The plans of Elon Musk — the richest man on Earth — to slash Social Security and force mass layoffs will cause tens of thousands more Americans to die while waiting for their disability benefits to be approved, a new report by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) has found. Right-wing cuts to Social Security have already...
Echoing a party-line vote by the U.S. Senate Finance Committee last week, the chamber’s Republicans on Thursday confirmed President Donald Trump’s nominee to head the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, former televison host Dr. Mehmet Oz. Since Trump nominated Oz — who previously ran as a Republican for a U.S. Senate seat in Pennsylvania...
Trump’s attacks on universities are “dangerous and politically motivated,” said New York Democratic Rep. Jerry Nadler. The White House announced Thursday that the Trump administration plans to withhold $510 million in federal funding from Brown University while it investigates the school’s response to alleged “antisemitism”— a term that is being weaponized to target protesters against...
The Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in a case that may cut off Planned Parenthood from Medicaid funding. Planned Parenthood says the move violates the Medicaid Act’s “free choice of provider” provision, which says patients are entitled to choose their own doctors. The case, brought by the state of South Carolina, could impact the...
On Thursday, the Senate rejected Sen. Bernie Sanders’s (I-Vermont) resolutions to block the sale of $8.8 billion in weapons to Israel by an even wider margin than in similar votes last year — despite Israel having since violated the Gaza ceasefire agreement. The Senate’s opposition to the resolutions comes as Israel has maintained a total...
Head Start normally isn’t considered a partisan issue. The early child care program, under the purview of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), was launched six decades ago as part of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s “war on poverty.” It’s historically had support from both sides of the aisle in Congress; after all,...
The Trump administration’s threat comes as many school districts are preparing their budgets for the next school year. This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. The U.S. Department of Education is giving state education agencies 10 days to certify that their schools do not engage in any practices...
Walid Khalid Abdullah Ahmad, who was 17 years old, is the first known child killed in an Israeli prison. The first known Palestinian child to be killed in an Israeli prison, Walid Khalid Abdullah Ahmad, was starved, had untreated diseases, and was repeatedly beaten by guards before he died last month, his autopsy report shows....
Watchdogs and other critics swiftly denounced a budget blueprint unveiled by Senate Republicans on Wednesday that endeavors to get the GOP one step closer to delivering additional spending and trillions in tax cuts desired by U.S. President Donald Trump. Observers are also condemning Republicans’ plans to skirt the Senate parliamentarian and use a controversial gimmick...
A new Gallup survey finds 11 percent of US adults can’t access quality care and can’t pay for care or medicine. Lack of access to health care has hit a new high in the U.S., with over a third of Americans now unable to access quality care due to cost, new West Health-Gallup polling finds....
President Donald Trump’s national security adviser Michael Waltz and his staff have used personal Gmail accounts to conduct government business, a new report released Tuesday reveals, in the latest instance of Waltz seemingly using methods of communication that are unsecured and vulnerable to breaches. In at least one instance, a senior aide to Waltz used...
“The court’s decision today should send a strong message to any and all anti-abortion politicians,” an attorney said. A federal court has ruled that Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall and district attorneys cannot take legal action against people who help pregnant Alabamians access abortion care in states where it remains legal. The court determined that...
Musk spent millions to meddle in a Wisconsin state Supreme Court election — which his candidate lost by double digits. President Donald Trump is reportedly considering pushing “shadow president” Elon Musk out of his administration after the billionaire spent $25 million to elect a Republican to the Wisconsin state Supreme Court — and lost badly....
This story was originally published by Florida Phoenix. Florida Atlantic University’s police department has a pending agreement with the federal government that would allow campus officers to question and detain people they suspect are in the country without authorization. The public university in Boca Raton could be the first to enter such an agreement with...
A new bill proposed in the California legislature threatens to undermine the rollout of ethnic studies classes in the state’s high schools. Assembly Bill (AB) 1468 is the latest installment in a series of legislation backed by pro-Israel organizations seeking to intervene in ethnic studies classrooms and silence Palestine-related speech in California schools. “This latest...