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AUSTIN, Texas — Friday marks five years since a fatal hot air balloon crash claimed 16 lives in Lockhart, Texas. The crash marked the deadliest commercial balloon crash in U.S. history and the worst aviation disaster since 2009.
Hospital and doctors’ groups successfully lobbied to save Covid-19 relief money earmarked for their members, while pharmaceutical companies are expected to lose billions of dollars as part of a bipartisan infrastructure deal struck yesterday.
Three years ago, Congress directed the Department of Defense to take steps to lower the cost of medicines discovered with the help of federal funding, but eventually cost Americans substantially more than what is paid in other countries.
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— CDC vaccine advisers balk at recommending Covid shot boosters while supporting continued availability of Johnson & Johnson’s shot.
— House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders want answers from FDA about the status of foreign inspections of drug manufacturing facilities.
WASHINGTON — When it comes to breaking quorum in the Legislature, Texas has a history.
In 1979, a dozen state senators nicknamed the “Killer Bees” used filibustering tactics and eventually left the Capitol and hid from Texas Rangers for four days.
When COVID-19 began spreading in the U.S. in March 2020, McKale Santin was working at a nursing home in Burlington, Vermont.
AUSTIN, Texas — At a ceremony on Saturday morning, Austin ISD unveiled a new historical marker commemorating the last location of Austin’s only Black public high school.