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Pandemic’s effect on already rising suicide rates heightens worry
Economic and social pressures this year have heightened the risks, feeding consternation among experts, health officials and lawmakers.
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Economic and social pressures this year have heightened the risks, feeding consternation among experts, health officials and lawmakers.
CQ Roll Call spent a day at the U.S. Naval Academy in Anapolis, Md., documenting how the pandemic is affecting training for the plebes in its Class of 2024.
Several counties have reported an increase in suicide deaths since the pandemic began. What is Congress doing to address this?
Each summer, the Naval Academy takes in 1,200 students for seven weeks of physical and mental training. This year it’s involved a lot of hand sanitizer.
Better that Trump focus on building up U.S. research and development spending than waging hit or miss war on China, technologists say
The agency will stop collecting data on Sept. 30, a month earlier than planned, raising concerns of a massive undercount of underrepresented populations.
Fauci said vaccine may not available immediately to everyone, but that “over a period of time in 2021” the public would get access, if it is developed.
Rep. Blumenauer calls Trump's Twitter appeal to suburban voters racist as House debates two amendments meant to block changes to housing bias rules
President Trump wants a 25 percent hike in nuclear weapons budgets, but the raise would mostly just cover rising costs on existing programs.
The Trump administration, in a closely held memo, justified new atomic weapons by citing rarely discussed vulnerabilities in the U.S. nuclear arsenal.
Ocasio-Cortez and allies seek to block changes to housing discrimination rules with amendments to fiscal 2021 spending bill
Many employers nationwide are requiring employees to sign waiver forms, employment lawyers say, and many employees are calling lawyers to complain.
While some Hill Republicans support the idea of excluding undocumented immigrants from census data, it could hurt the immigrant-rich states they represent.
Current beneficiaries of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program would be renewed for only one year while the White House reviews the program.
The Agriculture Department is looking into the origins of suspicious packages of seeds from China delivered to recipients who say they never ordered them.
The GOP proposal would give help to Customs and Border Protection and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, two agencies struggling to collect fees.
The apparent suicide of a 20-year-old investor after what appeared to be significant losses has stirred talk of possible hearings and legislation.
Moderna’s coronavirus vaccine entered the final phase of clinical trials Monday, and results may be ready by November, Anthony Fauci said.
Landords, tenants prefer Congress to provide the money needed to pay rent amid the pandemic rather than ban evictions that would add to economic problems.
Military tactics used by DHS officers to control protesters in Portland and other cities should not be surprising and may be perfectly legal, experts say.