Friday, February 4, 2022: D.C. News

A broad group of senators is showing bipartisan support for legislation that would create a 12-person independent panel to investigate the origins of COVID-19 and the federal pandemic response across the Trump and Biden administrations. The bill, led by Senators Patty...

Thursday, February 3, 2022: D.C. News

As the Omicron surge begins to fade, the White House is preparing for a new phase of the pandemic response where COVID-19 remains widespread but is less disruptive to Americans’ daily lives. Even so, several Biden administration officials and others close to the...

Wednesday, February 2, 2022: D.C. News

President Joe Biden will call on the country to reduce the cancer death rate by half within 25 years when he announces the revived Cancer Moonshot program today. The new program will create a White House “Cancer Cabinet” with the goal of shoring up cancer...

Tuesday, February 1, 2022: D.C. News

President Joe Biden is set to relaunch the “cancer moonshot” program, which focused on ending cancer through investments in research and treatment, on Wednesday. Biden led the program in the final year of the Obama administration and then, in 2017,...

Monday, January 31, 2022: D.C. News

Senators Patty Murray and Richard Burr are seeking a speedy path forward for their pandemic preparedness bill. Advocates close to the discussions say that it could be tied to other proposals on biomedical research that are in the mix, or that parts of the plan could...

Thursday, January 27, 2022: D.C. News

Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer will retire at the end of the term, clearing the way for President Joe Biden to name his first nomination to the high court. Biden has vowed to fill the vacancy with an African American woman, which would represent a historic...