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The Food and Drug Administration ’ s lethargic regulation of dietary supplements containing a dangerous stimulant described in recent reports in The Times is a classic example of what happens when industry representatives infiltrate the agency that is supposed to regulate them . The worrisome ingredient is BMPEA , a ch... | allsides-corpus-600 |
The Food and Drug Administration must go . And salt should be sown where once it stood . This organization is costly , is a gargantuan waste of time and causes needless deaths by slowing down innovation . The sooner is it disbanded , the better .\nThis seems a bit harsh . Ok , excessively severe . Does not the FDA stan... | allsides-corpus-601 |
“ To market a product as less harmful than cigarettes is to damn it with faint praise… As stories pile up of sicknesses , side effects , and the potential for long-term consequences , it ’ s clear that ‘ safe ’ and ‘ safer than smoking cigarettes ’ are vastly different things . ”\n“ One in five high school students use... | allsides-corpus-602 |
For the first time , the Obama administration posted Tuesday data outlining months of consulting fees , grants , travel expenses and other gifts that companies paid to America ’ s doctors .\nMandated by the health care law , the Open Payments program so far lists $ 3.5 billions in disbursements from pharmaceutical comp... | allsides-corpus-603 |
Presidential adviser Kellyanne Conway suggested yesterday that the Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) may decide to exempt vape shops from its pending ban on flavored e-cigarettes . There is a certain logic to that , since those shops , unlike other retailers , do not admit minors , and curbing underage vaping is the... | allsides-corpus-604 |
Alongside perennial concerns like “ work ” and “ money , ” sociocultural issues including mass shootings , access to health care and the 2020 presidential election now cause the most stress for American citizens , according to the annual “ Stress in America ” survey from the American Psychological Association ( APA ) .... | allsides-corpus-605 |
Yesterday , Georgia Governor Brian Kemp issued an Executive Order striking down mask requirements in at least fifteen local jurisdictions .\nWhile the governor has encouraged Georgians to mask up to prevent the spread of coronavirus , he has called mandates “ a bridge too far. ” So despite growing evidence that masks w... | allsides-corpus-606 |
Democrat Andrew Yang recently tweeted about something that most national politicians have avoided for years : pornography .\nAs a parent of young kids I believe rampant access to pornography is a real problem . We need to empower families to be able to moderate what our kids see and when . — Andrew Yang ( @ AndrewYang ... | allsides-corpus-607 |
Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox . Sign up here .\nIf you ’ re following the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ’ s ( CDC 's ) recently updated guidelines on face masks amid the coronavirus epidemic in the U.S. , you likely already know to wear either a homemade mask... | allsides-corpus-608 |
The 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders , 78 , has cancelled campaign events after undergoing a heart procedure .\nMr Sanders was treated in hospital for an arterial blockage after having chest pain at an event in Nevada on Tuesday .\nThe Vermont senator tweeted that he was `` feeling good '' . An aid... | allsides-corpus-609 |
Georgia Gov . Brian Kemp is overruling local government mandates requiring people to wear masks in public to stop the spread of COVID-19 , insisting that the state 's less-stringent guidelines take precedence .\nKemp on Wednesday extended the state 's COVID-19 restrictions , which strongly encourage the wearing of mask... | allsides-corpus-610 |
Speaking from one of the states hardest hit by the opioid epidemic , President Trump on Monday laid out a battle plan that calls for harsher sentences - and even the death penalty - for traffickers .\nTrump called for expanded treatment options for victims in the Manchester , N.H. , speech , but leveled most of his emp... | allsides-corpus-611 |
Gavin Newsom speaks to reporters during his 2018 gubernatorial campaign in San Diego , Calif. ( Mike Blake/Reuters )\nGavin Newsom , the newly inaugurated governor of California , would very much like to be president of the United States someday . It is fitting , then , that Newsom has begun his audition for the role b... | allsides-corpus-612 |
It 's almost hard to remember how dominant an issue the death penalty was a generation ago .\nCrime and drugs were the top issues for voters in 1994 . Not coincidentally , support for the death penalty peaked that year , at 80 percent , according to Gallup polling .\nOpposition to the death penalty once cost prominent ... | allsides-corpus-613 |
Drug dealers kill people , destroy families and might deserve the death penalty or life in prison for their crimes , President Trump says .\nTrump , speaking at a rally Saturday in Pennsylvania for congressional candidate Rick Saccone , said he got the idea from the leaders of China and Singapore . The U.S. criminal ju... | allsides-corpus-614 |
Another week , another botched killing under the legal euphemism of capital punishment . After macabre screw-ups in Oklahoma and Ohio , it was Arizona 's turn last week , when double-murderer Joseph Rudolph Wood III took about two hours to die . The specific problem this time around was an apparently unreliable “ cockt... | allsides-corpus-615 |
She should have gone much further and followed other governors and legislatures in banning executions , recognizing that the American administration of death does not function . Mr. Lockett ’ s ordeal , along with the botched deaths of other inmates around the country , showed there is no reliable and humane method of ... | allsides-corpus-616 |
███ News first broke the news on Friday that the Trump administration is proposing a move that would allow faith-based adoption and foster care providers to receive federal money without compromising their beliefs on traditional marriage .\nA senior White House Official confirmed to us that Health and Human Services wo... | allsides-corpus-617 |
Has it finally happened that when a man says he is making job decisions around his family we can finally believe him , as opposed to wondering when the email exchanges with his outside honey are going to come out ?\nThis past week , two of this country 's most powerful men — who work in a city where power is everything... | allsides-corpus-618 |
Why Paid Family Leave Has Become A Major Campaign Issue\nLance Mercier knows his job gets harder when a co-worker goes out on leave . But he recently also learned that raising a newborn involves , as he puts it , an `` insurmountable '' amount of work .\nThe 39-year-old bank manager from Silver Spring , Md. , is curren... | allsides-corpus-619 |
The White House is pushing back against claims that First Lady Melania Trump is being hypocritical for criticizing attacks on her teenage son Barron , but not her husband 's attack on 16-year-old Greta Thunberg\nWhite House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham said Friday that Barron was in a different category from Thunb... | allsides-corpus-620 |
The city of Somerville , Massachusetts , has passed an ordinance making it one of the first cities in the nation to officially recognize polyamorous relationships . The city no longer limits the number of people included in a partnership .\nThe change , which was unanimously passed by the city council last week , requi... | allsides-corpus-621 |
Joanna Maxon , a 53-year-old Christian mother of two , was searching for ways to advance in her career as a supervisor and began looking into graduate schools .\nShe decided on Fuller Theological Seminary , a religious graduate school based in Pasadena , because it combined things she valued : her faith and her studies... | allsides-corpus-622 |
‘ By 2034 , the payroll taxes collected will be enough to pay only about 77 percent of scheduled benefits . ’\nSadly , America ’ s forthcoming “ economic tsunami ” is so predictable that our government issues an annual warning forecasting the year when — absent real reform — the monster waves will overtake all Social S... | allsides-corpus-623 |
The tide may be turning against those who 'd advocate cuts to Social Security — and Paul Krugman could n't be happier .\nIn his latest column for the New York Times , Krugman celebrates the growing chorus in favor of expanding Social Security benefits and explains why America 's looming retirement crisis makes an expan... | allsides-corpus-624 |
The underlying financial condition of Social Security and Medicare did not change greatly in 2012 and both are still on borrowed time , trustees of the massive , politically sensitive programs said in separate annual reports issued Friday .\nThe longer Congress waits to deal with the financial shortfalls both programs ... | allsides-corpus-625 |
Think of all that 's happened since the start of the new year — the Oscars , March Madness , failed resolutions . Now imagine if throughout that time , all the men in the US had taken vacation while all the women worked — but the women did n't get paid any more than the men .\nThat 's the concept behind Equal Pay Day ,... | allsides-corpus-626 |
Republican presidential hopeful Chris Christie proposed pushing back the age of eligibility for Social Security and Medicare for future retirees on Tuesday as part of a plan to cut deficits by $ 1 trillion over a decade , an approach he said would confront the nation 's `` biggest challenges in an honest way . `` In a ... | allsides-corpus-627 |
Social Security is one of the most contentious issues in American politics , and as the 2020 presidential campaign continues to ramp up , candidates have looked at ways to change the program . In particular , an increasing number of proposals have looked for ways to expand Social Security to extend larger benefits to s... | allsides-corpus-628 |
A boy 's desperate call from aboard a doomed South Korean ferry captured the horror on the ship as it sank in the Yellow Sea last Wednesday , killing at least 104 and leaving hundreds more missing .\n`` Save us ! We 're on a ship and I think it 's sinking , '' Yonhap news agency quoted the boy , who is among the hundre... | allsides-corpus-629 |
Moon Jae-in was elected South Korea ’ s President on Tuesday upon promises to reengage with North Korea . He says that building economic cooperation with the regime of Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un would help raise living standards , reducing tensions as well as the economic burden of any future reunification . And even b... | allsides-corpus-630 |
The United States has sent two F-22 stealth fighter jets to South Korea to join Seoul forces in military exercises after North Korea warned the Korean Peninsula has entered `` a state of war . ''\nA Pentagon spokesman confirms to Fox News that the F-22 Raptors were deployed to Osan Air Base in South Korea from Japan on... | allsides-corpus-631 |
Story highlights U.S. deploys F-22s to South Korea as part of joint military exercises\nNorth Korea said it was entering a `` state of war '' with the South\nSeoul views the threat from Pyongyang in `` a serious manner ''\nThe South Korean president on Monday warned North Korea that any provocative moves will be met wi... | allsides-corpus-632 |
Five days after losing her daughter to a drug overdose in a South Florida sober home , Jennifer Flory found herself standing before a task force set up to investigate sober homes .\n“ My daughter passed away on Thursday night and I ’ m coming here to get her stuff – and her – and to find out why she died , ” the grievi... | allsides-corpus-633 |
The United States and South Korea bolstered their alliance this week as Seoul announced that Washington has agreed to deploy so-called “ strategic assets ” to the peninsula .\nLawmakers who have pressed for action to rein in North Korea ’ s thriving nuclear and missile programs applauded the move . They called it a pru... | allsides-corpus-634 |
The chamber declined to say if it supported any measures to curb smoking .\nThe chamber , a private nonprofit that has more than three million members and annual revenue of $ 165 million , spends more on lobbying than any other interest group in America . For decades , it has taken positions aimed at bolstering its mem... | allsides-corpus-635 |
As America debates drug policy reforms and marijuana legalization , there 's one aspect of the war on drugs that remains perplexingly contradictory : Some of the most dangerous drugs in the US are legal .\nDo n't believe it ? The best available data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ( CDC ) , Drug Enf... | allsides-corpus-636 |
Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo insists that the narcotics officers who shot and killed a middle-aged couple on January 28 after breaking into their home `` had probable cause to be there , '' even though they were executing a search warrant that was based on a fraudulent affidavit . Acevedo 's position is pretty puzz... | allsides-corpus-637 |
WASHINGTON — Attorney General Eric Holder said Tuesday that a national moratorium on lethal injection `` would be appropriate '' until the Supreme Court completes its latest review of the execution process as part of a case initially brought by Oklahoma death row inmates .\nAt the National Press Club , Holder said he w... | allsides-corpus-638 |
Federal food programs are now feeding more than 100 million Americans . The number of recipients has soared in recent years , thanks in part to Barack Obama ’ s 2008 campaign pledge to abolish childhood hunger by 2015 . The food-aid explosion is worsening the nation ’ s obesity epidemic , though , and making a mockery ... | allsides-corpus-639 |
Diabetes , Cost Of Care Top Health Concerns For U.S. Latinos\nDiabetes , Cost Of Care Top Health Concerns For U.S. Latinos Listen · 5:30 5:30\nLatino immigrants in the U.S. say the quality and affordability of health care is better in the U.S. than in the countries they came from , according to the latest survey by NPR... | allsides-corpus-640 |
A California state senator wants to make his state the first in the nation to require warning labels on soda and other sugary drinks , a proposal called “ misleading ” by beverage industry officials .\nDemocratic Sen. William Monning ’ s bill proposed Thursday would require the warning on the front of all beverage cont... | allsides-corpus-641 |
Sugar bashing is all the rage these days , and with good cause . Studies over many years have pointed to sugar as , at the very least , an accomplice , if not the perp , behind many of the health ills of modern civilization . Obesity and diabetes are the obvious candidates caused by over-consumption of the sweet stuff ... | allsides-corpus-642 |
There ’ s a surprisingly big disconnect between how obesity researchers think about the causes of and treatments for obesity and how the American public does .\nResearchers think some people have genetic and hormonal traits that make them more susceptible to obesity . They view obesity as a complex , chronic disease , ... | allsides-corpus-643 |
The United Nations is calling for a united effort among member countries to tackle the “ largest humanitarian crisis ” in more than 70 years .\nStephen O ’ Brien , the UN undersecretary-general for humanitarian affairs , said on Friday that more than 20 million people in Yemen , Somalia , South Sudan , and Nigeria are ... | allsides-corpus-644 |
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