The Trump administration said Thursday the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) needs to align with the president's "Make America Healthy Again" (MAHA) agenda, after the removal of its director and exodus of four other senior leaders. In an interview on Fox News’s “Fox & Friends,” Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F....
President Trump fired a board member of a transportation regulator that is weighing a merger between Norfolk Southern and Union Pacific, part of the latest shake-up in the federal government. The administration terminated Robert Primus, a member of the Surface Transportation Board (STB), on Wednesday. Primus, a Democrat, was nominated to serve on the five-member...
The White House on Thursday admonished Democrats who criticized the notion of sending "thoughts and prayers" in the wake of a shooting in Minnesota that left two children dead. Press secretary Karoline Leavitt was asked about comments from former Biden White House press secretary Jen Psaki and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey (D), who were critical...
Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) and House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries (N.Y.) have sent a letter to Republican leaders calling on them to schedule a meeting “immediately” to discuss the path to a funding deal to avoid a government shutdown after Sept. 30. Schumer and Jeffries want a “four corners” negotiation of the top...
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Wednesday said the Pentagon would no longer allow Chinese nationals to work as coders on Department of Defense (DOD) cloud systems. A program previously allowed Chinese developers to work as “digital escorts” in a role modeled by Microsoft, where foreign nationals remain under the supervision of remote U.S. contractors. Hegseth...
A perfect storm of factors is brewing in Washington, making a government shutdown on Sept. 30 likely, with both parties risking economic consequences and public backlash.
Entry-level jobs for workers between 22 and 25 years old have declined by 13 percent since the widespread adoption of generative artificial intelligence (AI), according to a Stanford University study. “While our main estimates may be influenced by factors other than generative AI, our results are consistent with the hypothesis that generative AI has begun...
A federal investigation is underway into how Harjinder Singh obtained a commercial driver's license after allegedly killing three people in a Florida turnpike crash.