Bidenomics is based on massive Federal spending and massive Fed monetary stimulus. But like all stimulus, it wears off. Such is the case with bank lending as The Fed raises interest rates. US bank credit year-over-year (YoY) has stalled to a lowly 0.7% rate as M2 Money growth YoY increases slightly to -4%. …