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President Trump is once again opening up a marine national monument in the Atlantic Ocean to commercial fishing. Late Friday afternoon, he issued a proclamation allowing for commercial fishing in the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument. This monument consists of a nearly 5,000 square mile area southeast of Cape Cod, Mass. Species of dolphin, whale,...

The Trump administration on Monday proposed stripping the power of an independent board to review challenges from fired federal workers while barring employees from taking the matter to court. The new proposed rule would impact federal workers fired through a Reduction in Force (RIF), the process used at 22 different agencies last year as the Trump administration...

More Americans believe the economy and stock market will get better within six months instead of decline, according to a new survey. In the Gallup poll, 50 percent of respondents said the stock market is set to “go up a lot” or “go up a little” within the next half year, while 25 percent said...

{beacon} Technology Technology   The Big Story AI dominates Super Bowl commercials While the New England Patriots and Seattle Seahawks battled it out on the field at Sunday's Super Bowl, another player was dominating the airwaves during commercials — AI. © Adam Hunger/AP Content Services for NFL AI was ever-present during what is widely considered...

The Justice Department accused two men of stealing $120 million from federal health care programs over the course of a decade by bribing patients to enroll in social adult day cares and submit unneeded prescriptions to a pharmacy. Inwoo Kim, 42, and Daniel Lee, 56, were charged with conspiracy to commit health care fraud. They each face up to 10 years in prison. “Today’s complaint targets those who prey upon...

House Democrats are planning to force a vote this week on a resolution blocking President Trump’s tariffs on Canada, a House aide told The Hill. Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-NY), the ranking member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, is the lead sponsor on a resolution that would terminate Trump’s use of a national emergency to...

Seventy House Democrats sent a letter to Education Secretary Linda McMahon demanding answers on the department’s backlog in civil rights cases. The Democrats, led by Rep. Suzanne Bonamici (D-Ore.), expressed concern at the number of Office of Civil Rights (OCR) employees laid off under the Trump administration when the president’s term started with over 22,000 complaints filed...

The Pentagon held off on naming “underperforming” defense contractors for now as it continues to review their performance to ensure the businesses are prioritizing the supply of weapons systems to U.S. warfighters. The Defense Department (DOD) completed its initial review of defense contractors to determine whether companies were investing in their own production capacity or...

If this isn’t case closed, then I think it’s time for the alleged victims to tell us who else was involved. Directly.

The Ford worker who heckled President Trump during his visit to a plant in Michigan last month has not been disciplined, according to his union, United Auto Workers (UAW). TJ Sabula reportedly called Trump a "pedophile protector" during the president's tour of Ford’s River Rouge complex in Dearborn, a reference to the administration's handling of...

If you were focused on his singing – or distracted by the real-life wedding that took place – you may not have noticed there were two versions of the Puerto Rican flag that made in appearance.

Discord, a social platform popular in the gaming community, announced Monday it is rolling out new age assurance technology that will require users to submit a video selfie or another form of identification to fully access the platform’s features. Starting in early March, the platform will begin shifting all users to a “teen-appropriate experience” by...

The Department of Health and Human Services has invested $100 million in a pilot program in eight U.S. cities focused on court-ordered treatment, psychiatric care, crisis intervention, and recovery-oriented housing, while rejecting harm reduction and housing-first approaches, which has been met with criticism for its lack of transparency and potential to undermine existing evidence-based initiatives.

White House border czar Tom Homan said last year that federal immigration enforcement operations should be targeted, rather than sweeping, according to a forthcoming book. In a June interview for “Undue Process: The Inside Story of Trump’s Mass Deportation Program,” by NBC News’s Julia Ainsley, Homan said "the vast majority of the American people think...