LAW AND POLITICS

DOJ charges Chinese national with operating ‘world’s largest botnet’ that stole $5.9 billion in Covid relief funds

The DOJ partnered with the FBI and international law enforcement to shut down a global malware network that stole $5.9 billion of Covid relief funds and is linked to other crimes.

Tennessee Gives This Hospital Monopoly an A Grade — Even When It Reports Failure

“It’s a shadow of the hospital we used to have.”

Detroit firm warned over cockroaches, other conditions in ready-to-eat tortilla facility

A food firm in Michigan is on notice from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for violations of the Current Good Manufacturing Practice, Hazard Analysis, and Risk-Based Preventive Controls for Human Food regulation.

U.S. Lawmakers Condemn New WHO Abortion Guidelines

WASHINGTON, D.C. May 27 (C-Fam) In a letter released on the eve of the World Health Assembly, U.S. Congressmen have condemned the World Health Organization’s abortion guidelines as “extreme” and “reckless.” “This guidance will likely cause severe and irreversible harm not only to U.S. citizens, but also to women and children worldwide,” states the letter addressed to WHO Director-General, Tedros Ghebreyesus. The letter, signed by fifty-five U.S. Senate and House members, criticized the international health agency for promoting...

Biden Leans Into Health Care, Asking Voters To Trust Him Over Trump

KFF Health News – Angling to tap into strong support for the sweeping health law he helped pass 14 years ago, one of President Joe Biden’s latest reelection strategies is to remind voters that former President Donald Trump tried to repeal the Affordable Care Act. “Folks, he’s coming for your health care, and we’re not going to let it happen,” Biden says of Trump in a television and digital ad out this month, part of...

Huge $18 million discovery as drug-sniffer dogs approach container of squash

The drug seizure was part of Operation Apollo, a joint operation working to combat fentanyl and illicit synthetic drug smuggling into the United States ...

Exclusive: Senator Urges Biden Administration To Thwart Fraudulent Obamacare Enrollments

KFF Health News – Stronger actions are needed immediately to thwart insurance brokers who fraudulently enroll or switch people in Affordable Care Act coverage, Sen. Ron Wyden, chairman of the powerful Senate Finance Committee, said Monday. “We want the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to hold these brokers criminally responsible for ripping people off this way,” he told KFF Health News. In a sharply worded letter sent to CMS Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, the Oregon Democrat...

It could soon be illegal to publicly wear a mask for health reasons in NC

ARS TECHNICA – The North Carolina State Senate on Wednesday voted 30–15, along party lines, in favor of a Republican bill that would make it illegal for people in the state to wear a mask in public for health reasons. The bill is now moving to the House, where it could potentially see changes. The proposed ban on health-based masking is part of a larger bill otherwise aimed at increasing penalties for people wearing masks to...

Trump warns Dems will use pandemic to rig another election; “We will not comply”

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California city declares a public health emergency after tuberculosis sickens 14

NBC NEWS – A tuberculosis outbreak in Long Beach comes amid a national rise in cases. The City Council of Long Beach, California has authorized a public health emergency in response to a local outbreak of tuberculosis. The city's health officer, Dr. Anissa Davis, declared the emergency last week, after its health department detected 14 tuberculosis cases at a single-room occupancy hotel. The City Council vote on Tuesday night served as the final approval for the...

RFK Jr. says he’s against government limits on abortion

CNN – Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he’s against government limits on abortion at the federal or state level, backing legal abortions through the entire gestational period while arguing the state should not play a role in determining abortion access. In a podcast interview with Sage Steele that was released Wednesday, Kennedy said he doesn’t “trust government to have jurisdiction over people’s bodies” and believes “we need to leave it to the...