The consulting giant was helping Purdue Pharma and Johnson & Johnson fend off FDA regulations even as it helped shape FDA drug policy.

Sinema reportedly opposes tax hikes on the wealthy and corporations to pay for health care, child care, and climate.

Archaeologists said lower water levels in the Missouri River revealed the ship's remains.

The secret wealth and dealings of world leaders, politicians and billionaires has been exposed in one of the biggest leaks of financial documents.

The NFL has long decried gambling while profiting from it. Yet its latest gambling deal shows the league in full hypocrisy mode.

LGBT+ groups in Russia should be designated as "extremist" organisations, an influential government commission chair has said.

In the constantly evolving romance landscape, Blushing Books has long occupied a specific niche: spanking erotica. Now some of its most successful writers just want their books back.

Every landlord and renter of a home or apartment in Barstow will soon be subject to a mandatory “inspection program” that gives local departments and county “enforcement agencies” a legally questionable power to enter residences without a search warrant or suspicion of a crime. But an effort among locals to kneecap the program before it starts is gaining momentum. Barstow’s City Council unanimously voted a few months ago to mandate annual inspections for all properties containing at least one “rental dwelling unit,” though it granted hotels, motels, healthcare facilities and student dorms immunity from the mandate. The program is set to take effect Jan. 1, 2022. Yet, most tenants are likely still in the dark about it. Some local landlords, whose properties are owned by a management firm or agency, said even they had no idea the ordinance existed when recently asked about it.

Policymakers and politicians also have a natural bias against the idea that diseases may be airborne, says Professor Jimenez. “Droplets on surfaces is very convenient for people in power - all of the responsibility is on the individual,” he said. “On the other hand, if you admit it is airborne, institutions, governments and companies have to do something.”

The National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) postponed all of its upcoming weekend matches and its commissioner resigned Friday, following allegations of sexual misconduct against a former coach. North Carolina Courage Coach Paul Riley was fired Thursday after a report in The Athletic detailed allegations made by players on teams that Riley has coached since 2010. The news also comes after the players’ union on Thursday called for an end to “systemic abuse plaguing the NWSL." NWSL Commissioner Lisa Baird, who earlier Friday apologized to players and staff, had submitted her resignation by Friday night, the league said.

A damning Department of Homeland Security internal report outlines how senior leadership pushed unfounded conspiracies about antifascists, encouraged staff to violate constitutional rights, and made spurious connections between protesters who engaged in criminal activity during last summer's racial justice protests.

Rep. Josh Gottheimer is the House’s top recipient of private equity cash — and he’s helping Wall Street undermine the strategy to pass the reconciliation bill.

50 years after the first ARPANET message, pop culture still views connectivity as disconnected from the political worldview that produced it.

WASHINGTON (AP) — In a potential leap forward in the global fight against the pandemic , drugmaker Merck said Friday that its experimental pill for people sick with COVID-19 reduced hospitalizations and deaths by half.

PARIS — One of France's biggest unsolved criminal cases appears to have been cracked and the decades-long hunt for a suspect in at least six rapes and four killings during the 1980s and 1990s led to a former police officer. Prosecutors announced late Thursday that DNA from a 59-year-old retired officer corresponded to genetic traces found at the scene of multiple crimes in the 1980s and 1990s. The horrors began with the rape of an 8-year-old girl in 1986 and continued with other rapes, a kidnapping and slayings, mostly of underage girls. After 35 years of digging, investigators determined that the suspect had worked as a gendarme in the Paris region between 1986 and 1994, and summoned 750 current or former officers for questioning this week.

Las Vegas, Seattle, San Diego, Orlando and countless communities in between will see mail service slow by as much as a day under the U.S. Postal Service’s strategic restructuring plan, a Washington Post analysis shows. The new delivery regimen, which takes effect Oct. 1, disproportionately affects states west of the Rocky Mountains and the country’s mainland extremities, including large swaths of southern Texas and Florida.

For a while, the only thing most New Yorkers knew about the state’s rent-relief program was that it was failing miserably. Flush with $2.6 billion in federal funds in April, the state had distributed absolutely nothing by early June, and by the end of the month, a paltry 70 households across the state had received aid. It’s true that other states were also inexcusably slow; Florida had distributed just 2 percent of its rent relief by mid-July. But now, New York’s once-floundering program is improbably ranked first in the U.S. for distributing rent relief. As of September 22, the state has allocated $1.6 billion in federal funds, a third of which — or $517.5 million — has actually been paid out to more than 40,000 households. A lot of the credit for this should probably go to Governor Kathy Hochul, who was pushing state officials to speed it up even before she took office. When Cuomo was governor, he never even talked with the people running the program. On Hochul’s first day in office, she directed the state to invest another $1 million toward marketing and outreach in areas with low application rates, and she directed some 100 staffers to work solely on pending applications. She also tasked Lieutenant Governor Brian Benjamin with continuing to move the program forward. And it all seems to have worked: Last week, Hochul informed the U.S. Treasury that New York is on track to allocate all of its rent-relief funds by early October — and requested more money.

A man who had been part of a far-right group that wants to foment a civil war admitted in federal court Thursday he traveled to Minneapolis from the San Antonio area to sow chaos after the police murder of George Floyd. Ivan Harrison Hunter, 24, of Boerne, Texas, pleaded guilty to a single count of rioting. The charge carries a maximum prison term of five years. Assistant U.S. Attorney Andrew Winter said sentencing guidelines call for Hunter to serve between 37 and 46 months in federal prison. U.S. District Judge Michael Davis said he would schedule a sentencing hearing following a standard pre-sentence investigation.

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