Akbar Ganji has been on a hunger strike for 51 days. He has been in prison since 2000 for publishing articles linking the Rafsanjani regime to political murders in Iran.
Medicare and Medicaid are mandatory spending programs and that keeps them relatively safe in the early days of the shutdown, but 42% of the Department of Health's staff will be furloughed.
President Biden's dog bit several Secret Service agents a total of 10 times between October 2022 and January 2023. On Monday, he bit another officer at the White House.