The Jefferson County, Pa., Coroner's Office on Sunday said a 40-year-old woman died from complications with measles, the state's third measles-related death this year. Coroner Greg Furlong wrote on Facebook that the woman, a Jefferson County resident, died on Saturday. He added that his office was working with the Pennsylvania Department of Health on this...
A new poll shows that Democratic voters are more driven to cast their ballots in the November midterms elections out of their opposition to President Trump more so than the party's platform. The CBS News/YouGov poll released Sunday found that 54 percent of Democratic voters said they will vote for their Democratic candidate to Congress...
Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed on Sunday pushed back on questions about far-left streamer Hasan Piker, who he previously campaigned with. “There are Jewish voters in your state who are concerned about your relationship with Piker. You have condemned antisemitism but not called out his rhetoric directly. Why not?” CBS News’s Weijia Jiang asked...
The Phoenix, Ariz., Police Department on Sunday said a statue of conservative activist Charlie Kirk outside the headquarters of his organization, Turning Point USA (TPUSA), was vandalized days after the one-year anniversary of his death. Police told The Hill's sister network NewsNation that they received calls about vandalism to a memorial in the area of...
In a world of odd “spiritual” beliefs, Dr. Casey Means is no outsider. In fact, she is an effective channel for them. Means and her brother, Calley, are Stanford-educated medical professionals whose work focuses on functional medicine — the sort of root-cause and wellness interests that drive the “Make America Healthy Again” movement. The siblings […]
Many Republican members of Congress have been leery of cuts to Medicaid, afraid of being tarred by Democratic attack ads. The recently released House Energy and Commerce Committee draft proposals should help them rest more easily because they avoid the classic Republican mistake: appearing to care more about saving money than saving lives. Democrats have […]
Beneath the surface of Medicaid’s state-federal partnership lies a tangled web of financial sleight-of-hand that quietly drains federal coffers, shifts enormous costs from states to the federal government, and raises premiums on working people. To explain the issue, last month, Paragon Health Institute released a report titled “Addressing Medicaid Money Laundering.” The term “Medicaid money laundering” was coined by the Wall Street Journal in […]
In baseball, three strikes and you’re out. Jerome Powell has already bungled two major challenges as chairman of the Federal Reserve. Based on last week’s Fed meeting, he’s going to strike out again. Powell’s first mistake was rushing Congress into appropriating trillions for unnecessary post-COVID-19 “recovery” spending. That sent inflation soaring to 9.2%, the highest […]
One of my favorite places in my hometown of Washington, D.C. is the AFI Silver Theater in Silver Spring, Maryland. Every year, the AFI hosts wonderful film festivals featuring movies from Ireland, Africa, Iran, and other countries. They have festivals that feature certain directors of themes, such as the upcoming D.C. Labor Film Festival. So why not have an […]
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced a welcome pause in the Trump administration’s trade wars Sunday. A preliminary agreement with China will reduce U.S. tariffs on most Chinese imports from 145% to 30%, with a reciprocal reduction on U.S. exports to China from 125% to 10%. The reprieve is set to last only 90 days, however, […]
President Trump’s “executive order requiring ‘radical’ healthcare price transparency,” cheer Arthur B. Laffer & Cynthia A. Fisher at Fox News, “will revolutionize healthcare.”
Public frustration with the city’s laissez-faire attitude toward homelessness has gotten politicians' attention — and new quality-of-life enforcement efforts are paying off, cops say.
