news2shortsA new poll also found that four in 10 Americans have shifted spending to align with moral views in recent months Americans are changing their shopping habits and even dumping their favorite stores in a backlash against corporations that have shifted their public policies to align with the Trump administration, according to a poll exclusively … Read more
Proposal calls on company to prepare reports on ‘macroeconomic costs’ of health insurer’s practices UnitedHealth Group is attempting to swat down a non-binding shareholder proposal that asked the company to prepare reports on the costs of delayed and denied healthcare. The proposal, filed by members of the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR), represents a … Read more
Fellow Democrats are riled by the Pennsylvania maverick who now denounces the sort of politician he once was “You can’t ‘work’ with crazy,” John Fetterman wrote. “You must call it what it is. Anything less is spineless appeasement.” It was mid-2016, and Fetterman, then running in the Democratic primary for a US Senate seat in … Read more
The long Presidents Day weekend brought protests across the U.S. — and more layoffs across a number of federal agencies. It comes as the top official at the Social Security Administration resigned following a clash with Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency over its request to access to sensitive personal records. NBC’s Garrett Haake reports … Read more
Current Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy slammed former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg in a post on X, accusing the Biden-era official of “mismanagement.” He leveled the criticism when responding to a post in which Buttigieg wrote, “The flying public needs answers. How many FAA personnel were just fired? What positions? And why?” Duffy responded, blasting Buttigieg. … Read more
Senior officials from the United States and Russia meet in Saudi Arabia for the most extensive talks between the two nations since the invasion began nearly three years ago. Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who was notably left out of the meeting, insisted on Monday “we cannot recognize any agreements about us made without us.” NBC’s … Read more
A federal judge President Donald Trump once described as “the most evil person” is now hearing a lawsuit brought by blue states to stop the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) from accessing government data. First named to the bench in 2013 by then-President Barack Obama, U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan of the District of Columbia … Read more
NBC News has learned that the acting commissioner of the Social Security Administration, Michelle King, has resigned after refusing a request from the Department of Government Efficiency to access sensitive data. NBC News’ Aaron Gilchrist reports on the latest controversy surrounding Elon Musk’s DOGE.
The Biden administration spent tens of billions of dollars on grants to migrants and refugees through one of its government agencies, including over $10 billion in just one year, according to a new watchdog report. The watchdog group Open the Books looked at grants to nonprofits awarded by the Department of Health and Human Services’ … Read more
About 20 people working on medicine devices at Food and Drug Administration dismissed amid government purge US Food and Drug Administration employees reviewing Elon Musk’s brain implant company Neuralink were fired over the weekend as part of a broader purge of the federal workforce, according to two sources with knowledge of the matter. The cuts … Read more
