May 2026 – Page 6

Senator Murray Presses NIH Director on Trump’s Proposal to Cut Medical Research Funding to Pay for $1.5 Trillion War Budget

May 21, 2026 GNCadm1n Comments Off

NIH Director declines to defend Trump’s request to cut NIH funding while boosting defense budget by half a trillion dollars ***WATCH: Senator Murray’s full questioning*** Washington, D.C. — Today—at a Senate Appropriations Labor, Health and Human […]

Cantwell Demands Accountability for Prediction Markets Offering Sports Betting

May 21, 2026 GNCadm1n Comments Off

Senator calls out prediction markets for threatening tribal communities and exposing children to predatory practices; In WA, gambling rates among high schoolers have spiked more than 40% since 2021 WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell […]

Washington’s largest utility moves to add more wind power

May 21, 2026 GNCadm1n Comments Off

by Aspen Ford, Washington State StandardMay 21, 2026 Puget Sound Energy is adding a wind farm in Klickitat County to its clean energy portfolio, the latest move in the utility’s transition to become greenhouse gas […]

GOP budget plan in US House calls for cuts at Hanford nuclear cleanup site

May 21, 2026 GNCadm1n Comments Off

by John Stang, Oregon Capital ChronicleMay 21, 2026 Cuts that Republicans in the U.S. House are seeking to the nuclear cleanup at Washington’s Hanford site would go deeper than steep reductions the Trump administration proposed. […]

Wyden, Heinrich, Jacobs: Justice Department Failed to Protect White House, CIA HQ and Other Sensitive U.S. Government Locations From AI-Enabled Foreign Spy Threats

May 21, 2026 GNCadm1n Comments Off

DOJ Failed to Include the White House, Nuclear Laboratories, CIA Facilities and Other Sensitive Locations in List of Places Banned from Data Sales to Russia, Iran, China and other Rival Countries; Senators Call on Trump […]