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Female vets fire back at Hegseth over claims of lowered military standards  Axios ‘None of us have ever asked for special treatment’ – Female veterans respond to Hegseth  BBC Trump Gave the Military’s Brass a Rehashed Speech. Until Minute 44.  The New York Times The Commander in Chief Is Not Okay  The Atlantic ‘Could have been an email’: Officials balk at Hegseth’s generals meeting  Politico …

Donald Trump once again shared misinformation about Portland, Oregon, on social media on Wednesday, when he announced that the national guard troops he called up in response to a small protest outside an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) office in the otherwise tranquil city are “now in place” and have begun restoring “LAW AND ORDER”. However, Portland’s NBC News affiliate …

Democrats and Republicans have sparred over Democratic demands to address health care issues in a government funding bill, with the standoff leading to the first government shutdown since 2019. We’ll provide the facts on two talking points each side is using to blame the other for the shutdown. Democrats have repeatedly said that health care premiums will rise 75% without …

37 arrested in South Shore ICE raid DHS claims targeted Tren de Aragua gang 37 arrested in South Shore ICE raid DHS claims targeted Tren de Aragua gang 01:47 Federal agents detained 37 people in an immigration raid in Chicago’s South Shore neighborhood, and the Department of Homeland Security claims it was targeting members of an infamous Venezuelan gang. People …

Trump Claims White House Has Struck Deal With Harvard  The Harvard Crimson Trump says $500m deal reached with Harvard to settle dispute  The Guardian Federal government formally recommends barring Harvard from receiving federal funds  The Boston Globe Harvard Blasts Administration Over ‘Distorted’ Civil Rights Investigation  The New York Times Trump admin renews effort to exclude Harvard from billions in federal research grants  Fox News Source …

Misinformation plagued the first rollout of a vaccine to protect Pakistani girls against cervical cancer, with parents slamming their doors on healthcare workers and some schools shutting for days over false claims it causes infertility. The country’s first HPV vaccine campaign aimed to administer jabs to 11 million girls — but by the time it ended on Saturday, only around …

Portland Mayor Keith Wilson on Saturday dismissed President Donald Trump’s plan to send federal troops to Oregon’s largest city, claiming there is no lawlessness or violence there. Trump announced Saturday morning he plans to send troops to Portland at the request of Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. The president said he directed War Secretary Pete Hegseth to provide …

GLOBE, Ariz. (AP) — Four people died after heavy rain caused flooding in Arizona, including three in a rural 19th-century mining town where floodwaters on Friday forced people to seek safety on rooftops and washed out a propane distributorship, scattering about 1,000 tanks downtown. About 2.5 inches (6.4 centimeters) of rain fell in Globe, a city of about 7,250 people …

Topline President Donald Trump on Saturday falsely claimed FBI agents were among instigators during protests at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, despite an earlier probe finding no federal agents were undercover among the crowds. An earlier probe found “no evidence” the FBI had undercover agents in protests at the Capitol. Copyright 2021 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. Key …

New York AP  —  Rudy Giuliani has reached a settlement with Dominion Voting Systems in its $1.3 billion defamation lawsuit over his baseless 2020 election-rigging claims. The two sides said in a filing in federal court in Washington, DC, on Friday that they have agreed to permanently dismiss the suit against the former New York City mayor and former personal …