Trump says 'go to the reporter' to find source of SCOTUS leak

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Jan. 6 committee delays hearing schedule until July

The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol is pressing pause on its hearings for next week and picking up again in July.  Chair Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) told reporters Wednesday that the committee would hold off on the two final hearings it had planned for this month.  “There's been a deluge of new evidence since we got started. And we just need to catch our breath, go through the new evidence, and then incorporate it into the hearings we have planned,” Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.)

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A plan for CDC reform is long overdue

The last two years have demonstrated the harms of politicizing public health and of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which has drifted away from its mission and core function as the nation’s public health fire department.  Over 1,000,000 Americans have died from COVID-19, and at the height of the pandemic, a $26 trillion economy contracted at an annualized rate of 3.5 percent mostly because of overreaching CDC-recommended infection control policie

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Poliovirus detected in London sewage

Officials in the United Kingdom are investigating after they detected poliovirus in sewage samples from North and East London.  The U.K. Health Security Agency (UKHSA) said in a press release that finding one to three “vaccine-like” polioviruses in sewage samples is normal, but they have always not been detected again. The release states the agency found several closely related viruses between February and May.  The

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Hoyer: More Jan. 6 hearings possible due to influx of new tips

The House panel examining last year's mob attack on the U.S. Capitol might need to hold more hearings than initially expected due to public meetings this month that have resulted in new information being obtained by investigators, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) said. Hoyer said he spoke Wednesday morning with the select committee chairman, Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), who indicated the panel has received a wave of new tips since it launched a series of public hearings in June. While Hoyer emphasized there's been no final decision on staging additional hearings, the i

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