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Trump’s move to takeover the Kennedy Center is not about the arts but about celebrating his tastes.

The political hacks opposing the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) are laughable — until you realize these hysterics ...

Pain MD, which once ran as many as 20 clinics across three states, gave chronic-pain patients about 700,000 total injections near their spines, according to court documents. Last year, federal ...

President Joe Biden increased the federal workforce by about 5%, the highest increase in any single term since the 1980s. President Donald Trump oversaw a 2.6% increase in federal employment during ...

A federal judge questions President Donald Trump’s motives for issuing an executive order that calls for banning transgender ...

This difference is not likely to be resolved during the Donald Trump administration, so the coming years will be complicated.

One phone call does not a treaty make, but President Donald Trump’s conversation with Russia’s Vladimir Putin on ending the war in Ukraine is worrying Taiwan. China will watch developments for any ...

The launch of DeepSeek caused a stir in the industry and quickly led to an investigation by the White House into its ...

The winning numbers in Tuesday evening’s drawing of the "Mega Millions" game were: 01-20-25-58-61, Mega Ball: 22, Megaplier: 2 ...

The dollar nears two-month lows due to tariff concerns and uncertainty over U.S. rate cuts, while the Australian dollar remains high despite expectations of an imminent rate cut. The yen holds steady ...