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Trump nominates Dr. Erica Schwartz, former deputy surgeon general, for CDC director

By Berkeley Lovelace Jr., Erika Edwards and Sara G. Miller President Donald Trump announced Thursday that he was nominating Dr. Erica Schwartz to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Schwartz served as deputy U.S. surgeon general during Trump’s first term. “Erica graduated from Brown University for College and Medical School, and served a distinguished career as a Doctor of Medicine in the United States Military, the Greatest and Most Powerful Force in the World, and then served as my Deputy Surgeon General during my First Term,” Trump wrote on Truth Social, adding, “She is a STAR!” Trump also announced his picks for three

Trump uses the Correspondents’ dinner shooting to renew his White House ballroom push

By Peter Nicholas WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump, who was hustled out of a hotel ballroom Saturday night when a suspected gunman dashed through a security checkpoint, is seizing on the incident to gin up support for a White House ballroom that has faced legal challenges that threaten to shut down the project. Trump has made the argument in the hours after the annual White House Correspondents’ Association dinner that the nation needs a fortified ballroom on White House grounds so that the president and government officials are not in peril. After laying out the security vulnerabilities of a busy hotel, Trump said

DC gala shooting suspect aired grievances against Trump in writings to family

By Eric Tucker The man accused of opening fire at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner railed against Trump administration policies and referred to himself as a “Friendly Federal Assassin” in writings sent to family members minutes before the attack that authorities increasingly believe was politically motivated, according to a law enforcement official familiar with the investigation. The writings, sent shortly before shots were fired Saturday night at the Washington Hilton, made repeated references to President Donald Trump without naming him directly and alluded to grievances over a range of administration actions and recent events, including U.S. strikes on drug smuggling boats in

FDA approves first gene therapy for genetic hearing loss

By Berkeley Lovelace Jr. The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday approved Regeneron’s Otarmeni, the first gene therapy for genetic hearing loss. The drugmaker said it will offer the drug for free to U.S. patients. Otarmeni is approved to treat a very rare form of hearing loss that affects about 50 babies born in the U.S. each year and is caused by a mutation in a gene called OTOF. The approval was granted under the Commissioner’s National Priority Voucher, an FDA pilot program intended to fast-track drug reviews. “This really is life-changing for families with children with hearing loss,” Dr. Eliot Shearer, a pediatric otolaryngologist at

Trump is facing an increasingly Impatient Iran

By Dan De Luce, Monica Alba, Abigail Williams and Colleen Long President Donald Trump has pushed to bring the war with Iran to a speedy end: He stepped up bombing raids. He threatened to wipe out infrastructure. He has attempted diplomacy and ordered a naval blockade. But Tehran is in no rush to cut a deal. Despite the assassinations of its leaders and the damage to an array of military sites, Iran’s regime seems to have benefitted politically from the attacks started by the U.S. and Israel, according to a Western diplomat with knowledge of the conflict and five Western officials, all with knowledge of intelligence assessments

House Bill 3416 Proposes Allocation Of Gambling Proceeds In Missouri To Support State’s HBCUs

A bill has been proposed to find new ways to support Missouri’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). According to the News Tribune, the Missouri House Higher Education and Workforce Development Committee held a discussion on House Bill 3416 in early April. The legislation proposes funding for Lincoln University and Harris-Stowe State University and would launch the “Strengthening HBCUs Fund,” which would allocate 1% — about $3.3 million — from Missouri’s excursion gambling proceeds and an additional 1% from the Classroom Trust Fund, as well as gifts and donations, to support HBCUs. Democratic Rep. LaKeySha Bosley, who represents Missouri House District 79 in St.

Trump administration moves to ease restrictions on medical marijuana

By Megan Lebowitz The Justice Department on Thursday announced that it was moving to ease restrictions on state-licensed medical marijuana, opening the door for more research and treatment options. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said in a post to X that he had signed an executive order to immediately reschedule FDA-approved marijuana and state-licensed marijuana from Schedule I to Schedule III and ordered an “expedited hearing” to fully reschedule the drug. Schedule I drugs, which also include heroin, ecstasy and LSD, are considered to be more dangerous and are more strictly regulated, and advocates have had high hopes for cannabis to be rescheduled to a lower

Cassidy clashes with RFK Jr. on vaccines and abortion medicine

By Berkeley Lovelace Jr. and Aria Bendix Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., clashed with Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. during a Senate hearing Wednesday afternoon, criticizing the secretary over his vaccine policy and abortion medications and debunking an interpretation of a scientific study. It was a change in tone from the senator, who had at a Finance Committee hearing earlier in the day limited his questions for Kennedy to fraud and health care costs. Kennedy’s afternoon hearing was before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, which Cassidy chairs. It was the health secretary’s first appearance before the committee in nearly a

Navy Secretary John Phelan fired from administration amid Iran war

By Raquel Coronell Uribe, Gordon Lubold, Courtney Kube and Monica Alba Navy Secretary John Phelan will leave the Trump administration “effective immediately,” the Pentagon announced Wednesday, marking the latest departure of a top defense official this year. “On behalf of the Secretary of War and Deputy Secretary of War, we are grateful to Secretary Phelan for his service to the Department and the United States Navy,” chief Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell said in a statement posted on X. Parnell did not provide a reason for Phelan’s exit, but said that the new acting Navy secretary will be Undersecretary Hung Cao. The abrupt firing by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth came after

Senate passes budget plan for ICE and Border Patrol in bid to reopen Homeland Security

By The Associated Press WASHINGTON — The Senate took the first steps in a new effort to reopen the Department of Homeland Security early Thursday, voting to adopt a budget plan that would fund ICE and Border Patrol over Democratic objections and sending it to the House. The entire department has been shut down since mid-February as Democrats have demanded policy changes in the wake of fatal shootings of two protesters by federal agents. Republicans are now trying to fund the two agencies through the complicated, time-consuming process called budget reconciliation, a maneuver that they also used to pass President Donald Trump’s package of

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