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California state Sen. Scott Wiener sounded off on the federal government’s failure to procure an adequate supply of monkeypox vaccine and warned that San Francisco is heading toward a “public health mess of uncontrolled monkeypox spread.” In a statement on Wednesday, the progressive Democrat said the San Francisco Department of Public Health is running critically low and the San Francisco General Hospital vaccine clinic is being temporarily suspended. This comes as monkeypox infections are on the rise in the city, jumping from six cases as of June 16 to a total of 80 cases as of July 14.

Thousands of participants marched in the annual Jerusalem Pride Parade on Thursday without major incident, after threats of violence were made against an organizer of the march and lawmakers who planned to attend.More than 7,000 participants joined in, marching from Liberty Bell Park, heading up Keren Hayesod and King George streets and ending at Independence Park. The event was the 20th Pride Parade in the country’s capital.Knesset Speaker Mickey Levy addressed crowds at the conclusion of the parade at Independence Park, a first for a holder of the post.Levy said he was “shocked to the depths of my soul” over...

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot (D) over the weekend took the stage at the city’s annual Pride in the Park event to lash out at Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas for his opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which overturned Roe v. Wade and the constitutional right to abortion. “We know what happened yesterday,” Lightfoot, Chicago’s first openly gay mayor, said on Saturday