Weeks of drone sightings in several states on the East Coast have left residents in a panic and local lawmakers demanding answers from the federal government. On Friday, President-elect Donald Trump weighed in with some alternatives: The government should let the public in on what it knows about the drones, …
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Rep. Crockett: ‘The greediest folks in America are going to be the ones running America’
IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser. ‘I was tough, I had bravado… I was a badass’ 08:22 Trump’s legal cases ‘can go on even when he’s sitting as President’ 07:00 Now Playing Rep. Crockett: ‘The greediest folks in America are going …
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IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser. Blinken confirms U.S. has engaged in direct talks with Syrian rebel group 02:28 ‘Congress needs to act’: Gun reform advocate urges officials to regulate ghost guns 04:59 ‘Need to keep pressure’ on ISIS: Middle East …
Read More »Texas’ lawsuit against a N.Y. doctor signals a new front in the fight over abortion access
Texas’ attorney general is taking his anti-abortion crusade beyond state borders. In what may be the first lawsuit of its kind, Texas AG Ken Paxton’s office is suing a New York physician for prescribing abortion pills to a Texas resident through telemedicine. Filed Thursday, the lawsuit argues that the doctor, …
Read More »McConnell warns RFK Jr. to steer clear of the polio vaccine
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell gave a stern warning to Robert F. Kennedy Jr. after a report highlighted how one of Kennedy’s associates had sought to rescind approval for a polio vaccine. McConnell, a polio survivor, said in a statement that “efforts to undermine public confidence in proven cures are …
Read More »What Comes After the Apocalypse? A Q&A With Joshua Oppenheimer
Culture / December 14, 2024 Oppenheimer’s latest film, The End, is a Golden Age, postapocalyptic musical crying out from the depths of the earth. Edit Ad Policy Tilda Swinton and Michael Shannon in The End.(Felix Dickinson / Neon) In the late 2000s, the filmmaker Joshua Oppenheimer trained his camera on …
Read More »Trump-backed candidate aiming to replace Matt Gaetz wants Florida to adopt gold and silver as legal tender
Florida Chief Financial Officer Jimmy Patronis — who was urged by President-elect Donald Trump to run in the special election to replace former Rep. Matt Gaetz in Florida’s 1st Congressional District — hopes to win so he can support the incoming commander-in-chief’s agenda. Patronis told Fox News Digital during an …
Read More »Opinion | Why Biden should pardon everyone on Trump’s enemies list
When President Joe Biden pardoned his son Hunter, most of the pundit class was outraged. Conservative commentators, of course, accused Biden of hypocrisy, taking the pardon as proof that the “Biden crime family” had been real all along. But moderates and liberals also had complaints: The pardon of a family …
Read More »Opinion | North Carolina Republicans’ power grab reveals their deepest fear
On a rainy afternoon in Raleigh this week, the North Carolina House convened in a statehouse bedecked with tinsel and lights to override Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto of a bill that Republicans passed after losing their supermajority in November’s election. The wet weather was a grim reminder that the …
Read More »Mass deportations are Trump’s most prominent immigration pledges, but a more urgent threat looms for millions of immigrants and their employers: losing access to legal work
President-elect Donald Trump promised to eliminate programs that provide temporary work permits, including to people brought to the U.S. illegally as children. Source link
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