Welcome to The Hill's Health Care newsletter {beacon} Health Care Health Care The Big Story FDA changes blood donation rules for gay, bisexual men The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Thursday loosened restrictions on blood donations by men who have sex with men, a change that could ease blood shortages by allowing more...
Two House Republicans bucked their party and voted against the GOP conference’s flagship border bill Thursday. The legislation — titled the Secure the Border Act — passed in a 219-213 vote. The chamber voted on the bill after months of intra-party negotiations that lasted up until the measure was brought to the floor for a procedural vote...
When the COVID-19 pandemic struck, homeschooling took off. This wasn’t just kids receiving school instruction at home, but real homeschooling, in which parents took charge of their children’s education. After the initial shock of the pandemic, enrollment in private schools began to grow, as most re-opened for in-person instruction while many public schools remained remote. Private education...
Some of the building blocks of human language appear to be present in a wide range of social animals. Previously thought to belong only to human language — a position some in linguistics still hotly defend — key elements of human grammar have been found in animals as widely separated as chimpanzees, birds and meerkats....
As the sun set over the Washington Monument, more than 600 people — including first lady Jill Biden — gathered in a massive white tent to celebrate the National Mall, affectionately referred to as “America’s front yard.” The first lady served as the honorary chairwoman of the 2023 Ball for the Mall, an event hosted...
Welcome to The Hill's Energy & Environment newsletter {beacon} Energy & Environment Energy & Environment The Big Story Biden proposes power plant rules key to climate agenda The Biden administration is proposing to require coal plants cut their emissions by 90 percent while placing similar restrictions on some natural gas plants. © Associated Press/Jim...
Montana state Rep. Zooey Zephyr (D), the state’s first openly transgender lawmaker who was censured last month by Republicans in the state House, posed for a photo with members of “The Squad” during a visit to Capitol Hill on Thursday. Zephyr was officially censured by the Montana House, in which Republicans have a supermajority, late last...
Former acting Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Chad Wolf argued that President Biden’s border policies are not much different from those of former President Trump, but he claimed they are not being enforced. “A lot of those initiatives are the same as the Trump administration, except they’re not actually enforcing a lot of those...