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ATLANTA, Georgia – Following last week’s meeting of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices’ (ACIP), the Centers for Disease Control is expanding eligibility of COVID-19 vaccine booster doses to everyone five years of age and older.   CDC now recommends that children ages 5 through 11 years should receive a booster shot five months after […]

By Joseph Reagan We must believe in our ability to work together to solve our toughest problems.   On Memorial Day, 1945, the war in Europe had ended but the fighting in the Pacific continued, Lt. Gen. Lucian Truscott voiced remarks at the Sicily-Rome American Cemetery at Nettuno, Italy. Turning his back on the assembled

BOSTON — GasBuddy, a PDI company, today released the results of its annual summer travel survey revealing that even with record-high gasoline prices, 58 percent of Americans intend to road trip this summer, a rise from last summer, when gas prices were nearly $1.50 per gallon lower. While the high prices may not stand in

LENEXA, Kansas – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and U.S. Department of the Army (Army) will host a virtual Midwest-focused regional roundtable on “waters of the United States” (WOTUS) on May 23, 2022, from 3:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. central time.View the livestream for this Midwest roundtable. The virtual roundtable was organized by the

ATLANTA, Georgia — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has amended the emergency use authorization (EUA) for the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine, authorizing the use of a single booster dose for administration to individuals 5 through 11 years of age at least five months after completion of a primary series with the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine.  

LENEXA, Kan. – Yesterday, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) officials and state environmental commissioners held a Mississippi River Corridor Summit on Water Infrastructure Funding for drinking water and clean water with Mississippi River Cities & Towns Initiative (MRCTI) mayors. In 2022, EPA is providing nearly $1 billion in Bipartisan Infrastructure Law funding to the 10

FAIRFAX, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following correction to his earlier statement responding to Gas Buddy petroleum analyst Patrick De Haan’s claim that 2008 gasoline prices were “the highest inflation adjusted ever”:   “Our earlier statement incorrectly stated that Gasbuddy’s Patrick De Haan said 2008 was the greatest gasoline price inflation in history. De Haan

ATLANTA, Georgia – Most people with COVID-19 get better within a few days to a few weeks after infection. Some people can experience long-term effects from their infection, known as post-COVID conditions or long COVID.   People with post-COVID conditions can have a wide range of symptoms that can last weeks, months, or years. Sometimes the symptoms

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has limited the authorized use of the Janssen COVID-19 Vaccine to individuals 18 years of age and older for whom other authorized or approved COVID-19 vaccines are not accessible or clinically appropriate, and to individuals 18 years of age and older who elect to receive

WASHINGTON, D.C. — On Wednesday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued warning letters to five companies for selling products labeled as containing delta-8 tetrahydrocannabinol (delta-8 THC) in ways that violate the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FD&C Act). This action is the first time the FDA has issued warning letters for products containing