With the federal shutdown in its third week, a clash over Affordable Care Act tax credits is a central sticking point. Democrats push to extend the credits as doctors warn lapses could swell the uninsured and shift costs. Rep. Chris Deluzio says 24,000 people in his district using Pennsylvania’s Pennie...
Donovan Mitchell’s 21-point third quarter hushed Madison Square Garden, but the Knicks answered with a 14-2 burst to open the fourth and closed a 119-111 win over the Cavaliers. New York’s balance and bite told: five scored in double figures, led by OG Anunoby’s 24 and Jalen Brunson’s 23, with...
Senator Jeff Merkley ended a 22-hour, 37-minute floor speech warning of authoritarianism under President Trump, calling it the gravest threat since the Civil War and accusing him of shredding the Constitution. He blamed Republican compliance and a conservative Supreme Court establishing presidential immunity. Republicans blasted the marathon—Senator John Barrasso called...
President Trump imposed major new sanctions on Russia’s energy sector, targeting Rosneft and Lukoil, after canceling a planned Budapest meeting with Vladimir V. Putin. Announced during an Oval Office visit by NATO secretary general Mark Rutte, the move marked his first such action of his second term and reflected mounting...
Andrés Fernando Tufiño Chila, 41, survived a U.S. military strike on what President Donald Trump called a 'drug-carrying submarine' in the Caribbean, one of two survivors returned to their countries as 'terrorists.' His sister, who last heard from him a year ago when he went to fish, rejects that label...
MPs on the public accounts committee are pushing to probe Prince Andrew’s Royal Lodge arrangements, with Keir Starmer signalling he supports MPs questioning him about the Windsor residence. Ed Davey urged the committee’s Conservative chair, Geoffrey Clifton-Brown, to launch an inquiry, as scrutiny mounts over the 30-room property’s lease and...
Ukraine said it launched a large-scale missile and air strike on a key chemical plant in Russia’s Bryansk region, claiming Storm Shadow missiles broke through air defenses, while assessing damage. As Russian attacks killed at least six across Ukraine and hit a Kharkiv kindergarten, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy visited Sweden, where...
New research in Neurology Open Access ties oral health to brain changes and stroke risk. Adults with gum disease were more likely to show white-matter damage, and a second study led by Dr. Souvik Sen found that having both gum disease and cavities was linked to an 86% higher stroke...
The US and Qatar warned the EU that its corporate sustainability due diligence directive poses an “existential threat” to European economies and urged lawmakers to repeal or pare it back, arguing it would restrict LNG imports. At the same time, the Trump administration granted final export approval for Venture Global’s...
Indiana farmer Todd Armstrong, who backed Donald Trump in 2024, says he feels betrayed after the president suggested buying beef from Argentina to lower prices — a move he calls hypocritical to “America First.” His frustration mirrors a rare GOP split: senators pressed Trump at the White House, House Republicans...
