In the course of hectoring the United States for its “bungled and embarrassing withdraw from Afghanistan” on Thursday, China’s state-run Global Times admitted Beijing has a rapacious interest in Afghanistan’s vast rare-earths mineral resources and snarled it was none of America’s business if China makes deals with the Taliban to get what it wants.
In a notable break with progressives, Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) said in an interview that the coal industry “will be saved, has to be saved, because the country can’t survive without it.”
The CDC director is receiving pushback from conservatives for repeatedly referring to pregnant women as "pregnant people" in a brief speech Thursday about COVID-19 vaccines.
On Thursday, Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett — who was appointed by former President Donald Trump — rejected students’ challenge to their college’s COVID-19 vaccination mandate.
"We need to be careful because, as it's obvious, pharmaceutical companies wish to make a profit, and would like to keep always selling vaccines for everyone."
"We need to be careful, because, as it is obvious pharmaceutical companies wish to make a profit…and would like to keep selling vaccines for everyone," says Obrador.
Joe Biden on Thursday called for newly vaccinated Americans to receive $100 payments, but a peer-reviewed medical journal publication from January disagrees with the approach.
