The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is pausing all child care payments to Minnesota, amid a sweeping federal probe into allegations of fraud within the state's social services programs. Citing a video released Friday by independent journalist Nick Shirley detailing his investigation into day care centers and other businesses, HHS Deputy Secretary Jim O'Neill said Tuesday on the social platform X that the move is necessary amid "blatant fraud that appears to be rampant in Minnesota."
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He gave tax breaks to the wealthy and cut food stamps and other safety-net programs for the poor, neutered the Department of Education, touched off trade wars with Canada, China and the European Union, and publicly urged the Justice Department to prosecute adversaries like former FBI director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James.
Filed by State Rep. Jeff Holcomb (R-Spring Hill), HB 917 makes it illegal for health care providers to discriminate against patients based on their vaccination status, expands parental authority, spreads disinformation about childhood vaccines the way HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr does, and makes Ivermectin available without a prescription.
Iran's government has called for dialogue with protest leaders after the country's largest demonstrations in three years over a plunging currency and declining living conditions.
Protests started on Sunday after Iran's currency fell to a record low against the US dollar, causing traders and shopkeepers to close their stores in downtown Tehran. This was accompanied by mass protests in the capital as well as in major cities, including Isfahan, Shiraz and Mashhad.
" We are the free world now." Those words from Raphael Glucksmann, a French socialist member of the European Parliament, captured the pearl-clutching outrage of Europeans after the Trump administration did what no prior administration has ever done " stand up to Europe to defend the freedom of speech. This week, Secretary of State Marco Rubio barred five figures closely associated with European censorship efforts from traveling to the U.S. This includes Thierry Breton, the former European Union commissioner responsible for digital policy.
President Donald Trump struggled to offer much sympathy for the families of about 100 Americans -- many of them U.S. military veterans -- who have died fighting in Ukraine.
President Trump said Monday the new White House ballroom he tore down the East Wing to build will have a "drone-free roof."
A report from the Costs of War project at Brown University revealed that 20 years of post-9/11 wars have cost the U.S. an estimated $8 trillion and have killed more than 900,000 people. Read more
Far smaller and closer to the Sun than it should be, Mercury has long baffled astronomers because it defies much of what we know about planet formation. A new space mission arriving in 2026 might solve the mystery. At a cursory glance, Mercury might well be the Solar System's dullest planet. Its barren surface has few notable features, there is no evidence of water in its past and the planet's wispy atmosphere is tenuous at best. The likelihood of life being found amidst its scotched craters is non-existent. Yet, look closer and Mercury is a fascinating, improbable world that is shrouded in mystery. Planetary scientists remain flummoxed by the very existence of the closest planet to our Sun. This peculiar planet is tiny, 20 times less massive than Earth and barely wider than Australia. Yet Mercury is the second densest planet in our Solar System after Earth due to a large, metallic core that accounts for the majority of its mass. Read more
For a certain class of book-reading American " the type with a taste for deeply reported stories about left-behind parts of the country " [Beth Macy], the woman running for [the Appalachia-based 6th Congressional District of Virginia], is something of a household name. An award-winning reporter for the Roanoke Times for 25 years, she's the author of five nonfiction books, including three of particular note: Factory Man, her critically acclaimed 2014 debut about globalization's ravaging of Virginia's furniture industry; Dopesick, a 2018 tome on America's opioid crisis that turned into a Hulu series; and the recently released Paper Girl, a memoir about her own hardscrabble childhood and the plight of her fading Ohio hometown. Read more
Murder rates would be up to five times higher than they are but for medical developments over the past 40 years. According to new research, doctors are saving the lives of thousands of victims of attack who four decades ago would have died and become murder statistics. Although the study is based on US data, the researchers say the principle applies to other countries too: "There is reason to expect a similar trend overall in Britain," said Dr Anthony Harris, the lead author of the study. Read more
Male Gen Z voters are breaking with President Donald Trump and the Republican party at large, recent polls show, less than a year after this same cohort defied convention and made a surprise shift right, helping Trump win the 2024 election. Taken with wider polling suggesting Democrats will lead in the midterms, the findings on young men spell serious trouble for the Republican Party in 2026. President Trump's approval rating stands at 32 percent among 18-to-29-year-olds, and young men preferred Democratic control of Congress by a 12 percent margin, according to the recently released Harvard Youth Poll, which was conducted last month. Read more
Cody Wayne Adams (33) was charged with first-degree manslaughter after he fatally shot Sandra Phelps on a neighboring porch with a .45 Glock pistol while he was conducting target practice against a Red Bull can on his property on Christmas Day.
Dummkopf Trumpf beside PM Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House on Monday:
When asked if PM Benjamin Netanyahu will get a pardon from President Isaac Herzog:
President Donald Trump says he believes the 2026 midterm elections will center on "pricing" as Republicans head into a critical period with control of Congress on the line.
USAG Pam Bondi publicly confessed that US attorneys and federal agents were investigating Obama-Biden era officials at her direction in an ongoing election-meddling conspiracy, framing the probe as part of nationwide investigation into the "weaponization of government."
