The Department of Homeland Security said Friday it is rescinding a collective bargaining agreement for Transportation Security Administration employees, despite being blocked from doing so earlier this year by a federal judge. The American Federation of Government Employees said it will fight this move by DHS, which affects 47,000 workers. In a news release Friday, […]
The Department of Defense confirmed Saturday that two U.S. Army soldiers, and one U.S. civilian interpreter, were killed in Syria. Three U.S. service members were wounded. According to the DOD, the attack happened when soldiers were conducting a mission in support of ongoing counter-ISIS operations in the region. U.S. Central Command stated the ambush was by […]
The Food and Drug Administration intends to add a “black box” warning to COVID-19 vaccines in the Trump administration’s latest attempt to question the safety and effectiveness of widely accepted vaccinations, according to a CNN report. The warning is the most serious type issued by the FDA, highlighting significant risks such as serious side effects […]
Head Start, an early-childhood network that pairs classroom learning with health and family support systems for infants through preschoolers at 1,600 local agencies, now faces new language curbs on its grant requests. Court filings show federal officials sent applicants a six-page list of roughly 200 terms to remove, a directive that providers say conflicts with […]
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., has only a few weeks until her time in the House of Representatives is over, and she’s capping it off with a bold effort: ousting House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La. Greene’s effort is the latest undertaking from GOP women in the House to circumvent Johnson as they sought leadership positions as […]
“My husband and I were over the desert heat, the nonstop growth and the traffic,” Laurel Jonas said. While Jonas, a real estate agent in Idaho, had moved away from Arizona amid a population boom, it’s her sentiments that could be behind a growing trend of residents leaving the state for greener pastures. “I feel […]
Last week, an independent group of physicians and public health officials tasked with developing guidance for vaccine use scaled back its longstanding recommendation to vaccinate all newborns against hepatitis B. The expert panel, called the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, or ACIP, instead recommended hepatitis B screening for all pregnant women; only infants born to […]
Democrats on the House Oversight Committee released more photos related to the investigation of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, some of them showing President Donald Trump with the disgraced financier and with several women whose identities are concealed. The committee said it has received a total of 95,000 pictures from Epstein’s estate. Some of the […]
President Donald Trump is considering an executive order directing agencies to reclassify marijuana as a Schedule III drug, according to The Washington Post. However, a White House spokesperson told Forbes that “no final decisions have been made on the rescheduling of marijuana.” Moving cannabis from Schedule I to Schedule III would not legalize or decriminalize […]
Move over Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro and Zepbound — Eli Lilly says another contender may be on the way. The pharmaceutical giant announced encouraging results from a Phase 3 clinical trial of its experimental weight loss drug retatrutide, showing levels of weight loss that could rival — or exceed — existing blockbuster treatments. What the study […]
