Post readers discuss New York AG Letitia James’ aide allegedly ordering staff to target people associated with President Trump — and her Michigan counterpart saying Jews “have a moral...
It’s easy to feel a certain schadenfreude over news of Meta’s $16.7 billion settlement with almost every state attorney general. Sometimes bad things happen to bad corporations. It’s hard not to cheer. For years, Meta has largely gone unchecked as it employed a business model that basically amounted to psychologically manipulating people through Skinnerian principles […]
It’s not often in Washington, D.C. that a special interest group directly contradicts itself, but the Hemp Roundtable did just that. In 2022, the Associated Press exposed how chemists were chemically processing CBD extracted from hemp to produce delta-8 THC, an intoxicating compound. A loophole in the 2018 Farm Bill opened the floodgates to unregulated […]
Former President Biden spoke with students at the Harvard Kennedy School in an off-the-record study group on Wednesday at the invitation of his longtime adviser, Mike Donilon. Donilon is one of nine fellows at the school's Institute of Politics for the spring. He was the chief strategist for Biden's 2020 campaign, served as a senior adviser...
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Wednesday announced the cancelation of more than $2.7 million in grants to Harvard University amid tensions between the school and the Trump administration. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said in a Wednesday press release that Noem unveiled the discontinuation of two grants from the department to Harvard worth...
Chris Krebs, a former top Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) official, is leaving the private sector to challenge a Trump administration probe. Krebs said in a Wednesday email that he was “stepping away from” the cybersecurity company SentinelOne “effective immediately.” “For those who know me, you know I don't shy away from tough fights....
The Trump administration asked the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to revoke Harvard University’s tax-exempt status on Wednesday, a day after President Trump suggested the idea. Andrew De Mello, the IRS’s acting chief counsel, received an inquiry from the Treasury Department on Wednesday requesting that the agency rescind the Ivy League school's tax-exemption status, according to...
The fight over the location of the U.S. Space Command headquarters chugs on after a new report from the Pentagon’s watchdog revealed uncertainty behind the scenes in choosing the permanent spot and several major questions left unanswered. In a heavily redacted 54-page report, released Tuesday by the Defense Department’s Office of Inspector General (IG), investigators...
The World Health Organization (WHO) announced Wednesday its member states had reached an agreement on preparing for and responding to future pandemics after more than three years of negotiations. With negotiations having launched in 2021, WHO member states have compiled a draft agreement for consideration at the upcoming World Health Assembly next month. The proposal...
Rep. Donald Norcross (D-N.J.), 66, was admitted to an intensive care unit (ICU) at a New Jersey hospital and was said to be dealing with "an extended recovery that could require physical rehabilitation,” according to a Tuesday press release from his office. Norcross was transferred to Cooper University Health Care on April 7 "following a...
The Trump administration is seeking to slash the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) budget by nearly a third, according to multiple reports. An initial draft of the White House budget request calls for dropping the agency’s discretionary budget from its fiscal 2024 enacted level of about $117 billion to $80 billion in fiscal...
Puerto Rico went dark on Wednesday after experiencing a massive power outage on the island impacting families, businesses and homes alike. “We are reporting that we have experienced a massive power outage across the island due to the unexpected shutdown of all generating plants, including those of Genera PR and other private generators,” the power...
London Mayor Sadiq Khan said in a Wednesday interview that a trade war between the United States and any country would be “bad for all of us.” In an interview on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," Khan said he hopes the United Kingdom secures a deal to mitigate the impact of President Trump's tariff. Still, he warned of...
The mother of a Maryland woman who was killed by an individual who entered the country illegally addressed reporters at the White House on Wednesday as the Trump administration seeks to go on offense over the case of an individual who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador. Patty Morin, whose daughter Rachel’s 2023 killing became...
