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Trump cuts funding to global vaccine group
Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Health Care Health Care The Big Story White House cuts funding to global vaccine program The Trump administration plans to stop providing U.S. funding for Gavi, a program that helps purchase shots to vaccinate children in developing countries. AP The program was launched...
Published on: March 26, 2025 | Source:
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Administration trying to avoid that Signal chat is massive security breach, Goldberg says
Details about U.S. military strikes being discussed on Signal have shocked many in the national security community. But President Trump called the whole episode a "witch hunt" and said Defense Secretary Hegseth "had nothing to do with this." Geoff Bennett discussed more with Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of the Atlantic and moderator of Washington Week.
Published on: March 26, 2025 | Source:WATCH: DHS Secretary Noem tours El Salvador prison holding deported Venezuelans
U.S. Homeland Security SecretaryKristi Noemon Wednesday visitedthe high-security El Salvador prisonwhere Venezuelans who the Trump administration alleges are gang members have been held since their removal from the United States. The tour that included two crowded cell blocks, the armory and an isolation unit.
Published on: March 26, 2025 | Source:Hegseth in eye of storm
Presented by Boeing {beacon} Defense &National Security Defense &National Security The Big Story Hegseth goes on attack as Signal scandal raises big questions Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has moved to the center of the storm over the administration's Signal group chat scandal. AP Seeking to combat questions about whether he shared confidential military...
Published on: March 26, 2025 | Source:Sununu: Trump defense team was 'terrible' in handling group chat mess
Former New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu (R) on Wednesday criticized the Trump administration defense team's handling of the Signal group chat with high-level national security officials and journalist Jeffrey Goldberg. βThis was not President Trump's fault. I think the way this defense team has handled it had been terrible in terms of the messaging,β Sununu...
Published on: March 26, 2025 | Source:‘Just own it’: GOP Rep. Bacon says Signal chat contained classified info
To discuss the Signal chat on military strikes, Amna Nawaz spoke with Republican Rep. Don Bacon of Nebraska. He spent nearly three decades in the U.S. Air Force, retiring as a brigadier general.
Published on: March 26, 2025 | Source:Mark Cuban wants to revolutionize US health care
Businessman Mark Cuban is making it his βmissionβ to shake up U.S. health care. Cuban is known for owning the Dallas Mavericks and for his role as an angel investor on the ABC reality TV show βShark Tank.β He hasnβt shied away from the political arena as a prominent critic of President Trump. But Cuban says...
Published on: March 26, 2025 | Source:News Wrap: Appeals court upholds block on Trump deportations under Alien Enemies Act
In our news wrap Wednesday, an appeals court upheld a ban on the deportation of hundreds of immigrants under the Alien Enemies Act, President Trump has announced new 25 percent tariffs on all foreign-made automobiles and the Supreme Court in Brazil ordered former President Bolsonaro to stand trial on charges that he attempted a coup to stay in power three years ago.
Published on: March 26, 2025 | Source:Supreme Court upholds Biden regulation making ghost guns easier to trace
The Supreme Court upheld Biden-era regulations on ghost guns. Those are firearms that can be put together at home with partially assembled kits, making them nearly impossible to trace. Sales of those guns exploded after they came onto the market and their use in gun crimes also rose significantly. Amna Nawaz discussed more with Jennifer Mascia of The Trace, which covers gun violence in America.
Published on: March 26, 2025 | Source:White House scrambles to contain Signal chat fallout
The White House on Wednesday scrambled to contain the controversy of a Signal chat among national security officials that became public, opting for its signature defiant approach but one that left even some Republicans scratching their heads. After The Atlantic published messages from the chat, which editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg was mistakenly added to, administration officials...
Published on: March 26, 2025 | Source:CDC the latest federal agency to face leadership shakeup and cuts
President Trump has put into place a very different team than his predecessors when it comes to public health and research. The CDC is very much in the thick of it. Five senior leaders at the CDC have announced their departures and staff are anticipating cuts that could affect as much as a third of its workforce. Geoff Bennett discussed more with Lena Sun of The Washington Post.
Published on: March 26, 2025 | Source:NPR and PBS heads face sharp questioning about federal funding during House hearing
On Capitol Hill, the heads of Americaβs public media networks, PBS and NPR, faced sharp questioning by a House oversight subcommittee about allegations of bias and why their work justifies continued federal support. That support also helps fund programs like the News Hour. President Trump, Elon Musk and many Republicans have argued those funds should be completely cut. William Brangham reports.
Published on: March 26, 2025 | Source:FDA approves first new UTI drug in decades
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a new drug for treating urinary tract infections (UTIs), the first such drug approved in decades and the first in a new class of medications. British pharmaceutical company GSK announced Tuesday that the FDA had approved its oral antibiotic Blujepa for treating uncomplicated urinary tract infections in...
Published on: March 26, 2025 | Source:Ex-NIH director and truck driver explore how to bridge divisions deepened by the pandemic
Americans were sharply divided over the public health response to COVID-19, including masking, remote learning, business closures and vaccines. Five years after the start of the pandemic, Judy Woodruff sat down with two people on opposing sides of that divide trying to figure out how to move forward. It's part of her series, America at a Crossroads.
Published on: March 26, 2025 | Source:WATCH: Rubio and Jamaican Prime Minister Holness hold joint press conference on security goals
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Wednesday the State Department will re-evaluate its travel warnings for Jamaica and other countries to ensure they reflect real conditions on the ground.
Published on: March 26, 2025 | Source:The culture war over Tesla
{beacon} Technology Technology The Big Story Conservatives embrace Tesla as liberals ditch Elon Musk Conservatives are rallying around Tesla while liberals ditch or distance themselves from Elon Muskβs electric vehicles (EVs) in a surprising about-face for a company whose fate is deeply tied to the politics of sustainability and climate issues. AP Photo/George Walker...
Published on: March 26, 2025 | Source:Justice Department goes to bat for Trump in hush money caseΒ
The Justice Department went to bat for President Trump in his hush money criminal case Wednesday, urging that his prosecution be moved out of New York state court so he can attempt to toss his guilty verdict on presidential immunity grounds. Trump cannot pardon himself from his 34-count felony conviction on falsifying business records charges,...
Published on: March 26, 2025 | Source:Trump going ahead with 25% tariffs on autos
U.S. President Donald Trump is dealing another tariff blow to Canada, signing an executive order on Wednesday that will hit all non-U.S.-made autos with hefty import levies.
Published on: March 26, 2025 | Source:Appeals court won’t halt order barring Trump administration from deportations under Alien Enemies Act
A federal appeals court refused Wednesday to lift an order barring the Trump administration from deportingVenezuelan migrants to El Salvadorunder an 18th century wartime law.
Published on: March 26, 2025 | Source:Former Afghan women's soccer captain fights for team's chance to compete in World Cup
The founder and former captain of Afghanistanβs women's soccer team says it's past time FIFA let them back on the pitch.
Published on: March 26, 2025 | Source:Wildfires ravaging southern South Korea leave 24 dead, force thousands to evacuate
Wind-drivenwildfiresthat were among South Koreaβs worst ever have ravaged the countryβs southern regions, killing 24 people, destroying more than 300 structures and forcing 28,800 residents to evacuate, officials said Wednesday.
Published on: March 26, 2025 | Source:'It became worse' after Oscar win, says Palestinian director Hamdan Ballal detained by Israel
Oscar-winning Palestinian director Hamdan Ballal believes he is being deliberately targeted by Israeli settlers and soldiers in the occupied West Bank following the success of his film No Other Land, which won best documentary at the prestigious awards ceremony earlier this month.
Published on: March 26, 2025 | Source:Why there is renewed hope we might find Flight MH370
Eleven years after the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, the Malaysian government has approved a new search for the plane. One company is so certain new technology will help them find it that theyβve wagered $70 million.
Published on: March 26, 2025 | Source:WATCH: Trump announces new 25 percent tariff on imported autos
President Donald Trump said Wednesday he was placing 25 percent tariffs on auto imports, a move the White House claims would foster domestic manufacturing but could also put a financial squeeze on automakers that depend on global supply chains.
Published on: March 26, 2025 | Source:4 American soldiers killed while training in Lithuania, NATO leader says
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte says that four U.S. soldiers who went missing while training in Lithuania have died, but that he does not yet know the details.
Published on: March 26, 2025 | Source:WATCH: Trump hosts celebration of Women’s History Month at White House
Trump recognized Susie Wiles, the first woman to serve as White House chief of staff, as βthe most powerful woman in the world,β and he said Karoline Leavitt, the youngest person to be press secretary, was βknocking them dead.β
Published on: March 26, 2025 | Source:A year after the Baltimore bridge collapse, a long road to recovery is ahead
A year after the catastrophic collapse of Baltimoreβs Francis Scott Key Bridge, Maryland leaders are honoring the six construction workers killed that night.
Published on: March 26, 2025 | Source:Brazil Supreme Court allows charges against former President Bolsonaro for alleged coup plan
They have ordered the former leader to stand trial. Brazil's prosecutor general has charged Bolsonaro and 33 others of attempting a coup that included a plan to poison his successor and current President Luiz InΓ‘cio Lula da Silva and kill a Supreme Court judge.
Published on: March 26, 2025 | Source:Biden rule requiring serial numbers and background checks for ghost guns upheld by Supreme Court
Since the rule was finalized in 2022, ghost gun numbers have flattened out or declined in several major cities, including New York, Los Angeles, Philadelphia and Baltimore.
Published on: March 26, 2025 | Source:Trump administration invokes state secrets privilege in deportations case and refuses to give judge additional information
The declaration comes as U.S. District Judge James Boasberg weighs whether the government defied his order to turn around planes carrying migrants after he blocked deportations of people alleged to be gang members without due process.
Published on: March 26, 2025 | Source:Brazil's Supreme Court votes to put Bolsonaro on trial for alleged coup attempt
A panel of justices on Brazil's Supreme Court has accepted charges against former president Jair Bolsonaro over an alleged attempt to stay in office after his 2022 election defeat, and they have ordered the former leader to stand trial.
Published on: March 26, 2025 | Source:'Get out, Hamas': Hundreds protest against group's rule over Gaza, call for end to war with Israel
Hundreds of Palestinians took to the streets in Gaza on Wednesdayto demand an end towarand chanting 'Hamas out,' in a rare public show of opposition to the militant group a week after Israel resumed its bombardment on the war-torn territory.
Published on: March 26, 2025 | Source:Russia convicts members of Ukraine's Azov regiment on terrorism charges
A Russian military court on Wednesday handed down long prison sentences to 12 members of Ukraine's Azov regiment, which led the defence of the city of Mariupol in the early months of the war and is designated as a "terrorist organization" by Russia.
Published on: March 26, 2025 | Source:Trump could be pushing South Africa closer to ChinaΒ
On Feb. 7, Trump issued theexecutive orderβAddressing Egregious Actions of the Republic of South Africa.β
Published on: March 26, 2025 | Source:Congress continues to seek answers on UFOs
UFO whistleblower David Grusch will be advising Missouri Rep. Eric Burlison on the issue.
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