“There is nothing more important to me than my children, and while I plan to ask the court to reconsider, I can’t continue with a Senate campaign,” Parnell said.

Joe Manchin has told reporters he won’t commit to passing Joe Biden’s Build Back Better bill by Christmas, the timeline laid out by Chuck Schumer, the Senate majority leader.

“We will wait to see what we have,” the West Virginia Democrat said.

“We will wait to see what we have,” he told a group of us.

Pfizer is reportedly planning to request authorization for its Covid booster for 16- and 17-year-olds.

The company and partner BioNTech are expected to ask the FDA to authorize its booster shot for the age group in the coming days, according to the Washington Post.

All adults are currently eligible for the booster shot after the CDC strengthened its booster recommendation on Monday amid growing fears over the new Omicron variant.

“Given the current overall situation of the pandemic, FDA will evaluate any such EUA request in a very timely manner,” the agency told the Post.

A Pfizer spokesperson said the company expects “to share updates on this soon”.

The CDC announced Monday that all adults should get a Covid-19 booster shot, strengthening its previous recommendation amid growing concerns over the Omicron variant.

The agency now recommends that everyone 18 and older get a booster shot within two months of receiving the Johnson & Johnson vaccine or within six months of receiving the Pfizer or Moderna shots.

Everyone ages 18 and older should get a booster shot either when they are 6 months after their initial Pfizer or Moderna series or 2 months after initial J&J vaccine.

The World Health Organization has said the Omicron variant carries a very high global risk of infection surges.

Joe Biden said on Monday that the variant is a “cause for concern, not a cause for panic”, and urged Americans to get vaccinated and get booster shots

So far-right congresswoman Lauren Boebert has posted on Instagram her version of the phone call with Democratic congresswoman Ilhan Omar, and the Islamophobic remarks she made about Omar for which she had to issue an apology

Turns out, Boebert went into the phone call expecting Omar to apologize to her

- Omar asked Boebert for a "public apology"

- Boebert told Omar she should apologize for "anti-American, anti-semitic, anti-police rhetoric"

- Omar hung up, which Boebert argues is part of "cancel culture 101" https://t.co/faRS4iYGUA

President Biden was scheduled to deliver remarks on the supply chain today at 3:45 p.m

Democrat congresswoman Ilhan Omar has issued a new statement regarding a phone call she had with far-right congresswoman Lauren Boebert regarding the Islamophobic remarks Boebert made about Omar

“Instead of apologizing for her Islamophobic comments and fabricated lies, Representative Boebert refused to publicly acknowledge her hurtful and dangerous comments,” Omar said

Lauren Boebert

Lauren Boebert in the hope of receiving a direct apology for falsely claiming she met me in an elevator, suggesting I was a terrorist, and for a history of anti-Muslim hate.”

“Instead of apologizing for her Islamophobic comments and fabricated lies, Rep

Boebert refused to publicly acknowledge her hurtful and dangerous comments

In comments in her home district, Boebert referred to Omar as part of the “Jihad Squad” and described her as a suicide bomber

Republican congressman Adam Kinzinger of Illinois called her “trash” for her remarks, but House minority leader Kevin McCarthy has been noticably silent on the matter