A handful of President Biden’s 2020 White House rivals are calling for him to step down from the 2024 race. As Biden advisers scramble to contain the fallout from last week’s debate against former President Trump, Democrats are assessing whether they think the embattled incumbent should stay in the running just a few months from...
President Biden’s reelection campaign is attacking the media, saying it is overplaying coverage of Biden’s bad debate performance while not covering positive news for the president. On a Zoom call with donors Monday evening, Biden’s deputy campaign manager Quentin Fulks derided the press directly, saying “the media has spent a ton of time blowing this out...
A pair of scholars at the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) warned that the Supreme Court ruling on presidential immunity poses a “direct threat” to democracy and the rule of law and raised concerns about what a second term under former President Trump could look like. The Supreme Court handed down the 6-3 decision Monday, ruling...
Leading Black voices commemorated the 60th anniversary of the passage of the Civil Rights Act on Tuesday by highlighting the ongoing fight to achieve equality and urging Black Americans to vote in the upcoming election. “History is a relay race. The leaders of the Civil Rights Movement carried the baton, and through their organizing, the...
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has banned a soda additive starting next month over health concerns. The FDA said Tuesday that it revoked its regulation that allowed brominated vegetable oil (BVO) to be used in food because it "is no longer considered safe." The agency pointed to studies conducted with the National Institutes of...
PBMs The Pharmaceutical Care Management Association (PCMA), the trade association representing pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs), hired Emergent Strategies to lobby on issues related to the industry. PBMs have been under tremendous pressure from lawmakers, pharmaceutical groups and others who argue they drive up prescription drug prices and demand transparency into their opaque operations. The PCMA...