Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera. --- Behind closed doors in Washington, top advisers made a series of decisions that had devastating repercussions for the poorest country on earth. We went to South Sudan and found people who died as a result. #News #Trump #MarcoRubio #Africa #PublicHealth #USAID #SouthSudan
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Senator Demands Federal Agencies Halt Small Business Contracts, Citing Investigation of Native Hawaiian Firm --- Joni Ernst, chair of the Senate Small Business Committee, sent letters to 22 federal agencies saying the no-bid contracts granted through a Small Business Administration program are a “fraud magnet.” #News #Business #Government #Senate #Hawaii #Fraud
Utah Leaders Are Hindering Efforts to Develop Solar Despite a Goal to Double the State’s Energy Supply --- Solar power accounts for two-thirds of the new projects waiting to connect to the state’s power grid. Utah Republicans’ hard turn against solar mirrors President Donald Trump’s hostile approach to the industry. #News #Utah #Solar #Energy #Environment #Trump #USPolitics
The FDA Rarely Forces Manufacturers to Recall Dangerous Medical Devices, Watchdog Report Finds --- Lawmakers requested the report after a 2023 ProPublica and Pittsburgh Post-Gazette investigation revealed that the FDA had received hundreds of complaints over many years about defective breathing machines and never ordered a recall. #News #FDA #Consumer #Recall #Health #Government #Report
Trump’s DOJ Pressured Lawyers to “Find” Evidence That UCLA Had Illegally Tolerated Antisemitism --- “The end goal was never to conduct a thorough, unbiased investigation,” said one DOJ lawyer. “The end goal was to file a damn complaint — or have something to threaten the university.” #News #UCLA #College #DOJ #Trump #USPolitics #Law #Palestine #Protest
When a well-off, widely respected pillar of the community and member of the hospital’s board can’t get the care he needs at the town’s only hospital, it raises the question: Who can? #Georgia #Health #Hospital #Medicine #Healthcare #Law
Sen. Ron Johnson Endorses Book Touting Chlorine Dioxide's Unproven Health Benefits --- Wisconsin's Ron Johnson has a history of spreading vaccine misinformation. Now he's giving credence to assertions about the therapeutic powers of chlorine dioxide, a disinfectant and deodorizer. “It is all lunacy," one expert said. #News #Wisconsin #Health #Misinformation #Congress #Senate #USPolitics
For more than a century, a smelter spewed lead dust over Omaha. For decades, the government cleaned it up. But a shift in guidance from the Trump administration may stop thousands more from potential cleanup, exposing families to the harmful metal. #News #Nebraska #Environment #Health #PublicHealth #Safety #Family
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