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Following up on our colleagues’ post earlier this month covering the Food and Drug Administration’s 2020 device law and policy activities, this post will explore prescription drug and biologic law and policy developments over the past year. We’ll also begin looking forward into 2021 and the agency’s transition to an incoming Biden Administration. One of the highest priorities for the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) during this “pandemic year 1” was authorizing the use of COVID-19 medical countermeasures. Another high priority was policing fraudulent COVID-19 drugs, preventative products, herbal cures, and even vaccines (not to mention fake test kits, personal protective equipment, and other things regulated as medical devices). As of December 18, 2020, FDA had sent more than 150 warning letters to peddlers of fraudulent COVID-19 products, many in conjunction with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) – and we
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By Sasha Margulies, iHeart Media
Dec 23, 2020
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra is announcing a settlement with the Kern s County Sheriff s Office that will lead to major reforms of its policing practices. Becerra says the sheriff s office is collaborating with the California Department of Justice on the reforms and has established a five-year plan.
Some of the reforms include a review of use-of-force policies, modified canine training and a requirement for deputies to articulate a valid reason under law to conduct a consent search.
Peabody Award-winning Portuguese journalist Mariana van Zeller spends her new eight-part National Geographic documentary series,
Trafficked, infiltrating gangs of fentanyl peddlers, gunrunners, and tiger smugglers. But the hardest group to penetrate, she tells
Los Angeles, was the pimps of Los Angeles.
“We contacted over one hundred pimps, and less than a handful were willing to sit down with us and talk,” van Zeller says. “We had to postpone the shoot several times.”
On the series’ fifth episode (airing December 23), Van Zeller quickly discovers that L.A.’s pimps, although wary of journalists, are actually hiding in plain sight. On Instagram, she finds pimps luring women with photos of sports cars, diamonds, and stacks of cash, and using a system of coded hashtags, such as “304,” which spells “hoe” upside-down.
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California is getting its first Latino U.S. senator. For Gov. Gavin Newsom, it’s a political gamble.
The Democratic governor Tuesday named Secretary of State Alex Padilla, the son of Mexican immigrants, to fill the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Vice President-elect Kamala Harris. When Padilla goes to Washington, the former state legislator will become California’s first Latino senator since the state’s founding 170 years ago.
In picking a personal friend and fellow Democrat, Newsom had his eye on history and pragmatism he turned to someone he could trust with a year of uncertainty looming, including a possible recall election while the pandemic rages unabated.