“Greenland did not invite an American delegation to come visit this week, the self-ruling island’s government said Monday, flatly denying a claim made by President Donald Trump,” Politico reports.
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“The Yemen attack timeline that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth posted to a Signal chat group would have been so highly classified, under Pentagon guidelines, that the details should have been…
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“Federal judges dealt twin blows to President Trump’s retaliation campaign on Friday by issuing temporary restraining orders blocking much of his executive orders targeting two major law firms that participated…
“Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who is facing scrutiny over his handling of details of a military strike, brought his wife, a former Fox News producer, to two meetings with foreign…
“The Food and Drug Administration’s top vaccine official has been pushed out,“ the Wall Street Journal reports. “Dr. Peter Marks, who played a key role in the first Trump administration’s…
“President Trump on Friday commuted the sentence of Carlos Watson, a co-founder of the now-defunct digital media company Ozy Media, on the day he was set to surrender to prison,”…
“The entire staff of the federal government’s Office of Infectious Disease and HIV/AIDS Policy is expected to be laid off,” CBS News reports. “The moves are part of a broader…
An unnamed Republican senator told Jewish Insider that President Trump might have remorse over picking J.D. Vance as his vice president. Said the senator: “I’ve gotta wonder if Trump’s looking…
“President Trump announced a fresh deal on Friday with a major law firm to avoid a punitive executive order, just hours after two other white shoe firms decided to sue…
Current and former US officials say “they believe two texts sent by national security adviser Mike Waltz and CIA Director John Ratcliffe in the now-infamous group chat involving senior US…
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Steve Bannon predicte that President Trump will go to prison if a Democrat wins back the White House in 2028, The Hill reports. He added: “And people are sitting around…
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Goddard earned degrees from Vassar College and Harvard University. He lives in New York with his wife and three sons.
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