House Democrats want to know what the Trump administration plans to do after it rescinded a Biden-era executive order to study potential payment models for lowering prescription drug costs, looking to the acting heads of health agencies for answers. A group of 51 House Democrats led by Rep. Shontel Brown (Ohio) wrote to Dorothy Fink,...
The price of renting an apartment is on the rise, particularly in some major U.S. cities. This is according to the latest rent report from Zumper, which has found that across the nation, the price for a one-bedroom apartment is up 2.5% since this time last year.
Lawmakers of both parties should be concerned that Inspector General Ware’s firing is Trump’s attempt to avoid responsibility for his first administration’s ham-fisted delivery of pandemic relief programs.
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said the air traffic control staffing was “not normal” during the Wednesday night plane collision between an American Airlines passenger plane and an Army Black Hawk training flight in a Thursday report. “The position configuration was not normal for the time of day and volume of traffic,” the FAA wrote...
The former acting Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Administrator Billy Nolen said during an interview that President Trump made an “excellent choice” in choosing Christopher Rocheleau as the agency’s next leader. “It's a great decision. Chris, when I joined the FAA, was my number two. I think the world of him, and I think the President...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Journavx (suzetrigine) oral tablets on Thursday as a first-in-class non-opioid analgesic to treat acute pain in adults. “Today’s approval is an important public health milestone in acute pain management,” Jacqueline Corrigan-Curay, acting director of the FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research said in a statement. “A...
Sen. Angela Alsobrooks (D-Md.) on Thursday grilled Department of Health and Human Services nominee Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.'s history of claiming Black Americans have a better immune system than white people. Alsobrooks, one of only two Black women serving in the Senate, questioned Kennedy on what he meant regarding a 2021 claim that "we should...
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) described Meta’s $25 million settlement with President Trump for deleting his accounts in the wake of the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol insurrection as a “bribe.” “It looks like a bribe and a signal to every company that corruption is the name of the game,” Warren wrote in a Thursday statement on...
Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) doubled down during an interview on his concerns about the Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA) space being overcrowded following the fatal collision between a military helicopter and an airline plane that killed 67 people. "We need to spread the traffic among these airports, rather than have such congestion into Reagan...
The Pentagon has struck a Biden administration policy of covering travel costs for service members and their dependents who must cross state lines to receive abortions and other reproductive care, according to a new memo. The change, which took effect Tuesday, was announced in a memo posted by the Defense Travel Management Office on Wednesday. The...
