The Wall Street Journal reports that a major climate and health-care spending bill looks to be moving forward after Democrats cut a deal on taxes with their moderate colleague Senator Kyrsten Sinema. The U.S. just declared monkeypox a public-health emergency. Stat has the details. NBC News recently spoke to longtime activists who say the American public-health system is repeating dangerous mistakes from the early days of the AIDS crisis. A Senate investigation of the U.S. transplant system uncovered dozens of deaths and many donated organs wasted. The Washington Post reports. Vox looks at how several new films focus on love, but in a fresher, broader, and more interesting way than old-school romantic comedies. A confectionery company is paying an impressive salary for someone to eat dozens of pieces of candy all day. Fortune has the story.

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