One year ago, health officials confirmed that cases of measles were cropping up in a small town in western Texas. By the time 2025 ended, more than 2,200 cases had been confirmed, the highest number reported in the U.S. in 33 years, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The U.S. also saw its first measles deaths in more than a decade including two among unvaccinated school-aged children in Texas and one among an unvaccinated adult in New Mexico. If it's determined that the U.S. has experienced 12 months of continuous measles transmission, it could lead to a loss of the country's elimination status that was earned in 2000. Measles would once again be considered endemic or constantly circulating.
New details have emerged about a "top secret" construction project taking place underneath the White House. A new CNN report includes what little is known about the construction efforts, focused on a defensive bunker underneath what was formerly the East Wing of the White House. The East Wing, which was controversially demolished by President Donald Trump in October in order to build his own $400 million ballroom, sat atop a secure underground facility built by President Franklin D. Roosevelt during World War II. The facility beneath the former East Wing previously housed the Presidential Emergency Operations Center, which was utilized during the Sept. 11 attacks and later by Trump in May 2020 during the George Floyd protests. read more
Speaking to reporters before departing Miami on Monday night, President Donald Trump said he doesn't "care about the Nobel Prize." "First of all, a very fine woman felt that I deserved it and really wanted me to have the Nobel Prize. And I appreciate that," he said, referring to Venezuelan opposition leader Mara Corina Machado, who presented Trump her Nobel Peace Prize while visiting the White House last week.
President Donald Trump's tough-on-crime rhetoric appears to come with a caveat for people in his political orbit. Trump this week quietly commuted the sentence of James Womack, son of longtime Arkansas Republican Rep. Steve Womack ... read more
Donald Trump admitted in a bonkers letter to a fellow head of state that he is no longer the peace-loving president he claimed to be after being snubbed for the Nobel Peace Prize. read more
Pedo 47 got a hand-me-down Nobel from Machado and a hand-me-down Melanoma from Epstein.