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    Shots - Health News

    Organ Donation Nonprofits Face New Scrutiny Under Trump Administration Rules

    Dec 29, 2020
    Health officials are changing how they assess the regional nonprofits that find organs to transplant. The goal is to understand, and eventually fix, the geographic disparities in organ availability.
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    Coronavirus Updates
    President Trump contradicted an earlier White House statement saying that administration officials would get early access to a COVID-19 vaccine.
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    In Reversal, Trump Says White House Staff Won't Be 1st To Receive COVID-19 Vaccine

    Dec 13, 2020
    An administration spokesman said senior government officials would be among the first to get the vaccine, but the president himself later said that White House staff would get it later.
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    Religion
    The Justice Department plans to execute five people in the coming weeks. The planned executions pose a challenge to Attorney General Bill Barr's adherence to Catholic teachings, which oppose the death penalty.
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    Federal Executions Pit The Trump Administration Against The Catholic Church

    Dec 10, 2020
    Opposition to the death penalty is "a teaching that deserves our respect," says Oklahoma City Archbishop Paul Coakley. "I don't think it can be simply disregarded."
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    Shots - Health News
    A proposed rule could cause headaches and extra work for the successor of Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, seen with President Trump in November.
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    Trump HHS Proposal Criticized As Burden For Biden Administration

    Dec 09, 2020
    The rule would require health officials to review about 2,400 regulations on everything from Medicare benefits to prescription drugs approvals. Those not analyzed within two years would become void.
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    Global Health
    Nana (left) gets her birth control implant checked by Dr. Jean Rangomana during the Marie Stopes International mobile clinic in Besakoa, Madagascar, on April 9, 2018. Abortion is illegal under all circumstances in Madagascar, and Trump administration pol
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    Under Trump, New Anti-Abortion Rules Shook Fragile Health Systems Around the World

    Nov 24, 2020
    President-elect Joe Biden inherits a global health landscape changed by the Trump administration more than under any Republican president since Ronald Reagan.
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    Education
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    The Legacy Of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos

    Nov 19, 2020
    DeVos will be remembered as a loyal lieutenant to President Trump, a hero to school choice advocates and a villain to defrauded student loan borrowers.
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    Coronavirus Updates
    "In the spring, we listened to public health experts, stomped the curve and saved thousands of lives together. Now, we must channel that same energy and join forces again to protect our families, frontline workers and small businesses," Michigan Gov. Gre
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    Whitmer: 'Not Going To Be Bullied' Over Michigan Coronavirus Restrictions

    Nov 16, 2020
    Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer issued a "three-week pause" to curb coronavirus cases in the state. A Trump administration official encouraged residents to "rise up" against the restrictions.
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    Newscast headlines

    Trump Immigration Rule Takes Effect Again During Appeal

    Nov 05, 2020

    CHICAGO (AP) — A Trump administration immigration rule that would deny green cards to immigrants who use public benefits like food stamps is back in effect while a U.S. appeals court considers the case.

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    Iván and his mother, Hilda Ramirez, have taken refuge in a suburban church in Austin, Texas, for more than four and a half years. She says they fled his abusive grandfather in Guatemala five years ago, made it to the Texas border, and asked for asylum f
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    Sanctuary Immigrants Take Refuge In Texas Church, Watch Election Closely

    Nov 02, 2020
    President Trump's immigration policies are on the line and many are hoping Joe Biden will follow through on pledges to help immigrants and asylum-seekers if he wins the election.
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    Shots - Health News
    Health care activists rallied in front of the U.S. Capitol on March 22, 2017, to protest Republican efforts that would have dismantled the Affordable Care Act and capped federal payments for Medicaid patients. The Republican congressional bills, part of
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    Medicaid's Future Hinges On Who Wins The White House

    Nov 02, 2020
    The Trump administration has given states ways to restrict spending on the government insurance program for low-income Americans. A Biden administration would expand Medicaid coverage.
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    National
    President Trump addresses a rally this week at Capital Region International Airport in Lansing, Mich.
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    Agencies, Contractors Suspend Diversity Training To Avoid Violating Trump Order

    Oct 30, 2020
    President Trump's recent executive order banning some diversity training has had a widespread effect as government agencies, contractors and universities scramble to figure out how to comply.
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    Goats and Soda
    The U.S. Agency for International Development is one of the largest official foreign aid organizations in the world. An executive order from the Trump administration said there would be consequences if its diversity training programs were to continue.
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    Why Diversity Training Has Been Suspended At USAID

    Oct 27, 2020
    The suspension followed an executive order from the Trump administration that called such workplace programs "divisive," "anti-American," racist against white people and sexist against men.
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    Updates: The Fight Against Racial Injustice
    New York City, as seen here from Jersey City, N.J. in May, is suing the Trump administration over its "anarchist" designation.
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    3 Cities Designated As 'Anarchist' Filing Lawsuit Against Trump Administration

    Oct 22, 2020
    After months of street protests, President Trump described New York City, Portland and Seattle as lawless places and threatened to withhold federal aid. City officials say the law is on their side.
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    Coronavirus Live Updates
    Rick Bright, former director of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, speaks during a House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee hearing in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, May 14, 2020 about his concerns that Health and Human Services le
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    Government Scientist Tops Up Whistle-Blower Complaint And Quits NIH

    Oct 06, 2020
    Government scientist Rick Bright resigns from NIH claiming political goals are getting in the way of science. Bright was ousted from a different department at HHS earlier this year.
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    Trump Pushes Mining With Order, But Effects Are Uncertain

    Oct 02, 2020

    BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Trump administration is seeking to fast-track mining permits and offer grants and loans to help companies pay for mining equipment as part of its ongoing effort to boost the industry.

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    Environment
    U.S. Bureau of Land Management Acting Director William "Perry" Pendley speaks at a conference for journalists in Fort Collins, Colo., last year.
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    Trump To Appeal Removal Of 'Polarizing' Public Lands Chief

    Sep 30, 2020
    The White House says it will appeal a federal court ruling ousting William Perry Pendley, who led the Bureau of Land Management for more than 400 days without Senate confirmation.
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    Science
    The appointment of a climate change denier to NOAA comes as Americans face profound threats stoked by climate change, from the vast, deadly wildfires in the West to an unusually active hurricane season in the South and East.
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    Longtime Climate Science Denier Hired At NOAA

    Sep 12, 2020
    David Legates, a professor whose research has been supported by fossil fuel companies, has been hired for a top position at the federal agency that oversees weather and climate forecasting.
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    National
    The U.S. Postal Service warned states in late July that it might not be able to deliver mail-in ballots in time to be counted. Amid a growing outcry from rural leaders, the agency's director has backed down from planned broad cuts and changes.
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    Why Rural America Is Fighting The Trump Administration On The Post Office

    Aug 20, 2020
    The agency serves areas where private carriers won't go. And in those remote communities, which helped elect the president, the Postal Service can be seen as a lifeline as well as a human connection.
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    National
    Honduran migrants, Ricardo Sr., (left), his son Ricardo Jr., 13, and his cousin Jorge, 16, walk near their home in Texas. When the two teenage boys crossed the border illegally into Texas last month, they turned themselves in to the Border Patrol. They w
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    Shadow Immigration System: Migrant Children Detained In Hotels By Private Contractors

    Aug 20, 2020
    The children are held at hotels, instead of shelters, until they can be put on planes to their home countries. This bypasses the normal process that gives children a chance to ask for asylum.
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    The Coronavirus Crisis
    The extra $600-a-week unemployment benefit has kept jobless people from plummeting into further debt and has allowed for sustained spending, a boon for the struggling economy.
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    U.S. Economy On High Alert Over Shaky Future Of Extra Jobless Benefits

    Aug 06, 2020
    As Congress debates whether to renew supplemental unemployment benefits for people thrown out of work by the pandemic, new research shows those benefits offer a critical boost for the U.S. economy.
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    The Coronavirus Crisis
    A federal judge blocked further implementation of a rule issued last year by the Department of Homeland Security.
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    Twin Rulings By Federal Judge Block 'Public Charge' Rules For Immigrants

    Jul 31, 2020
    The judge cites the coronavirus pandemic in blocking the Trump administration's attempt to widen the criteria for what makes an immigrant a "public charge."
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    National
    A new report found that citations for over-prescribing antipsychotics to nursing home residents declined significantly between the end of the Obama administration and the first half of the Trump administration.
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    Study: Nursing Home Residents Not Protected From Antipsychotic Drugs Under Trump

    Jul 28, 2020
    Enforcement of rules protecting nursing home residents from antipsychotic drugs has declined during the Trump administration, according to a new report.
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    Coronavirus Live Updates
    Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wa., organized a letter signed by 44 of 45 Senate Democrats on Friday, urging the White House to withdraw changes to hospital reporting requirements that sidestep the CDC.
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    Congressional Democrats Demand White House Restore Hospital Data Collection to CDC

    Jul 17, 2020
    Senate and House Democrats have issued letters calling for the Trump Administration to undo a controversial move reshuffling vital Covid-19 data collection
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    National
    The Department of Veterans Affairs blocked the University of Phoenix, Perdoceo Education Corporation, Bellevue University and Temple University, from enrolling GI Bill students after the Federal Trade Commission laid enormous penalties on them for decept
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    Trump Administration Clears For-Profit Colleges To Register Veterans Again

    Jul 16, 2020
    The Department of Veterans Affairs is no longer blocking several for-profit schools the Federal Trade Commission penalized for deceptive advertising from enrolling GI Bill students.
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    Live Updates: Protests For Racial Justice
    Raphael Bostic, president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, says his organization has a big role to play in reducing racial economic inequities, which he says, is crucial to a stable economy.
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    Racism Has An Economic Cost, Atlanta Fed President Warns

    Jul 15, 2020
    Raphael Bostic, president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta says his organization is committed to reducing racial economic inequities, which he says, is crucial to a stable economy.
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