By Nada Hassanein, Stateline.org Heading into the respiratory illness season, states and clinicians are working to encourage pregnant patients to get COVID-19 vaccinations, even though the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services no longer recommends that they should. Related … Continued
By HOLLY RAMER, Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — President Donald Trump’s administration is faltering in its aggressive pursuit of the death penalty as it revisits cases in which predecessors explicitly decided against seeking capital punishment. Since taking office in … Continued
By BILL BARROW and ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON, Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Florida conservative Joe Gruters, a Donald Trump cheerleader dating back to the president’s days as a reality TV star, is now the Republican National Committee chairman. Having no … Continued
By COLLEEN SLEVIN, MATTHEW BROWN and JESSE BEDAYN, Associated Press COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — It’s been two years since nearly 200 decaying bodies were discovered throughout a fetid, room temperature building in rural Colorado. On Friday, the man responsible, … Continued
By KONSTANTIN TOROPIN, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered that National Guard troops patrolling the streets of Washington for President Donald Trump’s law enforcement crackdown will be armed, the Pentagon said Friday. The Defense Department … Continued
The St. Thomas-St. John’s rivalry effectively ceased to exist when the Tommies made the jump to Division-I athletics after being dumped from the MIAC. But some traditions die hard. The rivalry will be renewed on the hardwood in December, with … Continued