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CDC scraps plan to help Texas schools curb measles over layoffs, employee says

6 days ago | cbsnews.com | Alexander Tin |Faris Tanyos

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has scrapped a plan to offer help curbing measles in Texas schools after some staff working on the agency's response to this year's record outbreak of the virus were warned they could face layoffs, an agency employee said.
Luigi Mangione indicted on federal charges in CEO's killing

6 days ago | yahoo.com | Faris Tanyos

The 26-year-old suspect in the New York City shooting death of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson has been indicted on federal charges. Luigi Mangione was indicted Thursday by a federal grand jury on one count of murder with a firearm, another firearms offense and two counts of stalking. If convicted as charged, he would be eligible for the death penalty. "Mangione traveled across state lines via an interstate bus line for the purpose of stalking and killing Brian Thompson," the indictment reads.
Luigi Mangione indicted on federal charges in UnitedHealthcare CEO's killing

6 days ago | flipboard.com | Faris Tanyos

NowLuigi Mangione indicted on federal charges in killing of UnitedHealthcare CEOCNN — Luigi Mangione, the 26-year-old accused of fatally shooting UnitedHealthcare’s CEO on a Manhattan sidewalk last year, was indicted in federal court on charges of murder, stalking and a firearms offense.
Luigi Mangione indicted on federal charges in UnitedHealthcare CEO's killing

1 week ago | cbsnews.com | Faris Tanyos

Why Luigi Mangione could face the death penalty The suspect in the New York City shooting death of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson has been indicted on federal charges. Luigi Mangione was indicted Thursday by a federal grand jury on one count of murder with a firearm, another firearms offense and two counts of stalking. If convicted as charged, he would be eligible for the death penalty.
Wife of man mistakenly deported to El Salvador filed for protective order against him in 2021, documents show

1 week ago | cbsnews.com | Faris Tanyos

Legal analysis of Trump contempt finding The wife of a 29-year-old Maryland man who was mistakenly deported by the Trump administration to El Salvador last month filed a protective order against him back in 2021 over allegations of domestic violence, according to court records obtained by CBS News Wednesday.
As Ovechkin closes in on Gretzky's NHL career goals mark, here are some of sports' most hallowed records

2 weeks ago | cbsnews.com | Faris Tanyos |Stephen Smith

Wayne Gretzky's latest goal: Sports broadcaster Washington Capitals star Alex Ovechkin is closing in on Wayne Gretzky's career NHL regular-season record of 894 goals, one that has stood for more than a quarter-century. It's a number that was seemingly untouchable. Gretzky, considered arguably the greatest hockey player off all time, set the mark with the New York Rangers in 1999 in his 20th and final season.
Medicare and Medicaid will not cover weight loss drugs, Trump administration decides

2 weeks ago | cbsnews.com | Alexander Tin |Faris Tanyos

The Trump administration has decided against implementing a proposal for Medicare and Medicaid to cover weight loss drugs, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services said in a filing published Friday by the agency.
Gen. Timothy Haugh, head of NSA and Cyber Command, is fired

2 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Faris Tanyos

1 hour agoNational Security Agency chief and deputy director dismissedAir Force Gen. Timothy Haugh had been both the head of U.S. Cyber Command and the director of the NSA, a role he'd held since February 2024.
Gen. Timothy Haugh, head of NSA and Cyber Command, is fired

2 weeks ago | cbsnews.com | Faris Tanyos

Gen. Timothy Haugh, the head of both the National Security Agency and U.S. Cyber Command, has been fired by the Trump administration, the top Democrats on the House and Senate intelligence committees confirmed late Thursday night. Haugh's removal from the spy agencies was disclosed by Rep. Jim Himes of Connecticut, ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, and Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia, vice chair of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.
FDA bird flu testing efforts disrupted by RFK Jr.'s layoffs, officials say

2 weeks ago | cbsnews.com | Alexander Tin |Faris Tanyos

Some of the Food and Drug Administration's efforts to support testing for the ongoing bird flu outbreak have been disrupted due to steep layoffs at the agency, multiple officials told CBS News Thursday, in the latest fallout from Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s cuts to the nation's federal health agencies.