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 The House of Representatives is expected to vote on a pair of bills on Wednesday aimed at addressing a nationwide baby formula shortage, an issue that has sparked outcry across the country and put pressure on lawmakers to act.
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Michael Sussmann is accused of lying to the official, former FBI General Counsel James Baker, in a 2016 meeting in which he relayed information about possible ties between Russia and candidate Donald Trump.
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Lawmakers are homing in on the harmful economic effects of monopolies in America as a key factor that led to the crisis.
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Senate lawmakers Wednesday reached bipartisan agreement on legislation to expand health care and disability benefits to millions of veterans exposed to toxic chemicals during their military service.
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 Dave KillenLooming for weeks over the trial of an Oregon romance novelist charged with killing her chef husband has been the question of whether or not a witness would testify who shared a jail dormitory with Nancy Brophy and then told detectives she'd described herself as being "this far apart" (her arms outstretched) from her husband when he was shot.
As attorneys for the prosecution and defense argued about whether or not the witness, Anndrea Jacobs, should be allowed to testify, Multnomah County Judge Christopher Ramras had previously ruled that she could do so only if Brophy's attorneys introduced evidence that would warrant the state calling her as a "rebuttal witness" to push back on some information the defense had presented. On Wednesday, Brophy's lawyers asked what, exactly, Jacobs would be rebutting.
Jacobs would rebut "the statement that (Brophy) did not kill her husband," Deputy District Attorney Shawn Overstreet said, by testifying "that she was so far apart when she shot her husband."
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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House lawmakers have raised alarm over a nationwide baby formula shortage after a manufacturer in Michigan shut down over health concerns and was linked to the deaths of two infants. Advocates are calling for greater accountability and investigation into the manufacturer, Abbott Laboratories, even as the Food and Drug Administration is in talks to allow the plant to reopen. We look at how Abbott's grip on the market for baby formula, amounting to about 20% of all formula distributed in the U.S., contributed to the crisis. An overhaul to the system where the government subsidizes only a few formula brands can help combat the monopolization that has caused this crisis, says David Dayen, executive editor of The American Prospect.
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