Attorney General Merrick Garland on Monday formally prohibited federal prosecutors from seizing the records of journalists in leak investigations, with limited exceptions, reversing years of department policy.
Health experts, including an influential group of pediatricians, are pushing back on federal guidance that vaccinated Americans can go without masks, warning that the honor system has failed to keep many people safe in the face of the delta variant. The American Academy of Pediatrics on Monday called for schools to enforce universal masking mandates because so many kids won’t be protected by fall and schools have no way of verifying COVID vaccine status yet. “Many schools will not have a system to monitor vaccine status of students, teachers and staff, and some communities overall have low vaccination uptake where the virus may be circulating more prominently."
Attorney General Merrick Garland announced new guidelines Monday limiting Justice Department and FBI investigators from seizing materials from reporters and news outlets except in extreme cases.Why it matters: The new policy follows disclosures that the DOJ, under the Trump administration, secretly obtained records of several journalists, including one at CNN, three at the Washington Post and four from the New York Times. Get market news worthy of your time with Axios Markets. Subscribe for free
A bipartisan group of 20 criminal justice groups sent a letter to Joe Biden requesting clemency for inmates who served at home during the pandemic.
Hodgkins in the Senate chamber on Jan. 6. Photo: CCTV footage via DOJ38-year-old Paul Hodgkins of Tampa was sentenced to eight months in prison Monday after pleading guilty to obstruction of an official proceeding, a felony charge stemming from his participation in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.Why it matters: Hodgkins is the first Jan. 6 rioter to be sentenced for a felony, setting a benchmark for hundreds of other cases that prosecutors have brought against individuals involved in the Capitol attack
Justice has issued a policy restricting its access to reporters' records after disclosures involving Trump subpoenas of journalists' phone, email accounts.
The government is gambling that its vaccination program will stop the huge uptick in coronavirus cases becoming a huge uptick in hospitalizations and deaths.
Transfer of Abdullatif Nasser is the first by the Biden administration, reviving an Obama-era effort that had been stymied by conservative opposition and the difficulty of resolving the remaining few dozen cases, including finding secure sites to send some of the detainees.
AmazonIn the fashion world, the global pandemic fundamentally altered how the industry thought about art, design, manufacturing, marketing, sales, and aesthetic. Just how drastically did things change? Tim Gunn started wearing sweatpants.“I was sitting around in my apartment in my stiff upper-lip, stuffed-shirt clothing and then I thought, this is ridiculous. I’m really not very comfortable,” Gunn tells me in a recent Zoom ahead of season 2 of Making the Cut, which debuted this weekend on Amazon
Attorney General Merrick Garland prohibited federal prosecutors on Monday from seizing journalists’ records in leak investigations. Garland first promised this move was coming back in June. It reverses years of the Justice Department’s policy and, according to a release from the department, the policy is effective immediately. Garland sent out an internal memo about the change, which, according to the Associated Press, also outlined the exceptions to the new policy. They include instances when a
Secretary of State Antony Blinken met on Monday with Belarus’ main opposition leader as the United States steps up criticism of the government in Minsk for a widening crackdown on dissent following disputed elections last year. Blinken met with Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya at the State Department to show support for her and other protesters demanding an end to repression. Tsikhanouskaya was President Alexander Lukashenko’s main challenger in the August 2020 election and was forced to leave the country after the polls that the opposition and the West saw as rigged.
Those fresh curds are a staple ingredient in many households. But what is cottage cheese, anyway? Here you'll learn all about cottage cheese, including its health benefits and some delicious ways to enjoy it.
For years, the official letterhead for the small town of Van Horn, tucked neatly among the foothills of the Guadalupe Mountains, read simply: “Farming, ranching, mining.” The sprawling spaceport of Blue Origin, the company founded by business magnate Jeff Bezos in 2000, is located about 25 miles outside of the town of about 1,800 residents on what was once desolate desert ranchland. On Tuesday, the company plans to launch four people on a 10-minute trip into space, including Bezos, his brother, Mark, female aviation pioneer Wally Funk, and Oliver Daemen, an 18-year-old Dutchman and last-minute fill-in for the winner of a $28 million charity auction who had a scheduling conflict.
Four civilians -- Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, his brother, and the oldest and youngest people to go to space -- are set to launch into space on Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket. The group joins “CBS This Morning” to discuss their training, and the risks and rewards of their history-making trip.
In an early test of COVID surveillance at the Summer Olympic Games, several athletes have already tested positive for COVID-19 following arrival in Tokyo. But International Olympic Committee [IOC] officials say they are confident the Games can be carried out safely. The latest: An alternate for the U.S. women's gymnastics team tested positive for COVID-19 in Japan on Sunday, according to the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee. Get market news worthy of your time with Axios Markets. Subscribe
The Dallas Cowboys will be featured on HBO’s “Hard Knocks” for a third time. They finished 5-11 in 2002 and 7-9 in 2008.
Miami-Dade County has identified 95 of the 97 victims from the collapse of the Champlain Towers South building, CNN reports, as recovery efforts continue in Surfside, Fla. Driving the news: Officials on Saturday named another person who died in the collapse, 36-year-old Theresa Velasquez, who was first recovered on July 8. The around-the-clock mission is going into its fourth week.Stay on top of the latest market trends and economic insights with Axios Markets. Subscribe for freeState of play: M
He died at a hospital around an hour after being found.
Miami-Dade County, Florida, police recovered Velasquez’s body on July 8 in the rubble of the 12-story Florida condo that killed at least 97 people when it collapsed on June 24, authorities said Saturday. Live Nation issued the following statement on Saturday: “Our hearts break for the loss of our beloved Theresa Velasquez, her parents Angela and Julio, and everyone taken far too soon in the tragic accident in Surfside, FL. Theresa was an impassioned leader at Live Nation, who elevated every proj
Fire crews used a sledgehammer to break down a wall and rescue the trapped dog.
