Walmart shooter bought gun just hours before shooting: officials
The gunman who killed six people at a Chesapeake, Va., Walmart on Tuesday night legally purchased the firearm used in the tragedy hours earlier, officials said. The city of Chesapeake announced on Friday that 31-year-old Andre Bing, who died of a self-inflicted wound before police arrived, legally purchased the 9mm handgun from a local store that morning. Bing had no criminal history. City officials also released the text of a note they say was found on Bing’s phone, titled “Death note,” which d
Read MoreHow one Ohio city is tackling the 'uniquely American problem' of medical debt
As lawmakers were being elected and constituents were voting on key ballot measures this month, one Ohio city council passed a measure with the potential to make an enormous financial impact on its community: buying out and relieving the medical debt of its residents. The Toledo City Council voted 7-5 in early November to use $800,000 of funds from the American Rescue Plan to buy out medical debt for qualifying residents. The Board of County Commissioners for Lucas County, for which Toledo is the county seat, also agreed to match this pledg
Read MoreKanye West says he asked Trump to be his 2024 running mate
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Read MoreWHIP LIST: McCarthy searches for 218 GOP Speakership votes
A narrower-than-anticipated House Republican majority and a growing number of House Republicans expressing opposition to House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) are threatening to derail his bid to be Speaker of the House. McCarthy won his party’s nomination for Speaker this month but needs to secure a majority of all those casting a vote for a specific candidate in a Jan. 3 House floor vote in order to officially be elected Speaker. Support from 218 House Republicans, marking a majority of the House, would shore up his position. A Speaker
Read MoreWhite House resists declaring emergency as flu, viruses surge in children
The White House is resisting calls from pediatric health groups to declare a national emergency due to the early surge in respiratory illness in children. As seasonal flu, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), coronavirus and other respiratory viruses swarm the country, the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Children's Hospital Association argue an emergency declaration, which would grant providers additional funding and more flexibility from regulations, is the best and fastest way to help the overburdened health system. In a letter sent to President Biden a
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