U.S. fertility and birth rates continue to decline, with roughly 710,000 fewer births in 2025 than at the nation’s peak in 2007, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Many factors played a role in the decline: finances, timing and falling teen pregnancy rates, among others. At the end of […]
As NASA astronauts prepare for their return from their record-breaking spaceflight mission around the moon, the Trump administration is proposing a large budget cut to the agency that got them up there. For the second year in a row, the administration has asked Congress to approve a budget with cuts to NASA. The Office of […]
The California woman who sold actor Matthew Perry the ketamine that killed him in 2023 was sentenced Wednesday to 15 years in federal prison. It could have been way longer. Jasveen Sangha — described by prosecutors as the “ketamine queen” — faced as much as 65 years for selling Perry lethal doses of the drug. The […]
Some media analysts are wondering why First Lady Melania Trump took the extraordinary step of making a public statement at the White House to address her and her husband’s relationship with convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. While the Epstein files were making headlines, the war in Iran and the recent ceasefire have largely overshadowed […]
President Donald Trump led a 2024 presidential campaign focused on religion and religious values, something he and Vice President JD Vance have said plays an integral role in their politics. More than a year later, the two’s public disputes with Pope Leo XIV, the first American pope, and actions in the U.S.-Israel war against Iran […]
It only adds one word to state law, but it’s a big one, and Rhode Island lawmakers weren’t ready to approve it. A bill heard in committee Wednesday afternoon adds “possess” to an assault weapons ban enacted last year that takes effect this summer. Doing so would give lawful owners of a broad swath of […]
South Carolina public health officials reported no new measles cases in their latest weekly update, signaling that the state’s largest outbreak in at least two decades may be nearing its end. Meanwhile, Snohomish County Health Department, in Washington State, declared earlier this week that the outbreak that began in January is over. Utah now has […]
Former Attorney General Pam Bondi was supposed to appear before the House Oversight Committee next week, but the Justice Department now says she will no longer attend. A spokeswoman for the committee shared the update Wednesday, saying Bondi will no longer appear because she was subpoenaed in her official capacity as attorney general. President Donald […]
Possible complications with the U.S.-Iran ceasefire. How Israeli bombing attacks on Lebanon appear to be clouding the agreement. Plus, Pam Bondi is no longer attorney general, and she has no plans to return to Washington to testify before Congress in the Epstein case. Will the threat of contempt compel her to change her mind? And […]
Since last year, the United States’ attempts to stem the flow of cocaine through the southern border have taken new turns, in what is the sixth decade of its war on drugs. The White House has used the cocaine threat as a pretext to conduct military strikes on more than 45 alleged narco boats, killing […]
