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Beloved US landmark is being quietly blown up with sticks of TNT as part of Trump scheme despised by EVERYONE in Texas
Residents near Big Bend National Park in Texas say they have been blindsided after learning demolition crews have been using TNT for two weeks to blast bedrock in preparation for President Trump’s planned expansion of the US-Mexico border wall, according to Border Patrol sources cited by the Daily Mail. Communities including Marathon, Sanderson, Alpine, Marfa…
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Top democratic socialist makes a fool of herself as she can’t explain what ‘taxing the rich’ means
Megan Romer, co-chair of the Democratic Socialists of America, struggled to give a clear definition of the organisation’s tax policy when questioned during a New Yorker Radio Hour interview with David Remnick. Asked to explain what she meant by “taxing the hell out of millionaires,” Romer repeatedly failed to give specifics, instead speaking in general…
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Trump and RFK Jr. try again to upend vaccines for kids
President Trump signed an executive order on Monday about vaccines, saying children should get fewer. His administration has been blocked in the courts from changing the vaccine schedule.
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GOP senators release texts from Fauci’s government cellphone
Republican Sens. Rand Paul (Ky.) and Ron Johnson (Wis.) on Monday released text messages Dr. Anthony Fauci sent and received in 2021 regarding the safety of the COVID-19 vaccine for pregnant women. Obtained from Fauci’s government cellphone, the text messages are among more than 34,000 on the device, according to Johnson’s office. The lawmakers also…
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Trump order calls for fewer childhood vaccines
An executive order signed by President Trump Monday would upend the childhood vaccine schedule by recommending splitting up the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) shot across three separate visits. The order builds on other efforts by Trump and Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to reshape and whittle down the number of…
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Most favor stronger social media oversight: Survey
Most Americans back stronger social media oversight, according to a new survey. In the Reuters/Ipsos poll, 61 percent of respondents said that additional government oversight is needed for social media companies, 27 percent were against additional government oversight, and 17 percent did not respond or were unsure. More than half of all Republicans, Democrats and…
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Allison Janney on Playing the President in ‘The Diplomat,’ Her Broadway ‘Seven-Year Itch’ and the One Genre She’s Never Tried
Allison Janney has spoken to Variety about playing Grace Penn, a US president, in Netflix’s political thriller “The Diplomat,” a role she says came as a genuine surprise as her character rose from vice president to commander-in-chief over the course of the show. The interview coincides with her seventh Emmy nomination, this time for supporting…
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Ben Jones, ‘Dukes of Hazzard’ actor and former congressman, dead at 84
Ben Jones, the actor best known for playing mechanic Cooter Davenport in the television series “The Dukes of Hazzard,” has died at the age of 84. He appeared in the show, which followed the escapades of the Duke family in the fictional Hazzard County, from 1979 until 1985, becoming one of its most recognisable cast…
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Senate Democrats unveil cybersecurity bill after attacks on water infrastructure
Democratic Sens. Adam Schiff (Calif.) and Amy Klobuchar (Minn.) unveiled a new cybersecurity bill dubbed the Water Cyber Shield Act on Monday in an effort to prevent attacks on water infrastructure. The legislation would increase the drinking water and clean water state revolving funds by $300 million annually for cybersecurity improvements, and it would allow…