Portman among 47 GOP senators to sign letter to Iran WASHINGTON — In a move Democrats denounced as trying to sabotage the Obama administration’s foreign policy, Sen. Rob Portman and 46 other Senate Republicans yesterday warned Iran’s leadership that any agreement to limit Tehran’s apparent efforts to build a nuclear bomb would need Senate approval to stay in effect beyond 2016. More
GOP boycotts health care advisory board House and Senate Republican leaders told President Barack Obama Thursday that they will refuse to nominate candidates to serve on an advisory board that is to play a role in holding down Medicare costs under the new health care act. More
US medicine spending shows rare dip Total U.S. spending on prescription medicines declined last year, a first in more than half a century. The dip was 1 percent, to $325.8 billion — a 3.5 percent drop after accounting for population growth and economic expansion, according to the IMS Institute for Healthcare Informatics. More
Where the Budget Cut Pain Is Really Being Felt "It's in areas like health care, education and job training," Packer said. "Programs are closing or are being cut, layoffs are happening. It's not just waiting in line a bit longer at the airport." More
$1.5m for a wedding venue and conference center. $250,000 for historic ships. Here’s what top Senate brass put into the budget. The Massachusetts Senate’s budget plan includes nearly $2.4 million targeting groups and causes in Senate President Karen Spilka’s district before the bill even hits the Senate floor, a Globe analysis ... 05/16/2024 - 10:46 pm | View Link
Mass. House takes aim at Steward Health Care hospital crisis with policy response House lawmakers voted Thursday to ban the type of lease agreements between hospitals and health care real estate investment trusts that Beacon Hill legislators argue helped push the distressed ... 05/16/2024 - 4:15 pm | View Link
Psychedelic therapy and workers' rights bills fail to advance in California's tough budget year California lawmakers on Thursday voted to keep hundreds of bills from advancing for a floor vote during a tough budget year. 05/16/2024 - 3:55 pm | View Link
With Ukraine Funded, New Fight Emerges in Congress Over Pentagon Spending Mitch McConnell and other top Republicans want more federal money for the military. But Democrats say domestic programs must get an equivalent boost. 05/15/2024 - 10:06 pm | View Link
BIG CUTS, NO NEW TAXES: NEWSOM'S PLAN FOR CALIFORNIA BUDGET DEFICIT May 14, 2024 (Sacramento) -- Faced with ongoing weaknesses in state finances, Gov. Gavin Newsom has put forward a revised budget plan that he said aims to stabilize California in the longer term by ... 05/14/2024 - 10:40 am | View Link
We can all agree that baby goats are cute. But what's even cuter is when those baby goats are hopping and frolicking around. It only gets better when it's baby goats in pajamas. But to reach true nirvana, it must be baby goats in baby giraffe pajamas.
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A new YouGov poll for Yahoo News shows that 52% of Americans now believe the central premise of Donald Trump’s hush money trial: that he did "falsify documents to conceal a hush money payment to a porn star." Just 22% say he did not, while roughly one-quarter say they don't know.
Nearly half of Americans said they were following the trial at least somewhat closely, at 48%, while 52% said they were not.
[Above: The last time Trump got a medal that DIDN'T include cheating at his own golf course, it was from the Saudis. -- eds.]
The first Congressional Gold Medal was struck in 1776 as a way of saying thanks to George Washington. Since then, the medal has been awarded just 184 times to hallowed figures including Mother Teresa, Rosa Parks, Nelson Mandela, and the Dalai Lama.
The disgraced former Republican Congressman, now CEO of Truth Social, Devin Nunes joined Real America's Voice. He claimed there's a massive conspiracy against Trump's media site, causing the stock to plummet.
It can't be that the site is losing millions of dollars while not having the kind of engagement a thriving social media site needs to survive.
Don't you love it when a couple of millionaire Fox News hosts weigh in on the homeless situation as if they are experts on the issue? Yeah, me neither. But that's what Jesse Watters and Jeanine Pirro did, according to Media Matters.
"A lot of these people, when they're asked and given a home, they don't want to go into the home," Watters insisted.
New York Times: “Two years into President Biden’s term, his aides began negotiating with Saudi leaders to have the kingdom establish diplomatic relations with Israel. But when the Israel-Hamas war began last October, the talks withered. American and Saudi officials have tried to revive prospects for a deal by demanding more from Israel — a cease-fire in Gaza and irreversible steps toward the founding of a Palestinian nation.”
“Now those officials say they are close to a final agreement on the main elements of what the Saudis want from the deal: a U.