Story at a glance Children who have a poor-quality education have a higher risk of developing dementia later in life, a new study suggests. The study recently published in JAMA Neurology looks at over twenty years’ worth of data gathered on members of the healthcare organization Kaiser Permanente Northern California. Researchers studied the...
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) edged out former President Trump as Republicans’ preferred party leader in a new poll released on Tuesday. Twenty-two percent of Republicans said they want DeSantis to be the leader of the party, while another 20 percent said the same of Trump, according to The Associated Press-NORC Center poll. However, the largest group...
Senators emerged unified from a Tuesday hearing about the ways social media effects children and teenagers, pledging to tackle the issue in a divided Congress. Members of the Senate Judiciary Committee heard from a panel of advocates and experts, including Kristin Bride, the parent of a son who died by suicide in 2020 after receiving...
A Virginia Senate committee on Tuesday killed legislation, backed by Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R), that would reverse the state’s participation in California’s vehicle emissions standards. The measure, House Bill 1378, was voted down 8-7 along party lines in the Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources Committee. It would have repealed a 2021 law, signed by Youngkin’s...
Republican and Democratic voters are undecided on who they want to lead their parties and who they will support ahead of the 2024 presidential election, according to a new Associated Press poll. The poll found that 37 percent of Democrats and 34 percent of Republicans surveyed were unsure who they wanted to head their respective...
Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.) will lead a Senate investigation into why it took so long for the Defense Department to detect Chinese spy balloons that floated over the United States this month and in previous years, revealing an embarrassing gap in the nation’s air defenses. Tester says President Biden should have shot down a...
President Biden on Tuesday named Lael Brainard, a top official at the Federal Reserve, as the new director of the National Economic Council as part of a reshuffling of responsibilities on his economic team. Brainard replaces Brian Deese, who has led the National Economic Council since the start of the Biden administration. Deese’s upcoming departure...
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) needed to be corrected by a staffer on Tuesday that her office had put out a statement announcing her decision to retire from her Senate seat. A reporter asked Feinstein, 89, if she had any message for her Senate colleagues after her retirement statement was issued by her office. Feinstein asked...