About 100 cities have banned people from sleeping outside since June when the Supreme Court ruled that a city in Oregon was allowed to criminalize homelessness despite a lack of public shelters. The policy has support from politicians across the country, Democrats and Republicans alike. As housing becomes more expensive …
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Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, who will soon head President-elect Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, have repeatedly demonized undocumented immigrants. In recent days, though, Musk and Ramaswamy have both argued Big Tech firms desperately need foreign workers — generating controversy among the MAGA base. Both Musk and …
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Donald Trump was elected to a second term on a promise to exact his “retribution.” So it’s no wonder that federal investigators and others who worked with Special Counsel Jack Smith’s office are taking the president-elect at his word. According to two sources with knowledge of the matter and a …
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Donald Trump’s inaugural committee is expected to raise the most cash in the history of such events — perhaps upward of $150 million, and certainly more than the record $107 million he raised for his first presidential inauguration. A good chunk of that cash is coming from companies that previously …
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The Russian government launched what it announced was a “massive” attack on “critical” energy targets in Ukraine on Christmas Day. The major drone and missile assault on Kharkiv led to power cuts and outages across Ukraine, including in its capital Kyiv. Ukrainian defense authorities were initially mum on casualty estimates …
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Donald Trump will soon be president again, but that doesn’t mean the grifting has to stop. With Christmas time here, the president-elect has been hawking Trump-branded merchandise as shamelessly as ever. “We love God, and we have to protect anything that is pro-God,” Trump said in a recent Fox News …
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Bill Clinton has been discharged from the hospital after an overnight stay Monday where he was treated for flu symptoms. On Tuesday, Clinton’s deputy chief of staff, Angel Ureña, gave an update on the former president’s health by posting on X. “President Clinton was discharged earlier today after being treated …
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Bill Clinton is in the hospital. On Monday, a spokesperson for the former president confirmed that Clinton had been admitted to the hospital for “testing and observation” after developing a fever, but assured CNN that he is “fine.” “President Clinton was admitted to MedStar Georgetown University Hospital this afternoon for …
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Donald Trump’s win in November means not only that the former president will once again be living in the White House, but that dozens upon dozens of the most consequential positions in the federal government affecting every walk of life in America will be staffed by cronies of his choosing. …
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As Ranking Member of both the House Appropriations Committee and of the Labor-Health and Human Services-Education Subcommittee, I oversee funding for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the largest department in the U.S. government. This pillar of our government administers the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), an agency that provides health …
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