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Walz says he will call Minnesota special session on gun reform
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) said he plans to call a special session of the state Legislature to consider tougher gun laws after a shooting at a Minneapolis Catholic school last week left two children dead and nearly two dozen people injured. Walz told reporters on Tuesday he plans to propose a “very comprehensive” package...
Published on: September 02, 2025 | Source:
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Why Mississippi declared infant deaths a public health emergency
The Mississippi Department of Health recently declared a public health emergency in response to rising infant deaths in an unusual move to help speed up efforts to cover gaps in care. Lowering the state’s infant mortality rate won’t be easy, health experts warn, and will potentially be made trickier by the ongoing overhaul of the...
Published on: August 31, 2025 | Source:Judge temporarily halts US deportation of Guatemalan children
A federal judge has temporarily halted the planned U.S. deportation of Guatemalan children amid President Trump’s intense crackdown on immigration. In a court filing Sunday, lawyers for the children said they were “ten (10) unaccompanied minors from Guatemala between the ages of 10 and 17 whom Defendants are seeking to remove from the United States...
Published on: August 31, 2025 | Source:Public health in ‘uncharted waters’ amid CDC tumult
Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Health Care Health Care The Big Story CDC upheaval pushes public health into ‘uncharted waters’ In less than a week, the public health sector has been plunged into chaos as leaders at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) leave the agency amid heightened...
Published on: August 29, 2025 | Source:Paul: Gay CDC official's 'lifestyle' disqualified him from government
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) on Tuesday said a gay leader at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) who resigned last week in protest of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. had "no business being in government" due to the "lifestyle" he led. Demetre Daskalakis, former director of the CDC’s Center...
Published on: September 02, 2025 | Source:Republicans release first batch of Epstein files
The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on Tuesday made public a batch of files it said it received from the Justice Department (DOJ) in response to its subpoena for documents related to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The committee said the information released Tuesday, posted in multiple files and folders on Google Drive...
Published on: September 02, 2025 | Source:Trump defends Chinese students in US: 'China's paying us a lot of money right now'
President Trump defended saying he would allow 600,000 students from China into the U.S., despite backlash from some of his supporters who say the shift in his strict visa policies undermines his “America first” agenda. In an interview with the Daily Caller released Sunday, the president said China is paying America “a lot of money...
Published on: August 31, 2025 | Source:Pritzker on redistricting: ‘Not something that I want to do’
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D), a possible 2028 presidential candidate, said he is not inclined to engage in a partisan redistricting push in his state ahead of the 2026 midterms. In a Sunday interview on CBS News’s “Face the Nation,” Pritzker warned against more states redrawing their maps in the middle of the decade, but...
Published on: August 31, 2025 | Source:McMahon rejects 'misconception' of federal funding losses if Education Department heads back to states
Education Secretary Linda McMahon on Sunday pushed back on what she called a “misconception” of federal funding losses if her department is wound down at the federal level the way the Trump administration wants. “I think the misconception is that federal funding will go away if the Department of Education goes back more to the...
Published on: August 31, 2025 | Source:Maryland Governor calls National Guard in DC 'performative'
Maryland Gov. Wes Moore (D) said President Trump’s deployment of the National Guard in Washington, D.C., is “performative,” despite a recent drop in the violent crime rate. In an interview that aired Sunday on ABC News’s “This Week,” Moore acknowledged there’s more work to do in Baltimore to bring down the crime rate. He said...
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