ࡱ> @B? *#bjbj?? (,]]*)d)f)f)f)f)f)f)+I.f)f){)d)d)'|<)$b@(X) )0)R(..$<)<) :   Monday, Aug. 29 The Biden administration announced it will host a conference in late September funded with $2.5 million in bipartisan legislative support to find policy solutions to end hunger and food insecurity and address nutrition and health. The last national conference on food policy was in 1969 when 1,600 recommendations were implemented including the Women, Infants and Children program, the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program known as food stamps, and school meal programs. The Naming Commission, a congressional commission established under the National Defense Authorization Act, released a report recommending that a bronze Ku Klux Klan plaque and several monuments and buildings commemorating Confederate soldiers at West Point military academy in New York be removed or renamed. The law dictates the Defense Department has until 2024 to remove all names, symbols, displays, monuments, and paraphernalia that honor or commemorate the Confederate States of America. Tuesday, Aug. 30 President Joe Biden outlined his administrations plan to address gun violence which included $13 billion over five years to hire police officers, $3 billion to help courts clear backlogged cases, a ban on assault weapons, and a 13 percent increase in the ATFs budget. Attorney General Merrick Garland reversed the Justice Departments policy that had allowed political appointees to attend fundraisers and campaign events saying, We hold ourselves to the highest ethical standards to avoid even the appearance of political influence as we carry out the Departments mission. Prompted by accusations of political bias from congressional Republicans and Trump supporters after the FBI searched former President Donald Trump home in Florida, the new rules no longer allow non-career employees to participate in any type of partisan political activities. Wednesday, Aug. 31 The Food and Drug Administration authorized COVID booster shots that target the omicron BA.5 variant. Pfizers new booster dose is authorized for people ages 12 and older, while Modernas new shots are authorized for adults ages 18 and older. The National Center for Health Statistics, part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, released provisional data showing that life expectancy in the U.S. fell in 2021 for the second year in a row, in part due to the high number of COVID deaths among younger people in communities of color. According to the report, this is the biggest continuous decline in life expectancy since the beginning of the 1920s. Thursday, Sept. 1 President Biden gave a nationally televised speech from Independence Hall in Philadelphia addressing persistent false claims of election fraud by Trump and his supporters as voters prepare to go to the polls for the midterm elections. Bidens approval rating rose to 45% from 42% in March. Thomas Webster, a retired New York City police officer convicted of several felonies related to the riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison by U.S. District Judge Amit P. Mehta for attacking a Washington police officer. The Jan. 6 committee requested former House Speaker Newt Gingrich testify to his involvement in former President Donald Trumps efforts to overturn the 2020 election in emails discussing false claims in television ads of voter fraud in the 2020 election. Gingrichs cooperation would place him among more than 1,000 other witnesses interviewed by the committee. FBI and Homeland Security searched properties linked to Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg in New York and Florida, under the imposed Western sanctions which target assets of Russian elites in response to the Kremlins invasion of Ukraine. All of Vekselbergs assets in the United States are frozen and American companies are barred from doing business with him and his entities. Former Trump White House counsel Pat Cipollone and former deputy White House counsel Pat Philbin appeared before a federal grand jury investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol and efforts to overturn the 2020 election. Kellye SoRelle, an attorney for the far-right, anti-government group the Oath Keepers was arrested in Junction, Texas, pursuant to an indictment issued Wednesday charging her with four offenses, including conspiracy and obstruction of justice, in connection with the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. SoRelle briefly served as head of the group after the founder and leader of the Oath Keepers, Stewart Rhodes, was charged on seditious conspiracy and other charges for his alleged actions that same day. Friday, Sept. 2 Biden announced Gina McCarthy will step down as the presidents top climate adviser after almost two years. John Podesta will take her place in the White House on Sept. 16 as he assumes the role of implementing the administrations $370 billion investment in energy and climate change policies through the Inflation Reduction Act. The Justice Department released the FBIs detailed inventory list of 103 classified and 11,179 unclassified items, including documents marked with secret and top secret classifications, found among clothing, gifts and photographs when the FBI searched former President Donald Trumps Mar-a-Lago home on Aug. 8. The Pentagon announced it will sell $1.1 billion of military equipment to Taiwan after aggressive military drills in the region by China last month. A spokesperson from the Chinese Embassy said the arms sale of missiles and a surveillance radar program severely jeopardizes China-U.S. relations and peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait. The federal government ended distribution of free at-home COVID-19 tests through the post office due to insufficient congressional funding. An estimated 600 million tests had been shipped since January 2022 when the omicron variant was peaking. The Department of Veterans Affairs announced it was amending its medical regulations to preserve access to counseling and abortions for beneficiaries on a case-by-case basis when the life or health of a beneficiary is endangered by pregnancy or the pregnancy is the result of rape or incest. The VA will immediately prepare to provide these services in as many locations as possible" once regulations are in effect. Saturday, Sept. 3 A hydrogen fuel leak forced NASA to scrub for the second time the test launch of Artemis 1 designed to one day carry astronauts to the moon. No new test date has been set for the $40 billion rocket and capsule known as Orion, which has been criticized as being years behind schedule and billions of dollars over budget. Sunday, Sept. 4 John J. Sullivan, the U.S. ambassador to Russia has retired after three years at the embassy under the Trump and Biden administrations, concluding a lengthy career in government service. 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