A few years back, Dale Dickey walked into a department store looking for a dress. She was wearing what she usually wears — T-shirt, shorts, flip-flops, no makeup — and a salesperson gave her the once-over and redirected her. “I sort of was treated like Julia Roberts in ‘Pretty Woman,’” Dickey tells Variety. “It’s like,
Earlier on Friday, Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski announced she would oppose Blanche, citing concerns over the “politicisation” of the justice department. “The politicization – even weaponization – of the Department did not start with this administration but has accelerated during it,” Murkowski wrote on X. Blanche’s confirmation was briefly in jeopardy on Friday morning following
The revolving-door leadership of the nation’s top public health agency took another possible turn Wednesday, when Dr. Erica Schwartz’s nomination came before a U.S. Senate committee. Schwartz, 54, is running for director of the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, charged with protecting Americans from preventable health threats. His career has been spent largely