Xavier Becerra, Health Secretary Pick, Faces Tough Confirmation Hearing
President Bidenās nominee for health secretary, Xavier Becerra, will appear before a Senate committee Tuesday morning, where he is expected to face tough questions from...
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Biden Team Rushes to Take Over Government, and Oust Trump Loyalists
Until Judge Merrick B. Garland is confirmed as attorney general, Monty Wilkinson, a longtime career employee who worked closely with Eric H. Holder Jr. when...
For Prosecutors, Trumpās Clemency Decisions Were a āKick in the Teethā
MIAMI BEACH ā It was New Yearās Eve, and dance music was pulsating from the backyard of a multimillion-dollar home here co-owned by Philip Esformes,...
Last-Minute Rule Seeks to Impose Term Limits on Top Career Health Officials
āItās fundamentally different than academia because of the political overtones,ā he said. Seema Verma, the administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, said...
Native Americans Reliant on Hospital Feel Abandoned by U.S. During Pandemic
The hospital is federally run by the Indian Health Service, which is part of the Department of Health and Human Services and based in Rockville,...
āCovid, Covid, Covidā: In Trumpās Final Chapter, a Failure to Rise to the Moment
WASHINGTON ā It was a warm summer Wednesday, Election Day was looming and President Trump was even angrier than usual at the relentless focus on...
āLike a Hand Graspingā: Trump Appointees Describe the Crushing of the C.D.C.
Kyle McGowan, a former chief of staff at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and his deputy, Amanda Campbell, go public on the Trump...
Trump Administration Plans a Rushed Effort to Encourage Americans to Be Vaccinated
A large-scale public education campaign, delayed by false starts and investigations, will get off the ground just as the coronavirus vaccine becomes available to high-risk...
Celebrity Vetting and āHelping the Presidentā to Defeat Coronavirus Despair
WASHINGTON ā A $265 million public campaign to ādefeat despairā around the coronavirus was planned partly around the politically tinged theme that āhelping the president...
Nevada Revokes Halt on Rapid Antigen Testing in Nursing Homes
Under pressure from the federal government, Nevada health officials on Friday rescinded a statewide order directing nursing homes to halt the use of two government-issued...