Almost every Senate Republican on Thursday urged the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to “reevaluate” whether a newly approved generic version of the abortion drug mifepristone should stay on the market. The letter to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and FDA Commissioner Marty Makary from 51 of 53 Republican senators...
Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) on Thursday said President Trump deserves a Nobel Peace Prize if the current peace plan between Israel and Hamas doesn't fall apart. “Do you think the president deserves a Nobel Peace Prize?” Fox News’s Aishah Hasnie asked Fetterman on “America’s Newsroom.” “Well, I mean, if this sticks. I think that the...
Obesity is a major public health and economic challenge in the US, costing the health care system an estimated $173 billion annually, and the Congressional Budget Office should refine its scoring methods to account for the long-term economic and societal costs of obesity and the efforts to mitigate it.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) will speak with reporters Thursday afternoon as the government shutdown stretched into its ninth day. Jeffries has doubled down in recent days on Democrats' demands that expiring Affordable Care Act subsidies be addressed in any continuing resolution. On Wednesday, the lawmaker and Republican Rep. Mike Lawler (N.Y.) traded barbs...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu doubled down on his belief that President Trump should receive the Nobel Peace Prize, citing Trump's 20-point peace plan to end the two-year war in Gaza. "Give @realDonaldTrump the Nobel Peace Prize — he deserves it!" Netanyahu wrote on social platform X. The post also includes an image generated with...
I am not drinking some liberal pro-environment ivory tower Kool-aid about climate change. Instead, it has been my own experiments, which were never focused on climate change, that have been telling me repeatedly that the Earth’s biggest pollution problem is increased temperatures.
President Trump's moment of truth as a global peacemaker will come early Friday morning when the Nobel Peace Prize is awarded. Trump has made no secret of his desire to win the prize. “In a period of just seven months, I have ended seven ‘un-endable’ wars,” he claimed during his address to the United Nations...
The Senate on Thursday voted for a seventh time to block a House-passed bill to reopen the federal government, as only three members of the Democratic caucus joined Republicans in voting to resolve the impasse. The House Republican-drafted measure to fund the government through Nov. 21, a "clean" continuing resolution that would keep funding at...
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon expressed alarm over the state of the stock market in a recent interview, saying he was "far more worried than others" amid concerns about the economy and the state of the world. Dimon told the BBC in an interview published Wednesday the market could fall into a correction — a...
The federal government shutdown has entered its second week, and already shortages of air traffic controllers have strained operations and disrupted flights at some U.S. airports.
Republican pundit Karl Rove knocked California Democrat and candidate for Governor Katie Porter for an interview during which she was combative with a journalist and refused to answer questions about her candidacy for the state's highest office. “It says something about it that look, she’s an unpleasant person, we’ve known that from the day that...
