Nursing homes invoke Trump-era protections to fight lawsuits over Covid deaths
As they try to fend off scores of lawsuits, nursing homes are seeking legal cover from liability protections extended by Congress and the Trump administration.
As they try to fend off scores of lawsuits, nursing homes are seeking legal cover from liability protections extended by Congress and the Trump administration.
The study adds fuel to an intense national debate about what is behind a suspected worker shortage and what policy changes are needed to accelerate Americans’ return to work as the pandemic subsides.
In 2012, I was deployed to the Afghanistan-Pakistan border to serve alongside Green Berets and infantry soldiers. As a member of an all-female cultural-support team, I was trained to interact with Afghan women and children, something that is culturally inappropriate for men to do. At the border, we encountered mortar attacks, improvised explosive devices, and firefights. Even though this time was tense, we worked well with our colleagues in U.S.
Peter Wehner pointed out where “things really get dangerous” with Republican repetition of the ex-president’s election lies.
Parents of young children have some pressing questions for the CDC.In recent guidance, the public-health agency suggested that fully vaccinated individuals can burn their masks and never wear a face covering again. (I’m exaggerating. Masks are still required on public transit and in medical facilities, among other places.) Meanwhile, unvaccinated people should continue to mask inside as well as at crowded outdoor venues.
“Hello Jim and Jerry,” the former secretary of state says to the pair who peddled conspiracies about her in “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm” in a new spinoff show.
He rode a roller coaster! He ate a burger for breakfast! His rival is under investigation!
I tried to warn him, but his desire to get out of debt overrode his judgment.
You may have seen some slightly concerning economic reports. Here’s why you shouldn’t worry too much.
Restarting Emergent’s production of the J&J shot would revitalize efforts to get the single-dose vaccine to many Americans.
Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican, hasn’t shied away from controversial pandemic policies.
By placing the issue front and center, the high court immediately forces his administration to reconsider its measured strategy.
The changes include creating a clear reporting chain from the new director of the agency’s vaccine task force up to Rochelle Walensky.
Her decision reportedly comes after clashes with agency director Rochelle Walensky.
I told one man recently. It did not go well.
Corporate executives and lobbyists say they are confident they can kill almost all of these tax hikes by pressuring moderate Democrats in the House and Senate.
The White House’s reaction to unexpected jobs and price data has opened the administration up to GOP attacks.
Neel Kashkari of the Minneapolis Fed says things should get better as people overcome fears related to the pandemic.
“There were elements of growth in the balance from what I can see and understand,” Carney said in a long response that didn’t directly answer the question.
“It’s tacky,” said one observer, especially since the billionaire is also collecting a $219,000 annual pension and has a taxpayer-funded staff.
In the news today: Joe Manchin is now praying that Republicans won’t show what a fool he’s been for continuing to claim that his friends across the aisle really, really want to be bipartisan. The ongoing clown show in Arizona—aka the election “audit” by the Cyber Ninjas—could end up costing Maricopa County millions of dollars.
The United Nations (UN) High Commissioner for Refugees on Thursday issued a public statement calling on the Biden administration to end the Stephen Miller-pushed policy that’s used the pandemic as an excuse to quickly deport asylum-seekers. The policy, implemented last year under political pressure from Miller and former Vice President Mike Pence, has deported more than 600,000 asylum-seekers.
First lady Jill Biden told young undocumented immigrant graduates during a commencement speech this week that she feels “inspired” by them, saying that while the road ahead “will be both heartbreaking and hopeful,” she believed “the inner strength that got you here will serve you well,” the Associated Press (AP) reported.
The first lady made the remarks during a virtual commencement ceremony organized by TheDream.
“It’s so horrifying to think that Donald Trump could be president again, knowing what I know,” said Jennifer Weisselberg, whose ex’s father is chief financial officer.
In what is a ridiculously long overdue proposal, President Joe Biden is advocating doubling the size of the IRS, adding tens of thousands of new workers over the next decade in order to help achieve another of his goals: upping enforcement and getting tax scofflaws to pay up. That would come with an increase in funding to the IRS by $80 billion, and the return on that could be more than $700 billion in revenue in the next decade.
Peter Doocy noted that Barack Obama recently commented about aliens and asked the president his thoughts.
The attorneys for the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers and other insurrectionists facing federal charges for their roles in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol have their work cut out for them, especially considering how their clients handed federal prosecutors all the evidence they needed, both on the day of the siege and on social media before and afterward. So it’s not a surprise that different lawyers for different clients are turning to wildly different strategies.
Last week, the journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones, who led The New York Times Magazine’s 1619 Project, was named the Knight Chair in Race and Investigative Journalism at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Faculty at its Hussman School of Journalism and Media recommended her for tenure too. But the university’s board of trustees didn’t approve the faculty recommendation. Instead, UNC appointed her to a five-year contract with the option of a tenure review.
Parenting advice on roommate rudeness, sibling sex ed, and “one more?” woes.