Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.), the chairman of the Senate Defense Appropriations Subcommittee, confronted Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin over the migrant crisis at the southern border during a sharp exchange on Capitol Hill. Tester, who is one of the Senate’s most vulnerable incumbents, let Austin know in blunt terms that he’s fed up with the Biden…
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A bipartisan bill introduced in the Senate aims to ban the sale of water beads marketed as children’s toys after reports of the product’s hazards raise alarms. The bill is named “Esther’s Law” after 10-month-old Esther Jo Bethard died after swallowing one bead, which is absorbent and can grow inside the body. Introduced by Democratic…
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House Republicans are coming out with calls for President Biden to be impeached after he threatened to halt offensive weapons aid to Israel if it invaded Rafah.
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An appeals court refused to toss Hunter Biden’s federal gun charges, paving the way for the president’s son’s criminal case to proceed to trial in June. A three-judge panel of the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected the younger Biden’s appeal Thursday, saying it lacked the jurisdiction to review the matter. Biden had asked…
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For the second year in a row, fewer medical students are applying to residency programs in states with near-total abortion bans, according to a new data snapshot from the Association of American Medical Colleges released Thursday. MD medical school seniors have applied to fewer residency programs in general, regardless of which state the program…
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