variants
or counter-orders
as in mandates
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Kennedy also removed all 17 members of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's expert vaccine panel and filled many of the positions with people who have been vaccine skeptics or questioned COVID-19 vaccine mandates.—
Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy,
USA Today,
7 Feb. 2026 -
Those two mandates brought ire from nonteaching staff from across the district.—
Jennah Pendleton,
Sacbee.com,
7 Feb. 2026
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Still, broad bipartisan majorities support photo ID requirements, according to recent polling by Pew Research Center.—
Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy,
USA Today,
14 Feb. 2026
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The missive comes as Florida enforces a sweeping ban on gender-affirming care for minors and dismantles traditional accreditation requirements for lawyers and universities.—
Garrett Shanley,
Miami Herald,
13 Feb. 2026
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Straight men, in particular, are only talked about, kept in the background, or appearing as authority figures trying to uphold absurd laws and traditions.—
Murtada Elfadl,
Variety,
13 Feb. 2026
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Often, competitive incentives offered by state governments, state laws that are less friendly to labor unions than many northern states and access to major transportation networks are among the reasons behind the industry’s rise in the South.—
Brian Moody,
AJC.com,
13 Feb. 2026
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There are rules about a team winning too often, and the Hawks have picked in the top three for three straight years.—
Sean McIndoe,
New York Times,
9 Feb. 2026
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But talking about identity has ever-shifting rules and hierarchies that amount to bear-traps that can spring at any time.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
9 Feb. 2026
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According to Stephen, this vision also casts a longer horizon of a future in which prescriptions initiated in one jurisdiction can be safely and legally maintained across borders, accommodating travel or relocation without forcing patients to restart the process.—
Connie Etemadi,
USA Today,
8 Feb. 2026
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Currently, many independent pharmacies don’t stock the medication or have only small quantities for those with prescriptions.—
Cindy Krischer Goodman,
Sun Sentinel,
6 Feb. 2026
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To speak in the register of faith—not a particular sect or even God, but a grounding belief in a higher order—is to reach beyond partisanship, to try to return to basic moral precepts.—
Gal Beckerman,
The Atlantic,
27 Jan. 2026
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Kutcher’s character—the richest man in the world, who calls himself The Corporation—has, in defiance of all ethical, legal, and medical precepts, developed The Beauty.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
21 Jan. 2026
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Among the demands are a requirement for judicial warrants, better identification of DHS officers, new use of force standards and a stop to racial profiling.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
6 Feb. 2026
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That includes hackers, foreign governments and legal demands from agencies like the FBI.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
5 Feb. 2026
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