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FDA mulls ban of e-cigarettes if teen usage doesn't slow down

An e-cigarette user. Photo: Eva Hambach/AFP via Getty Images

The Food and Drug Administration could pull e-cigarettes off the market, commissioner Scott Gottlieb said Friday, if new restrictions on the sale of "fruity" flavors don't slow a surge in teenage vaping, CNBC reports.

The backdrop: The FDA rolled out new regulations on Thursday restricting flavored e-cigarette sales, with the exception of mint and menthol, as usage among teens increased by 75% from over the last year. Gottlieb called the uptick in use of flavored e-cigarettes among teens "astonishing."

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DOJ watchdog to probe whether officials sought to alter election results

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The Justice Department's inspector general will investigate whether any current or former DOJ officials "engaged in an improper attempt to have DOJ seek to alter the outcome" of the 2020 election, the agency announced Monday.

Driving the news: The investigation comes in the wake of a New York Times report that alleged that Jeffrey Clark, the head of DOJ's civil division, had plotted with President Trump to oust acting Attorney General Jeffery Rosen in a scheme to overturn the election results in Georgia.

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Google's chief health officer Karen DeSalvo on vaccinating America

Google on Monday became the latest Big Tech company to get involved with COVID-19 vaccinations. Not just by doing things like incorporating vaccination sites into its maps, but by helping to turn some of its offices and parking lots into vaccination sites.

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Biden signs order overturning Trump's transgender military ban

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President Biden signed an executive order on Monday overturning the Trump administration's ban on transgender Americans serving in the military.

Why it matters: The ban, which allowed the military to bar openly transgender recruits and discharge people for not living as their sex assigned at birth, affected up to 15,000 service members, according to tallies from the National Center for Transgender Equality and Transgender American Veterans Association.

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