Chairman Dick Durbin (D-IL) opened his remarks at attorney general nominee Merrick Garland’s confirmation hearing Monday with a bleak joke about Garland’s long road to the Senate Judiciary hearing room.
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Since the earliest reports of the high efficacy of the Pfizer and Moderna COVID vaccines there’s been a significant asterisk attached to that good news. While the vaccines are extremely effective at preventing illness and death – close to full proof on the latter – it wasn’t clear whether they prevented the further spread of the disease. So a vaccine protects you from getting sick but possibly you could still spread the disease to others.
When I first heard about this possibility in an article by TPM’s Josh Kovensky I was baffled. How could that possibly be true, even logically speaking?
This issue is one of the deepest sources of confusion and inaccurate messaging tied to COVID vaccines.
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The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a plea from former President Trump to block New York state prosecutors from accessing his tax returns.
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U.S. District Judge James Robart was hit with so many credible death threats after temporarily blocking ex-President Donald Trump’s “Muslim travel ban” in 2017 that U.S. marshals had to be stationed at his home after his address was posted online.
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Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) announced on Monday morning that she won’t be providing the one Republican vote President Joe Biden needs to confirm his likely doomed nominee for Office of Management and Budget (OMB) director, Neera Tanden, who once called Collins “the worst” on Twitter.
President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris will hold a candle lighting ceremony and a moment of silence at the White House on Monday at sundown as the U.S. approaches a grim milestone of half a million deaths in the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Current and former Texas officials on Sunday stressed the severity of the Lone Star state’s energy crisis as they outlined reasons why the disaster amid winter storms that left millions of Texans without electricity was preventable. Continue reading “Texas Officials Outline Why Energy Crisis In Winter Was Preventable”
Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) on Sunday said that he is working with President Biden to find the extra votes needed to confirm Neera Tanden, Biden’s nominee for Office of Management Budget director, after Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) announced his opposition to Tanden’s confirmation. Continue reading “Schumer Says He’s Working With Biden To Find Votes For Tanden After Manchin Opposition”
House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA) on Sunday made clear that he stands by former President Trump as he took great pains to deflect from Trump’s incitement of the mob behind the deadly Capitol insurrection last month. Continue reading “Scalise Refuses To Blame Trump For Capitol Insurrection After Mar-a-Lago Visit”
