June 3, 2021 6:04 AM By Brandon Lee and Alex Ruoff
The Biden administration is poised to announce which countries will get the first shipments of vaccines donated from the U.S.’s stockpile, amid the risk that more coronavirus variants will arise in countries lacking access to the vaccines, people familiar with the matter said.
The White House, which has faced pressure from a range of countries to share its vaccines, has settled on its plan and an announcement is imminent, according to the people, who discussed the matter on condition of anonymity.
The planned recipients werenât immediately disclosed. The U.S. has said itâll send at least some of its doses to the Covax initiative, the World Health Organizationâs effort to buy and distribute vaccines to low- and middle-income nations. The U.S. has been consulting with Covax on its plan, one official said.
A bipartisan Senate duo is pushing for legislation to support local governments that expand their ability to deal with mental health-care emergencies, hoping to shift the responsibility away from the police.
7 Whistleblowers filed 672 new
qui tam actions, 456 of which related to the healthcare
industry.
8 The DOJ obtained $2.2
billion in settlements and judgments from civil cases involving
fraud and false claims against the government, $1.8 billion of
which related to matters involving the healthcare industry.
With the outbreak of the pandemic, the DOJ aggressively pursued
fraud related to COVID-19 during the Trump administration. In the
early days of the pandemic, former Attorney General William Barr
directed the DOJ to remain vigilant in investigating and
prosecuting criminal activity related to COVID-19, warning that
the pandemic is dangerous enough without
wrongdoers seeking to profit from public panic and this sort of
April 21, 2021 6:05 AM By Brandon Lee
The House and Senate are moving forward with dueling extensions of a ban on highly addictive fentanyl analogues that expires on May 6.
The extension would keep the governmentâs ability to classify fentanyl-like substances as one of the most strictly controlled drugs, a tool President Joe Bidenâs administration has defended as necessary to fight synthetic opioids.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) called for the ban to be made permanent during remarks on the Senate floor yesterday. âWe should not just kick the can down the road for two months or five months or 12 months,â McConnell said.
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