New York Republicans blast Schumer, Gillibrand over shutdown: ‘You’ve abdicated your responsibility’
Republicans in New York’s congressional delegation are pressing their two Democratic senators to end the ongoing government shutdown, casting their opposition to the GOP’s funding bill as ‘radical and harmful’ to residents of the Empire State. The government shutdown has entered its eleventh day with Republicans and Democrats still unable to agree on a path forward. Thousands of government workers, ...
President Donald Trump secured a historic peace deal between Israel and Hamas this week that will end the war in Gaza and return the hostages, two years after the terrorist network attacked Israel Oct. 7, 2023 — all while the U.S. government remains in a shutdown due to a stalemate in the Senate. The president made the announcement on his ...
The government shutdown is poised to enter a third week, and Democrats still appear to be struggling in the search for a cohesive messaging strategy. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., received a barrage of GOP-led attacks on Thursday after he told Punchbowl News, ‘Every day gets better for us’ in reference to the shutdown dragging on. Meanwhile, House Democrats’ group ...
The consortium behind PPE Medpro has announced its readiness to enter discussions with the company’s administrators to explore a possible settlement with the government, following the High Court’s ruling that the firm must repay £121.9 million for breaching its PPE contract with the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC). In a statement shared with Business Matters, a spokesperson for ...
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un displayed a new long-range intercontinental ballistic missile at a military parade in Pyongyang that included foreign leaders on Friday. The yet-to-be-tested Hwasong-20 was described by the state-owned Korean Central News Agency as having the ‘most powerful nuclear strategic weapons system.’ The government also displayed shorter-range ballistic, cruise and supersonic missiles at the military parade, ...
President Donald Trump is in ‘excellent overall health,’ the president’s doctor said in a memorandum after a follow-up evaluation at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on Friday. Earlier this week, the White House announced that Trump, 79, would undergo a ‘routine’ semiannual physical on Friday. The president also met with troops while at the hospital in Bethesda, Maryland. ‘President ...
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth on Friday announced that the Department of War (DOW) is establishing a new counter-narcotics Joint Task Force in the Caribbean Sea. Hegseth said the task force’s aim would be to ‘crush the cartels, stop the poison, and keep America safe. The message is clear: if you traffic drugs toward our shores, we will stop you ...
Russian President Vladimir Putin praised President Donald Trump’s efforts to negotiate peace deals around the world, specifically citing his work brokering a truce between Israel and Hamas. ‘He’s really doing a lot to resolve such complex crises that have lasted for years and even decades,’ Putin said at a summit in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, where he met with leaders of nations ...
Walter Olson Today, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) formally rejected the Trump administration’s proffer to nine universities of a supposed “Compact for Excellence.” The proposed deal doesn’t seem much more popular at other institutions, which have given it little if any affirmative response so far; at a meeting of University of Virginia faculty, 97 percent rejected the idea. My ...
Jeffrey A. Singer During a White House cabinet meeting on October 9, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., claimed there may be a link between the circumcision of male babies and young children and autism, stating circumcised boys were twice as likely as uncircumcised boys to be diagnosed with autism. He cited two studies, saying the link ...