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House Republicans' FY2025 appropriations bills would target climate change actions

Wed, 2024-06-12 10:01 — mike kraft
GOP’s fiscal 2025 spending bills heavy on climate change riders - Roll Call The first set of House appropriations bills target Biden’s climate agenda, to the chagrin of Democrats and environmental groups. mshaw Roll Call

The House isn’t scheduled to begin work on the lion’s share of fiscal 2025 spending on energy and the environment until July, but the chamber’s initial appropriations bills are already targeting Biden’s climate agenda, drawing rebukes from Democrats and environmental groups.

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Biden administration to eliminate including medical debt in credit reports

Wed, 2024-06-12 09:52 — mike kraft
In sweeping change, Biden administration to ban medical debt from credit reports In a sweeping change that could improve millions of Americans' ability to own a home or buy a car, the Biden administration on Tuesday proposed a rule to ban medical debt from credit reports. The rule, announced by Vice President Kamala Harris and Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Rohit Chopra, comes as President Joe Biden beefs up his efforts to persuade Americans his administration is lowering costs, a chief concern for voters in the upcoming election.
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Opinion: Bird flu is rampant in animals. Humans ignore it at our own peril

Tue, 2024-06-11 11:22 — mike kraft
Bird flu is rampant in animals. Humans ignore it at our own peril | CNN If H5N1 bird flu changes at the right place at the right time, suddenly the animal pandemic could become a major problem for people, too. Brenda Goodman CNN

 

 

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Scarcity of bird flu tests makes it difficult to guage the spread and detect possible pandemic stage --experts

Tue, 2024-06-11 11:09 — mike kraft
Bird Flu Tests Are Hard To Get. So How Will We Know When To Sound the Pandemic Alarm? - KFF Health News If widely used, flu tests could be helpful now. In the meantime, the government needs to clear a path for H5N1 tests, researchers warn, to avoid the early missteps of the covid pandemic. khnkytjaw KFF Health News

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Some states say their hands are tied in restricting the sale of raw milk because of bird flu

Tue, 2024-06-11 10:46 — mike kraft
As FDA urges crackdown on bird flu in raw milk, some states say their hands are tied While raw milk can't be sold over state lines, some states permit sales within their borders. CBS News
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Supreme Court to hear hospital payment case; Congressional efforts against administration's nursing home staffing quotas

Tue, 2024-06-11 10:05 — mike kraft
Supreme Court will hear case claiming US underpays hospitals serving needy patients The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear a lawsuit by more than 200 hospitals that serve low-income populations accusing the federal government of shortchanging them on Medicare funding by about $1.5 billion per year. Brendan Pierson Reuters
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Analysis of how the NIH $4 billion funded the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic response

Mon, 2024-06-10 11:31 — mike kraft

How $4 billion funded the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic response (medicalxpress.com)

New University of Virginia School of Medicine research is shedding light on how federal funding helped scientists understand the COVID-19 virus, develop new treatments and deploy lifesaving vaccines in record time.

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Opinion: Bird flu has spread to humans — are we too late to prevent the next pandemic?

Mon, 2024-06-10 09:47 — mike kraft
The bird flu outbreak has spread to humans — are we too late to prevent the next pandemic? Since March 29, there has been a major dairy cow outbreak with 66 infected herds across nine U.S. states. ckulat The Hill
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EU to purchase avian flu vaccines for 15 countries.

Mon, 2024-06-10 09:39 — mike kraft

 

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Jury convicts 5 of 7 defendents for $250 million diversion of Covids funds intended for child feeding program

Fri, 2024-06-07 19:07 — mike kraft
5 of 7 defendants convicted of misusing Covid relief money meant to feed children The federal fraud trial was the first in a $250 million scheme that prosecutors said was the largest of its kind. NBC News

A Minnesota jury on Friday found five of seven defendants guilty of most of the crimes they faced related to a scheme in which they misused millions of dollars meant to feed children during the pandemic.

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