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Trump promised RFK Jr. would ‘restore faith in American health care.’ A year in, trust has plummeted
“Our public health system has squandered the trust of our citizens,” President Donald Trump said on February 13, 2025, the day his nominee to run the nation’s health agencies, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., was sworn in. “They don’t trust us. They don’t trust anybody, frankly. They’ve gone through hell.” Trump promised that Kennedy would “lead our campaign of historic reforms…
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Fetterman lone Democrat to support DHS funding bill, as shutdown looms
A shutdown for the Department of Homeland Security appeared certain Thursday as lawmakers in the House and Senate were set to leave Washington for a 10-day break and negotiations with the White House over Democrats’ demands for new restrictions had stalled. Pennsylvania’s John Fetterman was the only Democrat to vote in favor of advancing a bill that would have provided…
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Trump, EPA’s Zeldin revoke landmark climate change ruling
The Trump administration on Thursday reversed the U.S. government’s longstanding scientific conclusion that planet-heating pollution seriously threatens Americans, erasing a foundational piece of the country’s efforts to address climate change. California, with its ambitious goals for cutting emissions, immediately announced it will sue the administration to block the decision. Share via Close extra sharing options The repeal of the 2009…
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El Paso, Texas: Communications breakdown over airspace closure sparks finger pointing across Trump administration
The Federal Aviation Administration’s abrupt and unexplained closure of airspace above El Paso, Texas, early Wednesday has given way to a blame game inside the administration, with key senior officials asserting they hadn’t been alerted to the decision beforehand, according to several people familiar with the matter. The White House, which was furious with the FAA for the decision, blames…
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EPA revokes a key legal underpinning in fighting climate change
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration on Thursday revoked a scientific finding that long has been the central basis for U.S. action to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and fight climate change, the most aggressive move by the Republican president to roll back climate regulations. The rule finalized by the Environmental Protection Agency rescinds a 2009 government declaration known as the…
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President Trump and Administrator Zeldin Deliver Single Largest Deregulatory Action in U.S. History
Trump Admin Eliminates Obama-Era Endangerment Finding, off-cycle credits, start-stop feature February 12, 2026 WASHINGTON – Alongside President Trump in the White House’s Roosevelt Room, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin announced the single largest deregulatory action in U.S. history. In this final rule, EPA is saving American taxpayers over $1.3 trillion, eliminating both the Obama-era 2009 Greenhouse Gas (GHG)…
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Unpersuaded by Netanyahu, Trump insists on going ‘jaw-to-jaw’ with Iran and Hamas
WASHINGTON, DC — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu famously sees Winston Churchill as his model of wartime leadership. A bust of Britain’s World War II prime minister keeps a stern and watchful eye over his office, and the premier regularly invokes Churchill in his landmark speeches, especially in his addresses to the US Congress. (Netanyahu surpassed Churchill as the world leader…
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Trump’s EPA will end the basis for federal climate actions : NPR
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency building in Washington, D.C. Jose Luis Magana/AP hide caption toggle caption Jose Luis Magana/AP On Thursday, the Trump administration will rescind the central scientific finding that underpins much of the nation’s climate pollution rules, its most aggressive action yet to halt initiatives that address planetary warming. The 2009 Environmental Protection Agency endangerment finding was a…
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NewYork-Presbyterian Nurses Reject Contract By Overwhelming Margin
NewYork-Presbyterian nurses rejected a tentative agreement by an overwhelming margin Wednesday, voting to extend their strike — now 31 days running — against the hospital system. Their union, the New York State Nurses Association, said the unfair labor practice strike and bargaining will continue. Out of approximately 4,200 NewYork-Presbyterian nurses who were eligible to cast ballots, 3,099 voted to reject…
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MAGA blame game shows Trump in retreat
Roy Cohn’s gospel to his young protégé Donald Trump was simple: never apologize, never admit error, never retreat. Attack, deny, counterpunch. That ethos defined Trump’s political rise. It’s why he is able to lie with such abandon, insult entire communities and still command loyalty from a base that mistakes his belligerence for authenticity. But one year into his second term,…
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