news2shortsWhen asked about his plans to visit the crash site, Trump made a joke: ‘The water? You want me to go swimming?’ Every day, the world seems to get stupider and stupider and our leaders seem to get nastier and nastier. Nobody expects empathy or accuracy from Donald Trump but, even by the extremely low … Read more
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro hit back at People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) on Friday, after the activist group sent a letter to the Punxsutawney Groundhog Club promising to send them a vegan “weather reveal cake” if they agreed to stop pulling Punxsutawney Phil out of his burrow for his Feb. 2 prognostication. … Read more
Ousted leaders say Gregory Aymond removed them after they refused to fund sexual abuse lawsuit settlements The way that the archbishop of New Orleans’ Roman Catholic archdiocese fired leaders at a church-affiliated food bank Thursday has angered many congregants of the bankrupt organization. Aymond summarily removed Natalie Jayroe – the longtime president and CEO of … Read more
Latest anti-immigration agenda pushes to strip in-state tuition rates from tens of thousands of college students It was a week in which two of Ron DeSantis’s flagship culture war crusades – education and immigration – collided. And it did not end well for Florida’s hard-right Republican governor. Alongside a revolt by previously loyal lawmakers upset … Read more
Trump’s pick to lead national intelligence has upset foreign policy hawks by not condemning the NSA whistleblower A smooth path to the pinnacle of America’s intelligence pyramid was never in the cards for Tulsi Gabbard. Dogged by a catalogue of eyebrow-raising past statements about Russia, Ukraine and Bashar al-Assad, accusations of parroting Kremlin talking points, … Read more
Investigation first published by the Guardian proved volunteers at 2022 Black Lives Matter protest were unarmed The chief of police in Portland, Oregon, acknowledged this week that the force had misled the public about a deadly attack on traffic-safety volunteers before a Black Lives Matter protest in 2022, by wrongly telling the media that the … Read more
President Trump is fulfilling a campaign promise to impose major tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China that economists say will likely raise the price you pay on a number of items. NBC’s Christine Romans joins TODAY to break down what it means for your wallet.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Tulsi Gabbard and Kash Patel testified before Senate committees on Capitol Hill on Thursday as urgency builds to confirm President Donald Trump’s Cabinet nominations. Kennedy, Trump’s nominee for secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), faced his second day of questioning on the Hill before the Senate Committee on Health, Education … Read more
Meant to lend credibility to his nomination to head HHS, the letter is signed by some doctors disciplined for not following Covid guidelines A letter submitted to the US Senate that states it was sent by physicians in support of Robert F Kennedy Jr’s nomination as secretary of health and human services includes the names … Read more
Some 18,000 employees across the country were poised to walk out after union negotiations stalled A strike that would have seen some 18,000 workers at Costco around the US walk off the job at midnight was averted on Saturday, with the Teamsters union reaching a tentative agreement just before the deadline. Full terms of the … Read more
