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Walmart’s DEI rollback signals a profound shift in the wake of Trump’s election victoryWashington — House Republicans on Thursday blocked two Democratic resolutions that would have compelled the House Ethics Committee to release a potentially damaging report on its investigation into former Rep. Matt Gaetz, voting to refer the matter back to the committee. Democratic Reps. Sean Casten of Illinois and Steve Cohen of Tennessee introduced twin privileged resolutions, forcing floor action within two legislative days. In a 206 to 198 vote, all but one Republican voted to refer Casten's resolution back to the Ethics Committee. Cohen's resolution met the same fate in a 204 to 198 vote, with one Republican voting with Democrats. Republican Rep. Tom McClintock of California was the only member to cross party lines. In a statement, Casten accused his Republican colleagues of voting "to sweep these allegations under the rug and set an unfortunate precedent." He said he would continue to pursue the report's release. The votes came after President-elect Donald Trump announced last month that he intended to nominate Gaetz for attorney general, prompting intense scrutiny over the Florida Republican's background and the House Ethics Committee's investigation into allegations that Gaetz engaged in sexual misconduct and illicit drug use. Gaetz, who has denied the allegations, withdrew from consideration for the attorney general nomination a little over a week after Trump made the announcement. Gaetz immediately resigned from Congress after Trump announced he wanted the Florida Republican to join his Cabinet. The timing of his resignation came days before the House panel was set to vote on releasing its report on Gaetz. House Speaker Mike Johnson, a Louisiana Republican, urged the committee to keep the report secret, arguing that a former member is beyond the panel's jurisdiction and it would set a "terrible precedent." "I believe it is very important to maintain the House's tradition of not issuing ethics reports on people who are no longer members of Congress," he said on Nov. 15. "The House Ethics Committee's jurisdiction is over sitting members of Congress. That's an important rule." Casten's resolution cited four instances in which the Ethics Committee has released reports on its investigations into members after they've resigned. The bipartisan committee met Nov. 20 to consider whether to release the report , but was evenly split along party lines about how to move forward. A day later, Gaetz withdrew himself from consideration, facing a tenuous path to Senate confirmation. There was growing interest from senators on both sides of the aisle in seeing the report before a confirmation vote. The House Ethics Committee met again Thursday to discuss its investigation into allegations against Gaetz. In a statement, the panel said it is "continuing to discuss the matter." The committee's top Democrat, Rep. Susan Wild of Pennsylvania, who wanted the report made public, did not attend the meeting. Matt Gaetz U.S. House Committee on Ethics U.S. House of Representatives Caitlin Yilek is a politics reporter at CBSNews.com, based in Washington, D.C. She previously worked for the Washington Examiner and The Hill, and was a member of the 2022 Paul Miller Washington Reporting Fellowship with the National Press Foundation.game and watch 。

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A 7-month-old baby boy now has cerebral palsy as a result of severe abuse from a Care.com nanny, Washington prosecutors said. Amber Rath, 37, was arrested and charged with f irst-degree assault of a child and second-degree assault of a child, according to court documents filed Nov. 14 at the Snohomish County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office. “We are deeply shocked and saddened by this disturbing incident, and our thoughts are with the impacted family,” a Care.com company spokesperson told McClatchy News in a Dec. 5 email. Rath was hired as a nanny for a family’s then 5-month-old boy in September, prosecutors said. She watched him three days a week. The family had a camera in their living room and in the child’s bedroom, according to the court documents. These cameras caught Rath as she became frustrated with the child, shook him and threw him between Oct. 16 and Oct. 17, prosecutors said. Prosecutors said the crying child became unresponsive and limp after being thrown forcefully onto a couch in the living room on Oct. 17. That’s when she called 911 and said the child was having a hard time breathing and wasn’t staying awake, court documents said. As a result, prosecutors said the child became “critically ill” and had “extensive and severe” injuries. He was examined by a pediatrician at the Seattle Children’s Hospital , where he was found to have seizures, brain hemorrhaging and brain swelling, prosecutors said. The child did not have previous medical issues. The doctors determined his injuries were from “abusive head trauma,” prosecutors said. He was also diagnosed with cerebral palsy “as a result of the injury to his brain causing issues with the function of his right-side extremities.” Cerebral palsy is a neurological disorder that can happen if there are abnormalities or damage to a developing brain, according to the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. Children with cerebral palsy may have issues with muscle coordination, tight muscles, weakness in an arm or a leg or shaky and involuntary movements. Prosecutors called Rath’s treatment of the child “shocking and wholly inappropriate.” All caregivers on Care.com are background-checked through the company’s “CareCheck process before they are able to interact with families,” the company’s website site says. Snohomish is about a 35-mile drive north from Seattle. If you suspect a child has experienced, is currently experiencing, or is at risk of experiencing abuse or neglect, your first step should be to contact the appropriate agency. The Child Welfare Information Gateway has a list of state agencies you can contact. Find help specific to your area here. For additional help, the Childhelp National Child Abuse Hotline has professional crisis counselors available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, in over 170 languages. All calls are confidential. The hotline offers crisis intervention, information, and referrals to thousands of emergency, social service, and support resources. You can call or text 1-800-422-4453 . If you believe a child is in immediate danger, please call 911 for help.

Thus far on the season the Minnesota Vikings have remained relatively healthy. They have been without a starter here or there , but nothing considerable for any serious duration of time. That changed in a big way on Tuesday what Ivan Pace Jr. hit injured reserve. Ivan Pace Jr. hits IR for the Minnesota Vikings Through the Minnesota Vikings first 11 games, Ivan Pace Jr. has been a steadying presence in the middle of the defense. The undrafted free agent didn’t take on the green dot this season, but he has been among the most integral parts of the defense. Now Brian Flores will need to operate without him. #Vikings LB Ivan Pace Jr has been placed on IR. His spot will be taken by rookie UDFA Gabe Murphy. pic.twitter.com/7XoatW6dAT Pace has already surpassed his sack total from last season with three , and he was tracking to contribute more than the 102 tackles he put up a year ago. Defensively he has played 63% of the snaps for Flores, and has backed off usage on special teams. Working alongside Blake Cashman , the Vikings linebacking unit has been among the strength of the defense. Ivan Pace Jr. does hilarious things on film. He’s like a bumper car fueled by Red Bull. pic.twitter.com/r7GxN3a46y It will be a next man up mentality for Minnesota. Cashman just recently returned from his turf toe injury, and now will be without his running mate. The insertion of Cashman back into the lineup has been huge. It remains to be seen how he will look without Pace Jr. beside him for a considerable stretch. The hope is that Pace Jr. can heal the hamstring injury and return after missing the minimum four games. That would put him back for the Vikings last two games of the season. Multiple moving pieces for Minnesota Vikings With Pace Jr. being moved off the active roster, the Vikings had plenty of shuffling to do. Rookie edge rusher Gabe Murphy took a 53-man spot as he returns from IR. The bigger news was Minnesota swiping linebacker Jamin Davis from the Green Bay Packers practice squad. The former first round pick will be asked to pick up some of the snaps that Pace Jr. is vacating. The #Vikings have signed LB Jamin Davis ( @Jamindavis25 ) to the 53-man roster. OLB Gabe Murphy has been activated off IR to the 53-man roster and LB Ivan Pace Jr. has been placed on IR. pic.twitter.com/nWlBfpS4er Davis has played in five games this year, but they all came with the Washington Commanders. He was a regular starter each of the past two seasons and has seven career sacks across 50 games. Davis played at Kentucky before going 19th overall in the 2021 NFL Draft. That’s not the only roster news for Minnesota either. They won’t be getting tight end Nick Muse back after waiving him on Monday. The practice squad is currently full, and long snapper Jack McQuaide has to be signed to the active roster this week as well. All of this takes place while Minnesota awaits word on a decision from recently waived quarterback Daniel Jones. It’s been a busy day at the TCO Performance Center. This article first appeared on Minnesota Sports Fan and was syndicated with permission.

A multibillion-dollar plan to create “clean” hydrogen from Australian brown coal and ship it to Japan is on the brink of collapse. Japanese media has reported Kawasaki Heavy Industries has withdrawn from the trial, blaming procurement delays. The controversial plan was billed as a lifeline for the Latrobe Valley’s ageing brown coal industry. Under the plan, hydrogen would be extracted from coal, creating the world’s first liquefied hydrogen supply chain. Kawasaki Heavy Industries has reportedly withdrawn from plan to create “clean” hydrogen from brown coal sourced from the Latrobe Valley. Credit: Eamon Gallagher Proponents said the joint venture, led by Japan’s largest industrial conglomerates, would use commercially unproven CO2 capture and storage technology to sequester carbon in the Bass Strait. It was also to send the super-cooled hydrogen extracted from coal in purpose-built bulk carriers out of Hastings to Kawasaki in the Asian nation’s industrial heartland. The Hydrogen Energy Supply Chain project (HESC) was a partnership between international fossil energy companies, including Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd (KHI), Royal Dutch Shell and AGL. It was supported by a $2.35 billion investment from the Japanese government, and a $50 million in start-up investment from the Victorian government in 2018. Japanese outlet Nikkei reported that Kawasaki Heavy Industries had abandoned its bid to establish an international supply chain to procure hydrogen from Australia because it had become “difficult to procure hydrogen in Australia within the deadline”. “With the completion of the demonstration test by fiscal year 2030, as originally scheduled, being an absolute requirement for ensuring competitiveness, the company has changed hydrogen procurement to domestic,” Nikkei reported. “It has also downsized its hydrogen carriers and is now steering toward a more ‘realistic’ solution.” ‘This disastrous project has never stacked up ... Now the wheels are well and truly falling off’ Ellen Sandell, Victorian Greens leader Victorian Energy Minister Lily D’Ambrosio raised doubts about the project last year at an Australian Financial Review Energy and Climate Summit, saying it was not clear that the proponents would be able to adequately capture the carbon from the coal and safely sequester it. “That is a question that is yet to be answered,” she said. The AFR reported that Kawasaki Heavy Industries’ chairman Yoshinori Kanehana told a separate event last year that his business had been focused on winning “social license” from Victorian communities and hoped to avoid “ideological divides”. Friends of the Earth gas campaigner Freja Leonard said Kawasaki Heavy Industries’ decision to withdraw indicated the project wasn’t financially or practically feasible. “It’s just an absolute nonsense to use brown coal in a climate crisis to produce hydrogen,” she said. “Hydrogen is notoriously difficult to contain. It’s incredibly expensive to produce, and any project that expects to successfully ship hydrogen from one country to another without significant leakage is doomed to failure.” Loading A commercial-in-confidence report on the proposal compiled by the Department of Industry, Science and Resources in 2022 and released under freedom of information laws argued the plan was broadly supported in the Latrobe Valley. “There are a limited number of groups within the Latrobe Valley that do not support the use of fossil fuels and are against CCS [carbon capture and storage],” it stated. “However, the predominant sentiment in the Valley is one that supports the HESC [Hydrogen Energy Supply Chain].” Identifying challenges getting stakeholders like the local council on board, the report noted that the HESC had “revised [its] messaging”, “highlighting the carbon neutrality” the project could achieve by combining biomass with coal. This, it said, “softens the image of HESC as a coal-driven project”. Under the plan, the cooled hydrogen would have been piped more than 150 kilometres from Gippsland to the Port of Hastings and shipped to Japan. In January 2022, according to the confidential report, hydrogen was successfully generated under trial from brown coal and biomass. However, it reported cost overruns and lengthy delays to the trial. Victorian Greens leader Ellen Sandell said it was time for the project to be scrapped altogether. “This disastrous coal project has never stacked up environmentally or economically, and I cannot believe Labor ever gave it money and support. Now the wheels are well and truly falling off.” Comment has been sought from Energy Minister Chris Bowen’s office. Get to the heart of what’s happening with climate change and the environment. Sign up for our fortnightly Environment newsletter. Save Log in , register or subscribe to save articles for later. License this article Hydrogen Paris Agreement Climate policy Bianca Hall is The Age's environment and climate reporter, and has worked in a range of roles including as a senior writer, city editor, and in the federal politics bureau in Canberra. Connect via Twitter , Facebook or email . Most Viewed in Environment LoadingRow still simmering abroad