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• Government watchdog critical of federal mpox response

  18-04-2024 23:59 via thehill.com
  
  The Government Accountability Office (GAO) says in a new report that the Department of Health and Human Services's (HHS) response to the 2022 mpox outbreak was uncoordinated and lacked interagency cohesion.For its report, the GAO visited 14 U.S. jurisdictions including Los Angeles, Miami Dade County, Atlanta, Chicago and New York City. The agency also interviewed nongovernmental stakeholders and reviewed the actions HHS took in response to previous GAO recommendations.The audit was conducted fro
  
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• Cats died after drinking raw milk from cows infected with bird flu: CDC

  01-05-2024 21:21 via thehill.com
  
  More than half of the domestic cats on a Texas dairy farm that were fed unpasteurized milk from cows infected with the bird flu got sick and died, according to a preliminary report released Monday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).The report focuses on early findings in the CDC investigation into the spread of bird flu through the cattle industry this year.Scientists reported that in mid-March, about 24 cats were fed raw milk at the Texas farm  before they were known t
  
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• Harris makes case for flipping Florida blue as six-week abortion ban goes into effect

  01-05-2024 21:20 via thehill.com
  
  Vice President Harris bashed former President Trump in Florida, a state the campaign is trying to flip to blue, on Wednesday as the state’s 6-week abortion ban went into effect.“As of this morning, four million women in this state woke up with fewer reproductive freedoms than they had last night. This is the new reality under a Trump abortion ban,” Harris said during a campaign rally.“Starting this morning, women in Florida became subject to an abortion ban so extreme it
  
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• GOP wants research group barred from federal funding over COVID work with Wuhan

  01-05-2024 21:16 via thehill.com
  
  A key House committee investigating the origins of COVID-19 wants a scientific research group to be barred from receiving federal funds and criminally investigated over its president’s work with a lab in Wuhan, China.
  A GOP staff report released Wednesday from the majority in the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic found that EcoHealth Alliance used U.S. taxpayer dollars to facilitate high-risk research on coronaviruses at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), the Chines
  
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• Comer calls hearing to grill DC mayor, police over GWU protests

  01-05-2024 20:57 via thehill.com
  
  House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) on Wednesday announced a hearing set for May 8 focused on the pro-Palestinian protests at the George Washington University (GWU), calling Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser and the chief of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) as witnesses. “The House Oversight Committee is deeply concerned over reports indicating the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department rejected George Washington University’s reques
  
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• Stefanik, Turner urge DOJ to open criminal referral into Michael Cohen

  01-05-2024 20:37 via thehill.com
  
  Republican Reps. Elise Stefanik (N.Y.) and Mike Turner (Ohio) are calling on the Department of Justice (DOJ) to open a criminal referral into former President Trump's ex-fixer, Michael Cohen, for making contradicting statements to a congressional panel in 2019.
  In a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland, Turner, the chair of the House Intelligence Committee, and Stefanik claimed Cohen "knowingly" made "false statements" while testifying before the Intelligence Committee in 2019.
  The lawmake
  
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• Biden to deliver speech on antisemitism at Holocaust memorial ceremony

  01-05-2024 19:57 via thehill.com
  
  President Biden will speak next week on Capitol Hill about the rise of antisemitism, tackling an issue that has been intertwined with ongoing protests on college campuses over Israel's war in Gaza.Biden will deliver the keynote address at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum's annual Days of Remembrance ceremony, press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters.
  He will discuss "our moral duty to combat the rising scourge of antisemitism," and how his administration is implementing a national str
  
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• House panel threatens to subpoena Biden's Labor chief over return-to-work plan

  01-05-2024 18:32 via thehill.com
  
  Chairwoman of the House Education and the Workforce Committee Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.) on Wednesday threated to subpoena Acting Secretary of Labor Julie Su for information regarding the department's return-to-work plan.
  In a committee hearing Wednesday morning in which Su testified, Foxx said she plans to serve a subpoena to the labor chief if she does not hand over the requested information by May 6.
  "We got 19 hours before this committee hearing, a tranche of material we asked for months ago, we
  
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• Biden to travel to Detroit for NAACP dinner

  01-05-2024 18:04 via thehill.com
  
  President Biden will travel to Detroit this month to give remarks at a NAACP dinner, a Biden campaign official confirmed to The Hill.The president is set to travel to swing state Michigan on May 19 and will speak at the NAACP Detroit Branch's 69th annual Fight for Freedom Fund Dinner in Detroit, The Detroit News first reported.The White House announced Biden’s trip to Detroit ahead of former President Trump’s visit to the battleground state Wednesday for a campaign rally. T
  
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• Greene unveils plan to vote on Speaker Johnson ouster

  01-05-2024 15:15 via thehill.com
  
  Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) on Wednesday announced she’ll force a vote next week on whether to oust Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), an extraordinary move highlighting the internal turmoil in the GOP.But it's also a move that is all but certain to fail after Democratic leaders said they would vote to protect the Speaker from her coup attempt.Forcing a vote on the motion to vacate resolution — which was filed more than a month ago — will compel the chamber to act on th
  
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• Greene unveils plan to force vote on Speaker Johnson ouster

  01-05-2024 15:15 via thehill.com
  
  Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) announced Wednesday she’ll force a vote next week on whether to oust Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), an extraordinary move highlighting the internal turmoil in the GOP.But it's also a move that is all but certain to fail after Democratic leaders said they would vote to protect the Speaker from her coup attempt.Forcing a vote on the motion to vacate resolution — which Greene filed against Johnson more than a month ago — will compel the cham
  
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• Biden, DNC slam Florida abortion ban as it goes into effect

  01-05-2024 15:00 via thehill.com
  
  President Biden bashed Florida’s new abortion ban arguing that former President Trump is worried about voters holding him accountable for it in November.The law goes into effect Wednesday, after Florida’s state Supreme Court ruled in early April to allow a six-week abortion ban approved by the state Legislature.“There is one person responsible for this nightmare: Donald Trump. Trump brags about overturning Roe v. Wade, making extreme bans like Florida’s possible, saying h
  
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• Multistate E. coli outbreak connected to walnuts: CDC

  01-05-2024 14:58 via thehill.com
  
  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) warned on Tuesday of an E. coli outbreak linked to organic walnuts sold in bulk that has so far infected 12 people across the states of California and Washington.Seven people have been hospitalized, and two have developed hemolytic uremic syndrome, a dangerous kidney disease, the CDC said. There have been no deaths reported.Almost all of the people infected purchased walnuts in bulk that were originally supplied by Gibson Farms Inc., which has
  
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• Multi-state E.coli outbreak connected to walnuts: CDC

  01-05-2024 14:58 via thehill.com
  
  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) warned on Tuesday of an E. coli outbreak linked to organic walnuts sold in bulk that has so far infected 12 people across the states of California and Washington.Seven people have been hospitalized and two have developed hemolytic uremic syndrome, a dangerous kidney disease, the CDC said. There have been no deaths reported.Almost all of the people infected purchased walnuts in bulk that were originally supplied by Gibson Farms, Inc, which has
  
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• NYPD Columbia raid criticized harshly by progressives

  01-05-2024 14:22 via thehill.com
  
  The New York City Police Department’s (NYPD) sweeping operation at Columbia University late Tuesday was met with fierce criticism from many progressive lawmakers, who pushed officials to deescalate the situation.Hundreds of police officers stormed a campus building Tuesday, as they sought to regain control of a Columbia University building that had been seized by pro-Palestinian protestors more than 20 hours earlier.“If any kid is hurt tonight, responsibility will fall on the mayor a
  
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• NYPD Columbia raid criticized by some progressives

  01-05-2024 14:22 via thehill.com
  
  The New York City Police Department’s (NYPD) sweeping operation at Columbia University late Tuesday was met with fierce criticism from many progressive lawmakers, who pushed officials to deescalate the situation.Hundreds of police officers stormed a campus building Tuesday, as they sought to regain control of a Columbia University building that had been seized by pro-Palestinian protestors more than 20 hours earlier.“If any kid is hurt tonight, responsibility will fall on the mayor a
  
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• Johnson: Greene not 'proving to be' a serious lawmaker

  01-05-2024 13:48 via thehill.com
  
  Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) seemingly brushed off Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's (R-Ga.) lingering threat to force a vote to oust him from leadership in an interview Tuesday.“I don’t think she is proving to be, no,” Johnson said Tuesday on NewsNation’s "The Hill," when asked if he believes Greene is a "serious lawmaker."“I don't spend a lot of time thinking about her," the Speaker continued. “I got to do my job, and we do the right thing, and we let the chips
  
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• Political center revolts against fringe, as leaders rebuke Greene, protesters

  01-05-2024 12:00 via thehill.com
  
  The political center in both parties is pushing back more against the fringes on the far right and the far left, reflecting the weariness and exasperation with the threats to boot Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) out of his job and the ongoing clashes with pro-Palestinian protesters on college campuses across the country.The overwhelming vote in the House for a foreign package including funding for Ukraine was a rebuke to Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), who is now running into bipartisan o
  
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• Democrats cast aside worries of campus protests hurting Biden

  01-05-2024 12:00 via thehill.com
  
  Democrats are casting aside worries that college campus protests opposing the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza could spell trouble for President Biden in November.Biden and his White House aides have mostly opted to keep their distance when it comes to weighing in on escalating tensions on campuses around the country but have called out antisemitic rhetoric that has plagued some of the demonstrations.Democrats are maintaining that the protesters, composed of the young and progressive voting bloc Biden n
  
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• White House considers admitting some Palestinians from Gaza as refugees

  01-05-2024 04:02 via thehill.com
  
  The Biden administration is considering admitting certain Palestinians to the U.S. as refugees, a report by CBS News found.Senior officials in several U.S. agencies have discussed the idea of resettling Palestinians from Gaza who have immediate family who are American citizens. One of the ideas proposed would be to use the United States Refugee Admissions Program to allow Palestinians who have U.S. ties and have escaped Gaza and are now in Egypt to enter the country as refugees, CBS News reporte
  
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• Biden campaign hits Trump for saying he would close pandemic preparedness office

  01-05-2024 03:42 via thehill.com
  
  President Biden’s reelection campaign criticized former President Trump on Tuesday after Trump said he would get rid of the Office of Pandemic Preparedness and Response Policy (OPPR).The OPPR was founded in 2022 over failures in government response to the COVID pandemic. Trump said in a TIME interview on Monday that office isn't necessary.The office is “a way of giving out pork,” Trump said. “I think it sounds good politically, but I think it's a
  
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• Democrat wins special election for Rep. Brian Higgins's seat in New York

  01-05-2024 03:15 via thehill.com
  
  New York state Sen. Timothy Kennedy, a Democrat, has won the Empire State’s special election to fill retired Democratic Rep. Brian Higgins’s seat in Congress, according to a projection from Decision Desk HQ.Kennedy defeated Republican Gary Dickson in New York’s 26th Congressional district for the seat, which was expected to stay in Democratic hands — but the race still drew scrutiny as the GOP grapples with a razor-thin majority.Both candidates were picked by local party
  
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• Attorneys general sue Biden administration over revisions to Title IX

  01-05-2024 01:59 via thehill.com
  
  A group of six GOP state attorneys general sued the Biden administration over changes to Title IX on Tuesday, the fourth such suit over proposed revisions to the anti-discrimination protections in two days.Tuesday’s suit, led by Kentucky and Tennessee, claims that expansions to campus sexual assault rules overstep the president’s authority. It follows a pair of suits from nine states on Monday contesting transgender student protections.Biden’s Title IX changes expand the legisl
  
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• Fight over Johnson’s fate heats to a boil as Democrats vow unprecedented rescue

  01-05-2024 00:15 via thehill.com
  
  The simmering debate over the fate of Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) reached a rolling boil on Tuesday when top Democrats vowed to shield the embattled GOP leader from a conservative coup — and immediately prompted the coup’s ringleader to pledge a vote to boot him from power.Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), who’s been sitting on her motion to vacate resolution for more than a month, said the Democrats’ promised rescue mission was the last straw in a long list of grieva
  
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• Speaker Johnson calls on Biden to visit Columbia amid pro-Palestine protests

  30-04-2024 21:43 via thehill.com
  
  Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is urging President Biden to visit Columbia University and observe the pro-Palestine protests roiling its Manhattan campus after Johnson and a group of GOP lawmakers stopped by the university grounds and denounced the demonstrations.Asked during a press conference on Tuesday if he would challenge Biden to visit Columbia — which has been the site of one of the most explosive pro-Palestine campus protests in the U.S. — Johnson responded, “Ye
  
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• Foxx calls on heads of Yale, UCLA, Michigan as part of House-wide antisemitism probe

  30-04-2024 21:25 via thehill.com
  
  Chairwoman of the House Education and the Workforce Committee Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.) on Tuesday called on the heads of Yale University, the University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA), and the University of Michigan to testify before her panel in May as part of a new House-wide investigation into antisemitism in the U.S.At the press conference, Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) announced a chamber-wide effort to combat antisemitism, with the chairs of multiple committees in attendance to detail how
  
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• Foxx calls heads of Yale, UCLA, Michigan as part of House-wide antisemitism probe

  30-04-2024 21:25 via thehill.com
  
  Chairwoman of the House Education and the Workforce Committee Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.) on Tuesday called on the heads of Yale University, the University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA), and the University of Michigan to testify before her panel in May as part of a new House-wide investigation into antisemitism in the U.S.At the press conference, Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) announced a chamber-wide effort to combat antisemitism, with the chairs of multiple committees in attendance to detail how t
  
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• Judiciary Republicans zero in on top prosecutor in Trump hush money case

  30-04-2024 21:00 via thehill.com
  
  The House Judiciary Committee is again singling out a top prosecutor in former President Trump’s hush money case, asking the Department of Justice (DOJ) to turn over the bulk of its communications relating to Matthew Colangelo.Colangelo, who delivered the opening statement in Trump’s New York trial last week, was a senior Justice Department official in the Biden administration before joining the Manhattan district attorney’s office in December 2022.Colangelo has been a target
  
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• 'Inexcusable': Senators grill Education secretary over botched FAFSA roll out

  30-04-2024 20:21 via thehill.com
  
  WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) – Education Secretary Miguel Cardona said the Department of Education is working around the clock to make sure the FAFSA process improves, after major delays and a troubled roll out of the new financial aid form.“We’ve had delays, we’ve had issues with some of the coding that we had to make changes to,” Cardona said.Lawmakers grilled Sec. Cardona about the roll out during a hearing on Tuesday, just one day before May 1, which in normal circumst
  
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• Pentagon chief: 'Possible' US troops setting up pier off Gaza get shot at

  30-04-2024 20:07 via thehill.com
  
  Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Tuesday said it is “possible” that the U.S. troops setting up a floating pier off the coast of Gaza could be shot at, and that they have the right to shoot back.“Typically, all of the deployed service members carry guns and they have the ability to protect themselves if challenged,” Austin told House Armed Services Committee lawmakers while testifying before the panel.As many as 1,000 American service members are helping set up a flo
  
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