Lawyers for roughly two dozen states will head to court Monday to block the Trump administration’s attempt to penalize them for making full payments to Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) recipients. The filing is the latest in a chaotic, fast-moving legal saga centered on the status of the nation’s largest anti-hunger program, which supports 42 million low-income Americans and remains ...
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., is anticipating the House could vote to end the government shutdown as early as Wednesday, Fox News Digital is told. The House GOP leader held a lawmaker-only call late on Monday morning where he urged Republicans to return to Washington as soon as possible for what is expected to be just a single day of voting ...
Romina Boccia and Tyler Turman The ongoing government shutdown—now the longest in US history—has brought renewed attention to Washington’s biggest non-healthcare welfare program: the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) or food stamps. With a shutdown deal in sight, legislators are planning to fund SNAP for the entirety of this fiscal year, while other parts of the federal government could face ...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced it is initiating the removal of ‘black box’ warning labels from hormone replacement therapy (HRT) products used to ease menopause symptoms, a move Commissioner Dr. Marty Makary said is backed by decades of research on the therapy’s benefits and clinical trials that do not support earlier fears linking it to higher breast ...
The ball is rolling to reopen the government, but there is still much left to do in the Senate before the record-shattering shutdown comes to an end. Sunday night’s successful vote, which saw eight Senate Democrats splinter from Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and their colleagues, was a massive step forward in the shutdown slog. But there are several ...
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., is sending a critical warning to House lawmakers as the government shutdown continues to wreak havoc on air travel. ‘As of Sunday, nearly half of all domestic flights and U.S. flights were either canceled or delayed, and it’s a very serious situation,’ Johnson said in comments to reporters on Monday. ‘So I’m saying that, by way ...
A Chinese consul general in Japan threatened to decapitate the nation’s new prime minister over her comments in defense of Taiwan, prompting outrage in Tokyo and underscoring the rising tension between the two regional powers. Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, who took office last month, told a parliamentary committee Friday that a Chinese blockade of Taiwan would likely create a ‘survival-threatening ...
James A. Dorn Fifteen years ago, Weiying Zhang, a distinguished professor of economics at Peking University, published a path-breaking book, The Logic of the Market: An Insider’s View of Chinese Economic Reform (Shanghai People’s Press). In 2015, the Cato Institute brought out an English edition of his book translated by Matthew Dale. The key idea that Zhang espouses is that, if ...
From Moscow to Silicon Valley: A Journey of Grit and Growth Roman Meydbray’s story begins far from the tech corridors of California. Born in Moscow, Russia, he immigrated to the United States with his parents in 1989, when he was just 11 years old. The journey took six long months, spanning Austria, Germany, and Italy before finally landing in San ...
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., is glad the Senate finally managed to break through its weeks-long standoff on the government shutdown, he told Fox News Digital on Monday morning. ‘It’s a great development. It’s long overdue. It vindicates our position in this all along,’ the House leader said. He added that he would have ‘a lot more to say at a ...