An adviser and lawyer helping Health and Human Services nominee Robert F. Kennedy Jr. vet potential agency officials has filed over a dozen lawsuits challenging the availability of common vaccines — including the polio vaccine. According to a Friday report from The New York Times, Aaron Siri, an attorney who …
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A $895 billion defense policy bill was approved by the House on Wednesday, which included a controversial provision prohibiting the military’s health program, TRICARE, from covering gender-affirming care for transgender children of U.S. service members. Known as the National Defense Authorization Act, the bill authorizes funding for the Defense Department …
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President Joe Biden issued a record-breaking wave of commutations and pardons on Thursday, the most ever granted by a president in a single day. In a statement issued by the White House, the administration wrote that Biden is “is commuting the sentences of close to 1,500 individuals who were placed …
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Donald Trump loves to talk about groceries. “The word grocery,” he said with a childlike sense of wonder during an event at the Detroit Economic Club in October. “You know, it’s a sorta simple word, but it sorta means like everything you eat. The stomach is speaking. It always does.” …
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Shortly before the election, Donald Trump wrote in his recently released coffee table book that Mark Zuckerberg would “spend the rest of his life in prison” if he ever crossed him again. Now, with the president-elect weeks away from inauguration, the Meta billionaire is attempting to ingratiate himself to Trump, …
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An apparently unified Senate Democratic caucus is demanding that government funding legislation not include “poison pill policy riders” targeting reproductive freedoms and LGBTQ rights. In a letter to Appropriations Chair Patty Murray (D-Wash.) and Vice Chair Susan Collins (R-Maine), 45 Democratic senators wrote that “partisan, discriminatory, and harmful policy riders …
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Manhattan prosecutors are urging Judge Juan Merchan not to vacate Donald Trump’s felony conviction on charges of falsifying business records related to a 2016 hush money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels. Merchan is currently weighing a bid from Trump’s legal team to have the case tossed out on grounds …
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A man has been arrested, and Nancy Mace is wearing a wrist brace and shoulder sling after the South Carolina congresswoman said she was “physically accosted” in a Capitol office building on Tuesday afternoon. Mace claims she was “was physically accosted at the Capitol” by “a pro-tr*ns man.” “One new …
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Sen. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona and Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia on Tuesday voted not to confirm President Joe Biden‘s renomination of Lauren McFerran as member of the National Labor Relations Board. The nays from the pair of independents, who both declined to run for reelection in 2024, will …
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After Matt Gaetz left his seat in Congress to become Donald Trump’s attorney general only to pull his name from contention, speculation has abounded as to what the now-jobless Gaetz — who remains embodied in allegations of sexual abuse — will do with his life. Shout-out videos on Cameo apparently …
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