Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is taking legal action against a New York county clerk for refusing to file a judgment and court summons against a doctor who allegedly prescribed and mailed abortion medication to a woman in Texas. Paxton’s office has submitted a petition seeking a writ of mandamus to force Ulster County…
The State Department on Monday said it would not participate in an initiative from France and Saudi Arabia at the United Nations supporting a two-state solution to the Israeli and Palestinian conflict, criticizing the summit as harmful to ceasefire efforts between Israel and Hamas. State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce said the U.N. two-state solution conference…
The wildly unlikeable Vice President JD Vance returned to his home state of Ohio on Monday, speaking at a steel plant in Canton. When asked about the “hundreds of thousands of Ohioans” whose Medicaid coverage is in jeopardy as a result of President Donald Trump’s “One Big, Beautiful Bill,” Vance simply lied. A cartoon by Clay Bennett. “Well, what I’d say to those Ohioans is one: Don’t believe every false media report that you’ve heard because our explicit goal in the Trump administration is to protect people’s health care, so long as they’re working hard, playing by the rules,” he claimed. He then went on to make a false assertion about who will lose their Medicaid. “Now, there have been a lot of lies out there. And if, for example, you’re an able-bodied person and you’re searching for work, you still got access to Medicaid. If you’re a single mom and you need access to that health care to make sure your kids can go see a doctor, you’re still going to have access to that Medicaid,” Vance said. “Who’s not going to have access to that Medicaid is people who are in the United States illegally and people who refuse to even look for a job.” YouTube Video Meanwhile, an analysis from the Ohio-based Center for Community Solutions found that up to 450,000 Ohio residents are at risk of losing their health insurance once the GOP’s Medicaid work requirement waiver takes effect. The policy resembles Arkansas’ failed 2018-2019 experiment, which not only failed to boost employment but also increased red tape, causing more than 18,000 people to lose their health insurance. The conservative myth that millions of people live comfortably by lazily subsisting off of meager entitlements has been debunked repeatedly. But now the Trump administration is pushing a new myth: that citizens will work low-wage jobs—vacant due to the mass deportations of immigrant workers—in exchange for the poor and often inaccessible health insurance available to farmworkers. We’ll see how that works out.
The sum sought by the government is more than twice as much as the $200 million fine that Columbia University said it would pay when it settled its clash with the White House last week.
It is the first time that Jewish-led organizations in Israel have made such accusations against the country during nearly 22 months of war. (Image credit: Abdel Kareem Hana)
Tesla CEO Elon Musk said a new Samsung plant in Texas will be devoted to making the next generation of semiconductors for the electric vehicle (EV) company as it pushes the needle on artificial intelligence (AI). In a Sunday post on X, the social media platform he purchased in 2022, Musk said Samsung’s new factory…
A federal judge in Boston on Monday blocked the Trump administration from cutting funding to all Planned Parenthood affiliates as part of the GOP’s new tax cut and health law. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani expands on a decision last week, when she issued a preliminary injunction restoring Medicaid funding for only…
French Prime Minister François Bayrou is criticizing the trade deal struck by President Trump and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen as an act of “submission” by the European Union (EU). “It is a dark day when an alliance of free peoples, united to affirm their values and defend their interests, resolves to submission,”…
Glenn Kessler, The Washington Post’s longtime lead fact-checker, announced Monday he had taken a buyout, becoming the latest in a slew of the outlet’s top journalists to leave in recent months. “Much as I would have liked to keep scrutinizing politicians in Washington, especially in this era, the financial considerations were impossible to dismiss,” Kessler…
A top U.S. health lobbying group is calling on Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to not dismiss a preventive care task force following a report he’s planning to remove all of its members in the same way he ousted an entire vaccine advisory board earlier this year. The American Medical Association…
