President Donald Trump is nominating a former Coast Guard officer and public health official to lead the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The president named Dr. Erica Schwartz on Thursday to run the embattled agency, which has been without a permanent director since Dr. Susan Monarez's ouster in August.
A Tennessee county school board voted unanimously Wednesday to censure a member who told a student, "God, you're hot" at a public board meeting last week. read more
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Republicans are considering reductions in federal health spending to help pay for a budget bill containing as much as $200 billion to fund the Iran war and immigration enforcement. read more
Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) said on Wednesday she walked out of a House Armed Services briefing on Iran and then warned against the U.S. sending troops into Iran. read more
The Iran debacle isn't a war, it's a heist.
They weren't happy siphoning off $900 billion a year, so they started a "war" to force hundreds of billions more into the maw of the DoD so they could push it all the direction of themselves and connected insiders.