Xavier Becerra

White House AI ‘Bill of Rights’ sets higher bar for agencies to weed out bias

The Biden administration is setting a higher bar for how federal agencies oversee artificial intelligence and automation tools, and how they implement…

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President Joe Biden speaks from the Blue Room Balcony of the White House Monday, Aug. 1, 2022, in Washington, as he announces that a U.S. airstrike killed al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahri in Afghanistan. (Jim Watson/Pool via AP)

Biden names FEMA, CDC officials to head monkeypox response

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FILE - The U.S. Capitol building is seen before sunrise on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, March. 21, 2022. With an urgent funding request stuck in Congress, the Health Resources and Services Administration says it can no longer cover medical bills for COVID tests and treatments for uninsured people and will stop taking claims at midnight Tuesday. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe, File)

COVID budget impasse halts aid to test and treat uninsured

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Biden COVID plan directs more federal employees to resume in-person work in April

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FILE - In this Dec. 15, 2020, file photo, a droplet falls from a syringe after a health care worker was injected with the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at a hospital in Providence, R.I. Genesis Healthcare, the nation’s largest nursing home operator which has 70,000 employees at nearly 400 nursing homes and senior communities, told its workers this week they will have to get COVID-19 vaccinations to keep their jobs — a possible shift in an industry that has largely rejected compulsory measures for fear of triggering an employee exodus that could worsen already dangerous staffing shortages. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)

VA, HHS expand vaccines mandate to nearly all health care workers

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Xavier Becerra testifies during a Senate Finance Committee hearing on his nomination to be secretary of Health and Human Services on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2021. (Greg Nash/Pool via AP)

Becerra confirmed to shepherd Biden’s ambitious health plans

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This Wednesday, May 20, 2015 photo shows server banks inside a data center at AEP headquarters in Columbus, Ohio. Like most big utilities, AEP's power plants, substations and other vital equipment are managed by a network that is separated from the company's business software with layers of authentication, and is not accessible via the Internet. Creating that separation, and making sure that separation is maintained, is among the most important things utilities can do to protect the grid's physical assets. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

After 25 years of talk, SSA says it has right plan to modernize its IT

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In this photo taken Dec. 10,2015, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Rep. Kevin Brady, R-Texas, center, flanked by the committee's ranking member, Rep. Sander Levin, D-Mich., left, and Rep. Dave Reichert, R-Wash., participate in a House Rules Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. The House has approved a bill that would block U.S. negotiators from using trade agreements to cut greenhouse gas emissions. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Lawmakers debate bills with serious implications for the IRS

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Health care reform rises to top of priority list

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