CAIRO (AP) — Sudan’s military said Friday it retook the Republican Palace in Khartoum, the last heavily guarded bastion of rival paramilitary forces in the capital, after nearly two years of fighting. The seizure of the Republican Palace, surrounded by government ministries, represents a major symbolic victory for Sudan’s military against the paramilitary Rapid Support […]
Last year, the U.S. government made at least $162 billion in improper payments, according to a nonpartisan government watchdog. Kristin Kociolek of the Government Accountability Office also told a House oversight subcommittee that the government was defrauded of $233 billion to $521 billion per year between 2018 and 2022. Social welfare programs and pandemic emergency […]
At the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, then-White House chief medical advisor Anthony Fauci joined state and local health authorities to hold powerful sway over Americans’ daily affairs and quality of life. Across the country, the men and women issuing virus-related guidelines and mandates were appointed by the president, city mayors, or county governments — […]
Gas prices climbed for the third consecutive day this week, with the national average price for a gallon of regular gas at $3.129 on Friday, according to AAA.com. The latest price is five cents per gallon higher than Tuesday’s $3.078 fuel cost. The increases at the pumps come just days after President Donald Trump and […]
On March 11, the House Budget Committee dropped language from its bill to fund the federal government that would have added 20,000 Special Immigrant Visas, or SIVs, for the Afghan allies who sacrificed their safety to support our overseas mission. The SIV program remains the only chance of safety for many of the more than 128,000 Afghan principal […]
President Donald Trump announced plans to close the Department of Education on Thursday with an executive order, “Improving Education Outcomes by Empowering Parents, States, and Communities.” “Closing the Department of Education would provide children and their families the opportunity to escape a system that is failing them,” read Trump’s directive. “Today, American reading and math […]
It was all smiles among President Donald Trump, criminal justice reform advocates, law enforcement representatives, and a bipartisan group of legislators in the Oval Office in 2018. Trump, who campaigned on law and order, was preparing to sign the First Step Act, one of the biggest criminal justice reform legislative bills in U.S. history. “This […]
They used to say that life imitates art. Today, it is probably more likely to imitate a meme. And no meme is more relevant today, more searingly real, than “Democrats are in disarray,” which, during President Donald Trump’s first term, became shorthand for the party’s struggles to find a coherent message. Considering that they turned […]
BELGRADE — The protests that shut down Serbia’s capital were fiery but mostly peaceful, in no small part due to a police force that understood the entire government’s fate rested on its restraint. “In the end, they destroyed 186 tractors, and the only big fight — they made it between themselves,” Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic […]
Any show that uses the title card “Baldwin Residence: East Hampton” is rather begging to be hate-watched. And on that basis, The Baldwins on TLC, which peers into the life of Alec, his second wife, Hilaria Baldwin, and their seven children, is undeniably addictive and sometimes perversely successful — but, for a whole host of […]
