(By Kenneth Schrupp, The Center Square) California legislators have been told to expect a deficit of $10 billion or more even if revenues do not fall due to higher than anticipated spending, reports Politico.
Critics note that the $10 billion figure matches estimated costs of the state’s expansion of eligibility...
(José Niño, Headline USA) Sen. John Fetterman, R-PA, is facing a growing number of calls to resign.
A bombshell profile in New York Magazine showcased Fetterman’s declining mental health.
“He needs to resign,” declared Jonathan Last of The Bulwark, a former Fetterman supporter, on The Secret Podcast. His co-host, Sarah Longwell,...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order to stop “dangerous gain-of-function research,” which some scientists believe may have caused the COVID-19 pandemic.
Among other things, the order says it will end federal funding of this research by foreign entities in places such as China...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) The Trump-led National Institutes of Health has shut down a controversial experiment that involved the systematic slaughtering of beagles.
The experiment, formerly run in-house by the NIH’s Clinical Center in Maryland, involved injecting pneumonia-causing bacteria directly into the lungs of 2,000 beagles.
In a Saturday interview on Fox and Friends Weekend,...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) New York Attorney General Letitia James has once again started a dispute with President Donald Trump—this time taking legal action over the Trump administration’s efforts to cut funding in the healthcare sector.
Speaking at a Manhattan rally orchestrated by the National Action Network on Saturday, James announced...
(José Niño, Headline USA) The sacred tradition of donating one’s body to science was shattered at Harvard University, where a trusted employee turned the morgue into a grisly meat market.
According to a report by the New York Times, Cedric Lodge, formerly the morgue manager at Harvard Medical School, stole...
(José Niño, Headline USA) Under orders from Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya is launching an unprecedented data-driven autism study.
In the past month, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, the newly appointed director of the National Institutes of Health, has become the architect of a sweeping new federal...
(José Niño, Headline USA) With 61 percent of American adults reporting current use of prescription drugs, new data paints a picture of an increasingly medicated nation facing rising rates of depression, ADHD, and reliance on imported medicines.
According to a 2023 survey conducted by KFF, approximately 61 percent of U.S....
(Casey Harper, The Center Square) – A battle is brewing nationwide over whether recipients of SNAP benefits, also known as "food stamps," should be allowed to purchase soda and candy with their government food assistance.
Critics of the new push to ban soda and candy purchases under SNAP say it...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) A federal website that used to feature the mainstream narrative on COVID-19 has been transformed into a page supporting the theory that the pandemic originated with a lab leak.
The covid.gov website shows a photo of President Donald Trump walking between the words “lab” and “leak”...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced Tuesday that it’s investigating a startup that’s been launching balloons filled with sulfur dioxide (SO2) into the atmosphere, allegedly as part of a scheme to “geoengineer the planet.”
According to the EPA, the company in question, Making Sunsets, has already launched...
(Headline USA) Donald Trump’s doctor says he is “fully fit” to serve as commander in chief as the White House released results Sunday of Trump's recent physical exam. The 78-year-old Trump is 20 pounds lighter since his checkup as president in 2020 showed him bordering on obesity.
His physician, Navy Capt....