In Other News: Arizona officers storm house with guns drawn over toddler with a high fever; DeVos reverses course on Special Olympics cuts after Trump orders funding

Published 8:15 pm Thursday, March 28, 2019

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Arizona officers storm house with guns drawn over toddler with a high fever

Police with guns drawn broke down the door of an Arizona home and ordered three children into the custody of the Department of Child Safety because the parents had refused to take their son who had a high fever to the hospital. Sarah Beck brought her 2-year-old son to Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine on Feb. 25 and was told he had a temperature of more than 105, according to reports by the Chandler Police Department. The doctor believed the child could be suffering from a “life-threatening” illness that could not be tested for at the clinic, so she told Beck to take the toddler to the hospital, a police report said. The mother was reluctant because the boy wasn’t vaccinated, and she feared “possible repercussions,” the report said. — NBC News

DeVos reverses course on Special Olympics cuts after Trump orders funding

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos spent three days defending her plan to eliminate Special Olympics funding from next year’s budget. That didn’t stop her boss, President Donald Trump, from publicly undermining her on Thursday, when he told reporters that he had “overridden” the proposed cut — though this is the third year in a row that DeVos had included it in her annual funding request to Congress. — CNN

FBI must hand over documents used to keep Comey memos secret, judge rules

Over the objections of the FBI, a federal judge on Thursday sided with CNN in an ongoing lawsuit seeking to make public what the bureau said in two secretive court declarations in October of 2017, as part of its aggressive efforts to keep memos documenting former FBI director James Comey’s meetings with President Trump hidden. Comey’s memos, whose existence was ultimately leaked with Comey’s knowledge and which were later obtained by Congress in redacted form, became a catalyst for the appointment of Special Counsel Robert Mueller in May of 2017. CNN filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request that same month, and later filed a lawsuit seeking access to the memos. — Fox News

McConnell to Trump: Health care’s all yours

Mitch McConnell has no intention of leading President Donald Trump’s campaign to transform the GOP into the “party of health care.” “I look forward to seeing what the president is proposing and what he can work out with the speaker,” McConnell said in a brief interview Thursday, adding, “I am focusing on stopping the ‘Democrats’ Medicare for none’ scheme.” The Senate majority leader spent untold weeks and months on the party’s health care quagmire in 2017, when the GOP controlled both the House and the Senate and still failed to repeal Obamacare. The episode caused endless headaches for Republicans as their replacement plan fell apart first, followed by the so-called “skinny” plan they slapped together at the last minute. — Politico