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A bipartisan group of lawmakers is seeking answers from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Dr. Anthony Fauci about funding that was provided for experiments on beagle puppies. Twenty-four members of the House of Representatives signed a letter to Fauci, who is director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), a part of NIH. The letter was prompted by the nonprofit group White Coat Waste which obtained documents under the Freedom of Information Act that appear to show NIAID spent $1.68 million in taxpayer money for experiments on beagle puppies in a lab in Tunisia. Those...

Executive Order on Establishing the White House Opportunity and Revitalization Council ECONOMY & JOBS Issued on: December 12, 2018 menuALL NEWS ESTABLISHING THE WHITE HOUSE OPPORTUNITY AND REVITALIZATION COUNCIL By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows: Section 1. Purpose. Fifty-two million Americans live in economically distressed communities. Despite the growing national economy, these communities are plagued by high poverty levels, failing schools, and a scarcity of jobs. In December 2017, I signed into law a bill originally introduced as the Tax...

MINERAL WELLS — Every time Annette Bennett walks out the back door of the family business, the Baker Hotel still looms large, but it possesses little of its majestic past.

Gov. Bobby Jindal announced his "Agenda for Revitalizing Coastal Louisiana" on Wednesday, outlining four priority initiatives aimed at restoring fragile wetlands and salvaging the coastal economy. The governor called for the implementation of a comprehensive coastal restoration plan, a certification process to reopen waters for commercial and recreational fishing, an end to the deepwater drilling moratorium and accountability on the part of BP in paying for the full restoration of Louisiana's affected ecosystem. 35 0 15 Share Drawing upon the warlike rhetoric that has inflected his public entreaties to BP and the federal government of late, Jindal stressed a need...

It was a while back in my chronological adulthood. I was under the delusion that I was cut out for professional sales. That delusion was a psychological adjustment to the fact that I had graduated from college amidst the 1991 recession, didn’t have credentials that would set the world afire, and couldn’t find much work outside the world of full commission sales. So I took that sack of lemons and tried to make some beverage. I took a job selling water filters on straight commission and convinced myself that I would dominate sales. I read Napoleon Hill, I read Zig...

BAGHDAD — The Government of Iraq has begun sponsoring multiple projects in the northwestern Baghdad neighborhood of Shulla to improve essential services and quality of life. One of the most prominent projects is a sewage line repair project and market revitalization taking place within Shulla. They are currently excavating a trench on a road to make a series of repairs on the sewage pipe. They are also giving the market along the road a “facelift.” 1st Lt. Jacob Baker, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), Multi-National Division – Baghdad, talked with multiple citizens of Shulla to get...

<p>It's not every day that a racetrack, complete with lights, crowds, traffic and slot machines, is proposed for Pittsburgh. But among the five bids on a new thoroughbred racing license in Pennsylvania is an ambitious plan for a 635-acre hilltop in Hays.</p>