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serious questions ... about the effectiveness of your administration's vetting process for new hires,

Back in August, the New York Times reported that Kirkland and Paul Weiss (along with Skadden) - firms who had cut deals with the administration in exchange for pro bono payola - had done work for Trump's Commerce Department. Democratic lawmakers quickly fired off inquiries because giving the government free services would violate the Anti-Deficiency Act, and direct work for the administration would contradict the firms' prior representations that any free legal work would be limited to a relatively benign list of charitable causes.

Ellis began Thursday's hearing by describing Chicago as a vibrant place and reading poet Carl Sandburg's famous poem about the city. Ellis said it is simply untrue that the Chicago area is a violent place of rioters. I don't find defendants' version of events credible, Ellis said. She described protesters and advocates facing teargas, having guns pointed at them and being thrown to the ground, saying that would cause a reasonable person to think twice about exercising their fundamental rights.

Let me just conclude by saying right now, millions of Americans are wondering what is happening in Washington, D.C., and watching this hearing where the chairman is trying to muzzle a ranking member who is simply calling attention to the facts of the ACA, and the real-life stories of peopleindicates to me we need to shine a light on what this effort is to repeal the ACA and we need to stand strong in favor of affordable health insurance in the United States.

Ever since the Trump immigration raids began in Los Angeles in June, local leaders and community activists have criticized agents for sometimes making it difficult to identify them as federal law enforcement officials or refusing to identify themselves at all. Now, an unexpected new group has expressed its own concerns: the FBI. Citing a string of incidents in which masked criminals posing as immigration officers robbed and kidnapped victims, the FBI recently issued a memo suggesting agents clearly identify themselves while they're in the field.

Living in northern Virginia, there were so many ads, you were like, 'What in the hell is going on?' There are all these anti-trans ads every time you turn on the TV," Psaki explained. "It was the majority. I looked this up because I was curious. 57% of all of the money spent by both the campaign for Winsome Sears as well as the outside groups was on anti-trans ads.

PSAKI: So yeah, it was one of the best nights Democrats have had in a very, very long time. Which kind of begs the question, you're a member of Donald Trump's Republican Party. How do you spin what everyone knows was an absolute thumping of your party? Well, they took different approaches. Little Mike Johnson went with the kind of the denial approach.

I'm not going to change until the science changes, and the science does not look like it's changing. It's getting stronger and stronger every day. What we recommend is that mothers, pregnant mothers, talk to their physicians. The mothers of small kids talk to their physicians, and we've advised the physicians to reduce the thresholds and to reduce the amount of Tylenol that they give to children as much as possible, and only use it when it's absolutely critical.

Out in the middle of the Mojave Desert and surrounded by Joshua trees, marijuana dispensaries and razor wire, the remote Adelanto ICE Processing Center is a difficult place to visit. The facility, roughly 85 miles northeast of Los Angeles, is on a road splintered with cracks and potholes. Once there, some wait for hours to see their loved ones. If a visitor happens to be wearing anything forbidden by the dress code say a crop top, or shorts that rise above the mid-thigh they won't get to see them at all.

The first: "Those 107 days are a part of American history," Harris said. "It was important to me to make sure my voice was represented." Sponsor The second: The process of running for U.S. president is "pretty opaque," Harris said. She wanted to "lift the hood on how this process works," in hopes of giving readers greater access to it and an opportunity to see where they could fit in.

Live TV coverage of the event shows Novo Nordisk executive Gordon Findlay slumping to the floor inside the Oval Office, with several men nearby helping to guide his body safely to the ground. Medicare and Medicaid administrator Mehmet Oz grabbed Findlay under the shoulders to help him to the ground. Trump stands up from behind his desk in the Oval Office, but doesn't intervene. Health secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. can be seen walking briskly away from Findlay.

President Donald Trump unveiled a deal Thursday with drugmakers Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk to expand coverage and reduce prices for their popular obesity treatments Zepbound and Wegovy. The drugs are part of a new generation of obesity medications known as GLP-1 receptor agonists that have soared in popularity in recent years. But access to the drugs has been a consistent problem for patients because of their cost - around $500 a month for higher doses - and insurance coverage has been spotty.

President Donald Trump has announced a landmark deal aiming to expand Medicare coverage to include certain weight-loss medications, a move that could dramatically change access to these treatments for millions of older Americans. On November 6, Trump revealed that his administration had struck agreements with Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk, the makers of popular weight-loss drugs including Ozempic and Wegovy, to reduce costs and allow for broader Medicare coverage starting in 2026.

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said in a post on X the cuts are "designed to alleviate pressure" on air traffic controllers who are considered essential employees and required to continue working during the shutdown, but are not currently receiving a paycheck. "Our sole role is to make sure that we keep this airspace as safe as possible," Duffy said. "This is data-based ... this is about, 'Where is the pressure and how do we alleviate the pressure?'"