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Month: August 2023

Drugmakers say they’re adjusting their ‘thinking on price’ of first postpartum depression pill approved in the US

By Jacqueline Howard, CNN (CNN) — Drugmakers Sage Therapeutics and Biogen are still ironing out how much their newly approved postpartum depression medication, zuranolone, will cost once it’s made commercially available in the United States this year. Zuranolone, sold under the brand name Zurzuvae, is expected to launch in the fourth quarter of 2023, and the companies’ goal is for the medication

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Smartmatic accuses Rudy Giuliani of ‘dog ate my homework’-style excuses to avoid turning over documents in defamation suit

By Marshall Cohen, CNN (CNN) — The voting technology company Smartmatic blasted Rudy Giuliani in court filings Monday night, accusing him of fabricating “excuse after excuse” to avoid turning over documents in its massive defamation suit against him, Fox News and others who spread lies about the 2020 election. Smartmatic claimed Giuliani “half-heartedly” performed manual

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Exclusive: Former Coast Guard head covered up secret investigation into sexual assaults at the Coast Guard Academy

By Melanie Hicken, Blake Ellis, Curt Devine, Pamela Brown and Scott Bronstein (CNN) — The then-leader of the US Coast Guard covered up an explosive investigation four years ago into rapes and sexual assaults at the agency’s academy despite prior plans by top officials to come clean about the inquiry, a CNN investigation found. Commandant

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Post-GOP walkout, Oregon elections chief says lawmakers with 10 or more absences can’t run next term

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Oregon’s elections chief says the 10 Republican state senators who had more than 10 unexcused absences during a walkout in the most recent legislative session can’t run for reelection in 2024. Secretary of State LaVonne Griffin-Valade made the announcement Tuesday in a bid to clear up confusion over reelection rules following

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US vows to keep Syria’s chemical weapons program in UN spotlight over Russian and Chinese opposition

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United States and its allies are vowing to keep Syria’s failure to account for its chemical weapons program in the spotlight at the U.N. Security Council every month despite opposition from Russia and China. U.S. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield told the council Tuesday that Syrian

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