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energy-daily.com | Mike Heuer
Puerto Rico's power plants go offline, leading to widespread island blackoutby Mike Heuer Washington DC (UPI) Apr 16, 2025
Every power-generation facility in Puerto Rico unexpectedly went offline Wednesday afternoon, which caused an island-wide blackout, but many have had their power restored. Local officials are "working diligently with the entire energy component in the face of the blackout," Puerto Rico Gov. Jenniffer Gonzalez-Colon said in a social media post.
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newsobserver.com | Mike Heuer
National Institutes of Health researcher Kevin Hall announced his early retirement on Wednesday due to concerns about alleged censorship of research results at the federal agency. File Photo by Annabelle Gordon/UPI upi April 16 (UPI) -- A National Institutes of Health senior investigator said he was optimistic about recent leadership changes but now has resigned due to alleged censorship. Kevin Hall announced his early retirement from his "dream job" at the NIH on Wednesday in a post on X.
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yahoo.com | Mike Heuer
April 16 (UPI) -- This updated story includes a short statement from a DHS spokeswoman. Probable cause exists to prosecute members of the Trump administration for criminal contempt for continuing deportation flights to El Salvador on March 15, U.S. District Court Judge James Boasberg ruled.
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yahoo.com | Mike Heuer
Mike HeuerWed, April 16, 2025 at 10:50 PM UTC2 min readApril 16 (UPI) -- Every power-generation facility in Puerto Rico unexpectedly went offline Wednesday afternoon, which caused an island-wide blackout, but many have had their power restored. Local officials are "working diligently with the entire energy component in the face of the blackout," Puerto Rico Gov. Jenniffer Gonzalez-Colon said in a social media post.
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yahoo.com | Mike Heuer
Mike HeuerWed, April 16, 2025 at 9:35 PM UTC2 min readApril 16 (UPI) -- The federal government's Vessel Sanitation Program continues its health inspections of cruise ships despite recent staff reductions at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. "This work has not stopped as the VSP is primarily staffed by [U.S. Public Health Service officers]," a CDC spokesperson told Food Safety News.
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yahoo.com | Mike Heuer
Mike HeuerWed, April 16, 2025 at 8:22 PM UTC2 min readApril 16 (UPI) -- The Leaders We Deserve political organization led by Democratic National Committee Vice Chairman David Hogg will oppose 20 House Democrats during the 2026 primaries. Leaders We Deserve supports "young progressive candidates" who "face systemic barriers" to winning House elections and will spend $20 million to challenge older Democratic Party candidates in districts deemed safe for Democrats, Hogg announced Wednesday.
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kansascity.com | Mike Heuer
President Donald Trump attends a Cabinet meeting at the White House on Thursday, which is a day after he signed an executive order banning Susman Godfrey attorneys from accessing federal buildings and following through on federal contracts. Photo by Shawn Thew/UPI upi April 15 (UPI) -- The Susman Godfrey law firm succeeded in temporarily stopping the Trump administration from blocking its access to federal facilities and revoking government contracts.
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upi.com | Mike Heuer
April 15 (UPI) -- Another jury is hearing former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's defamation lawsuit against the New York Times after a second federal trial got underway on Tuesday. The Times in 2022 initially prevailed in Palin's lawsuit accusing the newspaper of defaming her in an editorial following a 2017 mass shooting. Palin, 61, successfully appealed the 2022 verdict and won a retrial order from the federal 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals.
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fresnobee.com | Mike Heuer
April 15 (UPI) -- A patient with end-stage kidney disease successfully received a genetically engineered porcine kidney and was released from the hospital in February, according to biotech firm eGenesis. The transplant is part of a multi-patient study and the first done on three patients who were diagnosed with kidney failure and listed as needing a transplant, eGenesis officials said in an online announcement.
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yahoo.com | Mike Heuer
Mike HeuerTue, April 15, 2025 at 7:34 PM UTC4 min readApril 15 (UPI) -- The total measles cases in Texas increased by 20 since Friday to 561 since late January, which leads the nation by a wide margin, the Texas Department of State Health Services announced Tuesday. Most of the state's measles cases are located in West Texas, but only 4% of the confirmed cases are people who were actively infectious when diagnosed, the state health department said in a news alert.
