Juan Orlando Hernndez"narcotrafficker, former Honduran president, and recent recipient of a pardon from President Donald Trump"played a key role in what the Justice Department dubbed "one of the largest and most violent drug-trafficking conspiracies in the world." Now, Hernndez, who once reportedly told his co-conspirators that they were going to "stuff the drugs up the gringos' noses," is heaping gratitude on leading figures in MAGA (a movement purportedly in favor of stopping the influx of drugs into the United States, by any means necessary). On X Friday, Hernndez shared his first message since being released from a U.S. prison, where he was just over a year into a 45-year sentence: an 11-minute Spanish-language speech expressing his "profound gratitude to President Donald Trump," along with a tweet extolling Trump and other key figures in his orbit. Read more
Sen. Mark Kelly scoffed at the possibility of facing a court martial as he ridiculed President Donald Trump and War Secretary Pete Hegseth as unserious people.
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Breakthroughs in cell and gene therapy have opened the door to life-changing treatment for people with sickle cell disease. Yet few patients know these treatments exist, and even fewer can access them due to the seven-figure price tag.
Sam Stein highlights 16-year-old cancer patient Mikaela Naylon, who spent her final days lobbying Congress for the Give Kids a Chance Act, helping revive the long-stalled pediatric cancer research bill, with her story inspiring new momentum and raising cautious optimism it could finally pass. Read more
President Donald Trump doesn't have his name on the Kennedy Center yet, but he's already shaped it to his tastes. Later this month, he's assembling the center's board of trustees, which he chairs, in Palm Beach, Florida " nearly 1,000 miles away from the institution's home in Washington, DC. Board meetings, one attendee says, now mirror Trump Cabinet meetings, with members going around the room to "talk about how great and visionary the president is and how he has so much class and taste." Read more
Whether you're logging into your bank, health insurance, or even your email, most services today do not live by passwords alone. Now commonplace, multifactor authentication (MFA) requires users to enter a second or third proof of identity. However, not all forms of MFA are created equal, and the one-time passwords orgs send to your phone have holes so big you could drive a truck through them.
Trump's choice shows how his friends and their business interests benefit from policy positions in his administration.
The nativity scene at St. Susanna's Parish in Dedham, Mass., replaces the Holy Family with anti-ICE signs protesting U.S. immigration policies. The church pastor, Rev. Stephen Josoma, is ignoring a request from the Archdiocese of Boston to remove the signs.
Netflix announced Friday it's reached a deal to buy pieces of Warner Bros. Discovery, bringing a swift end to a dramatic bidding process that saw Paramount Skydance and Comcast also vying for the legacy assets.
The Signalgate scandal that enveloped US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth in March appears to be symptomatic of a wider lax attitude towards the use of non-approved messaging apps by officials and employees, a Senate Committee has concluded.
Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) on Friday publicly called for the acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to reject a vaccine advisory panel's recommendation to no longer administer doses of the hepatitis B vaccine to all newborns. Cassidy's plea came soon after the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) voted 8-3 in favor of a new recommendation that hepatitis B vaccination for newborns be left to "individual-based decision-making" among parents and their health care providers, something which members of panel noted already occurs. The vote states "it is suggested" that a hepatitis B vaccine dose be administered "no earlier than 2 months of age." Cassidy spoke out forcefully against changes to hepatitis B guidance, the preventable liver disease being a close issue for the longtime physician. Read more
Okava Pharmaceuticals in San Francisco CA launched MEOW-1, a clinical study that will utilize tiny, under-the skin implants to release a GLP-1 medication drug into 50 cats for a period of six months or so.
An innocent woman in medical scrubs was forcibly yanked from her car by ICE thugs in Key Largo Florida, while obeying their commands and screaming that she was a US citizen. After her brutal false arrest (which can be seen on YouTube below), the ICE thugs lied about their assault on the innocent American citizen.
WASHINGTON, Dec 5 (Reuters) -- The United States will reassert its dominance in the Western Hemisphere, build military strength in the Indo-Pacific, and possibly reassess its relationship with Europe, President Donald Trump said on Friday in a sweeping strategy document that seeks to reframe the country's role in the world. The National Security Strategy, released overnight, described Trump's vision as one of "flexible realism" and argued that the U.S. should revive the 19th century Monroe Doctrine, which declared the Western Hemisphere to be Washington's zone of influence. It also warned that Europe faces "civilizational erasure" and must change course.
