Feb. 25, 2026, 5:53 PM EST The Trump administration is temporarily halting $259 million in Medicaid funding to Minnesota, Vice President JD Vance announced Wednesday. Vance said the payments will be paused “until the state government takes

Josh Bivens February 26, 2026 0 Comments

Feb. 25, 2026, 5:49 PM EST By  Josh Bivens President Donald Trump has said some strikingly out-of-touch things about affordability: that it’s a “hoax,” he’s “solved it” and he’s “won affordability.” In his State of the Union

Erum Salam February 24, 2026 0 Comments

Feb. 24, 2026, 1:35 PM EST With the U.S. massing forces within striking distance of Iran, Secretary of State Marco Rubio met Tuesday with the “Gang of Eight,” a group of party leaders in the House and

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Early Saturday, Denmark’s Arctic Command made an important announcement: It had evacuated a crew member of a U.S. submarine in need of medical attention, transporting the sailor to Greenland for emergency care. Soon after, instead of expressing

Feb. 22, 2026, 6:20 PM EST MEXICO CITY (AP) — The Mexican army killed the leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, Nemesio Rubén Oseguera Cervantes, “El Mencho,” on Sunday, decapitating what had become Mexico’s most powerful cartel and

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Feb. 22, 2026, 4:45 PM EST A man was fatally shot early Sunday morning after Secret Service agents and a local law enforcement officer opened fire on him for trespassing at President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in

Feb. 21, 2026, 5:25 PM EST As President Donald Trump weighs a second major military assault on Iran in less than a year, congressional Democrats are warning a president known for pushing the boundaries of his executive

Feb. 21, 2026, 2:34 PM EST President Donald Trump said Saturday he is raising global tariffs to 15% from the 10% import tax he imposed the day before in response to the Supreme Court’s ruling striking down

Feb. 21, 2026, 11:14 AM EST Almost immediately after federal judges in the Eastern District of Virginia on Friday appointed a veteran litigator as interim U.S. attorney, a position previously held by Lindsey Halligan, Deputy Attorney General

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Feb. 21, 2026, 6:00 AM EST By  Hussein Ibish The inaugural meeting of the President Donald Trump-led “Board of Peace” on Thursday was fittingly described as a “show” in the White House readout circulated to the press.