A police officer was killed and a gunman died in a shootout at a central Pennsylvania hospital Saturday, according to officials. West York Borough police announced that Officer Andrew Duarte died while responding to a 10:43 a.m. call about an active threat at UPMC Hospital in York, PA. No patients were injured during the shooting, and the five-story, 104-bed hospital has been secured, according to a statement by Pennsylvania State Police. It's unclear if there were any other injuries. "At this time, the shooter is deceased and there is no danger to the public. The hospital is secured," police said. Read more
Feb 21, 2025
We are seeing, right now, one specific prophecy come true before our very eyes. And it keeps coming true, over and over again on a daily basis. The prophecy I'm referring to is in Daniel 11:36, and it tells us how "the king will do according to his will."
Bernie Sanders: What we are fighting for is not utopian' or unachievable. Trumpism can and must be defeated.
One person has been killed and several police officers injured in a knife attack in France that President Emmanuel Macron has described as "Islamist terrorism". A man shouting "Allahu Akbar" ("God is greatest") launched the attack at a packed market in the eastern city of Mulhouse on Saturday afternoon, France's anti-terrorism prosecutor's office said. A 37-year-old Algerian man was arrested, according to the prosecutors' office, which is investigating the stabbings. The suspect had been on a list of people flagged for radicalism, the regional prosecutor said. The victim was a 69-year-old Portuguese man, prosecutors revealed. Mr Macron branded the knifeman "an Islamic extremist", saying: "It is without any doubt an act of Islamist terrorism." The government had "complete determination" to respond to the attack, he said, and also expressed "the solidarity of the nation" with those attacked and their loved ones.
Public health teams are being gutted, imperiling efforts to safeguard organ donation and prevent maternal and infant death. Many workers expressed fear at what would happen to the work they left behind.
Just days after anti-vaccine advocate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. became the country's top health official, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has already pulled back some of its efforts to protect Americans with safe, lifesaving vaccines. The agency has indefinitely postponed a public meeting of its vaccine advisory committee and killed a campaign promoting seasonal flu shots.
Elon Musk has publicly accused Congressman Adam Schiff of being a criminal in a social media post. The accusation followed a heated exchange between Schiff and new FBI director Kash Patel, with both sides criticizing each other's integrity and actions, particularly related to Trump's impeachment. Read more
On a sunny morning in Visitacion Valley, state Sen. Scott Wiener joined dozens of seniors at a Chinese New Year celebration. In a speech, the Democratic lawmaker warned that San Francisco could face great challenges under President Donald Trump. "We are working very hard to protect people's access to healthcare, senior services, and funding for public education," Wiener said, noting that all are "at risk now given what's happening in Washington, D.C." The message fell on deaf ears for some in the audience. Quite a few voted for Trump and are no fans of Democrats, who have long dominated San Francisco politics. "Many of my neighbors support Trump," said Lai Wah Hun, 79, a resident in attendance who voted for Trump. "Democrats are too left. I don't like them."
Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers's office introduced a bill on Friday afternoon that would change the way a Wisconsin state law addresses biological women and men. According to the bill known as 2025 Senate Bill 45, which was first reported on by conservative radio host Dan O'Donnell, Section 3106 contains numerous examples of terms such as wife, husband, mother, and father being crossed out and removed in favor of terms like spouse, person, and even inseminated person. The bill pertains to "state finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2025 legislature," and the request for the language changes to be made isn't introduced until pages 1,766 and 1,767. Read more
After the pandemic was declared in March 2020, the Federal Government granted Medicare the flexibility to greatly expand coverage of telehealth services on an emergency basis. The following December, Medicare coverage of mental telehealth services was permanently expanded. Medicare's flexibility for covering other health and medical services via telehealth has since been repeatedly extended, but the last of those extensions is effective only through March 31, 2025.
Many farmers made investments based on Agriculture Department funding that the Trump administration has put on hold. Some are in financial peril. Farmers across the U.S. are struggling to make critical decisions ahead of the spring thaw, as billions of dollars in promised federal payments remain frozen by the Trump administration.
At least three people have died and 79 others are injured after a roof at a shopping mall collapsed in Trujillo, Peru, according to reports. Read more
Some private schools have shut down because of a rapidly escalating measles outbreak in West Texas. Local health departments are overstretched, pausing other important work as they race to limit the spread of this highly contagious virus. Since the outbreak emerged three weeks ago, the Texas health department has confirmed 90 cases with 16 hospitalizations, as of Feb. 21. Most of those infected are under age 18. Officials suspect that nine additional measles cases reported in New Mexico, across the border from the epicenter of the Texas outbreak in Gaines County, are linked to the Texas outbreak.
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
