Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes has filed an appeal of her “unjust conviction” on four counts of wire fraud in connection with her now-defunct blood-testing company. Holmes in a Monday filing appealed her 2022 conviction, for which she was sentenced last year to more than 11 years in prison. “This Court should reverse the conviction or...

House lawmakers on Wednesday urged DC Health Link to explain how a human error led to a data breach that impacted hundreds of House members and their staff in early March. Mila Kofman, executive director of DC Health Link, told lawmakers that her organization is still investigating how the breach happened and who was responsible...

Paid sharing was originally expected to launch in the U.S. in March but was delayed after rollouts in multiple other countries, including Canada.

Welcome to The Hill's Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense &National Security Defense &National Security   The Big Story Senators unsatisfied after Pentagon leaks briefing Bipartisan senators emerged from a classified briefing on Capitol Hill with questions and complaints about the largest leak of U.S. classified documents in a decade. © Greg Nash, The Hill...

Welcome to The Hill's Health Care newsletter {beacon} Health Care Health Care   The Big Story House Republicans officially endorse work requirements The GOP's proposal to lift the debt ceiling, introduced by Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) on Wednesday, includes work requirements for Medicaid recipients. © Annabelle Gordon, The Hill While Medicare and Social Security are...

Welcome to The Hill's Business & Economy newsletter {beacon} Business & Economy Business & Economy   The Big Story House GOP releases debt limit bill with $1.5T increase The sweeping 320-page bill would raise the debt limit for up to a year as Republicans work to pressure the White House to negotiate significant fiscal reforms....

I am a student of Al From, Bill Galston, and Bill Clinton, having worked for Al at the Democratic Leadership Council (DLC) in the 1990s and on Bill Clinton’s 1992 presidential campaign. They taught me that my highest loyalty should be to my core principles — and that to be a true progressive one must...

James Clarke, the CEO of the technology and media company Clearlink, applauded an employee who sold his family’s dog following the company’s requirement that workers return to the office most of the week, Vice reported. The outlet reported on Wednesday that Clarke held a virtual town hall meeting last week in which he accused some...

The State Department on Wednesday violated a congressional Republican subpoena to hand over a sensitive diplomatic cable about the U.S. exit from Afghanistan. The subpoena was issued late last month by chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas) and is part of Republican efforts to investigate the Biden administration over the chaotic...

California will invest $5 million in three new desalination projects in a bid to protect water resources from the effects of climate-driven weather extremes, state agencies announced on Wednesday. “California is taking action to adapt to the extremes in weather we’re seeing across the state, reshaping our water systems to meet these new challenges and...