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Israel Strikes Beirut, Breaking a Ceasefire—Again

Breaking a year-long ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah, Israel struck the suburbs of Beirut on Sunday, killing at least five people and wounding 28 others, according to the BBC and Lebanon’s health ministry. Israel says it killed a senior Hezbollah official, Haytham

Bessent says inflation rise 'has nothing to do with tariffs'

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Sunday that President Trump’s sweeping tariffs have “nothing to do” with the rise in inflation. In an interview Sunday on NBC News’s “Meet the Press,” moderator Kristen Welker pressed the secretary on the administration’s decision to

Bessent joins Trump's push to end filibuster

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has joined President Trump in a push to end the Senate's filibuster rule. “The American people are just now emerging from the longest and most devastating government shutdown in U.S. history. And while the blame lies squarely with Senate

Yes, Zohran Mamdani Still Thinks Trump Is a Fascist

After his surprisingly warm meeting with President Donald Trump, NYC Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani reiterated that yes, he still believes Trump is a fascist. During an interview with NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday, Kristen Welker pressed Mamdani about the recent event at the

Crockett on Greene's resignation: 'You've got to be kidding me'

Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) said Sunday she was surprised by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) announcing her resignation over the weekend. “Honestly, I was like, ‘You’ve got to be kidding me,’” Crockett told host Jake Tapper on CNN’s “State of the Union.” “You're on the

Trump’s DOGE Is Dead and We Won’t Miss It

It was here for a bad time, not a long time: The U.S. Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, has been officially disbanded . The shady department led by tech billionaire Elon Musk that laid off scores of workers and gutted parts of the federal government has faded away

Many Top MAGA Trolls Aren’t Even in the U.S.

Elon Musk’s latest feature on X has had some shocking and unintended consequences. Starting Friday, X users were able to use a new “about this account” feature to see what country accounts were based in. And for many “America First” posters, this revealed an inconvenient truth

JFK granddaughter reveals terminal cancer diagnosis

Tatiana Schlossberg, the 35-year-old granddaughter of former President John F. Kennedy, revealed on Saturday that she has been diagnosed with a rare form of terminal cancer and has a year to live. In a deeply emotional essay, published in The New Yorker on the anniversary of

The scandalous self-enrichment scheme in the US Senate

Once celebrated as “the world’s most deliberative body,” the U.S. Senate has sunk to new lows. Buried in the 394-page bill to end the federal government shutdown, one provision serves as an example of what Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) has called “self-serving, self-dealing kind of

Why ‘subclade K’ could make for a nasty flu season

A new strain of the flu called subclade K could make for a particularly nasty flu season across the country, according to public health experts. The strain already caused Japan to declare an influenza epidemic. The United Kingdom's flu season started a month earlier than

My Weekend With the Anti-Vaxxers

You had to go through a metal detector to get to the Children’s Health Defense conference, held in Austin, Texas, on November 7–9, and conversation on the first morning buzzed about it. At the Make America Healthy Again symposium that convened the next week, Health and Human