The Biden Administration is withdrawing its vaccine and testing mandate for private businesses with 100+ employees following the rule's rejection by the Supreme Court earlier this month. The mandate, which was issued by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), will end today. More: - The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 in favor of plaintiffs who claimed that the mandate was unconstitutional.
- The court's conservative majority said that OSHA exceeded its authority because the agency lacks "the power to regulate public health."
- OSHA will ask the courts to dismiss all cases regarding the mandate, effectively ending litigation with groups including GOP-led states and trade associations.
- OSHA said that its new focus will be to create a permanent COVID safety standard for healthcare workers after missing a deadline to institute such rules in December.
- The safety standard would require healthcare facilities to provide employees with PPE, disinfect the workplace regularly, and maintain proper ventilation.
- The AFL-CIO and National Nurses United have asked a federal court to force OSHA to tighten healthcare safety rules amid a surge of COVID-19 cases among healthcare workers.
- In a court filing, OSHA said that it failed to institute those rules because its focus at the time was on the business mandate.
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 New York City Mayor Eric Adams released his public safety platform on Monday, days after two members of the NYPD were shot and killed. The plan, whose main focus is to get guns off the streets, would involve collaboration among state legislators, police leaders, and criminal courts. More: - Adams, a former NYPD captain, campaigned on protecting New Yorkers from criminals and implementing new policies to tackle a surge in violent crime since 2020.
- The plan calls for the return of controversial NYPD anti-crime units that previously sought out violent criminals who are most likely to carry guns.
- These units were disbanded in June 2020 after their members were involved in shootings.
- Adams said the new anti-crime units will be called Neighborhood Safety Teams. Unlike their predecessors, members will wear visible police insignias and carry body cameras.
- Progressive lawmakers and BLM activists say anti-crime units undermine efforts to reform the NYPD and end racially discriminatory policing practices.
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 German lawmakers are debating whether to implement a COVID vaccine mandate. Health Minister Karl Lauterbach has recommended a general mandate for all adults but other politicians say the mandate should only apply to people age 50 and over. More: - German lawmakers have agreed to implement a mandate for healthcare and care home workers but have not yet agreed on a mandate for the general population.
- The coalition government, led by Olaf Scholz of the Social Democratic Party, has said that lawmakers can vote as they please on the matter.
- Just under 75% of people in Germany are fully vaccinated, and just under 20% of Germans have not been vaccinated at all.
- Police were deployed outside of the Bundestag today in case of anti-vaccine protests.
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 GOOD NEWS: The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) published a list featuring 224 newly discovered species from the Mekong region that includes Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam. The WWF said that due to ecosystem destruction, many of the new species are at risk of "going extinct before they are described." More: - The list includes dozens of reptiles, frogs, and fish, as well as 155 plant species.
- The only mammal on the list is the Popa langur monkey, which has ghostly white circles around its eyes.
- The Popa langur may be a critically endangered species, as only ~200-250 of the monkeys are thought to live in the wild.
- One new plant species — a type of ginger plant that releases a pungent odor — was discovered in a Thai plant shop rather than in the wild.
- The list also includes the only known succulent bamboo species.
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 Japanese company ispace seeks to launch a private moon lander by the end of 2022. If successful, this would be the first intact landing by a Japanese spacecraft on the moon. More: - ispace's M1 lander is being assembled in Germany by the Ariane Group, which built the rocket that launched the James Webb Space Telescope.
- The moon landing would take three to four months, with the vessel using a slower lunar trajectory to save fuel and maximize the amount of cargo it can carry.
- The U.S. and South Korea are expected to launch spacecraft that will orbit the moon later this year.
- India was planning to launch its second robotic lunar craft this year, but the launch has been delayed until mid-2023.
- The Chinese Yutu-2 rover is the only robotic mission currently on the moon's surface.
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 David "Big Papi" Ortiz was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in his first year of eligibility when voting was held yesterday. Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens, and Curt Schilling all failed to make the cut in their final year of eligibility, ending their hopes of joining the sport's greats in Cooperstown. More: - Ortiz, who led the Red Sox to three World Series titles, was the only one of 30 players on the 2022 ballot who got the required 75% of the vote.
- He joins fellow Dominican Republic native Pedro Martinez, who was also part of the 2004 team that won the first World Series for the Red Sox in more than 80 years.
- Bonds and Clemens were two of baseball's most prolific players but their efforts to join the Hall of Fame have been marred by their history of steroid use.
- The Hall of Fame doesn't offer official guidance on steroid use but recommends that those voting on the matter consider the players' "integrity, character, and sportsmanship."
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- The seven-day average of COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. reached 2,191 per day on Monday, more than double the number of daily deaths seen two months ago.
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 |  | Daniel Smith is an Inside Analyst who currently resides in Miami, Florida. A native of Brooklyn, New York, Daniel spent the last four years as a PhD candidate in Politics and International Studies at Cambridge University in the United Kingdom. He is fascinated by tech, business, politics, venture capital, and everything in between. When he’s not writing for Inside he can be found kicking a ball on the nearest rugby pitch. Follow him on Twitter @DanSmithInside. |  | | Editor | Eduardo Garcia is a writer and editor based in New York. He is writing an illustrated book about climate change that will be published by Ten Speed Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House. Bylines in The New York Times, The Guardian, Slate, Scientific American, and others. In one of his previous lives, Eduardo worked as a Reuters correspondent in Latin America for nearly a decade. | |
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