News that former President Joe Biden has been diagnosed with an aggressive prostate cancer came as a surprise on Sunday, adding fuel to conversation about the state of the former president’s health in the waning months of his presidency. While well wishes, speculation, and clamor for more details abound, some …
Read More »El Salvador Arrests and Disappears Prominent Human Rights Attorney
El Salvador’s National Civil Police have arrested Ruth Eleonora López, a renowned human rights and anti-corruption attorney who has become one of the nation’s most prominent critics of President Nayib Bukele’s regime. According to representatives from Cristosal, the human rights group where López serves as Chief Legal Officer for Anti-Corruption; …
Read More »Trump Is Giving Millions in Taxpayer Money to Family of Rioter Killed on Jan. 6
The Trump administration has reportedly agreed to pay $5 million to the family of Ashli Babbitt — a Jan. 6 rioter shot and killed by Capitol Police as she attempted to break into the House Speaker’s lobby — in order to settle a wrongful death lawsuit. According to sources who …
Read More »Trump Tells Walmart to 'Eat the Tariffs' As Company Warns of 'Higher Prices'
After Walmart executives said that customers should expect price hikes due to Donald Trump’s trade war, the president said the big box retailer should not raise prices and instead absorb the costs of his tariffs. “Walmart should STOP trying to blame Tariffs as the reason for raising prices throughout the …
Read More »Scott Bessent Compares Trump's Qatari Jet Gift to the Statue of Liberty
No, Qatar‘s royal family gifting a $400 million Boeing 747-8 jumbo jet known as a “flying palace” to the government that will reportedly then go to Donald Trump‘s presidential library is not the same as France giving the Statue of Liberty to the American people. But that is what Treasury …
Read More »Trump DOJ Considers Making It Easier to Indict Members of Congress
The Trump Justice Department, under Attorney General Pam Bondi, is weighing a move that could end the Public Integrity Section’s power to oversee indictments of members of Congress, potentially opening the door to politically motivated prosecutions, The Washington Post reports. If the proposed changes go through, U.S. attorneys — positions …
Read More »Joe Biden Diagnosed with 'Aggressive' Form of Prostate Cancer
Former president Joe Biden was diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer on Friday, his personal office said in a statement. The diagnosis follows an announcement last week that during “a routine physical exam,” Biden’s doctors discovered a “small nodule” on his prostate that they said required “further evaluation.” …
Read More »Van Hollen: The U.S. Is 'Complicit' in Starving the People of Gaza
The vast majority of people in Gaza — 93 percent — are facing crisis levels of food insecurity, and Sen. Chris Van Hollen said that the United States is “complicit” in their hunger. When asked on CBS’s Face the Nation about photographs of starving children in Gaza, Van Hollen said, …
Read More »RFK Jr. and Republicans Are Dismantling a Health Achievement: Fluoride in Water
Disregarding the advice of medical professionals, Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Republicans are leading a charge against what has been heralded as one of the greatest public health achievements: fluoride in public water. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis banned fluoride from public water on Thursday, …
Read More »Trump's Plan to Kick Millions of Americans Off Medicaid, Explained
The reconciliation bill President Donald Trump and Republicans are working to pass through Congress is chock-full of troubling provisions, but the tax plan ultimately boils down to a massive financial break for the wealthiest Americans at the expense of social programs that benefit the less fortunate — most notably Medicaid. …
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