United States health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., announced on Tuesday that The Department of Health and Human Services has cancelled $500 million in funding for mRNA vaccine development. The cancellation will impact 22 projects that work to develop vaccines for respiratory viruses, such as COVID-19 and the flu. mRNA,...
The public has yet to forget the flippant care of the Epstein files that the current administration has been demonstrating. What was once considered a real list of attendees at the infamous island has now been dismissed as being fake or non-existent. With the Department of Justice being called into...
A manhunt is still underway in search of Michael Paul Brown, 45, the suspect in the fatal shootings in Anaconda, Montana, on Friday. At around 10:30 a.m. on Friday, Aug 1, Brown allegedly walked into The Owl Bar, a small bar in Anaconda, and shot and killed four people. The...
President Donald Trump has officially brought back the Presidential Fitness Test. On Thursday, July 31, Trump signed an executive order to reinstate the test back into public schools. It was previously in effect from 1963 to 2013. Obama replaced the Presidential Fitness Test with the Presidential Youth Fitness Program, focused...
Forecasters are warning of heavy storms set to hit the East Coast later today, Thursday July 31. This comes after a long stretch of record high temperatures. They say the storm is fueled by tropical moisture and is expected to bring intense rainfall to major cities in the Mid-Atlantic and...
Emil Bove, a former prosecutor and defense attorney for President Donald Trump, was confirmed Tuesday to a lifetime seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit, concluding a contentious nomination process. The Senate voted 50-49, with two Republicans joining all Democrats in opposition, to approve Bove’s appointment...
On Monday evening, suspect Shane Tamura, a 27-year-old man, shot and killed four people before turning the gun and shooting himself in the chest, killing him. A fifth victim, who has been identified as an NFL employee, was left in critical condition and is now stable. The shooting occurred just...
As it currently stands, the people of Gaza are facing hunger due to the conflict with Israel. Many civilians have died trying to obtain the aid they need, and even more are dying from starvation. Many pictures of starving children have surfaced on the internet, which highlights how this issue...
The Justice Department has announced it is suing New York City’s Mayor Eric Adam’s administration arguing that the city’s “sanctuary” policy interferes with the federal government’s deportation efforts. The lawsuit comes just days after the Trump administration placed blame on those policies for the recent shooting of an off-duty Customs...
Whenever a discussion about climate change arises, there is always a mention of greenhouse gas emissions that are supposedly contributing to global warming, leading many cities and towns to enact policies that reduce their reliance on fossil fuels. However, according to NPR, the Environmental Protection Agency has recently claimed that...
Republican Rep. Mike Lawler announced he will not be running for New York governor. In an interview with “Fox and Friends” on Wednesday morning, he said that he will instead seek reelection to his current seat in the House. Lawler is a moderate Republican from the Hudson Valley who had...
Once again President Trump has withdrawn the United States from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization after it rejoined two years ago in 2023, with The U.S. Department of State stating that “UNESCO works to advance divisive social and cultural causes and maintains an outsized focus on the...
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