(AP) – The Food and Drug Administration is seeking a rule change to allow generic drugmakers to quickly update their warning labels with new safety information for doctors and patients.

Current regulations require generic drugs to bear the same labels as their branded counterparts. That policy has left generic companies with little control over their drug labels, and also shielded them from legal liability in court.

In 2011, the Supreme Court ruled that generic drugmakers cannot be sued for failing to warn consumers about possible side effects of their products if they use the exact same warnings as the original medicines.

Under today’s proposal, generic drugmakers would have the same power as brand-name drug makers to update their drugs with new information.

Regulators will take comments on the proposal for 60 days.

(AP) — Former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich is strongly criticizing Secretary of State John Kerry’s diplomatic push for an interim nuclear deal with Iran, calling it “a surrender.”

Gingrich said Friday that President Barack Obama’s administration is punishing U.S. allies while trusting the nation’s enemies.

Gingrich was in Overland Park to campaign for Kansas Republican Pat Roberts’ re-election to the U.S. Senate.

The former House speaker called the diplomatic push “the Munich of the Middle East,” a reference to the 1938 decision by major European powers before World War II to allow Nazi Germany to annex Czechoslovakia.

Gingrich noted that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu insisted any agreement was a “bad deal.”

(AP) — A federal appeals court has ruled that a Kansas man is entitled to a trial over his claims that the juvenile detention center in Sedgwick County violated his rights by using a restraining chair as punishment.

The U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday mostly upheld the decision by a federal judge rejecting the request by the Sedgwick County Board of Commissioners and its employees to dismiss the lawsuit. The court said the defendants didn’t have qualified immunity.

Brandon Blackman sued in 2005 over the treatment he had gotten as an 11-year-old at the Kansas facility while awaiting trial on criminal charges that were later dismissed.

The court says officials made ‘liberal use’ of the restraining chair they had gotten a few weeks before the boy arrived at facility.

(AP) — The Kansas Supreme Court has upheld the capital murder conviction and life sentence of a Montgomery County man.

The court rejected Christopher M. Lowrance’s argument that he had not attempted to rape the victim, which is one of the standards necessary to establish capital murder.

Lowrance was convicted in the 2007 death of Rachel Dennis. Lowrance said he did not remember killing or trying to rape her.

The high court said in its decision released Friday that although there was no evidence of sexual trauma, testimony showed Lowrance drove an intoxicated Dennis to a place he used for sexual encounters. The victim was found partially unclothed, and her blood alcohol level was twice the legal limit, meaning she couldn’t give consent to a sexual act.

(AP) — A state health official says flu season has started in Kansas but there isn’t any indication that this year’s outbreak will be any worse than previous years.

Charlie Hunt, state epidemiologist for the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, says Thursday that the first flu cases were reported in Sedgwick County but no widespread outbreaks have been reported.

Hunt says many factors help spread the flu virus, but weather isn’t the major indicator. He says the focus should be on the strain of the flu virus that is circulating.

Residents are being offered two flu vaccines, one aimed at three seasonal strains and one targeting four.