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A photo taken on February 8, 2022 shows a box of Evusheld, a drug for antibody therapy developed by pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca for the prevention of COVID-19 in immunocompromised patients at the AstraZeneca facility for biological medicines in Södertälje, south of Stockholm, Sweden. - AstraZenecas new facility in Sweden located in Södertälje was inaugurated last December and is dedicated to the production of next generation biological drugs such as Evusheld, a Covid-19 preventative monoclonal antibody treatment for immunocompromised people. (JONATHAN NACKSTRAND/AFP via Getty Images)

Evusheld is becoming hard to find

Hannah Recht - KFF Health News

As immunocompromised people work to get a potentially life saving covid therapy, it's becoming harder to locate

U.S. President Joe Biden delivers the State of the Union address during a joint session of Congress in the U.S. Capitol's House Chamber March 01, 2022 in Washington, DC. During his first State of the Union address Biden spoke on his administration's efforts to lead a global response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, work to curb inflation and to bring the country out of the COVID-19 pandemic. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Boosting gas exports wrecks climate

Jake Johnson - Common Dreams

Climate advocates on Friday panned as "misguided and dangerous" the Biden administration's newly announced effort

Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., listens to senators opening statements during the confirmation hearing for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, President Bidens nominee for Associate Justice to the Supreme Court, on Monday, March 21, 2022. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Blackburn confused about Constitution

Alex Henderson - Alternet

U.S. Supreme Court — Sen. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee mixed up her facts in a now viral tweet

U.S. Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson testifies during her confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill, March 22, 2022 in Washington, DC. | Nominee for the Supreme Court, Judge Robert Bork, testifies on the fourth day of his Supreme Court confirmation hearing in Washington D C. Bork was rejected by the Senate. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/Anna Moneymaker/CNP)

Republicans won't let Robert Bork go

Jon Skolnik

Republicans now insist that each Supreme Court nomination starts where the last left off

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LONDON, ENGLAND - JULY 30: J. K. Rowling attends the press preview of "Harry Potter & The Cursed Child" at Palace Theatre on July 30, 2016 in London, England. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, is a two-part West End stage play written by Jack Thorne based on an original new story by Thorne, J.K. Rowling and John Tiffany. (Photo by Rob Stothard/Getty Images)

J.K. Rowling is on Putin's mind

Kelly McClure

Putin referenced the "Harry Potter" author and like her creation, Voldemort, she appeared

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) holds up a book on antiracism as he questions U.S. Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson during her Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill, March 22, 2022 in Washington, DC. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

6 senators tried to steal KJB's joy

Jack Ahern

A gang of right-wing senators devolved the Supreme Court proceedings into an abject and pusillanimous circus

COVID-19 data concept (ismagilov/Getty Images)

Breakthrough cases no biggie for vaxxed

Matthew Rozsa

A new study confronts assumptions from those who claim vaccines are ineffective at protecting people from COVID-19

Simone Ashley as Kate Sharma and Jonathan Bailey as Anthony Bridgerton in "Bridgerton" (Liam Daniel/Netflix)

Loosen your corset; Bridgerton heats up

Alison Stine

Netflix's Regency series makes a more nuanced return with conflicted lovers and devastating matriarchs

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Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum in "The Lost City" (Paramount Pictures)

Sandra Bullock charms in "The Lost City"

Gary M. Kramer

This crowd-pleaser reminiscent of "Romancing the Stone" takes a very game and stellar cast, but underutilizes them

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - MARCH 01: Whoopi Goldberg attends the celebration of Harry Belafonte's 95th Birthday with Social Justice Benefit at The Town Hall on March 01, 2022 in New York City. (Photo by Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images)

UK Twitter mad at Whoopi Goldberg

Kelly McClure

"We cannot ignore the fact that Britain ran ramshod over India for years," Goldberg said on "The View"

A view of Gazproms Amur Gas Processing Plant (Yuri SmityukTASS via Getty Images)

The climate crisis–Ukraine connection

Carl Pope

Confronted with the sudden cessation of imported Russian fossil fuels, the West now faces two paths

Associate Justice Clarence Thomas (Erin Schaff-Pool/Getty Images)

"Congress must move to impeach"

Jake Johnson - Common Dreams

"Damning" new evidence shows the justice's wife's involvement in efforts to overturn the 2020 election

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Associate Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas sits with his wife and conservative activist Virginia Thomas while he waits to speak at the Heritage Foundation on October 21, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Republican calls out Ginni Thomas' texts

Alex Henderson - Alternet

Thomas' texts called for 2020 presidential election results to be overturned

US Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) looks to a display of a children's book on race while speaking during the confirmation hearing for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson before the Senate Judiciary Committee on her nomination to be an Associate Justice on the US Supreme Court, in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on March 22, 2022. (Photo illustration by Salon/SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

Ted Cruz's troll of KBJ backfires

Timothy Evans - Raw Story

Books include “The End of Policing” and “How to be an Antiracist”

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton | Pride Parade (Photo illustration by Salon/Emil Lippe for The Washington Post/Piotr Lapinski/NurPhoto/Getty Images)

Texas AG calls Pride Week "illegal"

Jon Skolnik

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Tuesday accused the Austin Independent School District of violating state law

Senator John Bizon (Photo courtesy of Senator John Bizon Official Campaign Website)

Michigan Republican guilty of battery

Jon Skolnik

State Sen. John Bizon was placed on a year of probation but will face no legislative penalties as a lawmaker

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Alvin Bragg and Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Can anyone stop Trump?

Heather Digby Parton

Why is Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg seemingly backing down from the fight against Trump?

U.S. Rep. Jeff Fortenberry (R-NE) walks through the Capitol Building in Washington, DC. (Andrew Burton/Getty Images)

Felon: GOP congressman found guilty

Bob Brigham - Raw Story

GOP Rep. Jeff Fortenberry was found guilty on Thursday in a scheme to funnel illegal foreign contributions

The RV Thomas G. Thompson, a research vessel owned and operated by the University of Washington. (Mark Harris for Undark)

Allegations on ill-fated science cruise

Mark Harris - Undark

A marine science trip devolved into competing claims of discrimination — and underscored issues in fieldwork

The US Capitol is seen from Freedom Plaza where Supporters of President Donald Trump have gathered for a rally on January 5, 2021 in Washington, DC. Today's rally kicks off two days of pro-Trump events fueled by President Trump's continued claims of election fraud and a last ditch effort to overturn the results before Congress finalizes them on January 6. (Samuel Corum/Getty Images)

Jan. 6: Does America even want to know?

Chauncey DeVega

The House probe wants to create a "narrative thriller" in hopes Americans will care about an attack on democracy

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Rep. Mo Brooks, R-Ala. | Ali Alexander organizer for Stop the Steal at the Georgia Capitol Building on Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2020 in Atlanta, GA (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Mo Brooks labeled Trump World traitor

Kathryn Joyce

Ali Alexander, supposed "Stop the Steal" founder, mocks "de-endorsed" congressman as traitor to Trump's Big Lie

American jurist, lawyer, associate justice Thurgood Marshall (1908 - 1993), who had been recently appointed Solicitor General by President Lyndon Johnson, sits behind his desk in his office at the Federal Courthouse, Washington, DC. He later became the first black Supreme Court Justice. (Sam Falk/New York Times Co./Getty Images)

KBJ hearing: Echoes of the past

Margaret M. Russell - The Conversation

Republicans' ludicrous questions for Ketanji Brown Jackson are like a flashback to the overt racism of 1967

A medical assistant prepares syringes with the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine against Covid-19 at the Humboldt Forum museum during the Omicron wave of the coronavirus pandemic on January 18, 2022 in Berlin, Germany. (Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

Rich versus poor with new COVID vaccine

Jake Johnson - Common Dreams

"There are still a lot of unvaccinated people in poor countries and, once again, they are at the back of the line," said one expert.

Cross at the Evangelical Church (Getty Images)

Hillsong Church founder steps down

Timothy Evans - Raw Story

Brian Houston has resigned after it was determined that he had breached the church’s code of conduct

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