The Department of Health and Human Services cut $2 billion from a program that supports vaccines for vulnerable children, forcing public health departments to lay off staff and cancel clinics. read more
New tariffs threaten massive price hikes on gaming hardware and other consumer goods read more
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suggested Thursday that around 20% of the job cuts by the Trump administration's Department of Government Efficiency will be wrong and need to be corrected. read more
China announced additional tariffs of 34% on U.S. goods on Friday, the most serious escalation in a trade war with President Donald Trump that has fed fears of a recession and triggered a global stock market rout. read more
U.S. President Donald Trump, his Vice President JD Vance and billionaire backer Elon Musk have all voiced their support to French far-right leader Marine Le Pen after she was found guilty of embezzlement and barred from running in France's 2027 presidential election. read more
Laura Loomer, a far-right conspiracy theorist and Islamophobic former Republican congressional candidate banned from Uber, Paypal and some social media platforms, has apparently been successful in pushing the White House to fire national security staffers for disloyalty. read more
Senators have introduced bipartisan legislation to grant Congress more power over instituting tariffs on other countries following President Trump's announcement of wide-ranging taxes on nearly all U.S. foreign trading partners. read more
More human than humans? read more
The Wall Street Journal editorial board: Blowing up the world trading system has consequences that the President isn't advertising. read more
New York City Mayor Eric Adams on Thursday said he will pull out of the city's Democratic primary and instead run for reelection as an independent, arguing that his recently dismissed federal bribery case had made it impossible to mount a primary campaign. read more
We have the world's richest billionaires, who pay only a tiny fraction of their income in taxes compared to cops and bus drivers. Our middle class, meanwhile, has collapsed from being two-thirds of us in 1980 to fewer than 45 percent of us today as Reaganomics (which is still in effect) has transferred over $50 trillion in wealth from working class people into the money bins of the top one percent. read more
The list of famous auto industry flops is long and storied, topped by stinkers like Ford's Edsel and exploding Pinto and General Motors's unsightly Pontiac Aztek crossover SUV. read more
Just hours after the latest tariffs went into effect, Stellantis has announced it would idle plants and begin layoffs. read more
"When McKinley put tariffs on in 1890, they lost 50 percent of their seats ... When Smoot-Hawley put their tariffs In the early 1930s, we lost the House and Senate for 60 years," Sen. Rand Paul said. "So not only bad economically, they are bad politically." read more
National security adviser Mike Waltz's team regularly set up chats on Signal to coordinate official work on issues including Ukraine, China, Gaza, the Middle East, Africa, and Europe, according to four people who have been personally added to Signal chats. read more
President Donald Trump's approval rating fell to 43%, the lowest since his return to office, as Americans soured on his tariff moves ... read more
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