Two unvaccinated babies have died from pertussis, better known as whooping cough, in Kentucky in the last six months, the Kentucky Department for Public Health announced Friday. read more
A prominent local member of the Proud Boys joined four other leaders of the far-right extremist group in a lawsuit against the Department of Justice on Friday, demanding more than $100 million in damages over their convictions for participating in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. read more
"The thing about Stephen Miller is not that he is the brains behind Trumpism," Moran wrote in the deleted post. "Yes, he is one of the people who conceptualizes the impulses of the Trumpist movement and translates them into policy. But that's not what's interesting about Miller. It's not brains. It's bile. Miller is a man who is richly endowed with the capacity for hatred. He's a world-class hater. You can see this just by looking at him because you can see that his hatreds are his spiritual nourishment. He eats his hate. Trump is a world-class hater. But his hatred only a means to an end, and that end his his own glorification. That's his spiritual nourishment." read more
"Bernie Sanders warned of the US's slide into authoritarianism following Donald Trump's decision to deploy the national guard to Los Angeles over the city's protests against federal immigration raids. Speaking to CNN on Sunday, the leftwing Vermont senator said: read more
The decision to pursue the indictment against Abrego Garcia led to the abrupt departure of Ben Schrader, a high-ranking federal prosecutor in Tennessee, sources briefed on Schrader's decision told ABC News. Schrader's resignation was prompted by concerns that the case was being pursued for political reasons, the sources said. read more
A Chinese tech executive with ties to a Communist Party advisory body was given VIP access to a Trump-hosted cryptocurrency dinner and White House tour, raising new questions surrounding national security and ethics in the White House, the New York Times reported Friday. read more
Millions of pounds of military hardware are expected to roll down the US capital's streets in less than two weeks, fulfilling a dream of President Donald Trump but also sparking concerns about how the roads of Washington, DC, will fare under the literal weight of heavy tanks and fighting vehicles. read more
A former employee of the Department of Government Efficiency says that he found that the federal waste, fraud and abuse that his agency was supposed to uncover were "relatively nonexistent" during his short time embedded within the Department of Veterans Affairs. read more
Russia is at war with Britain, the US is no longer a reliable ally and the UK has to respond ... read more
Chris Mirasola: This is not an invocation of the Insurrection Act. Instead, the president has relied on a far more limited (though also quite old) theory of inherent presidential authority known as the protective power. read more
The mother of an Arizona man who died after being unable to find mental health treatment is suing his health insurer, saying it broke the law by publishing false information that misled its customers. Ravi Coutinho, a 36-year-old entrepreneur, bought insurance from Ambetter, the most popular plan on HealthCare.gov, because it seemed to offer plenty of mental health and addiction treatment options near his home in Phoenix. But after struggling for months in early 2023 to find in-network care covered by his plan, he wasn't able to find a therapist. read more
"This is not what we voted for," State Sen. Ileana Garcia said in a statement on Saturday. "I have always supported Trump, through thick and thin. However, this is unacceptable and inhumane." read more
The Trump administration is preparing to cancel a large swath of federal funding for California, an effort that could begin as soon as Friday, according to multiple sources. read more
Late Thursday, OpenAI confronted user panic over a sweeping court order requiring widespread chat log retention -- including users' deleted chats ... read more
The Associated Press digs into the upcoming impacts of the Trump Administration rolling back EPA regulations. The rules are estimated to prevent thousands of people from dying and expected to save the government hundreds of millions of dollars each year. read more
The ruling, a win for the Trump administration, means that DOGE will be able to access data on millions of Americans as part of what it has described as an effort to rout out fraud and "modernize outdated systems," but that critics say appears to be a fishing expedition. read more
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