An update on bird flu in the U.S.

by Caroline Killilea | Oct 10, 2024 | Featured, Health & Science

WASHINGTON – A third case of bird flu was confirmed in California on Wednesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, following two other cases confirmed in the state last week. Two additional presumed cases are awaiting verification.  Wild birds, which...

Tribal leaders push senators to fight fentanyl

by Kunjal Bastola and Shravya Pant | Nov 9, 2023 | Featured, Health & Science

WASHINGTON – Tribal leaders called on lawmakers to enhance tribal law enforcement authority and implement further behavioral health interventions to address the fentanyl crisis at a Senate oversight hearing on Wednesday.  The hearing held by the Senate Indian Affairs...

Tribal leaders, fearing ‘losing a generation’ to the fentanyl crisis, press for federal help

by Kristen Axtman | Nov 9, 2023 | Featured, Health & Science

WASHINGTON — Tribal leaders on Wednesday urged the federal government for more money and law enforcement support to help them tackle the spread of fentanyl – a synthetic opioid that is up to 100 times as potent as morphine –  in Native communities. At a Senate Indian...

House committee discusses recommended regulation on biosecurity and biosafety

by Luis Castaneda | Oct 19, 2023 | Featured, Health & Science

WASHINGTON – Dr. Gerald W. Parker, chair of the National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity (NSABB), told House lawmakers on Wednesday that research laboratories worldwide handling dangerous pathogens continue to pose a credible threat in producing future...

Lawmakers clash on home confinement prison policies expanded during COVID

by Shannon Coan | Feb 3, 2022 | Featured, Politics

WASHINGTON — Lawmakers challenged Federal Bureau of Prisons Director Michael Carvajal on his agency’s handling of the coronavirus during a House judiciary hearing on Thursday. “The BOP has failed to effectively utilize its authority to request compassionate relief for...