Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made his first public comment on the growing cyclosporiasis outbreak on Tuesday, declaring it under control and denying that cutbacks to monitoring activities have hurt U.S. food safety. Carter Evans reports. Source link
About 6,600 people who indicated they were noncitizens while obtaining New Jersey driver’s licenses and other state IDs were improperly registered to vote in 2023 and 2024, Gov. Mikie Sherrill said on Tuesday. The governor, a Democrat who took office this year, blamed a Motor Vehicle Commission system software error but said a preliminary analysis…
Washington — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Gen. Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, will testify before a Senate committee Tuesday amid escalations in the war with Iran in recent days. With a focus on the Trump administration’s supplemental funding request, the hearing comes as at least two U.S. soldiers were killed…
Amman, Jordan — When an Iranian missile hits its intended target, it’s because U.S. air defenses either failed to intercept it, or failed to even see it coming in the first place. “One leaked through,” is how Secretary of State Marco Rubio described the Iranian attack on an air base in Jordan that killed two U.S….
Washington — The Trump administration is pausing more than $1 billion in Medicaid payments to California and Minnesota as part of its crackdown on fraud in federal programs, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced Tuesday. The pause comes after reviews conducted by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, or CMS,…
A 30-year-old U.S. soldier was killed over the weekend in Iraq during what the U.S. military said was a controlled explosion to destroy an attack drone. Sgt. Michael Emmanuel Swinton of Fayetteville, North Carolina, was “killed in action during a controlled detonation” of the drone at Erbil Air Base in northern Iraq, the Pentagon said…
The Justice Department, in trying to uncover confidential sources who spoke to the New York Times for its reporting on the security systems on the Qatar-donated Air Force One plane, attempted to gain access to phone records of several Times reporters and their family members. The Times said earlier this month that several journalists at the…
Influencer brothers Andrew and Tristan Tate are scheduled to appear before a federal magistrate in Miami on Monday after they were arrested to face rape and sex trafficking charges in the United Kingdom. The Tates are being held in federal detention following their arrest on Saturday. In the coming weeks, a U.S. district judge will…
Former Mexican drug kingpin Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada was sentenced in a U.S. court Monday to life in prison, seven years after his Sinaloa cartel co-founder Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán was handed the same sentence. Zambada’s sentencing in Brooklyn federal court was the culmination of the U.S. government’s yearslong fight to bring the long-elusive cartel…
Washington — The crowded Maine Senate race to replace Graham Platner narrowed as Democrats rallied around former state Senate President Troy Jackson in the leadup to the party’s nominating convention this Saturday. After Maine counties held nomination meetings to select delegates over the weekend, a handful of candidates opted to drop out of the race…
