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Honoring America’s Commitment to SeniorsThe President has always believed that Medicare and Social Security are a promise—a rock-solid guarantee generations of Americans have counted on to be able to retire with dignity and security. The President will reject any efforts to cut the Medicare or Social Security benefits that seniors and people with disabilities have earned and paid into their entire working lives. The Budget honors that ironclad commitment—not only by rejecting benefit cuts, but by embracing reforms and investments that will protect and strengthen both programs.
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The family initially said they lost her “to the disease of mental illness.” Then, weeks later, Ashley Judd confirmed during a “Good Morning America” interview that her mother had used a gun to end her life. The reality TV star lobbied Trump to commute the life sentence of Alice Marie Johnson, who spent more than 20 years in prison for drug offenses. Johnson was released in June 2018 and later, in August 2020, received a full pardon from Trump and had her rights restored. The Biden White House invited four people pardoned earlier this week by the president, who granted clemency to 16 people who had committed such crimes, for a roundtable with Harris and Kardashian. The White House says so far, Biden has commuted the sentences of 122 individuals and granted pardons to 20 who committed non-violent drug offenses. Public health groups have voiced frustration for months over repeated delays to the FDA's proposal that agency officials had hoped would be a core part of a federal push to significantly cut smoking rates in the U.S.
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Homeland Security’s National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center analyzed the item for any biothreats. Julia Ainsley is homeland security correspondent for NBC News and covers the Department of Homeland Security and the Justice Department for the NBC News Investigative Unit. The sources maintain that the area is highly trafficked, in keeping with Jean-Pierre's characterization Wednesday. The area is transited by VIPs, visitors, tourists, staff members, military officials and facilities operations employees. Press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre declined to answer when she was asked at Wednesday's briefing which of the two West Wing entrances was involved, saying she would let the Secret Service address that.
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More than two dozen journalists in Gaza wrote a letter last week calling on their colleagues in Washington to boycott the dinner altogether. Protest organizers said they wanted to bring attention to the high numbers of Palestinian and other Arab journalists killed by Israel’s military since the war began in October. The night’s remarks also were expected to cast a spotlight on the many journalists detained and otherwise persecuted around the globe for doing their jobs, including Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, who has been imprisoned in Russia since March 2023. Kelly O’Donnell, president of the correspondents’ association, opened the event by reminding the audience of the important work that journalists do but noting that the dinner is happening at “a complex moment for our nation,” and in a decisive election year. With hundreds of protesters rallying against the war in Gaza outside the event and concerns over the conflict and humanitarian crisis in Gaza and the perils for journalists covering the conflict, the war hung over this year’s event. Nardine Saad covers breaking entertainment news, trending culture topics, celebrities and their kin for the Fast Break Desk at the Los Angeles Times.
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When the unknown powdered substance was discovered, sections of the White House were evacuated as the Washington Fire Department was called to the scene and performed a field test that identified the substance as cocaine. The sample was sent to the Department of Homeland Security’s National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center at Fort Detrick, Maryland, the Secret Service statement said. That testing confirmed it was cocaine and determined it was not a biological threat like anthrax or ricin. According to a preliminary investigation released Friday by the Committee to Protect Journalists, nearly 100 journalists have been killed covering the war in Gaza.
Other courts threw out long prison sentences for nonviolent, nontrafficking offenses as needlessly excessive. Had these decisions taken hold, harm reduction principles would have become part of our supreme law and helped check the explosion of the prison population. Some judges in the 1970s argued that criminal bans on “soft drugs” violate the right to privacy implicit in the Due Process Clause.
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Blacc encouraged people “to offer a moment of joy” when they reach out and to share a positive memory that’s going to bring the person joy. He also elaborated on his fellow panelists’ remarks about how people can “show up” for someone who is having suicidal ideation, explaining that he and his friends have since created “a system of check-ins from everyone within this constellation of support” to help loved ones in need. But MAGA Sen. J.D. Vance of Ohio said Democrats “will come to regret” dismissing the Mayorkas impeachment articles, when a Republican-run Senate someday does the same to impeachment articles from a Democratic-majority House. Democrats take governing too earnestly to impeach a Republican on such overtly political grounds as those against Mayorkas. Of course, that’s the opposite of the achievement they promised two years ago, ahead of the midterm elections that gave them control of the House.
In updating where the cocaine was found, officials said that area was also heavily trafficked. WASHINGTON — Multiple officials involved in the White House cocaine inquiry now say the bag of powder was found in a cubby near the White House's West Executive entrance, not the formal West Wing lobby, as was previously reported.
If you have a loved one dealing with a mental health crisis, Dr. Zucker recommends checking in often and asking about their thoughts. Pressing drug middlemen for greater transparency about product quality is a good place to start. When quality matters as well as price, U.S. generic drug manufacturers will be able to compete and win. “I believe they’re going to land in the right place here and we’ll be able to, together, really expand on this health initiative that’s saving lives every day,” he said.
Litigants brought hundreds of constitutional challenges to punitive drug laws during the 1960s and 1970s. And they secured pathbreaking rulings from federal and state judges who deemed the laws arbitrary, authoritarian, and cruel. The White House has announced an official plan to address the “emerging threat” of fentanyl combined with xylazine, a drug combination proven lethal in an increasing number of Americans.
The President is committed to working with Congress to ensure Medicare and Social Security remain strong for their beneficiaries, now and in the future. Those who sat down alongside Harris, Kardashian and Steve Benjamin, the director of the White House Office of Public Engagement, included Jason Hernandez, Bobby Lowery, Jesse Mosley and Beverly Robinson, who all received presidential pardons earlier this week. They spoke of successful careers — such as running nonprofits and practicing real estate — and how they were overcome with emotion when finding out about their pardons earlier this week. A key component of the plan is the creation of a “Manufacturing Resiliency Assessment Program” that will monitor drug shortages and evaluate drugmakers’ efforts to prevent them, such as by sourcing key starting materials from several suppliers instead of just one. Finally, some judges in the 1970s ruled that drug bans infringe the “free exercise” of religion guaranteed by the First Amendment when the drugs at issue serve a sacramental function. These rulings relied on a 1964 decision by the California Supreme Court, which protected the Native American Church’s ceremonial use of peyote.
By the mid-1980s, the drug war was in full swing and these constitutional arguments had faded into obscurity. They were well within the mainstream of constitutional thought in the 1970s, however. Even among the judges who rejected these arguments, a striking share not only acknowledged their force but also expressed open skepticism of the drug laws they upheld. Although few recall it now, the same basic approach almost won out a half-century ago—in the courts.
The Biden administration on Tuesday announced a plan aiming to reduce overdose deaths by the deadly mix of fentanyl and the animal tranquilizer xylazine by 15% over the next three years. The White House said its National Response Plan will offer a “whole of government” effort focused on testing, data collection, evidence-based prevention, harm reduction and treatment, supply reduction, scheduling and research to address the overdose epidemic. The Biden administration on Tuesday released its plan to tackle the proliferation of xylazine, a deadly drug that is increasingly contributing to drug overdose deaths in the United States. The plan’s public health component calls for increased testing and treatment and better data collection to track the spread of the drug and how it is contributing to overdose deaths. It also calls for using law enforcement to identify the sources of xylazine and disrupt the supply. And it calls for exploring whether to schedule the drug, which would give the government more authority to regulate it.
Perhaps the White House should consider a similar approach to strengthen its drug shortage strategy. For example, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is responsible for assuring that all automobiles sold in the U.S. meet or exceed federal standards for quality and safety. To verify that they do, NHTSA crash-tests various makes and models of cars and posts the results on its website. Critics, however, argue that safe injection sites encourage illegal drug use and burden neighborhoods.
The approach aims to reduce substance abuse, train more personnel and address the needs of those in underserved communities. According to a 2023 survey by the American Society of Hospital Pharmacists, the vast majority of its members would be willing to pay more for drugs sourced from high-quality suppliers. It’s possible, if not likely, that some high-quality manufacturers are only little more expensive than those selling lower-quality drugs. But without independent testing, pharmacies, doctors and patients are flying blind. Based on this assurance, America’s drug wholesalers and pharmacy benefits managers scour the globe to find manufacturers willing to sell at the lowest possible price. Because U.S. companies can’t make products as cheaply as competitors in countries with low labor costs and lax regulatory oversight, most closed their doors or switched to repackaging drugs sourced overseas.
Those tours are invitation-only and led by White House staff for friends, family and other guests. Most staffers who work in the complex can request an evening or weekend tour slot, but there is often a long wait list. There were tours on the day, a Sunday, the drugs were found, as well as on the two preceding days. The presence of cocaine at the White House prompted a flurry of criticism and questions from Republicans, who received a closed briefing Thursday on the results of the investigation. Secret Service spokesman Anthony Gugliemi said the agency determined that interviewing all 500 people could be a strain on resources, might infringe upon civil liberties and would likely be fruitless without corresponding physical evidence tying any person to the drugs.
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