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The Trump administration on Tuesday announced plans to launch TrumpRx.com, an online platform that it says will direct Americans to lower-priced drugs. The announcement came one day after President Trump's deadline for drugmakers to comply with his "Most Favored Nation" (MFN) executive order, which included a mandate for companies to establish direct-to-consumer for medicines, cutting...

Voices on the left and the right are questioning the strength of former FBI Director James Comey's federal indictment, arguing prosecutors will be challenged in winning a conviction. Comey was indicted Thursday on two counts, with a grand jury taking the unusual step of rejecting one of the proposed charges before approving the two-page indictment. The slim court filing...

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins on Tuesday said the farming economy is "not in a good place" as those in the agriculture industry lose sales from trade severances with China and other partner nations. “Right now, the farm economy is not in a good place. We're working around the clock,” Rollins said during a Tuesday appearance...

President Trump is propelling his film tariff plan into the limelight — renewing his call to tax "any and all movies that are made outside of the United States" — even as both allies and critics alike cast their doubts. "Our movie making business has been stolen from the United States of America, by other...

A strong geomagnetic storm that has been impacting Earth since Monday has prompted national forecasters to warn officials "to mitigate any possible impacts."

Federal government labor unions sued Tuesday to block the Trump administration from conducting mass layoffs during the potential upcoming government shutdown. Employees are usually temporarily furloughed during a shutdown, except for exempted workers, and receive back pay after a shutdown ends. But Trump and the White House budget office have suggested permanent firings could be...

Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe (R) on Tuesday authorized the state's National Guard to perform tasks on behalf of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Soldiers will assist with “administrative, clerical, and logistical duties,” following a request from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to the Department of Defense, according to a news release from the...

A federal judge invoked his wife in issuing another scathing ruling against President Trump’s second-term agenda Tuesday, this time concerning efforts to deport students who participated in pro-Palestinian advocacy. “He seems to be winning. He ignores everything and keeps bullying ahead,” U.S. District Judge William Young’s wife said. The judge wrote that he doesn’t discuss pending...

The renowned children's educational show "Reading Rainbow" is returning to PBS after nearly 20 years, now with a viral former librarian as the new host.

A Senate Judiciary Committee panel is convening a hearing Tuesday afternoon on air carrier competition. Allegiant Airlines CEO Greg Anderson and Frontier Airlines CEO Barry Biffle are among the witnesses. Sharon Pinkerton, senior vice president for Airlines for America (A4A) — which represents Delta Air Lines, United Airlines and Soutwest Airlines — will also testify....

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) directed law enforcement in his state to boost security at religious spaces following an uptick in nationally publicized violent attacks on churches. Abbott said the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) is working with local, state and federal law enforcement agencies to increase safety and security at churches, synagogues and...

President Trump on Monday set a 10 percent tariff on lumber imports and a 25 percent tariff on furniture, including vanities and kitchen cabinets. Trump ordered an evaluation of lumber imports in March, describing the good as part of a “critical” manufacturing industry “essential” to national security, economic strength and the industrial resilience of the...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) signed a bill Monday requiring artificial intelligence (AI) companies to disclose safety information about large-scale frontier models in a key win for the push to regulate AI in Silicon Valley’s home state.  S.B. 53, the Transparency in Frontier AI Act, will require developers of these leading-edge AI models to publish frameworks...

Former Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) said on Monday he tried to get the Biden administration to issue a preemptive pardon to President Trump during the investigation into Trump’s efforts to stay in power after losing the 2020 election. “I called a member of the White House, one of the senior advisers to President Biden. And...