The CDC announced Monday that all adults should get a Covid-19 booster shot, strengthening its previous recommendation amid growing concerns over the Omicron variant.
Pfizer is reportedly planning to request authorization from the FDA for its Covid booster for 16- and 17-year-olds.
Dr Oz is expected to join the Pennsylvania Senate race as a Republican to replace Pat Toomey
Joe Biden postponed his remarks about the supply chain for Tuesday instead.
Democratic congresswoman Ilhan Omar hung up on a phone call with far-right congresswoman Lauren Boebert. The phone call was to address Islamophobic comments that Boebert made about Omar - Omar wanted a public apology while Boebert also wanted an apology from Omar.
The House select committee investigating the 6 January attack on the US Capitol announced on Monday that it will vote to recommend the criminal prosecution of top former Trump justice department official Jeffrey Clark, after he defied a subpoena seeking his cooperation with the inquiry.
The justice department is accusing Trump ally Steve Bannon of seeking to try his charge of criminal contempt of Congress through the media.
Dr Mehmet Oz is expected to join the Pennsylvania Senate race, the Philadelphia Inquirer reports. Several news reports in recent weeks have indicated the TV doctor, who until recently lived in New Jersey, was considering running as a Republican to replace Senator Pat Toomey.
Army veteran Sean Parnell was previously considered the lead contender in the race and had gained an endorsement from Donald Trump, but he suspended his campaign after losing a custody battle with his estranged wife. His wife had accused him of abusing her and striking one of their children.
“There is nothing more important to me than my children, and while I plan to ask the court to reconsider, I can’t continue with a Senate campaign,” Parnell said.
Oz would enter the race with widespread name recognition, but not without controversy. He has a history of promoting dubious medical treatments on his show. In 2015, a group of prominent doctors urged Columbia University to cut ties with Oz for “an egregious lack of integrity” and promoting “quack treatments” unsupported by scientific evidence.
Amazon workers in Alabama will get another union election after the company was found to have violated labor law in the previous election, the Associated Press reports.
The move is a major blow to Amazon, which had spent about a year aggressively campaigning for warehouse workers in Bessemer to reject the union, which they ultimately did by a wide margin.
It also comes at a time of widespread labor unrest in the US as a somewhat rejuvenated American union movement is flexing its muscles in an economy that is seeking to recover from the coronavirus pandemic.
The rare move was first announced on Monday by the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU), which spearheaded the union organizing movement. A National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) spokeswoman confirmed the decision.
The RWDSU charged Amazon with illegal misconduct during the first vote. In August, the hearing officer at NLRB who presided over the case determined that Amazon violated labor law and recommended that the regional director set aside the results and direct another election.
Joe Manchin has told reporters he won’t commit to passing Joe Biden’s Build Back Better bill by Christmas, the timeline laid out by Chuck Schumer, the Senate majority leader. “We will wait to see what we have,” the West Virginia Democrat said.
Just spoke with Sen. Manchin, whose vote remains crucial to passing Biden’s Build Back Better bill. He wouldn’t commit to Schumer’s Christmas timeframe. And wouldn’t commit to voting to proceed to the bill. “We will wait to see what we have,” he told a group of us
Manchin and Arizona Senator Krysten Sinema have wielded outsize influence over the president’s $1.75tn social spending and climate package, which was passed by Democrats in the House of Representatives earlier this month.
The conservative pair, who present the last hurdle to the president’s Build Back Better plan, pressured colleagues to cut the cost of the plan in half and continue to raise concerns over its cost. The Senate holdouts have been heavily criticized for accepting a flood of money from Republican and corporate donors.
Pfizer is reportedly planning to request authorization for its Covid booster for 16- and 17-year-olds.
The company and partner BioNTech are expected to ask the FDA to authorize its booster shot for the age group in the coming days, according to the Washington Post. All adults are currently eligible for the booster shot after the CDC strengthened its booster recommendation on Monday amid growing fears over the new Omicron variant. The variant has not yet been detected in the US, but the World Health Organization warns it poses a high global risk.
“Given the current overall situation of the pandemic, FDA will evaluate any such EUA request in a very timely manner,” the agency told the Post.
A Pfizer spokesperson said the company expects “to share updates on this soon”.
Good afternoon. I’m Dani Anguiano and I’ll be taking over our live US politics coverage for the rest of the day.
The CDC announced Monday that all adults should get a Covid-19 booster shot, strengthening its previous recommendation amid growing concerns over the Omicron variant. The agency now recommends that everyone 18 and older get a booster shot within two months of receiving the Johnson & Johnson vaccine or within six months of receiving the Pfizer or Moderna shots.
CDC is strengthening its recommendation on #COVID19 vaccine booster doses. Everyone ages 18 and older should get a booster shot either when they are 6 months after their initial Pfizer or Moderna series or 2 months after initial J&J vaccine. Learn more: https://t.co/77CTFuJFcO. pic.twitter.com/oW2hyHRPmr
The World Health Organization has said the Omicron variant carries a very high global risk of infection surges. Though significant questions remain, including whether the new variant is more transmissible. Joe Biden said on Monday that the variant is a “cause for concern, not a cause for panic”, and urged Americans to get vaccinated and get booster shots.
“Do not wait,” he said. “Go get your booster if it’s time for you to do so. And if you are not vaccinated, now is the time to go get vaccinated and to bring your children to go get vaccinated.”
Joe Biden postponed his remarks about the supply chain for tomorrow instead.
Democratic congresswoman Ilhan Omar hung up on a phone call with far-right congresswoman Lauren Boebert. The phone call was to address Islamophobic comments that Boebert made about Omar - Omar wanted a public apology while Boebert also wanted an apology from Omar.
The House select committee investigating the 6 January attack on the US Capitol announced on Monday that it will vote to recommend the criminal prosecution of top former Trump justice department official Jeffrey Clark, after he defied a subpoena seeking his cooperation with the inquiry.
Thejustice department is accusing Trump ally Steve Bannon, the Trump ally of charging his criminal contempt of Congress through the media.
So far-right congresswoman Lauren Boebert has posted on Instagram her version of the phone call with Democratic congresswoman Ilhan Omar, and the Islamophobic remarks she made about Omar for which she had to issue an apology.
Turns out, Boebert went into the phone call expecting Omar to apologize to her.
Boebert's play-by-play of the call:
- Omar asked Boebert for a "public apology" - Boebert told Omar she should apologize for "anti-American, anti-semitic, anti-police rhetoric" - Some back n forth - Omar hung up, which Boebert argues is part of "cancel culture 101" https://t.co/faRS4iYGUA
In 1973, supreme court justices issued a landmark ruling in the case of Roe v Wade, effectively legalizing abortion across the US.
In Roe, the court affirmed that access to safe and legal abortion was a constitutional right. The court ruled that states could not ban abortion before a fetus can survive outside the womb, roughly considered to be 24 weeks gestation (a full-term pregnancy is considered to be 39 weeks).
Now, Roe faces a direct challenge. The supreme court justices has taken up the case of Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Clinic, in which they will consider whether the state of Mississippi can ban nearly all abortion from 15 weeks. Abortion advocates believe the choice to take the case implies that at last four justices see it as a chance to reconsider the precedent set by Roe.
Oral arguments in the case are set to be heard on 1 December, Wednesday, with a ruling expected in June next year. But already, pro-choice campaigners are warning of a future where abortion may no longer be legal in the majority of the US.
Joe Biden was set to speak about the supply chain today, his second public remarks of the day. But at last minute, the White House postponed the event until tomorrow.
President Biden was scheduled to deliver remarks on the supply chain today at 3:45 p.m.
But the White House now says he will do so on Wednesday instead.
Democrat congresswoman Ilhan Omar has issued a new statement regarding a phone call she had with far-right congresswoman Lauren Boebert regarding the Islamophobic remarks Boebert made about Omar.
“Instead of apologizing for her Islamophobic comments and fabricated lies, Representative Boebert refused to publicly acknowledge her hurtful and dangerous comments,” Omar said. “She instead doubled down on her rhetoric and I decided to end the unproductive call.”
“Today, I graciously accepted a call from Rep. Lauren Boebert in the hope of receiving a direct apology for falsely claiming she met me in an elevator, suggesting I was a terrorist, and for a history of anti-Muslim hate.”
“Instead of apologizing for her Islamophobic comments and fabricated lies, Rep. Boebert refused to publicly acknowledge her hurtful and dangerous comments. She instead doubled down on her rhetoric and I decided to end the unproductive call.”
“To date, the Republican Party leadership has done nothing to condemn and hold their own members accountable for repeated instances of anti-Muslim hate and harassment.”
“This is not about one hateful statement or one politician; it is about a party that has mainstreamed bigotry and hatred. It is time for Republican Leader McCarthy to actually hold his party accountable.”
In comments in her home district, Boebert referred to Omar as part of the “Jihad Squad” and described her as a suicide bomber. Republican congressman Adam Kinzinger of Illinois called her “trash” for her remarks, but House minority leader Kevin McCarthy has been noticably silent on the matter.
Donald Trump’s “fact-free” approach to the presidency created unprecedented challenges for intelligence officials responsible for briefing him, according to a newly released account from the CIA.
The 45th president’s chaotic and freewheeling style, which included rarely reading anything put in front of him, resulted in the presidential daily briefing, or PDB – a crucial security update including information about potential threats to the US – being delivered more regularly to Vice-president Mike Pence instead, the report states.
By the middle of Trump’s term in office, his briefings were reduced to two weekly sessions of 45 minutes each. Briefings were discontinued altogether following the deadly insurrection of 6 January, which was sparked by Trump urging his supporters to march on the US Capitol in a failed attempt to overturn his defeat by Joe Biden.
