KFF Health News’ ‘What the Health?’: Hello, Trump. Bye-Bye, Biden.
22 Jan
Health News

KFF Health News’ ‘What the Health?’: Hello, Trump. Bye-Bye, Biden.

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Julie Rovner: Hello and welcome back to “What The Health.” I’m Julie Rovner, chief Washington correspondent for KFF Health News, and I’m joined by some of the best and smartest health reporters in Washington. We’re taping this week on Thursday, Jan. 16, at 10 a.m. As always, news happens fast and things might have changed by the time you hear this. So, here we go. Today we are joined via videoconference by Anna Edney of Bloomberg News. Anna Edney: Hi, everybody. Rovner: Sandhya Raman of CQ Roll Call. Sandhya Raman: Good morning, everyone. Rovner: And Joanne Kenen of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Politico Magazine. Joanne From: Hi, everybody. Rovner: Later in this episode we’ll have my interview with Harris Meyer, who reported and wrote the latest KFF Health News “Bill of the Month,” about a patient whose...
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Big Alcohol’s fight, Costco’s DEI defense, and Big Tech at the Trump show: Business news roundup
22 Jan
Business News

Big Alcohol’s fight, Costco’s DEI defense, and Big Tech at the Trump show: Business news roundup

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Photo: Witthaya Prasongsin (Getty Images), Justin Sullivan (Getty Images), Joe Raedle (Getty Images), Joe Raedle (Getty Images), jetcityimage (Getty Images), Pari Dukovic/National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution.Shelby Knowles/Bloomberg (Getty Images), Allison Robbert-Pool (Getty Images), Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto (Getty Images), Image: Justin Sullivan (Getty Images)Photo: Witthaya Prasongsin (Getty Images)New cars are supposed to be more reliable than used ones — but that’s only true if you buy the correct vehicle. Consumer Reports mined its annual auto survey to see which car models its members found to be the least reliable. The data comes from more than 300,000 respondents in the U.S. and looked at 20 different trouble areas, like squeaky breaks, deteriorating interior trim, and EV charging problems. Read MorePhoto: Justin Sullivan (Getty Images)Almost a century after Prohibition ended, alcohol faces a new reckoning. In New Mexico, where alcohol-related mortality rates...
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US News Today Live Updates on January 22, 2025 : Donald Trump’s Cabinet nominees Russell Vought, Brooke Rollins under the Senate spotlight this week
22 Jan
Breaking News

US News Today Live Updates on January 22, 2025 : Donald Trump’s Cabinet nominees Russell Vought, Brooke Rollins under the Senate spotlight this week

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Senate hearings for Trump’s Cabinet nominees progress this week, with Russell Vought (OMB) and Brooke Rollins (Agriculture) set for January 22 and 23. Other nominees, like Lori Chavez-DeRemer and Tulsi Gabbard, await scheduling. Senate hearings for President Donald Trump's Cabinet nominees are set to proceed this week, as the nominations process moves forward. Several nominees have already held one-on-one meetings with senators. Now, they are scheduled to appear before the relevant committees overseeing the agencies they are nominated to lead. Here’s a rundown of the Senate hearing schedule in Eastern Time: Wednesday (January 22) schedule: 10 a.m.: Russell Vought, Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Russell Vought, nominated by Donald Trump for OMB director, will appear before the Senate Budget Committee. Vought, who served as OMB director during Trump’s first term, has already testified before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee....
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Truck load capacity rises despite fall in volumes
22 Jan
Business News

Truck load capacity rises despite fall in volumes

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CHENNAI: Indian heavy duty truck sales may still be short of the 2018 peak sales volumes but in actual payload terms the industry is carrying higher capacity. “In 2018-19, heavy duty truck sales were at 295,000 units whereas last year it was at 258,000 units, down 12%,” said Vinod Aggarwal MD&CEO, VE Commercial Vehicles . However, due to migration to higher payload, the overall capacity for the industry has grown. “In 2018-19, the overall payload capacity was 9.7 million tonne but last year it was 10 million tonne as migration has happened to higher payload trucks,” he added.Truck sales are more or less flat negative in the first nine months of the current financial year. “The 3.5 tonne plus category is down by 2.1%, the sub-5 tonne category is down by around 1.5% and overall...
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