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SUN SENTINELPanel: Zika virus is signficant crisis for public healthBy Brian BallouDAVIE — Public health officials on the frontline of the Zika outbreak met Monday morning at Nova Southeastern University to discuss ways to combat the virus in South Florida and beyond, foreboding an epidemic as the peak season for transmission approaches."It's time we start to treat Zika… Read more »

JEWISH JOURNALSecurity a focus following thwarted synagogue attackBy Sergio CarmonaThe recent incident at Aventura Turnberry Jewish Center where the FBI thwarted a plot to detonate an explosive device during Passover and arrested the man behind this foiled planned attack has caught the attention of the concerned local Jewish community.James Gonzalo Medina, 40, of Hollywood was arrested by… Read more »

ROLL CALLCapitol Police: A spending forceBy David HawkingsThe United States Capitol Police may be the biggest, fastest growing and most far-reaching law enforcement agency the public knows almost nothing about.The size of the force has almost doubled in the past 25 years, to nearly 2,300, bigger than the municipal police departments in Atlanta, St. Louis, New Orleans or Denver. The budget… Read more »

SUN SENTINELOPINIONCongress must respond to Zika crisisBy Debbie Wasserman Schultz"What can I do to protect my children?" As a mother of three, it is a question I ask myself every day, and one that prompted me to run for Congress 11 years ago.But just two weeks ago, this familiar question took on new meaning for me, when it became the most frequently asked question during a… Read more »

JEWISH JOURNALMembers of Congress comment on BDS at collegesBy Randall P. LiebermanOn April 15, numerous local members of Congress were among the 37 members of the Congressional Bipartisan Taskforce for Combating Anti-Semitism which sent a letter to John B. King, Jr., the new U.S. Secretary of Education, asking him to outline how his agency is tracking, investigating and responding to… Read more »

ASSOCIATED PRESSGOP ekes out win on Library of Congress' immigration termsBY ANDREW TAYLORRepublicans on a powerful House panel Tuesday narrowly defended a tea party-fueled move to tell the Library of Congress how to label immigrants living in the country illegally.The GOP move is designed to force the Library of Congress to retain the term "illegal alien" for cataloging and… Read more »

THE ADVOCATE25 Congressional Dems to LGBT People: We’re With YouBy Sunnivie BrydumTo mark the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia, 25 Democratic members of Congress are promising to stand with LGBT Americans in the face of hateful legislation and rhetoric.In a video kicking off the #WeAreWithYou campaign, members of the Congressional Equality Caucus channel U.S.… Read more »

SUN SENTINELTHE POWER LUNCHThe War on ZikaBy Dan SweeneyGoing viral: Congress is set to vote on three funding packages to combat Zika today. There's what President Barack Obama and many other Democrats support, which would send $1.9 billion to Florida to fight the virus. There's what House Republicans want, which would offset $622 million in funding with cuts elsewhere, and… Read more »

CBS NEWSZika threat knocking on Florida's doorCORAL SPRINGS, Fla. -- The Senate could vote Tuesday on providing just over a billion dollars to fight the Zika virus. Some of the money would fund vaccine development.More than 500 travel-related cases of Zika have been reported in the U.S., and the number could spike this summer.Mosquito controllers say the Zika threat is at… Read more »

SOUTH FLORIDA JEWISH JOURNALShow celebrates Jewish American Heritage MonthBy Marvin GlassmanJewish American Heritage Month was celebrated musically recently with a salute to the many Jewish American composers who created popular Broadway musicals in a one-hour show starring Jon "Bowzer" Bauman and the Florida International University singers that took place at Century Village in… Read more »