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Nation
Biden urges Congress to tackle high drug prices
President Biden on Thursday implored Congress to include strict controls on prescription drug prices in the mammoth social policy bill that Democrats plan to draft this fall, hitting on an issue that his predecessor campaigned on but failed to deliver. Continue reading →
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World
Days of hot weather grip Southern Europe, North Africa
Stifling heat kept its grip on much of Southern Europe on Thursday, driving people indoors at midday, spoiling crops, triggering drinking water restrictions, turning public libraries into cooling “climate shelters,” and complicating the already difficult challenge firefighters faced battling wildfires. Continue reading →
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OPINION
Hypocrisy, thy name is GOP
Republicans are doing an ideological pretzel dance when it comes to policies related to the coronavirus pandemic. It would be amusing if the consequences weren’t so deadly. Continue reading →
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Metro
A pandemic of capricious callousness
Gerry and Barbara O’Loughlin have applied three times over the last six months for an exemption to the US travel ban so they could help their daughter and son-in-law care for their sick 1-year-old daughter. All three times the Irish couple were rejected. Continue reading →
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