Drug shortages near all-time highs; Democratic parents in California push back against transgender policies for minors; and funeral homes near the southern border bear the burden of laying deceased migrants to rest. Plus, a plane loses its emergency slide mid-flight, commentary from Cal Thomas, and the Thursday morning news

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