A throng of protesters chanted slogans as Vice President JD Vance thanked National Guard and police at Union Station in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday. Vance praised law enforcement and said that violent crime had dropped by 35% in the nine days since President Donald Trump ordered the crackdown. The vice president appeared alongside Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and White House ...
Extreme weather events and rising electricity rates have made energy resilience a must-have for houses all around the world. In the US, families now spend more than $2,000 a year on power, and rates have gone up more than 14% in the last two years. The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) says that these rates will keep going up since ...
Jeffrey A. Singer and Bautista Vivanco Earlier this month, STAT News published an opinion piece we wrote about the drug domperidone, an anti-nausea medication that may also help with breastfeeding. It is available by prescription in Australia, Canada, the UK, and several European Union countries, over the counter in China, Italy, Mexico, New Zealand, and South Africa, and either OTC ...
The thousands of Ukrainian children abducted since Russia’s invasion began three-and-a-half-years-ago are once again at the forefront of international discussions as NATO leaders convened to discuss the war. Following Russia’s deadly 2022 invasion, Ukrainian children have been among the war’s chief victims, with Kyiv confirming that there have been at least 19,546 cases of unlawful deportation and forced transfer of ...
A moderate House Democrat’s town hall devolved into chaos minutes after it began on Tuesday night, with pro-Palestinian activists clashing with both the congressman and fellow attendees in what became a near-constant torrent of interruptions and protests. Rep. Wesley Bell, D-Mo., who defeated far-left ‘Squad’ member Cori Bush in the Democratic primary last year, repeatedly pleaded with protesters to allow ...
Longtime Trump political foe Democrat Sen. Adam Schiff for years has been accused of leaking classified documents — long before the release of a ‘bombshell’ whistleblower testimony claiming the California lawmaker approved leaking classified information in order to discredit the president during the Russiagate probe, Fox News Digital found. Schiff, who served in the U.S. House for more than two ...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has firmly rejected proposals to concede land to Russian President Vladimir Putin, particularly the hotly-contested Donbas region. The Donbas, which includes Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts, is Ukraine’s industrial heartland where coal mining and steel production are the main drivers of economic growth. Ultimately, control of the region’s mines and factories would hand Moscow powerful leverage over ...
Less than three months after its launch, Elon Musk’s ‘America Party’ appears to have been shelved. Musk allegedly told associates that he wants to focus on his companies and avoid starting a party that could siphon voters from the GOP, the The Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with his plans. Musk has also allegedly worked to maintain ties ...
Jeffrey A. Singer Last June, Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. dissolved the 17-member Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), which advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on immunization policy. Shortly afterward, he appointed eight new members to the panel, some of whom have held controversial and skeptical views on vaccines and vaccine safety. ...
John Mueller For a settlement or ceasefire of the war in Ukraine to take place, those involved have to work out two “security guarantees.” There has been endless, but vague, discussion about what these would entail—but they are key to the discussion. One, demanded by Ukraine, would be to guarantee its security in the event that Russia breaks the agreement ...