Abby Mahler blames Donald Trump and Elon Musk for the challenges faced by people who need hydroxychloroquine for lupus. In the early days of the Covid pandemic, both Trump and Musk promoted the drug as a possible Covid treatment, helping lead to widespread shortages that made it difficult for people like Mahler to obtain the medication she needed.
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An Alabama mining company is taking final steps toward a major buildout of its operations in the central part of the state.
The expansion, which is proposed to include the mining of federally owned coal, comes in the wake of a settlement over the company’s environmental record and as its mines continue to be cited by regulators for alleged safety violations.
We have secret ballots for a reason: they protect the people that vote. We also have secret counting for a reason: it protects the people counting the votes.