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Hearing on Dog-and-Cat Research Bill Draws Crowd Aiming to Close OHSU’s Primate Center
Animal rights advocates crowded a committee hearing in the Oregon House of Representatives today and pressed legislators to ...
Child tax credit to jump to $2,500 in House plan. Here's why there are concerns about the increase.
The House Ways and Means Committee has proposed lifting the CTC to $2,500 for the tax years 2025 through 2028, then keeping it at $2,000 beyond 2028. This proposal came on Monday as the committee ...
Trump administration cut $2.7 billion in NIH research funding through March, Senate committee minority report says
A Senate committee report by minority staff, and obtained by CNN, slams the Trump administration for terminating some funding ...
Is CT in a recession? Here’s what to know
The U.S. economy has gone through 34 recessions since 1854. During a recession, GDP might decline by 2% up to as much as 5%.
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Eliminating US science advisory committees will harm the public and open the door to special interests
In recent weeks, the landscape of science advisory committees in the United States federal government has changed ...
Pam Bondi escalates disturbing war on reporters – but the public is “choosing to look away”
The public’s trust in the news media peaked in 1972, when President Richard Nixon ran for re-election and the news of the ...
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What Trump’s cuts to federal climate research could mean for Illinois
In Illinois, those impacts include heavy rainfall and flooding, heat waves and drought in the summer, and natural disasters ...
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U.S. Taxpayers Have No Idea How Many Animals Are Used in Government-Funded Labs. A New Federal Bill Would Change That.
A bipartisan group of federal lawmakers has introduced legislation that would require the National Institutes of Health to ...
GOP to grill universities ‘beyond the Ivy League’ about antisemitism
Three college presidents are set to testify Wednesday in a hearing billed as, “Beyond the Ivy League: Stopping the Spread of ...
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Physicians Committee Praises NIH for Closing Last Beagle Lab on Its Campus
The National Institutes of Health has closed the last beagle laboratory on its campus, according to National Institutes of ...
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NBER Appoints 63 New Affiliates
Following a call for nominations in January, the NBER has appointed 63 new affiliates: 19 Research Associates and 44 Faculty Research Fellows. In addition, six Faculty Research Fellows have been ...