Top eight stories for today including House Republicans ratcheted up scrutiny of the federal response to the Covid-19 pandemic; The Iowa Supreme Court weighed whether to lift an injunction on the state's fetal heartbeat abortion restriction; A federal judge ordered Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes to prison while she appeals her fraud conviction, and more.
Ratcheting up scrutiny of the federal response to the Covid-19 pandemic, House Republicans asked a Biden official to answer why billions of dollars in federal aid went to health care institutions that had no need of such assistance.
Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra speaks in Washington on June 28, 2022. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)
Medical industry worries EPA proposal could hurt supplies
New regulations announced for a toxic chemical used in medical sterilization are spurring worry among industry representatives about potential disruptions to hospital and clinical supplies.
Medical devices are seen at Ochsner Medical Center in the New Orleans suburb of Jefferson, La., on Aug.11, 2021. (AP Photo/Stacey Plaisance)
Prosecutor taking on Trump sues GOP congressman for interference
The district attorney who brought unprecedented criminal charges last week against former President Donald Trump filed suit Tuesday to stop a legislative intrusion into that case.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg speaks at a press conference in New York on April 4, 2023, after the arraignment of former President Donald Trump. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes sent to prison during appeal
Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes, center, walks into federal court with her partner Billy Evans, right, and her parents in San Jose, Calif., Friday, Nov. 18, 2022. (AP Photo/Nic Coury)
Supreme Court won’t call off execution of ‘ninja killer’
A Florida man dubbed the “ninja killer” made an unsuccessful bid for the Supreme Court to call off his scheduled execution this week.
Louis Gaskin is scheduled to be executed on April 12, 2023, for a 1989 double murder. (Florida Department of Corrections via Courthouse News)
Regional
Fetal heartbeat law goes before Iowa Supreme Court
The Iowa Supreme Court weighed whether to lift a lower court injunction on the state’s fetal heartbeat abortion restriction on Tuesday, the latest conflict in a long-running legal battle over Iowans’ access to the procedure.
Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds speaks during a news conference in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, in August 2020. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File)
Explosion at candy factory sparks wrongful death suit
Faulting a Pennsylvania candy manufacturer for failing to evacuate workers who complained they smelled gas, a lawsuit filed in state court Tuesday claims the subsequent explosion that killed seven workers and injured others was preventable.
An image included in a complaint filed by a deceased worker's estate shows how an explosion on March 24, 2023, leveled a confectionary factory in Pennsylvania. (Screenshot via Courthouse News)
Science
Astronomers present map of dark matter since Big Bang
Researchers used the Atacama Cosmology Telescope to create this new map of the dark matter. The orange regions show where there is more mass; purple where there is less or none. The typical features are hundreds of millions of light years across. The whitish band shows where contaminating light from dust in our Milky Way galaxy, measured by the Planck satellite, obscures a deeper view. The new map uses light from the cosmic microwave background (CMB) essentially as a backlight to silhouette all the matter between us and the Big Bang. “It’s a bit like silhouetting, but instead of just having black in the silhouette, you have texture and lumps of dark matter, as if the light were streaming through a fabric curtain that had lots of knots and bumps in it,” said Suzanne Staggs, director of ACT and Princeton's Henry DeWolf Smyth Professor of Physics. “The famous blue and yellow CMB image is a snapshot of what the universe was like in a single epoch, about 13 billion years ago, and now this is giving us the information about all the epochs since.” (ACT Collaboration)
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