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BHDDH director reappointment up for Senate hearing

 

STATE HOUSE – The Senate Health and Human Services Committee meets tomorrow for a hearing on the reappointment of Richard Charest as the director of the Department of Behavioral Healthcare, Developmental Disabilities and Hospitals.

The meeting is scheduled Tuesday, Jan. 31, at the rise of the Senate session (sometime after 4:30 p.m.) in Room 313 on the third floor of the State House.

This meeting will be streamed live online by Capitol Television at http://rilegislature.gov/CapTV/Pages/default.aspx.

 

 

Today is Day 22 of the partial shutdown of the federal government. That makes it the second-longest government shutdown in U.S. history. Senate Democrats refuse to vote for the funding resolution unless it extends health insurance subsidies used by over 20-million people. The shutdown may soon impact food assistance programs that run out of money in November.        Vice President JD Vance is meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to talk about the Gaza ceasefire agreement. Speaking ahead of today's meeting in Israel, Vance said things are going better than he thought. The talks come after Hamas returned the bodies of two more dead hostages on Tuesday.        A federal ICE operation in New York City is drawing scrutiny after it erupted into chaos. Agents clashed with hundreds of bystanders in Manhattan on Tuesday afternoon during a crackdown on illegal street vendors. The incident unfolded in Chinatown, in an area well known for its rows of counterfeit merchandise.        A man accused of threatening to shoot up Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson Airport is facing federal charges. Billy Joe Cagle was arrested Monday after he allegedly posted threats on social media and then drove to the airport from his home in nearby Cartersville. Investigators say they found an AR-15 and 27 rounds of ammunition in his truck.        The Louvre Museum in Paris is reopening just three days after 100-million dollars worth of jewels were stolen from the museum in a brazen daylight robbery. Visitors were let back in this morning, though one part of the museum remains closed as authorities continue to search for evidence.        The Mega Millions jackpot is now worth 680-million dollars. There was no grand prize winner in Tuesday night's drawing after no one matched all six numbers, so the jackpot rolls over to Friday's drawing, when it will be worth 680-million-dollars with a cash option of just over 318-million.       

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