Welcome to Tuesday’s Overnight Health Care. Bernie SandersBernie SandersWarren says college athletes should be able to unionize after NCAA move Andrew Yang launches six-figure digital ad buy in early voting states Overnight Health Care: Judge temporarily blocks Alabama near-total abortion ban | Sanders dismisses calls for ‘Medicare for All’ funding plan | Dems urge Trump […]
Read MoreBritish Parliament voted Tuesday to hold a general election on Dec. 12, the latest curveball in the U.K.’s tumultuous bid to leave the European Union. The vote overwhelmingly passed with a count of 438-20, The New York Times reports. ADVERTISEMENT In exchange for the vote, Prime Minister Boris Johnson dropped his stance on the country leaving the EU Thursday. […]
Read MoreHappy Tuesday and welcome to Overnight Defense. I’m Ellen Mitchell, and here’s your nightly guide to the latest developments at the Pentagon, on Capitol Hill and beyond. CLICK HERE to subscribe to the newsletter. THE TOPLINE: The House on Tuesday easily approved sanctions against Turkey over its offensive in northern Syria against Kurdish forces. The measure passed 403-16 with 176 Republicans voting in support and just […]
Read MoreBay Area activist Adriel Hampton announced Monday he will run for California governor to draw attention to what he believes are pitfalls of Facebook’s standards for political advertising by running deliberately false advertisements. OK. Just got off the phone with my strategy team. I am running for Governor of California on a platform of regulating […]
Read MoreA coal company owned by one of President TrumpDonald John TrumpNumber of uninsured children rises for second year, tops 4 million Trump moment from White House Halloween trick-or-treat event goes viral White House official says transcript of Ukraine call omitted key phrases: report MORE‘s donors, the largest privately owned U.S. coal company, filed for bankruptcy […]
Read MoreJerry Brown, the former Democratic governor of California, didn’t mince words Tuesday when he criticized the Trump administration’s proposal to roll back the state’s tailpipe emission standards. Speaking in front of the House Oversight and Reform Subcommittee on Environment, Brown argued recent Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations that would remove California’s right from setting heightened […]
Read MoreMore than 20 Democratic senators called on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) to investigate a loan servicer’s handling of a loan forgiveness program for public service workers. The Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency (PHEAA) is one of several institutions tasked with handling the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) Program, which, according to recent reports, […]
Read MoreDemocratic senators are calling on President TrumpDonald John TrumpNumber of uninsured children rises for second year, tops 4 million Trump moment from White House Halloween trick-or-treat event goes viral White House official says transcript of Ukraine call omitted key phrases: report MORE not to abandon his promise to remove all flavored e-cigarettes from the market. […]
Read MoreDemocratic senators are pushing their colleagues to support an amendment that would provide back pay for low-wage government contractors who went without pay during the record 35-day shutdown earlier this year. When Congress passed a spending bill to reopen the government in January, lawmakers provided back pay for federal employees who had been furloughed and those who had been […]
Read MoreThe Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is moving aggressively to ban companies from using federal subsidies for equipment from Chinese telecommunications groups Huawei and ZTE, and earning initial praise from lawmakers and industry groups. Sen. Mark WarnerMark Robert WarnerHillicon Valley: Amazon poised to escalate Pentagon ‘war cloud’ fight | FCC’s move to target Huawei garners early […]
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