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• Employers are not accomodating people disabled by long COVID, activists tell House panel

  24-05-2022 22:37 via thehill.com
  
  Some people disabled by long COVID are struggling in the workplace, with employers refusing to make accommodations for the new condition, disability activists told a House committee on Tuesday.During a hearing for the House Subcommittee on Diversity and Inclusion, witnesses detailed the challenges that disabled people continue to face in accessing financial services, equitable housing and work opportunities.Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) spoke of one of her constituents who developed long COVID
  
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• Employers are not accommodating people disabled by long COVID, activists tell House panel

  24-05-2022 22:37 via thehill.com
  
  Some people disabled by long COVID are struggling in the workplace, with employers refusing to make accommodations for the new condition, disability activists told a House committee on Tuesday.During a hearing for the House Subcommittee on Diversity and Inclusion, witnesses detailed the challenges that disabled people continue to face in accessing financial services, equitable housing and work opportunities.Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) spoke of one of her constituents who developed long COVID
  
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• Biden to sign policing order on second anniversary of George Floyd's death

  24-05-2022 21:48 via thehill.com
  
  President Biden on Wednesday is expected to sign an executive order on the two-year anniversary of the death of George Floyd that intends to increase accountability in policing, a source familiar with the plans confirmed to The Hill. The executive order would establish a national database of officers who have been fired for misconduct and require federal agencies to update their policies on use of force, the source said. The New York Times, which first reported on the order, said the m
  
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• Jill Biden to meet second plane of baby formula at Dulles

  24-05-2022 21:07 via thehill.com
  
  First lady Jill Biden and Surgeon General Vivek Murthy are slated to meet the second flight carrying infant formula from overseas when it arrives at Dulles International Airport just outside the nation’s capital on Wednesday, the White House announced.  The military plane is taking off from Ramstein Airbase in Germany and is expected to transport over 100,000 pounds of infant formula, or roughly 1 million 8-ounce bottles of Nestlé formula, the White House said in an announ
  
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• Appeals court clears way for bid to disqualify Cawthorn as ‘insurrectionist’

  24-05-2022 20:52 via thehill.com
  
  A federal appeals court in Richmond on Tuesday cleared the way for a legal effort that seeks to disqualify Rep. Madison Cawthorn’s (R-N.C.) candidacy for office due to his alleged role in the Jan. 6 pro-Trump insurrection.The three-judge panel’s ruling reverses a lower court’s determination that an 1872 federal law that granted amnesty to nearly all former members of the Confederacy had immunized Cawthorn from the lawsuit brought under the 14th Amendment.“We hold only tha
  
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• Mo Brooks says 'I haven't been served anything' by Jan. 6 committee

  24-05-2022 20:49 via thehill.com
  
  Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.) on Tuesday said in an interview, “I haven’t been served anything” by the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot. The comments come less than two weeks since the committee announced that they had subpoenaed the lawmaker.NBC News correspondent Vaughn Hillyard spoke to Brooks on Tuesday amid voting in Alabama’s primary, the reporter noted toward the end of the interview that Brooks was “one of five Republicans who ha
  
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• Appeals court temporarily blocks Jan. 6 committee from getting RNC records

  24-05-2022 20:42 via thehill.com
  
  A federal appeals court on Tuesday temporarily blocked the House Jan. 6 Select Committee from obtaining Republican National Committee (RNC) records while the GOP challenges a subpoena for documents pertaining to its fundraising efforts in the weeks leading up to Jan. 6.A three-judge panel for the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals granted the RNC a temporary administrative injunction prohibiting third-party vendor Salesforce from turning over the party's fundraising records to the select committee. T
  
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• ISIS plot to assassinate George W. Bush broken up: report

  24-05-2022 19:39 via thehill.com
  
  The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) uncovered a plot by an alleged ISIS operative to assassinate former President George W. Bush, Forbes reported Tuesday, citing an FBI search warrant.
  The alleged plot was uncovered after the suspect revealed information about hisplans and asked a confidential FBI source to "obtain replica or fraudulent police and/or FBI identifications and badges" that would be used in the assassination, the report added.The suspect asked a second FBI source if there was
  
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• ISIS plot to assassinate George W. Bush broken up

  24-05-2022 19:39 via thehill.com
  
  The FBI uncovered a plot by an alleged ISIS operative to assassinate former President George W. Bush, according to the Department of Justice.The suspect — Iraqi national Shihab Ahmed Shihab — was arrested by FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force agents on Tuesday and appeared in federal court in Ohio at 2:30 p.m.According to the charging documents, Shihab reportedly planned to smuggle four Iraqi foreign nationals into the United States for the purpose of killing the former president i
  
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• DOJ orders its officers to intervene to prevent excessive use of force

  24-05-2022 17:01 via thehill.com
  
  The Justice Department is ordering its federal officers to take on a greater role in fighting police brutality, ordering them to intervene if they see colleagues using excessive force.The order comes in the Department of Justice's (DOJ) first update to its use-of-force policy in 18 years. The memo, signed Friday but not publicly released until Monday, comes just days before the second anniversary of the killing of George Floyd, whose death as he was pinned down by a Minneapolis police offic
  
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• Rep. Delgado to resign Wednesday, become NY lieutenant governor

  24-05-2022 16:56 via thehill.com
  
  Rep. Antonio Delgado (D-N.Y.) will officially resign from Congress on Wednesday, the same day he is set to be sworn in as lieutenant governor of New York.Delgado’s resignation was announced on the House floor Tuesday morning. It takes effect at 4 p.m. eastern time on Wednesday.“I hereby submit my resignation effective May 25, 2022 at 4 p.m. EST as United States Representative of the 19th District of the State of New York,” the House clerk said, reading a letter Delgado sent to
  
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• Watch live: House panel holds hearing on long COVID, household finances

  24-05-2022 16:30 via thehill.com
  
  A House subcommittee will hold a virtual hearing Tuesday morning about access to financial services for those now living with long COVID and other disabilities.The hearing is scheduled to begin at 12:00 p.m. ET.Watch the live video above.
  
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• Pelosi: Why doesn't Catholic Church punish death penalty supporters?

  24-05-2022 16:06 via thehill.com
  
  Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Tuesday went after the Catholic Church for what she characterized as its hypocritical position when it comes to the politics of life and death.Pelosi, a practicing Catholic, was recently barred by the archbishop of San Francisco from taking communion for her support of abortion rights, which the church considers to be homicide at all stages from conception to birth.Appearing on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” program on Tuesday morning, Pelosi
  
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• Biden underwater on almost all issues except handling of COVID: poll

  24-05-2022 16:02 via thehill.com
  
  President Biden’s approval rating continues to be underwater on virtually every issue, with the exception being on his handling of the coronavirus pandemic, according to a new Harvard CAPS/Harris Poll.Biden’s overall approval rating sits at 41 percent in the survey, and the numbers are not much better when broken down by each issue.Only 35 percent of registered voters approve of Biden’s handling of the economy, 44 percent approve of his efforts to stimulate job growth, and just
  
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• Watch live: House panel holds hearing on climate change's supply chain impact

  24-05-2022 16:00 via thehill.com
  
  The House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis will hear testimony about establishing resilience to climate-related shocks affecting America's food supply, and minimizing the sector's contribution to climate change.The hearings are scheduled for 12:00 p.m. ET.Watch the live video above.
  
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• Biden says 'strategic ambiguity' on Taiwan not dead

  24-05-2022 13:07 via thehill.com
  
  President Biden said Tuesday that the U.S. still abides by the policy of “strategic ambiguity” toward Taiwan, a day after he made waves by saying in no uncertain terms that the U.S. would defend Taiwan in the event of a Chinese attack.  “No,” Biden told reporters during an event in Japan when asked if the policy of strategic ambiguity towards Taiwan was “dead.” “The policy has not changed at all,” Biden added. “I stated that when I
  
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• Greene’s popularity faces test in first reelection primary

  24-05-2022 11:17 via thehill.com
  
  Firebrand Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) heads to her first reelection primary on Tuesday in a good position to win the GOP nomination for her seat despite becoming perhaps the most controversial, bombastic, and criticized Republican in the House.Greene faces five GOP challengers in her primary, the best-funded of which is political newcomer Jennifer Strahan, owner of a healthcare consulting business.Strahan has raised around $400,000 for her campaign, but also has the backing of outside PA
  
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• Progressive NY lawmaker to challenge Maloney in controversial House district

  24-05-2022 03:08 via thehill.com
  
  Progressive New York state Sen. Alessandra Biaggi (D) will challenge Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney (D-N.Y.) in a controversial House district seat.“I am sure that he will say, ‘This is hurting the party, she doesn’t care about being a Democrat,’” Biaggi told The New York Times, calling herself a “proud Democrat.” “What hurt the party was having the head of the campaign arm not stay in his district, not maximize the number of seats New York can hav
  
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• Ethics watchdog zeroes in on GOP congressman's trip to Aruba

  24-05-2022 00:46 via thehill.com
  
  The Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE) is zeroing in on a trip Rep. Alex Mooney (R-W.Va.) took to Aruba with his family after the independent watchdog discovered that the congressman may have accepted the trip for free or at a price below market value.In a report made public on Monday, the OCE said campaign vendor HSP Direct, LLC paid at least $10,803.65 for Mooney's family vacation to Aruba, including travel, lodging, meals, amenities, entertainment and activities.The watchdog also said it lo
  
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• The Memo: Trump no longer holds MAGA movement in his palm 

  24-05-2022 00:29 via thehill.com
  
  President Trump and the MAGA movement are showing signs of moving in different directions. By no stretch of the imagination is Trump’s base deserting him. But nor are those voters willing to simply do his bidding.  In some important primaries this year, they have instead bucked his wishes — and they’re set to do it again. The dynamic looks like it will become starker on Tuesday, when primaries are held in Alabama, Arkansas and Georgia. The Republican gu
  
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