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Americans are a sick people. Among their economic peers they expect to live shorter lives, experience higher rates of chronic disease, and spend more on their care and upkeep. The baseline necessities for maintaining a healthy human body over the course of a lifetime are often a luxury. Nevertheless, one …

Adelita Grijalva made history last week, becoming the first Latina woman elected to represent Arizona in the U.S. House of Representatives. She won a special election for the seat previously occupied by her father, Democratic Rep. Raúl Grijalva, who died in March after serving over two decades in office. Despite …

President Donald Trump and his family are building a multinational cryptocurrency, real estate, and licensing empire on the back of his presidency, catapulting his estimated worth by billions. The net worths of individual members of Congress are estimated to range between the tens of thousands of dollars and more than …

Last year, musician Bobby Pulido tearfully announced that he’d be going on one final tour to celebrate more than 30 years as a Tejano icon. His reason for retiring? To trade concerts for a career in politics. On Wednesday morning, Pulido confirms to Rolling Stone that he will be running …

SAVANNAH, Ga. — Tori Branum is a Marine Corps veteran, firearms instructor, and Republican candidate for Georgia’s 12th congressional district. She’s also a proud “America first” supporter of President Donald Trump. On Thursday, as agents with Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Department of Homeland Security were still carrying out …

As President Donald Trump threatens to deploy federal troops to Chicago in a continuation of his attempted power grab within prominent Democratic cities, a federal judge has ruled that his deployment of military personnel to Los Angeles in June violated the Posse Comitatus Act. On Tuesday, Northern District of California …

It’s been two weeks since Team Trump prematurely began declaring victory in its efforts to quell the “MAGA rebellion” over the administration’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein investigation, and this chapter of Donald Trump’s second presidency still has no end in sight. The White House’s big plan to change the …

Voters have increasingly little faith in the Democrats, a new Wall Street Journal poll found, with the party reaching its lowest favorability rating in more than three decades. Voters overwhelmingly believe that Republicans are better able to handle key issues in Congress than Democrats. The survey found that the majority …

Last week, President Donald Trump made dubious history when he signed legislation that gave a rubber stamp to companies — including some owned by his family — to issue their own digital currencies known as stablecoins. Never before has a president signed a bill that legalized his own hustle. Not …

Republicans voted on Thursday night to clawback $1.1 billion in congressional funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which helps finance National Public Radio (NPR) and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS). The vote marks the latest chapter in President Donald Trump’s attacks against media companies and publications who aren’t covering …