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Dark days loom for New Yorkers as climate law promises blackouts, cost hikes

Gov. Hochul has spent much of her 4 ¹/₂ years in office facing a time bomb left by her predecessor: drastic, legally binding greenhouse gas reduction targets that the state...

Save the LAX People Mover

LAX has always been a mess. But the Automated People Mover delays have added...

Spread the word, not the virus: Get measles vax

Don’t mess with measles. That should be a PSA to all parents in California...

Democrats threaten to derail Senate business until Republicans hold public hearings on Iran war

At least a half-dozen Senate Democrats are threatening to force repetitive votes on war powers resolutions and use other tools of the minority party to gum up the works in the chamber until Republicans schedule public hearings on the Iran war.

Trump says other nations have Tomahawk missiles after strike hits school, kills more than 160 people

President Trump on Monday said other countries might have been responsible for firing a Tomahawk missile that hit an Iranian school on the first day of U.S.-Israeli strikes on the Islamic republic.

Kaine: Trump calling Iran war an ‘excursion’ is ‘deeply disrespectful’ to service members

Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) slammed President Trump for referring to the war in Iran as an “excursion” on Monday. “You can’t watch that and feel that that way of characterizing this is [not] deeply disrespectful,” Kaine told host Kaitlan Collins on CNN’s “The Source,” after watching the dignified transfer of Sgt. Benjamin N. Pennington at...

Paul hopes for Mullin’s DHS confirmation hearing next week

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), the chair of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, said Monday he hopes to hold a confirmation hearing next week for Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.), President Trump’s nominee to head the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). “We’re shooting for a week from Wednesday,” Paul told reporters as he stepped...

Trump says he’ll strike Iran ‘20 times harder’ than before if oil flow halted in Strait of Hormuz

President Trump on Monday threatened the Iranian regime against halting the flow of oil through the Strait of Hormuz, as gas prices back home rise amid the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran. “If Iran does anything that stops the flow of Oil within the Strait of Hormuz, they will be hit by the United States of...

Public trust in NIH, FDA and CDC continues to fall 

Presented by the Coalition to Strengthen America's Healthcare {beacon}   Health Care Health Care The Big Story Public trust in NIH, FDA and CDC continues to fall New polling released last week found that public trust in federal agencies and authorities regarding health information has continued to fall over the past year, even as Health and...

5 takeaways from Trump’s Iran presser at Doral

President Trump suggested the war with Iran could be coming to a close during a press conference at his Miami resort on Monday, which immediately followed his address to House Republicans at their annual retreat. “Very soon,” Trump said when asked when the war would end. “Look, everything they have is gone, including their leadership.”...

Rubio designates Afghanistan as ‘state sponsor of wrongful detention’

Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Monday designated Afghanistan as a “state sponsor of wrongful detention” and urged the ruling Taliban to release two U.S. citizens he said are “unjustly detained.” “Today, I am designating Afghanistan as a State Sponsor of Wrongful Detention. The Taliban continues to use terrorist tactics, kidnapping individuals for ransom or...

Trump tells Republicans the SAVE America Act will ‘guarantee the midterms’

DORAL, Fla. - President Trump on Monday pushed for the passage of a GOP voting requirements bill, telling House Republicans that enacting the legislation will “guarantee the midterms” and reiterating that he won’t sign any other bills until it gets passed. “It will guarantee the midterms. If you don’t get it, big trouble,” Trump said...

Democrats vow to shut down Senate over Iran conflict

A group of Senate Democrats are threatening to use every procedural tool at their disposal to hold up business on the Senate floor unless Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and other senior officials testify before key committees under oath on the military conflict with Iran. “We have collectively agreed that...

Trump calls Iran war ‘excursion’ that will be done ‘very soon’ 

President Trump on Monday described the war against Iran as an “excursion” that would be over soon, as the president contends with spiking oil prices, troop casualties, allies under attack and low support among the American public.  “This was just an excursion into something that had to be done. We're getting very close to finishing...

Trump, Pentagon give conflicting signals on end to Iran war

President Trump and the Pentagon are offering conflicting signals on how long the U.S. war with Iran will last, as officials in Tehran prepare to dig in for a longer fight and with the economic fallout from the clash hurting the U.S. and global economy. Trump on Monday suggested victory is in sight but with...

Trump’s denial on Iran school bombing cuts against mounting signs of US responsibility 

President Trump’s remarks blaming Iran for the recent bombing of an all-girls school in southern Iran, where more than 160 people were killed, run counter to the mounting evidence that the U.S. military is likely responsible for the attack.  The Shajarah Tayyebeh elementary school, located in Minab, Iran, in the nation’s southern Hormozgan Province, was...

Roughly 3 in 4 oppose sending US ground troops into Iran: Survey

Nearly three-quarters of respondents to a new Quinnipiac University poll do not support the U.S. sending ground troops into Iran, as the conflict in the Middle East hits 10 days on Monday. The survey, released Monday, found that 20 percent of respondents support such a move, while 74 percent oppose it. Just 3 percent of...

Democrats seek to impose political pain of Iran war on Trump

Democrats are pouncing on a spike in gas prices and expected soaring airline fares, blaming President Trump’s handling of the war in Iran for deepening economic pain on Americans. In interviews, statements and in a flurry of social media posts, Democrats have sharpened their arguments — repeatedly linking Trump’s decision to enter the Iran conflict...

Oil briefly reaches $119 per barrel

{beacon} Energy & Environment Energy & Environment   The Big Story Oil briefly reaches $119 per barrel The conflict in Iran is causing a massive disruption in the global oil supply and sending energy prices skyrocketing. © Erin Hooley, Associated Press It’s unclear how long the disruption will last — and therefore how long the...

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