With about 10 days remaining until federal student loan payments are scheduled to resume, borrowers can expect an announcement from the Biden administration on student debt before the end of the month, Education Secretary Miguel Cardona told CBS News’ Meet the Press on Sunday. Student loan payments have been on hold since March 2020, when President […]
Author: Jackie Flynn Mogensen
Poll: A Majority of Voters Want the Trump Investigations to Go On
In recent months, Donald Trump has found himself buried in a growing pile of lawsuits and investigations. Officials are probing his company’s finances, his attempt to overturn the 2020 election, his role in inciting a mob on January 6, and, most recently, his alleged possession of classified documents. And from the outset, Trump and his supporters have […]
Liz Cheney Is Set on Keeping “Election Deniers” Out of Office—Including Donald Trump
After losing reelection in Wyoming this week, Rep. Liz Cheney has set her sights on a new target: keeping “election deniers” out of office, starting with former president Donald Trump. In a wide-ranging interview with ABC’s This Week aired on Sunday morning, Cheney told host Jonathan Karl about her plans to start a political organization […]
An Explosive New Report Could Upend More than a Decade of Alzheimer’s Research. How Did This Happen?
More than 15 years ago, researchers at the University of Minnesota announced they had made a breakthrough: When they purified a protein from the brains of genetically modified mice and injected it into rats, it would cause the rats to develop symptoms similar to Alzheimer’s disease in humans—the first time anyone had directly linked a […]
Don’t Be Afraid to Say “Masturbate,” and 5 Other Tips for Talking About Monkeypox
As far as viruses go, monkeypox has proven especially challenging to talk about. First, there’s the name, “monkeypox,” which a growing number of health experts say is misleading and derogatory. Then there’s the stigma around sex: While monkeypox is known to spread through skin-to-skin contact of all kinds, officials suspect the disease is commonly spreading during […]
While All Eyes Were on Covid, HIV Researchers Were Making Progress on “The Holy Grail of Vaccines”
It’s been an unprecedented two years for science, to put it mildly. We’ve seen a new virus spread across the world, entire cities go on lockdown, a devastating 6 million deaths globally (and counting), and in record time, the development of a life-saving vaccine. It’s no stretch to say that for anyone living on Earth, Covid […]
The House Just Passed Two Bills to Protect Access to Abortion
Exactly three weeks after the Supreme Court voted to overturn Roe v. Wade, the House of Representatives passed two bills aimed at protecting the right to abortion in the United States. Neither of the bills advanced on Friday is likely to succeed in the Senate. One of the bills, the Women’s Health Protection Act, passed […]
The US Monkeypox Response Is Not Going Well. Did We Learn Nothing From Covid?
Two months after monkeypox reemerged in the United States this year, health officials and physicians are reporting delays and limited availability of tests, vaccines, and treatments against the virus. For many working in healthcare, it’s déjà vu. At the start of the Covid pandemic, you may recall, the federal government struggled to provide Covid testing […]
A Plane of Monkeys, a Pandemic, and a Botched Deal: Inside the Science Crisis You’ve Never Heard Of
On May 15, 2020, a US-bound cargo plane was scheduled to depart Mauritius, an island about the size of Maui that’s just east of Madagascar. There were four key things I knew about the flight: It involved the transportation of monkeys. The monkeys were intended for Covid research. The cost—to cover the fuel, crew, insurance, […]
A CDC Panel Just Voted to Recommend the Covid Vaccine for Children Under Five
For parents waiting to vaccinate their toddlers against Covid, I have good news: A panel of advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has voted unanimously to recommend the vaccine for children under age five. Following approval from CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky, vaccines from both Pfizer and Moderna will be available for […]