Trump official calls Social Security ‘wrong’ as administration lays groundwork for massive cuts
The president and his allies are justifying cuts on allegations of ‘waste’ to pay for his tax plan
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Texas banned abortions – and then sepsis rates started to soar
In 2022 and 2023, there were 120 maternal hospital deaths in Texas, an uptick from the period before abortion bans went into effect
Zelensky, Trump envoy give no statement after Kyiv meeting
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and US President Donald Trump’s special envoy for Ukraine did not give public statements following their meeting in Kyiv Thursday, “at the request of the American side” Zelensky’s spokesman said. FRANCE 24’s Gull…
Canada faces lawsuit over delays in Gaza visa programme
Palestinian families are suing Canada over visa delays they say leave people at risk of life-threatening harms in Gaza.
Twitch is Limiting Streamers To 100 hours of Highlights and Uploads
Twitch is planning to cull some of the content archived by streamers to save on storage costs. From a report: On Wednesday the streaming platform announced that it will introduce a 100-hour storage cap for Highlights and Uploads starting April 19th, wa…
Former Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell won’t run for re-election in 2026
Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority leader who helped Republicans remake the U.S. Supreme Court and also influenced how political campaigns are financed, announced Thursday that he would not seek an eighth term in office.
Macron says will tell Trump he cannot ‘be weak’ with Putin
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In the Trump administration, nearly every major department is an immigration agency
As the Trump administration works on pledges to crack down on illegal immigration, the flurry of activity has stretched across the federal government.
Zelensky meets US envoy after Trump brands him a ‘dictator’
Tensions between Zelensky and Trump over the US President’s outreach to Moscow have exploded this week in a series of escalating barbs traded in press conferences and on social media. Amid the war of words, Zelensky said Thursday he had held a “produc…
Trump administration weighing C-UAS role in Iron Dome for America, two-star general explains
“There is no single silver bullet. We have to look at this as a layered approach that we look at both really exquisite capability to get after a [UAS] threat, but also trying to get after more affordable capability,” Maj. Gen. David Stewart told …