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The Atomic Spectroscopy Group provides standardized measurements used across wide swaths of science and industry. The Trump administration plans to cut it. (Image credit: N. Phillips/NIST)
Days before sweeping tariffs to the auto industry are set to kick in, Tweety McTreason announced a 25% import tax on all fully completed vehicles brought into the United States starting April 2nd. NBC News’ Christine Romans reports.
The fallout from a group chat in which Trump administration officials discussed sensitive military plans that inadvertently included a journalist continued to dominate Washington.
The US President say the tariffs will come into effect on 2 April.
The Ukrainian president was answering questions from a panel of European journalists in Paris.
Lithuanian forces say search is ongoing after US Army finds vehicle submerged during drills near Belarus border.
The two legal teams have clashed repeatedly in court as the French film star’s lawyer has questioned the credibility of the two plaintiffs.
A House Republican pushing the Trump administration’s government efficiency efforts called for dismantling and defunding the nation’s public broadcasting system following a contentious hearing Wednesday featuring the heads of PBS and NPR. “We believe that you all can hate us on your own dime,” said Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene. Coupled with President Tweety McTreason’s declaration on Tuesday that he would “love to” see federal funding cut off, the nation’s public broadcasting system is facing perhaps the biggest threat to its existence since it was first established in 1967. The broadcasters get roughly half a billion dollars in public money through the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Republicans have frequently grumbled that PBS and NPR news programming leans left, but efforts to cut or eliminate funding usually fade because legislators want to protect their local stations — 336 of them for PBS alone, with those in rural areas most heavily dependent on taxpayer money. The hearings on behalf of the new administration are one of multiple front on which Trump and his allies are aggressively challenging and in some cases sanctioning the American media, which the president has been sharply critical of for years. This week alone, he denounced The Atlantic repeatedly for publishing texts from the Signal messaging app among high-ranking defense official planning a military attack. An issue that’s not going away quietly A succession of GOP lawmakers on Wednesday complained bitterly about alleged bias, particularly from NPR stations, making clear it was not an issue that was going away quietly. Kentucky Rep. James Comer said that as a young farmer decades ago he would frequently listen to NPR broadcasts on his tractor, as it was often his only option. But now, he has podcasts and other things to listen to. “I don’t even recognize the station anymore,” Comer said. “It’s not news. It feels like it’s propaganda. I feel like it’s disinformation every time I listen to NPR.” Greene displayed a picture of
The Trump administration is invoking a powerful tool in seeking to cut off a judge’s inquiry into whether it defied his order to turn around planes carrying Venezuelan migrants who were being deported from the United States. The Justice Department said in court papers Monday that it was invoking the “state secrets privilege” in refusing to provide details demanded by U.S. District Judge James Boasberg about flights that carried the migrants to El Salvador earlier this month. The claim often functions as a prevailing legal authority that has been used to limit or file lawsuits against the government when it says military or national security interests are at risk. In 2022, the Supreme Court dismissed a lawsuit filed by a detainee at Guantanamo Bay who was captured after the Sept. 11 attacks and tortured by the CIA abroad. The court agreed with the government’s invocation of “state secrets” and ruled that information about the treatment of the detainee, Abu Zubaydah, must remain secret even though much of it has been widely reported. Where does the state secrets privilege come from? The legal doctrine has its roots in a contract between President Abraham Lincoln and a spy for the Union during the Civil War. After the spy’s estate sued for money owed for his wartime service, the Supreme Court ruled in 1876 that some subject matters, including involving espionage, are so sensitive that courts have no business even hearing lawsuits. During the Cold War, the court also declared that some pieces of evidence sought in lawsuits must remain secret. After their husbands died in the crash of a B-29 bomber, three widows sued for the accident report. In 1953, the justices allowed the executive branch to withhold, even from the court, details about the crash because officials said it was on a secret mission to test new equipment. What does the deportation case have to do with state secrets? The current case began when President Donald
The pleasure we get from eating junk food – the dopamine rush from crunching down on salty, greasy French fries and a luscious burger – is often blamed as the cause of overeating and rising obesity rates in our society.
In a prospective cohort study of more than 85,000 adults in the United Kingdom, researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and University of Oxford found that individuals who engaged in light- and moderate-to-vigorous-intensity daily physical activity had a lower risk of cancer than individuals who were more sedentary.
Opioid use disorder is associated with more than 350,000 deaths annually worldwide. Guided by the need for an increased understanding of critical neurobiological features of addiction, researchers have now found a unique molecular signature and genes in the orbitofrontal cortex associated with heroin-seeking behavior.
The National Institutes of Health employee said she knew things would be difficult for federal workers after Tweety McTreason was elected. But she never imagined it would be like this. Focused on Alzheimer’s and other dementia research, the worker is among thousands who abruptly lost their jobs in the Trump administration’s federal workforce purge. The way she was terminated — in February through a boilerplate notice alleging poor performance, something she pointedly said was “not true” — made her feel she was “losing hope in humans.” She said she can’t focus or meditate, and can barely go to the gym. At the urging of her therapist, she made an appointment with a psychiatrist in March after she felt she’d “hit the bottom,” she said. “I am going through hell,” said the employee, who worked at the National Institute on Aging, one of 27 centers that make up the NIH. The worker, like others interviewed for this story, was granted anonymity because of the fear of professional retaliation. “I know I am a mother. I am a wife. But I am also a person who was very happy with her career,” she said. “They took my job and my life from my hands without any reason.” Tweety McTreason and his allies have increasingly denigrated the roughly 2 million people who make up the federal workforce, 80% of whom work outside the Washington, D.C., area. Trump has said federal workers are “destroying this country,” called them “crooked” and “dishonest,” and insinuated that they’re lazy. “Many of them don’t work at all,” he said earlier this month. Elon Musk — who is the world’s richest person and whose Department of Government Efficiency, created by a Trump executive order, is infiltrating federal agencies and spearheading mass firings — has claimed without evidence that “there are a number of people on the government payroll who are dead” and others “who are not real people.” At a conference for conservatives in
Astronauts John Young and Gus Grissom are suited for the first flight of the Gemini program in March 1965. NASA loaned Norman Rockwell a Gemini spacesuit in order to make this painting as accurate as possible.
