The White House on Wednesday unveiled new dietary guidelines, with officials calling it the "most significant reset of federal nutrition policy in history." The new guidelines were represented with an upside-down pyramid placing vegetables, fruits, proteins, dairy and healthy fats at the top and whole grains at the bottom. "The new guidelines recognize that whole,...
ATLANTA — Georgia lawmakers are getting increasingly serious about making the Peach State one of the few in the nation with no state income tax. If wholly abolished, Georgia would join states such as Florida, Texas and Tennessee. For income earned in 2025, Georgia’s flat individual income tax rate is 5.19 percent. A special state Senate...
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is scheduled to address the United Kingdom Parliament later this month in honor of America’s 250th birthday. Johnson will be the first Speaker of the House to address the foreign legislative body on Jan. 20 in London. “As our nation commemorates the 250th anniversary of American Independence, I am honored and...
Grammy Award-winning banjo player Béla Fleck has pulled out of an upcoming show at The Kennedy Center, joining a growing group of artists refusing to play the venue following President Trump’s takeover of the arts and culture institution. Fleck announced in a Tuesday Instagram post that he withdrew from his performance with the National Symphony...
Days after a daring military operation to seize its leader, President Trump's gambit for Venezuela's massive oil reserves is coming into focus. That, and the future of Venezuela, are raising questions on Capitol Hill. The U.S. on Wednesday also seized two Venezuela-linked oil tankers in the North Atlantic. One vessel was flying a Russian flag....
George Conway, the pundit and Trump critic now running as a Democrat for Congress, on Wednesday criticized the new administration, saying it is being run like a “mob operation.” “You would have thought that January 6 would have been the height of his criminality, but it's worse now he is running the United States government...
Aldrich Ames, the CIA agent who sold American secrets to the Soviets, has died at the age of 84. The former case officer died in custody on Monday, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons inmate database. He had been serving out a life sentence without parole in a Maryland prison since 1994 after he...
President Trump touted US support for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) on Wednesday amid concerns from member countries over his administration’s ambitions to acquire Greenland. “We will always be there for NATO, even if they won’t be there for us. The only Nation that China and Russia fear and respect is the DJT REBUILT U.S.A.,” Trump said in a TruthSocial post. In the...
Nicolás Maduro says he’s Venezuela’s president. The United States contests that. The disagreement could become central to his drug trafficking case, as the toppled leader seeks to persuade a U.S. judge that he’s immune from criminal prosecution as a sovereign head of state. At Maduro’s first court appearance this week, he sought from the start to stop the Justice Department’s prosecution in its tracks. “I am...
The discredited and harmful practice is on the rise in the U.S., despite clear evidence of the damage they cause and opposition from every major medical association.
Officials in Denmark and Greenland are requesting a meeting with Secretary of State Marco Rubio after President Trump renewed his focus on acquiring the Arctic island, days after ousting Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro. The White House on Tuesday reiterated Trump's call for the U.S. to take over the Danish territory for national security reasons and...
An explosion tore through a mosque in the Syrian city of Homs Dec. 26, killing and wounding worshippers in a neighborhood associated with the country’s Alawite Muslim community. Syrian authorities said an investigation was underway; a little-known terrorist group later claimed responsibility. Whatever the final attribution, the attack was a reminder of a basic reality in post-Assad...
