who co-chaired the Senate commit- tee meeting, agreed. “People are tired of the constant
cycle of ‘falling back’ and ‘springing forward,’” she said at the hearing. “It needs to end.” Scott reintroduced the bipartisan
bill, the Sunshine Protection Act, seeking to make Daylight Saving Time permanent. The Senate initially passed the
bill in 2022, but it stalled in the House. Trump endorsed the deci- sion to switch to DST permanently following the April hearing. But when it came down to a vote
before the committee, senators were split.
Sen. Todd Young, R-Ind., wants
to move to permanent Standard Time, claiming that it’s “the healthi- est option for promoting better sleep, alertness, and overall well-being.” Republican Sen. Roger Wicker of Mississippi said in the past that he’s had concerns that children in north- ern states will be at increased danger going to school during dark winter mornings. Dr. Karin Johnson, a sleep medi-
cine specialist and professor of neu- rology at the UMass Chan School of Medicine Baystate, testifi ed before the committee in favor of Standard Time.
“The whole time that we’re on
Daylight Saving Time, we’re living in a state of misalignment between the sun being overhead and our body rhythms, which go by the sun over- head to what time is on the clock,” Johnson told Newsmax. “We’re being forced to wake up an
hour earlier throughout all of Day- light Saving Time; that is particularly harmful for children, especially our teenagers, who tend to want to sleep in later.” A recent Gallup poll found 48%
of Americans favor Standard Time, whereas only 24% prefer permanent Daylight Saving Time. More than seven in 10 Americans want to end biannual clock changes.
12 States Crack Down on T
Unhealthy Foods Purchases of candy, soda banned from SNAP benefits.
welve states have received federal approval to restrict recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) from using their benefits to purchase foods such
as soda and candy. The states receiving waivers from the U.S. Department of Agriculture are overwhelmingly Republican, according to
Stateline.com. Florida, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Texas, and West Virginia received approval in August. So did Colorado, which is overwhelmingly Democrat. Waivers were granted to Arkansas, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Nebraska, and Utah earlier this year. SNAP served on average nearly 42 million people a month in fiscal 2024, with about 12%
of the U.S. population receiving benefits. The trend is part of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s agenda to “Make America Healthy Again” by inviting states to apply for waivers to change SNAP rules to limit what types of food recipients can buy. Kennedy said in a statement that SNAP has used taxpayer dollars to “fuel America’s
diabetes and chronic disease epidemics.” “These waivers help put real food back at the center of the program and empower states to lead the charge in protecting public health,” he said.
Epstein Accuser’s A
Posthumous Memoir Virginia Giuff re’s publisher promises
“unsparing account” of being caught in sex traf icking ring.
posthumous and “unsparing” memoir by one of Jeff rey Epstein’s most prominent accusers, Virginia Roberts Giuff re, will be published this month, according to The Associated Press.
Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice is scheduled for release Oct. 21, said publishing house Alfred A. Knopf.
Knopf revealed an email from Giuff re a few weeks STORY WON’T DIE The
before her death by suicide in April at age 41, saying that it was her “heartfelt wish” the memoir be released “regardless” of her circumstances. Giuff re claimed that when she was a teenager, she was caught up in Epstein’s sex traf icking ring and exploited by Britain’s Prince Andrew and other influential men. Not all of Giuff re’s claims in the past have held up: She had to retract allegations of sex
unanswered questions surrounding the life — and death — of sex traf icker Jeff rey Epstein and his relationships with the rich and powerful were the subject of last month’s Newsmax magazine cover story.
traf icking she made against Harvard Law School Professor Emeritus Alan Dershowitz, and claims that she saw former Vice President Al Gore and his then-wife Tipper on Epstein’s private Caribbean island were refuted. Epstein was found dead in a New York City jail cell in 2019 as he awaited trial on sex
traf icking charges, in what investigators described as a suicide. His former girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell, was convicted in late 2021 on sex traf icking and other charges and is serving a 20-year sentence at a federal prison in Texas. In September, more women who said they were victims of Epstein held a press
conference on Capitol Hill demanding the release of the names of prominent men who they claimed had sexually abused them. They vowed to create “their own list” of Epstein’s associates — and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., said she would read it in Congress, if asked.
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