The figures from Elon Musk's team of outsiders represent billions in government cuts. They are also full of accounting errors, outdated data and other miscalculations.
JD Vance was mocked Thursday for offering "cringe" advice to young men he says mainstream U.S. culture now opposes: Crack a beer, tell jokes, and embrace your masculinity. The vice president suggested he and Donald Trump (who does not drink alcohol) won over the demographic by embracing these things and not telling men what to do or how to think. "I think our culture sends a message to young men that you should suppress every masculine urge," Vance said. "You should you should try to cast aside your family. You should try to suppress what makes you a young man in the first place." Read more
Hunter Schafer, a transgender woman and star of hit HBO teen drama Euphoria, has said a new US passport lists her as male, despite selecting female when she filled out the paperwork. Ms. Schafer said she changed her gender markers for her driver's license and passports when she was a teenager, but that her birth certificate was never amended. The US State Department, which issues passports, says on its website that it will "only issue passports with an M or F sex marker that match the customer's biological sex at birth." Read more
Seven western Wisconsin Republican lawmakers did not appear at an event hosted by the Wisconsin Farmers Union in Chippewa Falls Friday as farmers from the area said they were concerned about the effect that President Donald Trump's first month in office is having on their livelihoods. Madison-area U.S. Rep. Mark Pocan (D-Black Earth), state Sen. Jeff Smith (D-Eau Claire) and state Reps. Jodi Emerson (D-Eau Claire) and Christian Phelps (D-Eau Claire) were in attendance. U.S. Reps. Tom Tiffany and Derrick Van Orden, state Reps. Rob Sommerfeld (R-Bloomer), Treig Pronschinske (R-Mondovi) and Clint Moses (R-Mondovi) and state Sens. Jesse James (R-Thorp) and Rob Stafsholt (R-New Richmond) were all invited but did not attend or send a staff member.
D.C. police confirm they are investigating an alleged assault of a 27-year-old woman by U.S. Rep. Cory Mills, a Republican representing a district northeast of Orlando, calling it an active criminal investigation. The Metropolitan Police Department also is investigating its own handling of the incident, which did not result in an arrest. The I-Team also reached out Thursday afternoon to the alleged victim, who we're not naming, but who is not the congressman's wife. The first police report, provided to News4 by a source and confirmed by a second source familiar with the investigation, said: "(Her significant other for over a year) grabbed her, shoved her, and pushed her out of the door." The report says she showed the officer "bruises on her arm which appeared fresh."
Last Friday, while leaders around the Western world were up in arms about J.D. Vance's confrontational address to the Munich Security Council, the Washington Post published a good old-fashioned piece of journalism. From "U.K. orders Apple to let it spy on users' encrypted accounts": Security officials in the United Kingdom have demanded that Apple create a back door allowing them to retrieve all the content any Apple user worldwide has uploaded to the cloud, people familiar with the matter told The Washington Post. ... [The] Home Secretary has served Apple with ... a technical capability notice, ordering it to provide access under the sweeping U.K. Investigatory Powers Act of 2016, which authorizes law enforcement to compel assistance from companies ... The law, known by critics as the Snoopers' Charter, makes it a criminal offense to reveal that the government has even made such a demand. Read more
The Trump administration appeared to be making progress on Friday toward a deal that would give the United States valuable mineral rights in Ukraine. The movement came after a week in which President Trump, initially rebuffed on an agreement, turned up the pressure by assailing Ukraine and suggesting he would side with Russia in seeking to end the war there. Mr. Trump boasted at the White House that he was nearing a deal that could bring up to $500 billion to the United States. "So we're signing an agreement, hopefully in the next fairly short period of time," he said. President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine likewise said his country was working on a draft agreement between the two governments, seemingly tamping down the tensions that had flared with Mr. Trump over a deal. Read more
US stock markets fell sharply Friday after an economic report showed American consumers are growing increasingly fearful of price increases and how President Donald Trump's tariffs could reignite the inflation crisis.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 748 points, or 1.7%. The broader S&P 500 also sank 1.7% and the Nasdaq was 2.2% lower. The Dow tumbled for the second consecutive day, falling about 1,200 points over the course of Thursday and Friday.
The Supreme Court on Friday dashed President Donald Trump's plan to immediately fire the head of an independent agency that investigates whistleblower claims, allowing Hampton Dellinger to remain in the job through at least the middle of next week.
By declining to back Trump's emergency appeal, the conservative court nominally sided with Dellinger, who President Joe Biden appointed in 2024 to lead the Office of Special Counsel for a five-year term but who White House officials fired in a brief email days after Trump returned to power.
A South Carolina man on death row has chosen to be killed by firing squad, and if his execution goes forward next month, it would be the first time in 15 years that capital punishment in the US is carried out by gunfire. Brad Sigmon, 67, is scheduled to be shot to death on 7 March, part of a spate of rapid killings the state has pursued in the last six months as it revives executions after a 13-year pause. South Carolina now directs those on death row to choose how they will be killed -- electric chair, lethal injection or shooting. If they decline to make a selection, the state electrocutes them. Attorneys for men on South Carolina's death row have previously objected to firing squads, raising concerns about the pain caused by shootings and arguing the method constitutes cruel and unusual punishment. But Sigmon selected a firing squad in part because of concerns about the state's lethal injection methods, his attorneys said.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A federal judge on Friday blocked a sweeping executive order from President Donald Trump that sought to end government support for programs promoting diversity, equity and inclusion. Judge Adam Abelson in Baltimore found it likely violates free-speech rights and granted an injunction blocking the funding withdrawal as a lawsuit plays out.
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In 2005 Cadenhead donated the domain name benedictxvi.com to Modest Needs, a charity to help low income people. MN kept the domain name redirecting visits to the domain to their own website to collect donations. In June 2024 Keith Taylor, the CEO of MN was charged for spending 2.5 millions on a personal lavish lifestyle. The case is currently ongoing. Taylor is out on bond. Read more
In his State of the State address, Gov. JB Pritzker, D-Ill., warned against authoritarianism, saying "it took the Nazis one month, three weeks, two days, eight hours, and 40 minutes to dismantle a constitutional republic" and asked Illinoisans to "gather your justice and your humanity."
The Trump administration has defended its cuts at the Federal Aviation Administration by saying safety-critical employees weren't affected. Experts disagree. The first wave of White House-ordered firings at the Federal Aviation Administration included employees who play important roles in the safety of air travel--despite the Trump administration's assurances that no "critical" staff had been axed.
