Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) affects 25 million people in the U.S. and is the fifth leading cause of death from disease — on track to be the third by 2035 if nothing changes. Gaps in treatment, policy inaction, and access barriers give way to high rates of ER visits, hospital admissions, readmissions, and worse....
President Trump said Israel and Iran came to him and said “PEACE!” after he stated earlier that the two countries had “fully agreed” on “a Complete and Total CEASEFIRE.” “Israel & Iran came to me, almost simultaneously, and said, ‘PEACE!’ I knew the time was NOW. The World, and the Middle East, are the real...
Iran said it paused attacks on Israel Monday, but also stated it had not come to a “final decision” on a ceasefire. “As Iran has repeatedly made clear: Israel launched war on Iran, not the other way around,” Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said in a post on the social platform X Monday evening. ”As...
Vice President Vance said Monday that President Trump wants “to build a long-term settlement” to ensure Iran does not rebuild its nuclear program. “While we have obliterated the Iranian nuclear program, our hope and our expectation is that they're not gonna try to rebuild that program,” Vance told Fox News’s Bret Baier on “Special Report.”...
Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) called for the delay of this week's meeting of a federal vaccine advisory panel handpicked by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr, citing concerns about members' lack of experience and potential bias towards vaccines. "Wednesday's meeting should not proceed with a relatively small panel, and no CDC Director...
A key Democratic committee voted Monday night to recommend Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.) to lead the party on the powerful House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, lending a good deal of momentum to the second-term Californian heading into a vote of the full caucus on Tuesday. Huddled in the basement of the Capitol, the Democratic...
President Trump expressed optimism Monday that the war between Iran and Israel was coming to an end, just hours after Iran launched largely symbolic strikes on a U.S. military base in Qatar that were intercepted. Experts say the U.S. should remain on alert for Iranian threats, even as a fragile ceasefire takes shape. Iran’s leaders...
Just two weeks ago, it would have been inconceivable that a day on which Iran fired missiles at a U.S. base would also be seen as a day of de-escalation. But that was the bizarre nature of Monday, when Iran targeted the largest U.S. military installation in the Middle East but did so in a...
A dozen House Democrats who are veterans announced support for a war powers resolution in the wake of recent U.S. strikes against Iran. “We write firstmost as Patriots who love our country. Each and every one of us wore the uniform with pride. Each and every one of us was ready and willing to lay...
Republican senators say the massive spending cuts to Medicaid in the megabill GOP leaders hope to pass to enact President Trump’s agenda are still a major concern, raising questions about whether the bill has the votes to advance on the Senate floor this week. Senators, who have warned for weeks that the Medicaid spending cuts...
Economic fallout from the weekend strike by U.S. forces on Iranian nuclear facilities has been muted so far, but the opening of direct hostilities between the U.S. and Iran could have far-reaching consequences for the global economy. Shipping rates have spiked, oil prices are rising, and global stock markets have taken a hit. All eyes...
