Author: Gabrielle M. Etzel

Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A prominent test case for a new medical malpractice law in North Carolina could provide a playbook for Republican states looking to eliminate gender transition medical treatments for minors.  Medical and legal experts on gender…

Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save President Donald Trump reportedly has chronic venous insufficiency, a common condition of the blood vessels. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told the Washington Examiner on Thursday about the condition after Trump was seen with makeup on his hand, apparently…

The Democratic Party is coalescing around a strategy of attacking Republicans for planning to cut Medicaid spending, a move that could unite the fractured party and pay dividends in the 2026 midterm elections.  Democrats are engaging in a “Day of Action” across the country on Tuesday, led by House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), to…

A second federal judge halted the transfer of three transgender inmates into a male prison facility that followed President Donald Trump’s Day One executive order requiring federal accommodation facilities to correspond with biological sex.  Judge Royce Lamberth, appointed to the Washington, D.C., federal bench by former President Ronald Reagan in 1987, issued an expanded preliminary…

A Republican-led bill to impose harsher sentences for people convicted of fentanyl-like drug crimes narrowly passed the House on Thursday evening, with 98 Democrats supporting the measure.  The GOP-sponsored Halt All Lethal Trafficking, or HALT, Fentanyl Act (H.R.27) will permanently classify drugs that are only slightly chemically different from fentanyl as Schedule I substances, the…

Stock prices for alcohol makers and distributors fell sharply early Friday morning after Surgeon General Vivek Murthy issued a new advisory report calling for Congress to enact legislation to add a cancer risk warning label on all alcohol products.  According to the new report, alcohol is the third leading preventable cause of cancer in the…

Federal and state officials told reporters in New Orleans on Wednesday afternoon that they are investigating multiple suspects in the attack on Bourbon Street during New Year’s Eve celebrations that killed at least 10 people and injured at least 35. Shamsud Din Jabbar, 42, an Army veteran, drove into a crowd on the pedestrian thoroughfare…

President-elect Donald Trump and President Joe Biden issued statements within minutes of each other regarding the deadly vehicle attack in New Orleans early Wednesday morning with two starkly contrasting messages regarding the attack that is now being investigated as a terrorist incident. Trump posted on Truth Social that his incoming administration will “fully support the…

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) is demanding that law enforcement release the name of the perpetrator who drove into a crowd on Bourbon Street in New Orleans during New Year’s Eve festivities early Wednesday morning.  “The truth needs to come out asap,” Greene said on X, on which conspiracy theories are circulating regarding whether the…

Outgoing New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu, a centrist Republican, says there is still wiggle room within the Republican Party to criticize President-elect Donald Trump, who has a stranglehold on the GOP as he is set to start his second term later this month.  Sununu told Politico in an end-of-the-year interview that it is “never easy…