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Get ready for Wednesday with the news:
Late-night session on Trump’s major bills
President Donald Trump’s tax cuts and spending bill faces serious stress tests Wednesday as U.S. House Republicans seek to overcome internal divisions on cutting Medicaid health programs and tax cuts in high-cost coastal states.
Lawmakers see the sunrise: The House Rules Committee begins work shortly after midnight Wednesday and is expected to go smoothly during daytime hours as members discuss the details of the measures.
The fifth prisoner was recaptured after the New Orleans prison was destroyed
Louisiana officials announced that the fifth inmate was captured Tuesday after last week’s New Orleans prison break. The capture comes on the same day the maintenance worker was arrested in connection with the incident that caused a massive manhunt. The prison employee said upon request from one of the prisoners, he blocked the cell with his cell phone and allowed the escape to strip the toilet and sinking unit and climb the hole in the wall that was created. The prisoners had a lead of 8-10 hours before their absence was discovered.
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Weed killer in your child’s lunch box?
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Make America Healthy Commission Report is scheduled to be released by Thursday and will collect data on how toxins contribute to a widespread disease. This report comprehensively looks at how Americans became ill due to exposure to food, environmental and pharmaceutical toxins. For example, the 2022 Center for Disease Control Prevention Research found that 87% of the 650 children tested had the herbicide glyphosate in their urine. Most exposure to glyphosate used in weed killers like Roundup occurs through food.
Caregiving on the brink
“I want to get married one day. I don’t know if that’s what happens to me, just because caregivers are full-time responsibility and not everyone has the ability to understand the meaning, what it looks like, or the sacrifices that are necessary.”
~ Aisha Adkins, 40, a full-time caregiver in Georgia, went for several years without work or health insurance while caring for her mother. Adkins told USA Today that he found it difficult to maintain friendships and other relationships while caring for his parents. Adkins’ story shows that almost half of American states are on the brink of a nursing festival emergency. The worst is in the south.
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USA Today exclusive: Civil lawsuit against Sean “Diddy” Combs created evidence of rape kit
The backlogged rape kit that brought sexual assault claims and $100 million default judgment against Sean “Diddy” comb is not true, USA Today confirmed. And when the rap mogul criminal trial unfolded in New York, his lawyer managed to abandon the civil award. The civil lawsuit against Combs was filed in 1997 by a prisoner in a Michigan prison where Combs allegedly sexually assaulted him. Prisoner Derrick Lee Cardero Smith insisted on his rape kit (which hundreds of thousands of people across the country have not spent years). USA Today has exclusively confirmed that only Cardello-Smith’s allegations are false.
Today’s photo: Kate wears butter
Pale Yellow has been a fashion trend this spring, and Princess Kate was no exception to this trend. The Princess of Wales wore a butter tailored dress for a Royal Garden Party at Buckingham Palace on Tuesday. Wills switched it with his whiskers.
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