(Thérèse Boudreaux, The Center Square) With deregulation-focused Republicans in Congress reluctant to fulfill the industry-wary goals of the Make America Healthy Again initiative, some Democrats are taking up the torch.
Health and environmental activists have sounded the alarm for decades over the considerable leeway the Food and Drug Administration gives...
(The Center Square) Days after President Donald Trump declared “Liberation Day” by federalizing the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Police Department and deploying hundreds of National Guard members to curb crime, D.C. Attorney General Brian Schwalb is filing a lawsuit against the Trump administration claiming the federal takeover is unlawful.
Schwalb describes...
(Brett Rowland, The Center Square) The federal government is on pace to eliminate about 300,000 workers this year.
Office of Personnel Management director Scott Kupor said 80% of those employees would leave voluntarily and 20% would be fired. Kupor provided the figures to Reuters on Thursday. That's a 12.5% reduction in...
(Headline USA) A Brooklyn construction magnate was sentenced Friday to a year of probation for working with a Turkish government official to funnel illegal campaign contributions to New York City Mayor Eric Adams, resolving one of two related federal cases after the mayor’s criminal charges were dropped.
Erden Arkan, 76, told...
(J.D. Davidson, The Center Square) The man accused of killing Minnesota’s former House speaker and her husband faces state charges of first-degree murder.
Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty said Thursday a state grand jury indictment of Vance Luther Boelter includes two first-degree premeditated murder charges for the killing of House...
(Brett Rowland, The Center Square) U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced Thursday the reinstatement of the Task Force on Safer Childhood Vaccines, the day before he had to respond to a lawsuit over his alleged failure to stand up the task force.
Health and...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that the Trump administration was making “sincere” efforts toward ending the war in Ukraine, comments that came a day before the two leaders hold a highly anticipated summit in the US state of Alaska.
“The current American administration… is making, in...
(Headline USA) Attorney General Pam Bondi on Thursday named the head of the Drug Enforcement Administration, Terry Cole, as Washington’s “emergency police commissioner” as she carries out President Donald Trump's decision to take over the Washington police department.
Bondi said she's giving Cole the powers of police chief and the Metropolitan...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) In an interview published by The Times of Israel on Wednesday, US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee justified the Israeli military’s shooting of unarmed Palestinians attempting to get aid in the Gaza Strip.
Defending the US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), Huckabee downplayed the reports of people being killed...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) The Trump administration has ordered the deployment of US air and naval forces to the Southern Caribbean Sea to “address threats from Latin American drug cartels,” Reuters reported on Thursday, citing two sources briefed on the decision.
The report didn’t specify what sort of action the US forces...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) A newly declassified email exposed former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper dismissing serious warnings from a top intelligence official about compromising standard procedures in the 2017 assessment on alleged Russian interference.
The email shows Clapper brushing aside concerns from former National Security Agency Director Mike...
(Headline USA) The Washington, D.C., police chief stepped up cooperation between her officers and federal immigration officials as President Donald Trump’s law enforcement takeover of the nation’s capital took root Thursday. National Guard troops watched over some of the world’s most renowned landmarks and Humvees took up position in front...