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Tom Howell Jr.

Tom Howell Jr.

Tom Howell Jr. covers politics and the White House for The Washington Times. He can be reached at thowell@washingtontimes.com.

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In this Feb. 11, 2016, file photo, Dallas County Mosquito Lab microbiologist Spencer Lockwood sorts mosquitoes collected in a trap in Hutchins, Texas, that had been set up in Dallas County near the location of a confirmed Zika virus infection. (AP Photo/LM Otero, file)

NIH begins Zika vaccine trial

Zika virus has all but disappeared from the U.S., but the government said Thursday it's preparing for future outbreaks with a vaccine trial among dozens of adults in Baltimore and Vermont. Published August 16, 2018

FILE - In this Feb. 7, 2013 file photo, a U.S. Postal Service letter carrier delivers mail in the rain in, in Atlanta. Booming online retail sales are good news for the U.S. Postal Service, but its carriers are incurring a cost: more dog bites. Dog attacks on postal workers rose last year to 6,755, up 206 from the previous year and the highest in three decades, as internet shopping booms and consumers increasingly demand seven-day-a-week package delivery and groceries dropped at their doorstep. The high for attacks dated back to the 1980s, at more than 7,000, before maulings by pit bulls and other potentially aggressive dogs became a public issue. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)

D.C. man gets prison for importing heroin via U.S. mail

A D.C. resident was sentenced to prison Tuesday for using fake names and local colluders to sneak heroin from Nigeria into the national capital region, while using the U.S. Postal Service as his unwitting courier. Published August 14, 2018

"What you had is a, I think, a message from the voters to the Republicans that you've got to stop the chaos and you've got to get more in tune and stop alienating people and try to figure out how do families do better," Ohio Gov. John Kasich told NBC's Meet the Press. (Associated Press)

John Kasich says GOP needs unifying message, less chaos

Ohio Gov. John Kasich on Sunday said the GOP needs to find a unifying message to tamp down the "chaotic environment" that seems to dominate political discourse today, citing a narrow victory for Republican Troy Balderson in a special congressional election that should have been a slam dunk for his party. Published August 12, 2018

Albuquerque officer Ryan Holets holds his newly adopted daughter, Hope, after being recognized by the city of Albuquerque on Monday, Dec. 11, 2017. In September, Holets convinced a pregnant woman he found using heroin to let him adopt her unborn child. That baby, Hope, is now recovering for being born with an addiction. Holets and his wife have four other children. (AP Photo/Russell Contreras) ** FILE **

CDC: Share of opioid-addicted women giving birth spiked with crisis

The share of pregnant women who gave birth while hooked on opioids more than quadrupled as the U.S. addiction crisis exploded, the government said Thursday in the first multistate analysis of the epidemic's potential impact on newborns and their moms. Published August 9, 2018

In this Dec. 16, 2016 file photo, Puerto Rico resident Michelle Flandez caresses her two-month-old son Inti Perez, diagnosed with microcephaly linked to the mosquito-borne Zika virus, in Bayamon, Puerto Rico. In the first long-term look at what happened to children of U.S. mothers who were infected with Zika during pregnancy, one in seven developed some kind of health problem _ranging from birth defects to conditions that became apparent only later. Health officials released the findings Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2018. (AP Photo/Carlos Giusti)

One in 7 babies exposed to Zika face health problems: CDC

One in seven babies born to Zika-infected mothers in Puerto Rico and other U.S. territories had some form of defect or developed a neurological problem, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Tuesday. Published August 7, 2018

A Kaiser Family Foundation poll shows 53 percent of Americans support a national health care plan. Still, 47 percent said they would be able to keep their current health insurance arrangement under single-payer, which would probably not be the case.

Health care heats up election debate

Eight years and five election cycles after the 2010 Affordable Care Act's passage, health care remains a powerful political issue -- and neither Republicans' push for skimpier, cheaper options nor Democrats' demand for more robust and costly coverage has prevailed. Published July 29, 2018

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo attends the ceremony marking Billy Joel's 100th performance at New York's Madison Square Garden, Wednesday, July 18, 2018. (AP Photo/Richard Drew) ** FILE **

Dozen blue states sue over Donald Trump’s ‘association plans’

Democrats in a dozen states filed a lawsuit Thursday challenging President Trump's decision to let small employers and self-employed people pool together and buy health plans that are cheaper and cover fewer benefits than what Obamacare dictates. Published July 26, 2018