Members of the House authored a letter urging President Joe Biden to take action to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment, protecting rights for all regardless of sex, before he leaves office early next year. “As we approach the conclusion of your historic administration, we urge you to take immediate action …
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President-elect Donald Trump‘s transition team has recommended the elimination of a National Highway Traffic Safety Administration rule about collecting data from crashes of cars equipped with automated driving systems, according to a document reviewed by Reuters. It just so happens that Tesla — whose CEO, Elon Musk, spent roughly a …
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Greg Casar won reelection to the Austin City Council the same year that Donald Trump won his first term in office. The son of Mexican immigrants, Casar made clear he had no plans to entertain the whims of an incoming president who had made vitriol against his community a centerpoint …
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The nomination of the Donald Trump hyper loyalist Kash Patel to serve as FBI director is unusual. First, the job is currently occupied, by one Christopher Wray — himself a Trump appointee — who technically has three years left on his 10-year term of service. On Wednesday, however, Wray preemptively …
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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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The murder of the CEO of UnitedHealthcare, America’s largest health insurer, has generated a lot of discourse over the past week and renewed conversation about the state of the U.S. health care system — something that was almost entirely missing from the 2024 campaign. Social media users have actively celebrated …
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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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The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is more than just a health care provider for those who have served — it stands as a symbol of what a national, government-run health care system could achieve if scaled to the broader American population. This is precisely why Republican leaders and conservative …
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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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