, 83. The lead architect of the One World Trade Center skyscraper that rose from the site where the Twin Towers collapsed in New York City during the 9/11 attacks. March 26.
In Parkersburg, Iowa, Ernst on Friday defended the $700 billion in reduced spending, saying it would keep immigrants in the U.S. illegally and those who have access to insurance through their employers off the rolls. She emphasized the message that those changes would sustain the program for vulnerable populations.But when someone in the crowd yelled that people will die without coverage, Ernst responded: “People are not ... well, we all are going to die.”
The retort drew swift condemnation, as did a sarcastic apology video from Ernst released on Saturday.Scholten first ran for Congress in 2018, narrowly losing in the overwhelmingly Republican district to U.S. Rep. Steve King, a Republican who was embroiled in years of controversy involving his previous. In 2020, Scholten lost to Republican Randy Feenstra by more than 20 percentage points.
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. health officials have changed their advice to international travelers about measles, saying that Americans should be vaccinated against the virus no matter where they’re going.U.S. residents are recommended to get measles-mumps-rubella shots, anyway. But the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention previously emphasized the importance of vaccination for travelers going to countries with outbreaks.
Last week, the CDC updated
to call for vaccinations for travelers going to all other countries.ThisA residential treatment school for girls in the North Carolina mountains has closed after a state investigation and the deaths of two of its students who took their own lives.
Asheville Academy announced Tuesday that it released all of its students from its Weaverville campus this past weekend, saying the decision to voluntarily close was difficult.The closing came a few days after North Carolina mental health officials ordered the academy to stop taking in new students until the school could show it was protecting girls from harm, abuse and neglect and was properly supervising employees.
That order came after the launch of a state investigation into Asheville Academy that began May 8, five days after a 13-year-old girl killed herself at the school, officials said.The letter from the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services did not detail the problems the agency found, and officials have not released additional information, including the investigation’s findings.