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#1 House Passes Daylight Saving Time Reform as Trump Signals Support for Ending Clock Change - Adam Pack for Fox News, Breaking911, Pop Base, Eric Daugherty, Julian Mille☈, and Culture Crave on X
A bipartisan effort to make daylight saving time permanent is one step closer to becoming law after the House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved the measure on Tuesday. Lawmakers voted 308-117 to pass the Sunshine Protection Act, which would allow states to voluntarily observe daylight saving time year-round as a growing mass of lawmakers push to extend daylight into the evening hours. "For decades, we have accepted this ritual of springing forward and falling back, even though it disrupts routines, throws off our sleep and creates unnecessary frustration for families across the country," Rep. Kat Cammack, R-Fla., said Tuesday, detailing how the clock changes have disrupted her infant son's sleep schedule...
# 2 Regenerative Agriculture Gets The Trump Executive Order Treatment - Jeffrey Jaxen for The HighWire, TRUMP NEWS, Brian Hentz, Make America Healthy Again,
Trump’s new order states: “The Secretary of HHS shall, through the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health, also prioritize research to identify new, innovative, and cost-effective technologies that reduce reliance on conventional chemical crop protection tools in order to reduce risks to human health.” There it is…an admission! Conventional crop chemicals are a risk to human health...
#3 House Hearing Puts Med Schools in DEI Hot Seat - Kathryn Palmer for Inside Higher Ed, Jenn Pellegrino, Brandon Gill, Wall Street Mav, Rep. Mary Miller, Congressman Brandon Gill, and Congressman Byron Donalds on X
Republicans grilled administrators from medical schools at UCLA, UC San Francisco, and the University of Illinois over their admissions policies and curricula. Democrats dismissed the hearing as political theater. Republicans aren’t letting up on their scrutiny of medical schools as part of their broader crusade against diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives. At a hearing titled “Training Activists, Not Physicians: The Impact of DEI on Medical Schools” on Tuesday, Republican members of the House Committee on Education and Workforce grilled administrators from the University of California, Los Angeles, and UC San Francisco, as well as the University of Illinois, about whether their medical schools use DEI-focused policies to inform admissions, hiring, curricula and patient care...#4 Johnson Scores Win as Conservative Rebels End House Floor Blockade Over Voter ID Bill - Adam Pack and Tyler Olson for Fox News, The Persistence, Breaking 911, GRANDPA's FREE ADVICE, NTD, and Mr. Naturalism (The Antichrist Unicorn) on X
House conservatives ended their weeks-long blockade of the House floor Tuesday, handing Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., a key victory after the rebellion brought legislative business to a standstill for nearly a month. The House successfully passed a procedural vote 215-211, teeing up votes on an appropriations bill funding the State Department, legislation making daylight saving time permanent, and a measure seeking to improve veterans’ benefits. Johnson also agreed to pair the State Department funding bill with the SAVE America Act, prompting several conservative holdouts to flip their votes after demanding the House increase pressure on the Senate to pass the stalled measure...
#5 US Senate Democrats Block Defense Bill Over Iran War, Israel Integration - Tamara Khandaker, for Al Jazeera/Reuters, IanMalcolm84, Jo jo Merrily, Jackson Hinkle/Sam Patrice, MLJ, and DUTCH/ROOSTER on X
Democrats in the US Senate have blocked debate on an annual defense policy bill, objecting not only to President Donald Trump’s war on Iran but also to provisions that would more closely integrate the United States and Israeli militaries. The Senate voted 50-46 on Tuesday, almost entirely along party lines, against opening debate on the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), in a rare setback for one of the legislature’s few must-pass pieces of legislation...
#6 Nearly 7,000 Cases of Cyclosporiasis Confirmed or Under Investigation Nationwide, CDC Says - Erika Edwards for NBC News, Breaking 911, CBS News, FactPost, People, and Good Morning America on X
Nearly 7,000 people nationwide may have cyclosporiasis, a foodborne illness that can cause weeks of severe diarrhea, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Tuesday. The bulk of the cases are in Michigan, which has confirmed 3,309 cases. In a health alert, the CDC reported that 1,645 people have been sickened by cyclosporiasis across the country, making it one of the largest outbreaks of foodborne illness in the U.S. in years. The CDC urged doctors to be alert for patients with common symptoms of the infection, including watery diarrhea, bloating, and nausea...#7 What’s in Store for Todd Blanche’s Confirmation Hearing - Chris Marquette and Erica Orden for POLITICO, Fox News, julie k. brown/Aaron Parnas, Senator Dick Durbin, Senator Adam Schiff, and Lisa Rubin on X
The GOP-led Senate Judiciary Committee should be a friendly place for President Donald Trump’s pick for attorney general, but Todd Blanche may be about to enter a minefield. Democrats are promising to make Blanche’s Wednesday confirmation hearing an indictment of his record as Trump’s former personal lawyer — and, more recently, as the face of the haphazard rollout of the Jeffrey Epstein files and the thwarted launch of a $1.8 billion fund to pay out “victims” of “lawfare” that critics called a slush fund benefitting Trump’s allies...
#8 New York Becomes the First State to Impose a Data Center Moratorium - Jasper Ward for Reuters, CNY Central, Steve A, IllinoisRefuge27, matthew sigel, recovering CFA/Joe Weisenthal, and Jim Sargent on X
New York became the first U.S. state on Tuesday to halt construction of large new data centers, imposing a one-year moratorium as concerns grow that the facilities driving the artificial-intelligence boom are raising power costs, straining water supplies, and burdening local communities. The moratorium positions New York at the forefront of a growing national debate over how to manage the infrastructure needed to support AI. While technology companies are racing to build new data centers, lawmakers and regulators in dozens of states are weighing measures to limit their effect on electricity grids, utility bills, and local communities...#9 Docs Expose Horrific Strangling, Kidnapping Charges Against Anti-ICE Lawyer Championed by Dems - Peter Pinedo for Fox News, James Grein, Erik Bryant, Gram of Sarcasm, and Slim Shady/Brooke Taylor on X
An immigration lawyer representing two illegal immigrants who were involved in a recent fatal ICE shooting in Houston has prior domestic abuse and kidnapping charges, documents reveal. Hugo Balderas-Ibarra, a private practice attorney in Texas, represents two of the three passengers who were in a van when Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was fatally shot by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent last week. At a press conference after the shooting, Balderas-Ibarra ripped the agency, demanding an immediate release of his clients and accusing ICE agents of lying about the shooting and of "racial profiling." He said that his clients "will forever be physically and emotionally scarred by this killing," adding, "None of these families will ever be whole again."
#10 Trump Says FBI Is ‘Wasting Their Time’ Investigating Lindsey Graham’s Death - Scott Wong for NBC News, CEO Watchlist, Kentucky Statesman/New York Post/Triasime 100mg, Masu Zafi, Noor Al Haya, and Theorypedia™ on X
President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he is aware of conspiracy theories circulating about the sudden death of his friend and ally, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., but declared “the FBI is wasting their time” investigating the matter. The president was responding to reporters in the Oval Office who asked him why FBI agents were at Graham’s home just blocks from the Capitol on Monday after the 71-year-old senator’s death on Saturday night.“I don’t see a lot of evil there,” Trump said. “I know there’s all sorts of conspiracy theories going along, and I think the FBI is wasting their time if they’re doing that.”
