'SNL' Weekend Update: Biden needed 2-hour press conference to 'list everything that’s gone wrong'

“saturday-night-live” target=”_blank”>Saturday Night Live<’s rocky 2021.   “President Biden marked the end of his first year in office with a two-hour press conference,” co-anchor Colin Jost began, “because that’s how long it took to list everything that’s gone wrong.” He noted it was actually the longest presidential press conference in history but “as I have…

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California judge OKs earlier releases for repeat offenders

A judge is allowing us-regions to proceed with plans to allow earlier potential prison release dates for repeat offenders with serious and violent crime” target=”_blank”>criminal< That order temporarily blocked California corrections officials from acting on emergency regulations allowing them to increase good conduct credits for second-strike inmates serving time for nonviolent offenses who are housed…

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Bottle-fed baby orangutan at New Orleans zoo fascinates other apes

Caretakers at Audubon Zoo in new-orleans” target=”_blank”>New Orleans< with round-the-clock attention — and it’s attracted some notice.  A Sumatran orangutan infant — a member of a critically endangered species — is being bottle-fed at the New Orleans zoo after his mother experienced complications in producing milk, the Associated Press reported.  The unnamed baby ape was…

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Democrats double down on eliminating filibuster, court packing on Roe v. Wade anniversary

Democrats marked the anniversary of Roe v. Wade by warning the landmark judiciary decision could be overturned and urging the senate” target=”_blank”>Senate< into federal law. The House in September passed the Women’s Health Protection Act to ensure abortion access nationwide, but the legislation is stalled in the Senate because it doesn’t have the 60 votes…

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FDA acts to expand use of treatment for COVID-19 patients with mild-to-moderate disease

The healthy-living took action Friday to expand the use of the antiviral remdesivir drug Veklury to certain non-hospitalized adults and healthy-living for the treatment of mild-to-moderate infectious-disease. Previously, the use of the Gilead Sciences Inc. drug was limited to those requiring hospitalization. “On the heels of the FDA’s recent authorization of two oral antiviral drugs,…

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Pence confident Supreme Court will overturn Roe, says 'next battlefield for life' is in states

Former Vice President mike-pence” target=”_blank”>Mike Pence< will overturn Roe. v. Wade — thanks to the newest conservative justices — and urged anti-judiciary activists to prepare for action once the decision comes down.  Pence predicted the Supreme Court will act to dismantle the landmark abortion case, adding the “next battlefield for life will emerge” in the…

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