President Donald Trump and adviser Elon Musk celebrated their efforts to slash federal spending before Musk stepped away from his White House work. Musk wore a black DOGE hat over ...

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President Donald Trump’s domestic policy legislation, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act that cleared the House in May and now moves to the Senate, could also be called Obamacare Repeal Lite, its critics ...

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As the public sought answers in the June 1 Molotov cocktail attack against people gathering in support of hostages from Israel and other countries held by Hamas, viral claims on social media spread ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services reported in 2024 that Medicaid’s improper payment rate over the previous three years was less than 5.1%. A health policy analyst who worked for the White ...

Viral images of tubs with flavor names of "Free Palestine" and "From the River to Sea" were made using ChatGPT, a generative artificial intelligence chatbot. Ben & Jerry’s co-founders Ben Cohen and ...

Office of Management and Budget in President Donald Trump's second administration. He also served in the same position during Trump's first term. Previously, he served as vice president of Heritage ...

A court that few Americans had heard of placed a roadblock in front of President Donald Trump’s far-reaching tariff policy May 28, ruling that the president did not have the authority to impose many ...

Two autopsies ruled Floyd’s death a homicide, but a false narrative quickly emerged: that Floyd died of a drug overdose. Five years later, despite ample evidence demonstrating police misconduct killed ...

Soon after the U.S. Justice Department charged Rep. LaMonica McIver, D-N.J., with assaulting federal agents, the congresswoman went on CNN to talk about the case. But she did not sing during her ...

"We are not cutting SNAP," Johnson said in a May 25 episode of CBS News’ "Face the Nation." "We're working in the elements of fraud, waste and abuse. SNAP for example, listen to the statistics, in ...