Kennedy's top health picks include contrarians who are critical of the medical establishment — but unwilling to fully embrace the MAHA movement's more conspiratorial views on vaccines…
https://www.axios.com/2025/05/12/rfk-jr-maha-casey-means-vaccines
Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem announced on Monday that the U.S. will terminate the temporary protected status program for Afghanistan, a move that could lead to the deportation of over 9,000 Afghans residing in the country...
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/12/temporary-protected-status-afghans-00342250
A new initiative will necessitate that the Trump administration makes difficult judgment calls about the faith...
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/05/anti-christian-bias-task-force/682755/
How to understand the phony trade deals with Britain and China…
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/05/trump-trade-war-scam/682780/
The Last Week Tonight host digs into the Christian conservative Alliance Defending Freedom that was behind the overturning of Roe v Wade, among other causes…
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/may/12/john-oliver-adf
US senator says Republicans must choose whether to back working Americans or rich corporate executives…
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/12/josh-hawley-republicans-medicaid-cuts
"It will close hospitals — think something like 432 hospitals across the country are on the edge right now. About a third of their funding … or more, comes from Medicaid. So you have less providers who have fewer access points."
"No state, including this one — no state can take this kind of cost shifting. And you know, businesses then don't have employees because they don't have access to health care. It has a huge economic factor that they aren't talking about, which is outrageous," she said...
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5294811-new-mexico-governor-potential-gop-cuts-medicaid/
How to deal with an email that says your device has been hacked and the camera used to record an intimate act…
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2025/may/11/hello-pervert-sextortion-scam-video-email-hacked
"Ice is out of control," she said. "Ice thinks it can intimidate all of us. And it cannot intimidate any of us. And we the people will make sure that this administration adheres to the rules that separate us from dictatorships and other third world countries."
South Africa's foreign ministry said in a statement: "It is most regrettable that it appears that the resettlement of South Africans to the United States under the guise of being 'refugees' is entirely politically motivated and designed to question South Africa's constitutional democracy; a country which has in fact suffered true persecution under apartheid rule and has worked tirelessly to prevent such levels of discrimination from ever occurring again."
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/09/us-grants-asylum-to-54-white-afrikaner-south-africans
SEC filing revelations raise questions about big business's desire to curry favor with Trump and his administration…
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/09/trump-media-tmtg-shares
As Steve Vladeck, a Georgetown law professor, wrote in his newsletter on Friday: "Miller is being slippery about the actual text of the constitution." The suspension clause "does not say habeas can be suspended during any invasion", Vladeck noted, and it actually says that the right "shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it".
"[T]he whole point is that the default is for judicial review except when there is a specific national security emergency in which judicial review could itself exacerbate the emergency," Vladeck argued. "The emergency itself isn't enough. Releasing someone like Rümeysa Öztürk from immigration detention poses no threat to public safety."
https://www.theguardian.com/law/2025/may/09/end-habeas-corpus-detention-trump-stephen-miller
In finding for the Black voters who sued, they wrote, "try as we might, we cannot understand the 2023 Plan as anything other than an intentional effort to dilute Black Alabamians' voting strength and evade the unambiguous requirements of court orders standing in the way."…
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/09/nx-s1-5392385/alabama-redistricting-discriminates-black-voters
A federal court ruled Thursday that Alabama engaged in intentional discrimination when it refused to draw a congressional plan with a second Black majority district after courts, including the Supreme Court, repeatedly rejected maps with just one such district…
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/08/politics/alabama-congressional-plan-court-ruling
CBP's acting commissioner has rescinded four Biden-era policies that aimed to protect vulnerable people in the agency's custody, including mothers, infants, and the elderly…
https://www.wired.com/story/cbp-rescinds-policies-on-care-of-pregnant-women-infants/
City official says it will not comply with a letter seeking to impose Donald Trump's rollback of diversity measures …
"If the academy can't convincingly invoke the values of free thought and political neutrality when they are needed most, it can't accomplish its mission," he added. "Whatever else happens, it will forever be known that when the test came, West Point failed."…
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/08/west-point-resignation-trump
Gov. Mike Ferguson signed the controversial bill into law last week, making it mandatory for all clergy to report child abuse, without exemptions for information disclosed during confession. Confessions were previously considered privileged.
The Archdiocese of Seattle — which was made up of 160 priests and 90 permanent deacons as of 2024 — said it will excommunicate priests who comply with the legislation…
The inclusion of any tax hike in the GOP's megabill would be a massive reversal for House Republican leadership, which indicated in recent weeks that the prospect was off the table. Last month, Johnson said he "would not expect that" when asked about hiking up the top tax rate...
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5290814-trump-tax-hike-wealthy-gop-bill/
"That's like a line-item veto, and I think it's illegal," Simpson said. "That will be a challenge, for sure."..
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/08/republican-impoundment-trump-congress-00334962
The firing occurred one day after Hamilton told a House Appropriations subcommittee that the nation needs FEMA, which Trump has suggested abolishing or shrinking...
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/08/fema-chief-fired-cameron-hamilton-00335840
"I'd love for him to go in and meet the children that have now been infected with HIV because he cut that money," Gates said...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/08/bill-gates-foundation-wealth-musk-doge
"Under this deal, it will now be cheaper to import a UK vehicle with very little U.S. content than a USMCA compliant vehicle from Mexico or Canada that is half American parts," said the American Automotive Policy Council, which represents the Detroit Three automakers. "This hurts American automakers, suppliers, and auto workers."…
But Means' medical opining has occasionally veered in a more New Age direction. She has claimed that "the universe" speaks to her and that people can "manifest" what they want by writing it down. "Perhaps the body is simply the material 'radio receiver' through which we can 'tune in' to the divine," she wrote in an October 2024 newsletter. "We will get instructions (through human inspiration and reason) for what we need to do to raise the vibration of humanity and create a sustainable future… The future of medicine will be about light. I don't exactly know how yet."…
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/05/casey-means-surgeon-general/
Foreign minister Caspar Veldkamp tells top EU diplomat Kaja Kallas he believes Israel is in breach of rights obligations linked to trade agreement…
World Liberty Financial, run by President Donald Trump's sons Don Jr. and Eric, is at the center of the storm. According to the crypto company's website, 60% of it is owned by a Trump business entity, and the venture's close ties to the president are clear. And a recent deal the Trump-associated business made has Capitol Hill up in arms...
https://qz.com/trump-world-liberty-financial-corruption-meme-coin-1851779511
The news that OAN, which many see as a pro-Trump propaganda outfit, will provide content for VoA, which has traditionally been a more politically neutral news source, is a move that will spur further fears about Donald Trump's crackdown on the press.
OAN, which spread conspiracy theories about the coronavirus epidemic, almost exclusively interviews Republican politicians and rightwing voices, including this week the founder of an organization that denies the existence of the climate crisis...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/07/voice-america-one-america-news
As of now, the bulk of the pollution is thought to come from Starlink's and Amazon's "mega constellations" that provide broadband internet made up of about 10,000 satellites. As many as 100,000 satellites are expected to be in near-Earth orbit within a decade as a satellite race among nations picks up steam.
Spacecraft can cause problems on their way up and down. Launches emit a range of emissions like black carbon, nitrogen oxides, carbon monoxide, aluminum oxide, chlorine gases and, once in orbit, mercury. When satellites are decommissioned five to 15 years later, they release metals as they vaporize. That's injecting pollutants into previously pristine parts of the stratosphere, a highly sensitive system, and there's very little understanding of the consequences...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/07/space-pollution-elon-musk
While closing the fiscal deficit would not automatically eliminate the current account deficit – that would depend on how the gap is closed and how the private sector responds – it is a far more straightforward fix than launching a trade war. Reducing the fiscal deficit would, however, involve the difficult political task of convincing Congress to pass more responsible tax and spending bills. And unlike a high-profile trade confrontation, it wouldn't cause foreign leaders to curry favour with Trump; instead, it would shift media attention back to domestic politics and congressional negotiations...
A $2 billion crypto deal involving President Trump's family and a foreign government is threatening to derail bipartisan stablecoin legislation that Congress has been working on for months.
https://www.axios.com/2025/05/07/trump-crypto-stablecoin-bill
The president, without basis, claimed that Obama has only hired "DEI" and "woke" people to construct it...
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/06/trumps-obama-hiring-presidential-library-00331464
In the order, Richard E. Myers II, chief judge for the Eastern District of North Carolina, wrote that "retroactive changes to election procedures raise serious due process concerns."
Justice Allison Riggs won the November election by 734 votes, confirmed by two recounts. Her opponent, Appeals Judge Jefferson Griffin, sued in state court, arguing tens of thousands of votes should be thrown out...
"I'm just not going to be guilt-tripped by those outfacing POS systems any more. My rule will be, just coffee shops and restaurants and bars from now on," or places with a personalised service like a massage or haircut...
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/may/06/its-out-of-control-the-fight-against-us-tip-creep
A new analysis of TM Signal's source code appears to show that the app sends users' message logs in plaintext. At least one top Trump administration official used the app...
https://www.wired.com/story/tm-signal-telemessage-plaintext-message-archive/
Some of the network's programming was critical of Francis, who denounced Trump's mass deportation plans in February and broke from tradition by allowing priests to perform same-sex marriage blessings.
Francis took note of EWTN's criticism, telling a network reporter and cameraman in 2021 that EWTN "should stop bad-mouthing me," according to America, the Jesuit magazine.
Months later, addressing a gathering of Jesuits, he said, "There is, for example, a large Catholic television channel that has no hesitation in continually speaking ill of the pope. I personally deserve attacks and insults because I am a sinner, but the church does not deserve them."
"They are the work of the devil," he added...
https://www.reuters.com/world/meet-us-catholic-tv-network-that-drew-ire-pope-francis-2025-05-06/
