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Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., is introducing legislation to block federal bureaucrats from accepting cash prizes on Thursday, just a day after laying into Dr. Anthony Fauci for receiving what Hawley said was over $1 million during the COVID-19 pandemic. Hawley accused Fauci during a Wednesday Senate hearing of exploiting loopholes in federal laws that already … Read more

To understand the experience of life, don’t look to the mind. Look to the body In a 1982 article, the American feminist scholar Elizabeth Spelman coined the term “somatophobia” to describe the strange human delusion that we are minds rather than bodies. Forty years later, artificial intelligence is everywhere, offering the most powerful illusion yet … Read more

Black voters in south motivated to turn out by Republican push to redraw maps after supreme court ruling A new analysis of Black voters in the south indicates that Republican attempts to dilute their political power is driving them to the polls in larger numbers and shifting their counties further left. After the supreme court … Read more

FIRST ON FOX: Lonnie Bunch III, the Smithsonian Institution secretary who called DEI an “integral to excellence in museum practice,” raked in over $4.4 million from 2020-2024 in base salary and added benefits, a Fox News Digital review found. While the Smithsonian funds executive compensation through private trust revenues to comply with federal pay caps, … Read more

Lawmakers scrap planned committee vote and seek further assurances that president’s ‘anti-weaponization fund’ is dead Sign up for the US Breaking News email Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog. Todd Blanche’s nomination to become attorney-general stalled last night as lawmakers scrapped a planned committee vote. Barack Obama, the former president who installed … Read more

Live, rolling coverage of business, economics and financial markets as investors buy UK defence stocks and await Bank of England interest rate decision The FTSE 100 is up 0.4%, but that is enough to push it to a record high of 10,978.87 points. That was slightly up on yesterday’s mark of 10,951. UK and European … Read more

Losing funds should force leaders to confront their own challenges, they said, while many voiced concerns over increasing foreign influence A quarter of young Africans believe aid cuts by the US could have a positive impact, saying that losing foreign money will force leaders to confront and solve their own challenges, according to a new … Read more

The Trump administration is seeking to use a specialized federal court for the first time since Congress created it three decades ago in an effort to deport an Afghan woman accused of aiding an Islamic State-inspired terror plot in the U.S., according to court records made public on Wednesday. Nazira Haji Zada, of Fort Worth, Texas, … Read more

US former top health official, who was subpoenaed to appear at a Senate hearing into Covid-19, says Markson’s reporting about virus’s origin ‘does not make any sense’ Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Dr Anthony Fauci, the US’s chief medical adviser at the start of the pandemic, has described a … Read more

Two prominent Democratic figures with deep ties to the Clinton and Obama administrations publicly criticized New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani this week, with former Clinton adviser Mark Penn attacking the mayor’s proposed property tax plan while former Obama White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel recounted what he described as a private conversation in … Read more