Tag: Department of Health and Human Services

GOP governors on shaky legal ground rejecting migrant children from Biden administration

Anna Giaritelli · April 21, 2021 10:13 am

This photo shows packs of Kool menthol cigarettes displayed with other tobacco products at Ted's Market in San Francisco.

Racially charged atmosphere could spell end of menthol cigarettes

David Hogberg · April 19, 2021 11:18 pm

'Treated like merchandise': Biden officials close migrant facility where girls were forced to use plastic bags as toilet

'Treated like merchandise': Biden officials close migrant facility where girls were forced to use plastic bags as toilet

Anna Giaritelli · April 19, 2021 12:00 am

NIH lifts Trump-era restrictions on fetal tissue research

Mica Soellner · April 17, 2021 4:26 pm

"Our ability to withstand these losses is dependent on our achieving anticipated synergies in the Humana acquisition," Aetna's Mark Bertolini wrote. (AP Photo)

Biden pitches creation of high-risk, high-reward disease research division with a massive budget

Cassidy Morrison · April 16, 2021 3:00 am

It's impossible to decipher exactly what these two FBI lovebirds were going on about. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Ron Johnson launches investigation into $600M worth of no-bid contracts given to group with Biden ties

Anna Giaritelli · April 14, 2021 5:07 pm

Biden administration proposes reversal of Trump abortion funding restrictions

Cassidy Morrison · April 14, 2021 4:03 pm

In this Nov. 15, 2018, photo provided by Ivan Pierre Aguirre, migrant teens held inside the Tornillo detention camp look at protesters waving at them outside the fences surrounding the facility in Tornillo, Texas.

HHS awarded group with Biden ties $530M no-bid contract to house migrant children

Anna Giaritelli · April 14, 2021 2:49 am

FILE - In this June 20, 2018, file photo, immigrant children walk in a line outside the Homestead Temporary Shelter for Unaccompanied Children a former Job Corps site that now houses them in Homestead, Fla. The landmark court case that has provided the framework for how the government can detain immigrant children has been cited by both sides of the debate over the separation of families at the border. The 1997 settlement known as the Flores agreement has been litigated off and on for the past 33 years and is a crucial piece of the puzzle for the administration's immigration enforcement policies.

Biden administration opening Michigan facility for unaccompanied children

Anna Giaritelli · April 9, 2021 10:36 pm

A temporary shelter for unaccompanied minors who have entered the country illegally is seen at Lackland Air Force Base, Monday, June 23, 2014, in San Antonio. U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, U.S. Rep Michael Bachmann, and Attorney Gen. and Republican gubernatorial candidate Greg Abbott toured the facility Monday. Cruz and Abbott are ramping up criticism of President Barack Obama for more than 52,000 unaccompanied minors who have poured across the southwestern border of the U.S. in recent months. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

National Security

HHS asks NASA employees to help unaccompanied migrant children

Abraham Mahshie · April 8, 2021 4:51 pm

Immigrant children are shown outside a former Job Corps site that now houses them, Monday, June 18, 2018, in Homestead, Fla.

Unaccompanied children at Fort Bliss regularly tested for coronavirus in expanding Defense Department role

Abraham Mahshie · April 7, 2021 4:33 pm

The Official U.S. Government Medicare Handbook for 2020 is placed over pages of a Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Inspector General report.

Biden pick to lead CMS a longtime proponent of Obamacare and state Medicaid expansion

Cassidy Morrison · April 7, 2021 10:30 am