President Trump said Saturday that American commercial and military ships should not have to pay to travel through the Panama Canal and Suez Canal. “American Ships, both Military and Commercial, should be allowed to travel, free of charge, through the Panama and Suez Canals! Those Canals would not exist without the United States of America,”...
President Trump said Saturday that American commercial and military ships should not have to pay to travel through the Panama Canal and Suez Canal. “American Ships, both Military and Commercial, should be allowed to travel, free of charge, through the Panama and Suez Canals! Those Canals would not exist without the United States of America,”...
The New York Board of Education sought to eliminate "culturally abusive" stereotypes by nixing American Indian mascots in schools, but as far as the Trump administration is concerned, the ban itself may be discriminatory.
The Russia-Ukraine peace negotiations appear to be heading toward a crescendo as the U.S. continues to facilitate the discussions between the two countries. Although top U.S. officials, including President Trump, warned that if substantial progress is not achieved soon, Washington will pull back from its mediating role. Trump contended that Russia’s President Vladimir Putin might...
A Trump administration appointee asked the IRS in March to review an audit of MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, a close President Trump ally, according to The Washington Post, which cited two people familiar with the matter and records that the news outlet obtained. The Treasury Department official, David Eisner, wrote an email last month to...
An appeals court has temporarily halted a lower court’s order that enabled the release of contested climate funds. Earlier this week, District Judge Tanya Chutkan blocked the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from clawing back billions of dollars in climate funds that were given to climate finance organizations during the Biden administration. Her order directed Citibank to...
Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-Fla.) criticized Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for comments he made Wednesday about autism. In a Wednesday press conference on a recent report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Kennedy said that “autism destroys families.” “More importantly, it destroys our greatest resource, which [is] our children,”...
Congress has passed a budget resolution that includes extending expiring tax cuts for middle- and upper-income taxpayers, border security funding, and reducing the deficit by $1.5 trillion over ten years, but the Senate's budget resolution has been criticized for not complying with the president's deficit reduction promises.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries has stated that the country is facing a "crisis across the board" due to President Trump's policies, calling it an assault on the democratic way of life, the economy, Social Security, healthcare, and democracy.
The Supreme Court scheduled a rare May oral argument on the Trump administration’s emergency request to narrow a series of nationwide blocks on President Trump’s executive order that would restrict birthright citizenship. The administration has not yet asked the justices to settle the constitutionality of Trump’s order but has asked the high court to rein in...
President Trump on Thursday argued he would be able to remove Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell if he wanted to, ratcheting up his criticism of the leader of the central bank. “Oh, he’ll leave. If I ask him to, he’ll be out of there,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. “I don't think he’s...
A crushing "spiral of silence" keeps Americans from discussing the threat of climate change, a new study has found. The findings, published on Thursday in PLOS Climate, highlight a dynamic that cuts to the heart of the country’s failure to take significant action to slow climate change. “When we don't hear an opinion, or we don't hear our thoughts out there,...
A group of House lawmakers launched a probe Thursday into 23andMe's handling of customers' sensitive data following the company's filing for bankruptcy last month. In a letter to 23andMe, House Commerce and Energy Committee Chair Brett Guthrie (R-Ky.) and Reps. Gus Bilirakis (R-Fla.) and Gary Palmer (R-Ala.) asked the company to state its data privacy...
Officials said at least six individuals have been hospitalized as a result of a shooting at Florida State University (FSU) on Thursday. Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare said it was "receiving and caring for patients," according to a statement to NBC News Thursday afternoon. "At this time, details are still unfolding, and we do not yet have...
Kevin Hall, a top nutrition researcher at the National Institute of Health (NIH), said he is retiring early, claiming his work was censored after Robert F. Kennedy Jr. took the helm of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Hall, who examined food environments and chronic diseases, said there were bipartisan goals to examine...
When American officials state one version of reality while Panamanian officials assert another, international audiences inevitably tend to believe the more powerful nation.
