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At least 1,100 members of the Texas National Guard will give out vaccines to homebound senior citizens in rural and isolated areas of Texas to get the majority of Texans 65 and older vaccinated against the coronavirus by March, Gov. Greg Abbott announced Thursday. Abbott added that with the vaccine supply ramping up and the potential authorization of a third vaccine this week, the state could widen its eligibility to more groups of Texans sometime next month. “The good news is there’s going to be a record amount of vaccines available across Texas this week with increasing numbers going forward,” Abbott said . “We’re going to have the capability to … apply vaccines very, very quickly for our seniors as well as additional populations, so that we increasingly, week by week, will be increasing the immunity that Texans have.” The Texas Department of State Health Services has prioritized state residents who are 65 years or older and anyone with a pre-existing medical condition that … [Read more...] about Texas National Guard to Give Coronavirus Vaccines to Homebound Seniors

LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) — A federal judge Thursday denied the California Grocers Association’s bid to temporarily overturn a Long Beach ordinance mandating an additional $4 in hourly pay for grocery store employees during the pandemic. The lawsuit, filed last month in Los Angeles, alleged that the Jan. 19 ordinance was illegal because it singles out grocery stores while ignoring other groups that employ essential frontline workers thus violating the constitutional requirement that similarly situated people must be treated alike. The CGA also argued that the ordinance was preempted by the National Labor Relations Act. READ MORE: Cat Who Went Missing 15 Years Ago Found In Palmdale, Reunited With Owner “Grocery store workers are frontline heroes, and that’s why grocers have already undertaken a massive effort to institute measures to make both workers and customers safer in stores,” Ron Fong, the CGA’s president and CEO, said when the suit was filed. “But this ordinance is clearly … [Read more...] about Judge Denies CGA’s Bid To Temporarily Halt Long Beach Hero Pay Ordinance

Next month will mark a full calendar year since the lives of millions of Americans were turned upside down as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, even as the coronavirus continues to ravage communities across the country, another public health crisis is still devastating American families: our nation’s fatal addiction to opioids. In 2019, nearly 50,000 Americans lost their lives to an opioid overdose — a 136 percent increase just since 2010. There’s alarming new evidence that overdose rates have jumped even further since the March 2020 COVID-19 emergency declaration. According to the most recent available data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), both April and May saw the largest monthly increases in opioid deaths on record. It’s easy to understand how the stress, dislocation and uncertainty caused by the pandemic would be devastating for those suffering from substance use disorders. People across the country are in pain and too many are dying. … [Read more...] about X the X-Waiver: How Congress can facilitate treatment for opioid abuse

Sen. Richard Shelby Richard Craig Shelby On The Money: Senate panels postpone Tanden meetings in negative sign | Biden signs supply chain order after 'positive' meeting with lawmakers Passage of the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act is the first step to heal our democracy Shelby endorses Shalanda Young for OMB director should Biden pull Tanden's nomination MORE (R-Ala.), the top Senate GOP appropriator, said this week that he would back Shalanda Young to head up President Biden Joe Biden Klain on Manchin's objection to Neera Tanden: He 'doesn't answer to us at the White House' Senators given no timeline on removal of National Guard, Capitol fence Overnight Defense: New Senate Armed Services chairman talks Pentagon policy nominee, Afghanistan, more | Biden reads report on Khashoggi killing | Austin stresses vaccine safety in new video MORE ’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB) if the Senate does not confirm his current nominee, … [Read more...] about Shelby endorses Shalanda Young for OMB director should Biden pull Tanden’s nomination

Stock investors are expected to slow their pace of buying Tuesday following a big rally on the first trading day of the new year. Stock index futures were narrowly mixed, not surprising a day after the Dow Jones industrials soared more than 150 points on upbeat manufacturing reports in the U.S. and China. In corporate news early Tuesday, Kraft Foods Inc. said it will revise its hostile takeover offer for British chocolate and gum maker Cadbury PLC, offering more cash funded by the sale of its North American pizza business to Nestle. Nestle, which paid $3.7 billion for Kraft’s pizza operations — including the Tombstone and Jack’s brands in the U.S. — ruled itself out of a potential bidding war for Cadbury. Tuesday brings economic data from November, including a Commerce Department report on factory orders and the National Association of Realtors’ numbers on pending home sales. Analysts expect factory orders to have risen a moderate 0.5 percent, according to a Thomson … [Read more...] about Stocks futures mixed ahead of open as dollar falls