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Dear Carolina Community, We are pleased to share that Dr. Nancy Messonnier, an influential leader in public health at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and, most recently, the executive director for Pandemic Prevention and Health Systems at the Skoll Foundation, has been appointed dean of the UNC Gillings School of Global Public …

We fact-checked three of her critics’ attacks. One was false, one was missing essential context and one was misleading. We also fact-checked two of the claims Ocasio-Cortez herself has made about the Capitol insurrection. One was unproven and one was false. Calling into question Ocasio-Cortez’s Instagram remarks about fearing for her life during the insurrection, …

Police responded to a report of vandalism outside Nancy Pelosi’s San Francisco home. The garage doors were spray-painted with a message believed to be about stimulus checks and an anarchist symbol. A severed pig’s head, covered in fake blood, was left on the driveway. The incident comes when tensions are running high due to Senate …

“Yes I am,” Pelosi told CNN’s Jake Tapper on “State of the Union” when asked if she would seek the speakership again, and then added, “Let me also say we have to win the Senate.” The California Democrat made history as the first woman Speaker of the House in 2007 where she remained in the …

For the third year, there is a very short window – Nov. 1 to Dec. 15 – to sign up for health insurance through the federal marketplace; however, 2020 is challenged unlike any other with in-person assistance funding cut by more than 80 percent and advertising extremely limited. Additional efforts to undermine the marketplace – …

The resolution, Pelosi writes, “reasserts Congress’s long-established oversight responsibilities by mandating that if no further Congressional action is taken, the Administration’s military hostilities with regard to Iran cease within 30 days.” The letter comes as the US is deploying thousands of additional troops to the Middle East following the airstrike that killed Iranian commander Qasem …

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is making President Donald Trump squirm. Pelosi’s refusal to transmit the articles of impeachment against Trump to the Senate has robbed the president of what he wants most: “total and complete exoneration” following a trial. Asked about Trump’s mind-set in recent days, one Republican strategist in frequent contact with the White …

“My husband Paul and our entire family are devastated by the loss of our patriarch, my beloved brother, Thomas D’Alesandro III,” Pelosi said Sunday in a statement released by her office. “Tommy was the finest public servant I have ever known.” The Baltimore Sun reported D’Alesandro, who served as Baltimore’s mayor from 1967 to 1971, …

The image released by the White House shows the California Democrat standing with her finger pointed at a seated Trump during a meeting in which congressional Democratic leaders said the President had a “meltdown.” Pelosi’s deputy chief of staff Drew Hammill noted the change on Twitter, writing, “Thanks for the new cover photo @realDonaldTrump!” Reporters …

Trump’s decision marks a departure for a White House that has a record of obstructing oversight and bending fact. So his critics will await events on Wednesday with particular interest. The transcript and the congressional reaction to the whistleblower’s report could be critical in establishing the early terrain of the impeachment fight and to shaping …