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• US deaths from Alzheimer's soar 55 percent since 1999

  25-05-2017 19:08
  
  Deaths from Alzheimer's in America have soared 55 percent since 1999, as the burden of this fatal form of dementia grows and the population ages, a federal health report said Thursday.The study in the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report spanned 1999 to 2014.Experts say the data shows more caregivers are needed, along with more resources to help people suffering from Alzheimer's disease, the sixth leading cause of death in the United States.
  
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• Greene's motion to vacate vote leaves conservatives with no easy options

  02-05-2024 12:00 via thehill.com
  
  Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s (R-Ga.) decision to force action on ousting Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) has created a dilemma for some rank-and-file Republicans who will now face a tough choice: vote to boot a party leader endorsed by former President Trump, or join forces with Democrats to protect a figure loathed by many conservatives.Greene’s resolution, which is expected to reach the floor next week, is likely to fail given the promise from Democratic leaders to keep Johnson in po
  
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• GOP hardliners use rare procedural move to block leadership-backed bill

  02-05-2024 04:20 via thehill.com
  
  A group of hardline Republicans joined with Democrats in executing a rare procedural gambit on Wednesday that blocked a bill from being voted on in its current form, marking a small but embarrassing blow for GOP leadership.Six Republicans joined all Democrats in supporting a Democrat-led motion to recommit for the Mining Regulatory Clarity Act, bringing the final vote to a successful 210-204. Reps. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), Dan Bishop (R-N.C.), Eli Crane (R-Ariz.), Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), Bob Good (R-V
  
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• Gaetz dubs House antisemitism bill a 'ridiculous hate speech bill'  

  02-05-2024 02:59 via thehill.com
  
  Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) labeled the House antisemitism legislation as a “ridiculous hate speech bill” ahead of the vote on Wednesday.The House approved a bill that aims to crack down on antisemitism on college campuses amid ongoing pro-Palestinian protests taking place at U.S. universities across the country. Gaetz voiced his opposition to the bill ahead of the vote, saying that some excerpts of the Bible would meet this bill’s definition of antisemitism.“This evening, I
  
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• Biden to meet with families of fallen police officers in Charlotte

  02-05-2024 02:44 via thehill.com
  
  President Biden on Thursday will meet with families of the police officers who were killed in the line of duty in Charlotte, N.C.The president will travel to the Charlotte Douglas International Airport to “pay his respects to the brave law enforcement officers killed and wounded in the line of duty in Charlotte on Monday,” according to the White House.At the Charlotte airport, he will meet with families of the fallen officers, the wounded law enforcement officers, and other law enfor
  
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• Jewish Democrat on voting against bill: Anti-Zionism not 'inherently' antisemitism

  02-05-2024 01:09 via thehill.com
  
  Jewish Rep. Sara Jacobs (D-Calif.) said she voted against the bill that would crack down on antisemitism on college campuses because, in her view, anti-Zionism is not “inherently” antisemitism, and the measure that passed through the House would “stifle” free speech rights.Jacobs shared her explanation by drawing from her own experience of facing antisemitism in her personal life and adding that she is “deeply concerned” about its rise around the nation.&
  
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• Biden administration gives more than $26 million in clean energy grants

  02-05-2024 01:08 via thehill.com
  
  The Biden administration said Wednesday that it will give more than $26.9 million in grants in support of clean energy projects across the country.“Energy efficient upgrades are a surefire way to bring down costs and shore up resiliency for communities across the nation,” Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said in a press release from her department. “President Biden’s Investing in America agenda is equipping local governments with funds to transform clean energy pla
  
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• Johnson suggests he wants to lead GOP next Congress

  02-05-2024 01:00 via thehill.com
  
  Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) suggested this week that he wants to remain at the top of the GOP in the next Congress despite fierce pushback from conservatives who are furious with his leadership style and want him gone at the end of the term — or even sooner. During an interview with “The Hill” on NewsNation that aired Wednesday, Johnson — who won the gavel in October following the ouster of former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) — sold himself as an eff
  
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• Boebert: 'It makes no difference to me' if Jeffries or Johnson is Speaker

  02-05-2024 00:44 via thehill.com
  
  Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) said Tuesday there is “no difference” to her whether Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) keeps his job or Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) becomes Speaker.“We are passing the democratic agenda each and every day that we're here. We have a slim majority in the House. And it's — everything's being passed overwhelmingly with Democrat support. So it makes no difference to me if it's Hakeem Jeffries as Speaker or Mike Johnson right now,” Boebert
  
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• Black lawmakers reintroduce bill to ban hair discrimination

  02-05-2024 00:20 via thehill.com
  
  A bicameral host of Black lawmakers on Wednesday reintroduced legislation offering protections against hair discrimination.Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-N.J.) and Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) gathered outside the Capitol with fellow lawmakers, as well as Adjoa B. Asamoah, co-founder of the CROWN Coalition, in announcing the Creating a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair Act, or CROWN Act. Watson Coleman said the lawmakers were reintroducing the bill for “the simple reaso
  
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• Lawmakers seek answers on Andretti's exclusion from Formula 1

  02-05-2024 00:11 via thehill.com
  
  A bipartisan group of lawmakers has written to Formula One's owner Liberty Media demanding answers on the exclusion of Andretti Global from the glitzy sport's starting grid.
  The letter, addressed to Liberty Media CEO Greg Maffey, raises concerns over "apparent anti-competitive actions" keeping the team from entering a sport that has found growing popularity in the U.S., which hosts three races on the calendar.Formula 1 officially rejected former American racing star Michael Andretti's appli
  
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• Lawler, Moskowitz slam Greene over antisemitism bill pushback

  02-05-2024 00:06 via thehill.com
  
  Reps. Mike Lawler (R-N.Y.) and Jared Moskowitz (D-Fla.) sharply criticized Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) on Wednesday for her decision to oppose their antisemitism legislation, and for her rationale for opposing it.
  Greene in a social media post said she would vote against the Antisemitism Awareness Act of 2023, introduced by Lawler and Moskowitz last October and passed later Wednesday in a 320-91 vote.
  Greene said she opposed the bill because it would define antisemitic behavior to includ
  
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• Lindsey Graham claims Biden 'afraid' of pro-Palestinian protesters

  01-05-2024 23:57 via thehill.com
  
  South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham (R) claimed in a Wednesday interview that President Biden is “afraid” of pro-Palestinian protesters while urging the president to take action against them.“He's afraid of the protesters,” Graham said on Fox News’s “America Reports” to hosts Sandra Smith and John Roberts, in a clip highlighted by Mediaite.Graham’s comments follow violence erupting at Columbia University and the University of California, Los Angeles
  
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• House approves bill to bolster contentious drilling project in Arctic wildlife refuge

  01-05-2024 23:39 via thehill.com
  
  The House on Wednesday approved controversial legislation that would reinstate rights to drill in a wildlife refuge that were overturned by the Biden administration. The bill, which passed in a 214-199 vote, would reinstate six oil and gas leases to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge that the Biden administration revoked last year. The refuge is home to caribou herds, wolves and more than 200 species of birds, as well as land considered sacred to the Gwich'in people. 
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• Boebert, Donalds spar with protestors at George Washington

  01-05-2024 23:14 via thehill.com
  
  Conservative House lawmakers sparred with campus protestors on Wednesday at George Washington University (GWU), where they toured the pro-Palestinian encampment that still stands despite repeated calls from the university for its removal.In videos on social media, Republican Reps. Lauren Boebert (Colo.), Byron Donalds (Fla.), Anna Paulina Luna (Fla.), James Comer (Ky.) and others are seen facing down hecklers, as they addressed a crowd at GWU and as they moved through the packed protests.Boebert
  
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• Boebert, Donalds spar with protesters at George Washington

  01-05-2024 23:14 via thehill.com
  
  Conservative House lawmakers sparred with campus protesters Wednesday at George Washington University (GWU), where they toured the pro-Palestinian encampment that still stands despite repeated calls from the university for its removal.In videos on social media, Republican Reps. Lauren Boebert (Colo.), Byron Donalds (Fla.), Anna Paulina Luna (Fla.), James Comer (Ky.) and others are seen facing down hecklers as they addressed a crowd at GWU and moved through the packed protests.Boebert particularl
  
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• House approves antisemitism bill amid pro-Palestinian campus protests

  01-05-2024 22:55 via thehill.com
  
  The House on Wednesday approved a bill that seeks to crack down on antisemitism on college campuses, a measure that hit the floor as pro-Palestinian protests roil universities across the country.The chamber approved the bipartisan legislation — titled the Antisemitism Awareness Act and introduced by Rep. Mike Lawler (R-N.Y.) — in a 320-91 vote, sending it to the Senate for consideration.The bill would require the Department of Education to use the International Holocaust Re
  
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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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