Playbook PM: RFK Jr. in the hot seat

BREAKING: “White House rescinds freeze on federal grants, in reversal,” by WaPo’s Jeff Stein: “The White House budget office on Wednesday rescinded an order freezing federal grants, according to a…

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WATCH LIVE: Fed Chair Powell holds news briefing after key interest rate decision

The Federal Reserve will announce in the afternoon what it will do with the federal funds rate, which controls how much banks charge for overnight loans. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome…

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RFK Jr. Denied He Is Anti-Vaccine During His Confirmation Hearing. Here’s His Record

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., one of the most famous vaccine skeptics in the U.S., tried to distance himself from his decades of anti-vaccine sentiment during his Jan. 29 hearing to…

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Federal workers decry Trump attempt to force mass resignations as ‘cruel joke’

Federal workers and their advocates on Wednesday condemned the Trump administration’s attempt to encourage them to resign en masse, describing an unprecedented email from the government’s human resources department office…

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Fireworks and Family Feasts Kick Off Year of the Snake

More than a billion people across the world, from China to the Philippines to diaspora communities in the United States, began celebrating the Lunar New Year on Tuesday with fireworks,…

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Fact-checking RFK Jr.’s claims on vaccines, pesticides at confirmation hearing

Kennedy claimed COVID vaccines were approved “without any scientific basis.” Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s confirmation hearing on Wednesday to lead the Department of Health and Human Services saw senators question…

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Lakers’ LeBron James Perfectly Puts Son Bronny James’s Struggles in Perspective

Bronny James with his father LeBron James before a Lakers game. / Mark J. Rebilas-Imagn Images In a 118-104 loss to the Philadelphia 76ers, Los Angeles Lakers rookie guard—and son…

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. struggles to answer questions on Medicare and Medicaid during Senate confirmation hearing for HHS secretary

WASHINGTON — In a contentious confirmation hearing to be the nation’s top health official, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. struggled to answer questions about how he would reform Medicaid or Medicare,…

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Karoline Leavitt: ‘Worse than Spicer’ or ‘Born to do this,’ pundits weigh in

Political pundits have weighed in on Trump’s new White House press secretary hire following her first official press debut on Tuesday. Karoline Leavitt, a 27-year-old mother of one, and the…

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Who is Karoline Leavitt? What to know about youngest White House press secretary

White House’s youngest press secretary Karoline Leavitt made her debut in the briefing room on Tuesday, saying that “the golden age of America has most definitely begun.” “As you have…

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