House Panel Tackles Global Health Security, Vaccine Hesitancy
Public health experts like Dr. Anthony Fauci said addressing hesitancy to get coronavirus vaccines is essential to overcoming the pandemic.
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House Panel Debates How to Discipline Its Members
A hearing on disciplinary authority quickly devolved into another partisan sparring match over Trumpism.
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Secretary of State Blinken Seeks ‘New Era of Trust’ With Congress
During a four-hour hearing, House lawmakers pressed the top U.S. diplomat on Iran, Russia, China and diversity in the State Department.
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Senate Panel Examines Risks of Retail Trading After GameStop Frenzy
Experts told senators more research is needed about the causes and effects of massive market gains for so-called meme stocks like GameStop and AMC.
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Domestic Terror Still Thorny Issue for Lawmakers After Capitol Attack
Democrats and Republicans alike condemned the Jan. 6 insurrection, but lawmakers are at an impasse over who is to blame for a rise in domestic terrorism and how to stop it.
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Judge Denies Pro Bono Firms’ Request to Halt Traffic, Eviction Hearings in LA County Court
A lawsuit against the Los Angeles County Superior Court over its handling of the Covid-19 pandemic spilled Monday into the Orange County Superior Court, where a judge denied a request to temporarily halt all traffic and eviction hearings during the pandemic.
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Major Players in GameStop Saga Testify Before Congress
Members of Congress probed for market manipulation during January’s GameStop frenzy in a contentious committee hearing Thursday.
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Ex-Cop Charged in Election Assault Case Agrees to Stop Investigative Work
A former Houston police captain accused of pulling a gun on a man he thought was involved in a ballot-harvesting scam said he is giving up private investigative work at a bond hearing Friday.
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Fired Cybersecurity Boss Rails Against GOP Election Fraud Claims
Appearing for the first time before Congress since President Donald Trump fired him, the nation’s former cybersecurity chief told senators during a contentious hearing Wednesday that claims of fraud in the 2020 election are baseless and undermine democracy.
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Thirteen Federal Courts to Start Livestreaming Hearings
In announcing Tuesday it will give the public access to noteworthy cases via audio livestream, the federal court system will move a few rungs closer to the 21st century — at least in 13 districts.
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Hearings in Huawei CFO Extradition Case Continue in Canada
The Canadian border guard who mistakenly handed over Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou’s phone passwords to police “went white” with shock upon realizing his mistake in a meeting with superiors after the arrest, the Supreme Court of British Columbia heard today in ongoing hearings into the United States’ attempt to extradite the Chinese telecom executive to face fraud charges in New York.
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Individuals detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement must appear before a judge within 10 days of their arrest, a federal court in New York ruled in a class action suit that claims the federal agency’s failure to provide prompt initial hearings is unconstitutional.
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Health Expert Calls ICE Detention Center’s Covid-19 Practices ‘Cruel’
Testifying on the adequacy of an immigration detention center’s Covid-19 response, a prison health expert on Tuesday called the decision to house symptomatic detainees with non-symptomatic immigrants at a privately run facility “cruel.”
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Georgia Hearing on Voting Machines Interrupted by Porn, 9/11 Photos
Images of the Sept. 11 terrorist attack, porn and swastikas interrupted a federal hearing in a lawsuit challenging Georgia’s voting machines Friday, bringing the live Zoom session to a temporary halt.
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Misconduct Hearing Begins for Kentucky Judge Accused of Sex at Work
A Kentucky family court judge accused of having sex in her chambers and asking an attorney to participate in a threesome admitted she violated campaign finance laws but denied several other allegations during the first day of disciplinary proceedings against her.
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9/11 Families Cry Foul Over Saudi Diplomatic Immunity Claims
Investigating a former Saudi consular official in Los Angeles, attorneys for 9/11 families hit a roadblock in their longstanding litigation to hold the kingdom liable for the worst terrorist attacks in U.S. history: claims of diplomatic immunity.
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Congress Hears Tales of Front-Line Workers Risking It All
Leilani Jordan was a 27-year-old grocery clerk when she died in her mother’s arms after contracting Covid-19. On Thursday, her story was one of several Congress heard about those working without protection on the front lines of the pandemic.
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Ousted Vaccine Chief Says Time Is Running Out to Contain Virus
The ousted chief vaccine expert for the Trump administration told Congress on Thursday that his advocacy of science and safety went ignored by the White House, placing the public health in danger.
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Experts Urge Testing and Transparency in First Coronavirus Panel Hearing
The pathway out of the Covid-19 pandemic demands testing and well-coordinated strategy but it also requires transparency, a group of public health experts told a new congressional body tasked with overseeing the federal government’s response to the crisis.
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Ex-Vaccine Chief to Warn of ‘Darkest Winter’ Without Better Virus Plan
Rick Bright, the former head of the federal agency tasked with developing a Covid-19 vaccine, is expected to testify Thursday that the U.S. could see its “darkest winter in modern history” without a stronger response to the pandemic.
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