Born 60% deaf, the 6-foot-5 basketball player often refused to wear his hearing aids, but as he got older understood it was best to wear them.

Proponents of an effort to stop members of Congress from trading stocks are cautiously optimistic that it could pick up steam now that the government shutdown has ended. The House Administration Committee will meet Wednesday morning for a hearing on the issue,

Recent reporting from the New York Post showed that former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and her husband, Paul Pelosi, profited roughly $130 million over the course of her nearly four decades in Congress. While Pelosi has announced her plans to retire from her seat, there are a number of members who actively trade stocks and currencies.

Currie on Thursday noted that there was no court reporter in the room during the final minutes of the grand jury’s session ahead of Comey’s indictment. Kirschner told Newsweek that “Judge Currie indicated that Attorney General Pam Bondi couldn't have reviewed everything because it appears there are some audio recordings missing.”

Broadcast Retirement Network's Jeffrey Snyder discusses Over-the-Counter hearing aids with Towson University's Julie Norin, AuD.

The Senate field hearing featured testimony on the plight of senior residents in the wake of the Palisades fire.

The Committee on House Administration will hold a hearing next Wednesday on banning congressional stock trading, which could lead to reforming the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge (STOCK)

Advocacy group People Not Politicians has until mid-December to collect more than 100,000 signatures across six of Missouri’s eight congressional districts. The lawsuit may help decide whether 90,000 collected in September and early October are valid.

Two police officers lied about the state of a woman who was found dead, to speed up the process of sending an ambulance, a misconduct hearing has found. Sgt Stuart Hunter, who retired before the hearing, and PC Lisa Thomas of South Wales Police were found to have committed gross misconduct in relation to the incident which happened in 2021.

DTE has asked regulators to skip the public hearing process, and some Michigan lawmakers are backing that effort.