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The U.S. military launched a lethal strike on Tuesday against an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean traveling through “established narco-trafficking routes” as outlined by Southern Command. Four onboard the vessel were killed. It follows a Monday attack on an alleged drug boat in the Eastern Pacific in which two people were killed. Commander Gen.…
A Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) crew broke the law when it skipped houses with President Trump signs during Hurricane Milton recovery efforts in 2024, according to an internal government watchdog. A new report from the Department of Homeland Security’s inspector general’s office determined that the crew violated the Hatch Act and FEMA policy when it skipped…
Pennsylvania Attorney General Dave Sunday (R) announced a lawsuit Tuesday, accusing Snap, the parent company of Snapchat, of failing to protect children from compulsively using its platform. The complaint, filed this week, alleges Snapchat knowingly lies about the frequency of adult-themed material like drug use or sexual content to maintain a 13+ app rating in…
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) announced Monday it will phase out its new Gold+ private airport screening program, opting instead to optimize its existing Screening Partnership Program (SPP). TSA unveiled the change as part of its Horizon 25 Strategy, named in honor of the agency’s 25th anniversary. The strategy will home in on modernizing TSA…
Several Senate Democrats are questioning whether Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. truly divested his financial interests in a lawsuit he helped spearhead challenging the HPV vaccine Gardasil. Before he was confirmed as HHS secretary, Kennedy was part of a lawsuit led by the firm Wisner Baum against the pharmaceutical company…
The wife of an active-duty U.S. soldier has reportedly been deported to Honduras, her native country, in the latest instance of a family member of an American service member being swept up in the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown. Multiple outlets reported that Cristy Maryori Villafranca-Trejo, the wife of Army Sgt. Hedar Leonel Turcios Juarez and…
CIA Director John Ratcliffe made an unannounced visit to Moscow on Tuesday for meetings with Russian officials, CBS News reported. Flight trackers spotted a U.S. Air Force Boeing C-17A Globemaster III transport plane flying from Riga, Latvia, to Moscow on Tuesday. The CIA and the White House did not immediately respond to The Hill’s request…
A Wisconsin state prosecutor declined to charge technology billionaire Elon Musk with election bribery for his $1 million check handouts to voters during the state’s Supreme Court election last year. In a letter shared Tuesday with The Hill, La Crosse County District Attorney Tim Gruenke (D) said his office decided against pressing charges since, in…
By Ann Saphir Aug 25 (Reuters) - Directors at four of the Federal Reserve's 12 banks voted to increase the interest rate charged to commercial banks for emer...
The state of Florida wants to roll back a requirement that public and private school children receive four vaccines before enrolling. A proposed rule from the state’s Health Department would allow students to attend school and enroll in daycare without first receiving hepatitis B, varicella (chickenpox), Haemophilus influenzae type B (Hib) and pneumococcal conjugate vaccines. …
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) unveiled a plan Monday to place restrictions on data centers if elected to the U.S. Senate, becoming the latest GOP candidate to take a stronger stance against the controversial AI infrastructure. Paxton laid out his four-point plan, vowing to “fiercely advocate” for Gov. Greg Abbott’s (R) state-level data center…
By Promit Mukherjee and Bhargav Acharya OTTAWA, Aug 25 (Reuters) - Canada hit back on Tuesday with retaliatory tariffs on about $20 billion worth of U.S. ann...
So far, the degenerative brain disease has only been diagnosed after a person’s death.
The terrorist attack killed 2,753 people in New York City.
Polestar thought it would be approved to continue selling its EVs in the US, and was blindsided by the Trump administration’s rejection of its application.
Patients taking the affected lot are advised not to discontinue use without first consulting their health care provider.
A Tuesday report found that at least 25 percent of deceased NFL players who were studied suffered from chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) in their lives. A team of researchers published a report in the British Medical Journal analyzing the brains of former NFL players who died between 2008 and 2021. Over the last six years…
Reactions to the new tariffs have been fiery on both sides of the border, with California’s governor going so far as to use an expletive in a social media po...
