by Hannah Schoenbaum | Jan 19, 2022 | Featured, Science + Technology
WASHINGTON – As the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbates supply chain backlogs and global computer chip shortages, Democratic leaders in Congress as well as President Joe Biden want Congress to fast track a $250 billion bill to develop American independence from China and...
by Jordan Anderson and Allison Novelo | Jan 18, 2022 | Featured, Politics, Science + Technology
Frederick, Montgomery and Washington county residents Thursday evening questioned Rep. David Trone (D-Dist. 6) about how the area’s health care systems are handling the recent spike of COVID-19 cases caused by the omicron variant, the availability of higher-protection...
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by Julia Shapero | Dec 8, 2021 | Featured, Science + Technology, Topics
WASHINGTON — Relatives of those who have died from the opioid epidemic urged the Department of Justice on Friday to prosecute the Sackler family for their role in the epidemic. The Sacklers owned Purdue Pharma, the company that developed the painkiller OxyContin. For...
by Andrew Marquardt | Dec 2, 2021 | Featured, Health, Politics, Science + Technology
WASHINGTON – As overdose deaths in America continue to reach record highs, lawmakers convened Thursday to discuss how best to tackle the issue at one of its most dangerous sources: the alarming influx of fentanyl and fentanyl-related substances infiltrating the...
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by Andrew Marquardt | Nov 9, 2021 | Featured, Science + Technology
Pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson was spared from a $465 million judgment on Tuesday for its purported role in facilitating Oklahoma’s ongoing, lethal opioid epidemic. The state’s Supreme Court struck down a lower court’s 2019 decision, which held the...
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by Andrew Marquardt | Oct 21, 2021 | Featured, Science + Technology
WASHINGTON — Most Americans learn briefly about the Marshall Islands in a high school history class. Resting five thousand miles west of California in the heart of the central Pacific, the group of islands played a small but crucial role in the Cold War arms race...
