Week In Review

ABOVE PHOTO: This image provided by Novo Nordisk in January 2023, shows packaging for the company’s Wegovy drug. Children struggling with obesity should be evaluated and treated early and aggressively, with medications for kids as young as 12 and surgery for those as young as 13 who qualify, according to new guidelines released by the…

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ABOVE PHOTO: This image provided by Biogen on Monday, June 7, 2021 shows a vial and packaging for the drug Aduhelm. The Food and Drug Administration’s contentious approval of a questionable Alzheimer’s drug took another hit Thursday, Dec. 29, 2022, as congressional investigators called the process “rife with irregularities.” (Biogen via AP, File) ASSOCIATED PRESS …

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ABOVE PHOTO: Rep. Robert L. Johnson III, House Minority Leader, speaks to members of the Mississippi House and Senate Democratic Caucuses, during a public hearing held at the Capitol in Jackson, Miss., to gain a better understanding of the welfare scandal, Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2022. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis) Iby Emily Wagster Pettus ASSOCIATED PRESS …

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ABOVE PHOTO: New York City police and law enforcement officials lead subway shooting suspect Frank James, center, away from a police station in New York on April 13, 2022. Prosecutors plan to seek a decades-long prison sentence for James, who is expected to plead guilty this week to opening fire in a subway car and…

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ABOVE PHOTO: A trickle of water comes out of the faucet at Mary Gaines’ Golden Keys Senior Living apartment in Jackson, Miss., Sept. 1, 2022. The federal government will put $600 million toward repairing the troubled water system in Mississippi’s capital city…a project that the mayor has said could cost billions of dollars. Funding for…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson stands as she and members of the Supreme Court pose for a new group portrait following her addition, at the Supreme Court building in Washington, Friday, Oct. 7, 2022. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) By Mark Sherman ASSOCIATED PRESS  WASHINGTON (AP) — A jury convicted Dayonta McClinton of robbing…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Musician Youtha Anthony Fowler, known as “DJ Nabs,” looks at an old newspaper clipping, top, about his lifelong best friend, Alton Lucas, in his home studio outside of Raleigh, N.C., on Saturday, June 26, 2021. At the height of the war on drugs, Lucas went to jail for a series of robberies he…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, attends the White House press briefing to speak about the coronavirus on Tuesday, November 22, 2022. Dr. Ashish Jha, White House COVID-19 Response Coordinator, also spoke. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call via AP Images) By Lauran Neergaard ASSOCIATED PRESS  WASHINGTON —…

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Vice President Kamala Harris and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., right, react as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy presents lawmakers with a Ukrainian flag autographed by front-line troops in Bakhmut, in Ukraine’s contested Donetsk province, as he addresses a joint meeting of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2022. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)…

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By Bernard McGhee associated press Photos: Shutterstock, Associated Press One would have to go back hundreds of years to find a monarch who reigned longer than Queen Elizabeth II. In her 70 years on the throne, she helped modernize the monarchy across decades of enormous social change, royal marriages and births, and family scandals. For…

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