U.S. climate assessment website goes dark as the Trump administration revamps federal climate content, with some scientists emphasizing the importance of these mandated reports.
Medicaid’s original purpose was to be a safety net for people who could not adequately provide themselves with healthcare. The federal government matched funds from states to ensure eligible residents could get hospital care and physician visits. The partnership sought to strengthen state-led efforts to cover poor people who could not afford private insurance. This […]
House Rules Committee advances Trump's 'big, beautiful bill' for chamber vote, with Republicans backing tax cuts, while Democrats criticize it as a wealthy giveaway.
Internet connectivity has been restored in Tehran after repeated Israeli war strikes had taken it out, Iran’s communications minister said Wednesday. “With conditions returning to normal, the state of communication access has reverted to its previous state,” Sattar Hashemi wrote in a post on X. “I sincerely apologize to all the people, especially the communications...
If Kennedy had added some of these new people to the advisory committee rather than simply firing the entire committee, he would have found far less resistance.
President Trump on Wednesday maintained that nuclear materials were not moved prior to U.S. strikes on Iranian facilities, despite an internal preliminary assessment that indicated otherwise. “We're just the opposite. We think we hit them so hard and so fast, they didn’t get to move,” Trump said during a press conference at the NATO summit...
Rogan, who appreciates freedom of speech like few others, cut right to the progressive obsession with campaign finance system as the cause and solution to every problem.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Wednesday unloaded on the press amid reports that an internal U.S. assessment found American strikes set back Iran's nuclear program by months, not years, dismissing it as "preliminary" and "low confidence." Trump invited Hegseth to address questions about the assessment near the end of a roughly 45-minute press conference at...
The very messiness of definition and outcome in Korea has contemporary resonance, given the difficulty of imagining what a settlement between Ukraine and Russia might look like today.
Democratic Reps. Ro Khanna (Calif.), Pramila Jayapal (Mich) and Greg Casar (Texas), the chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, are set to give remarks Wednesday morning in opposition to President Trump's authorization of U.S. strikes in Iran. Khanna introduced a war powers resolution last week alongside GOP Rep. Thomas Massie (Ky.) that would direct the...
President Trump on Wednesday morning will give remarks from the NATO summit in the Netherlands. Trump's comments from The Hague come as he faces pressure at home over U.S. strikes on nuclear facilities in Iran — though NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte has responded favorably to the decision — and whether the U.S. will comply...
The Austin Police Department has arrested Brian Johnson, known online as the social media influencer "Liver King," according to Travis County Jail records.
The world’s sawmills and plantation forests offer a powerful weapon against climate change, a new study has found. A paper published Wednesday in science journal Nature Geosciences found that burying the vast quantities of wood waste produced in the course of logging and processing trees could markedly slow Earth’s heating. Heat waves like the one...
New York State Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani declared victory early Wednesday after emerging with a commanding lead over former Gov. Andrew Cuomo in the Democratic mayoral primary's first-choice ballot. Mamdani — a democratic socialist, who ran a progressive campaign focusing on the state’s affordability crisis — addressed his supporters at a rally shortly after midnight on...
President Trump’s bombing of three Iranian nuclear sites has come under legal scrutiny, as some suggest his decision to bypass Congress stepped on its power to declare war. But if history is any indication, it’s unlikely the courts will have an avenue to settle the question — or that politics won't prevail, as presidents from...
