Prince Harry, formerly a British Army Apache gunship pilot and combat veteran, continued his subsequently tragic descent into whining ignominy on Friday. Harry told the BBC, “I can’t see a world in which I would be bringing my wife and children back to the [United Kingdom] at this point.” Harry insisted “I love my country,” […]
Nearly half of Americans said the current condition of the U.S. economy is President Trump’s responsibility rather than his predecessor former President Biden, according to a new survey that was published on Friday. The Gallup poll found that 46 percent of adults said that Trump is responsible for the current state of the nation’s economy,...
Former Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra decried the Trump administration's "skinny budget" request unveiled Friday, lambasting it as not a budget proposal but a "demolition plan." In the proposal, President Trump called for cutting $33.3 billion or 26.2 percent of the HHS's discretionary funding. These requested cuts included a $3.6 billion reduction...
{beacon} PRESIDENT TRUMP SENT the first budget request of his second term to Republican appropriators in Congress on Friday, exposing new GOP divisions on spending. Office of Management Budget director Russell Vought outlined the steep cuts Trump seeks for non-defense spending in a letter to Senate Appropriations Committee Chair Susan Collins (R-Maine). "This...
The Trump administration on Friday asked the Supreme Court to let the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) access millions of Americans’ personal data stored by the Social Security Administration (SSA) while it appeals an order that iced the advisory group out. The emergency application asks the justices to lift a Maryland federal judge’s injunction blocking DOGE from...
The attorneys for Luigi Mangione, the man accused of murdering UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, filed a Thursday motion seeking to dismiss state charges against him. Lead lawyer, Karen Friedman Agnifilo, argued that dueling federal charges would amount to double jeopardy for her client. If the charges aren’t dropped, Friedman Agnifilo has asked a judge to...
More than 70 House Democrats are requesting the Smithsonian inspector general to kickstart an investigation into President Trump’s executive order targeting Smithsonian museums, arguing the president’s action is encroaching on the institution’s independence. Seventy-one House Democrats, led by Reps. Ayanna Pressley (Mass.) and Paul Tonko (N.Y.) are criticizing Trump’s March 27 executive order, which says...
The latest measles update from the CDC reports a total of 935 confirmed cases — the vast majority of which are among patients who are unvaccinated or have unknown vaccination statuses.