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War & Conflict
Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee in Michigan’s open Senate race, on Tuesday accused Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of pushing the Trump administration to enter the Iran war. The ongoing conflict began when Israel and the U.S. launched joint strikes on Tehran on Feb. 28. In the…
Cost of living, energy and fuel prices, and markets when they reach households
In Los Angeles County, the nation’s most populous, a new system could screen hospital patients for financial aid, preventing hundreds of thousands from getting bills they can’t pay.
Conflict involving the US, and wars abroad when they reach home
“Withdrawing these bombers to [the US] will provide an opportunity for more significant maintenance on the aircraft, but it does reduce the potential sustained strike capacity US forces could bring to bear against Iran,” Timothy Walton, a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, told Breaking Defense.
Agency failures, inspector general and GAO findings, disaster response gaps and infrastructure breakdowns
Vice President JD Vance recently announced that the Trump administration would end subsidy payments for 760,000 fraudulent health insurance enrollments made through the federally administered Affordable Care Act exchanges, saving taxpayers $2.2 billion a year. Now Democrats are attacking Vance for…
ICE and detention, court rulings on policy and civil liberties, protests, and policy changes that divide us
A perfect storm of harsh immigration enforcement, aging journeymen and a building boom for data centers is wreaking havoc on the nation’s supply of skilled trade workers. Automakers and construction contractors say they need more access to workers through accelerated training, steady immigration…