Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth got a key moment of respite late this week that could help him bat back a plethora of controversies.
The moment came on Thursday, when Adm. Frank Bradley reportedly told lawmakers at a closed-door session on Capitol Hill that he had received no "kill them all" or "give no quarter" order prior to a Sep. 2 U.S. strike on a boat in the Caribbean.
American actions in that strike are the focus of enormous controversy because two people on the boat survived an initial attack, only to be targeted for a second time while they were clinging to the wreckage. |
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Gasoline prices are down while electric and natural gas costs are up, turning the issue of energy affordability into a political Rorschach test.
Democrats are lambasting the White House for high power bills, while President Trump and his allies tout low prices at the pump.
"Energy — gasoline — we're now at about $2.50 a gallon. We're going to be, I think, at $2 a gallon. We could even crack that at some point," Trump said during a Cabinet meeting this week. |
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BY JOSEPH CHOI AND NATHANIEL WEIXEL |
A key federal vaccine advisory committee voted Friday to do away with the recommendation that all newborns receive the hepatitis B vaccine.
The vote came after two days of charged, contentious debate among panelists and concerned stakeholders, and it fulfilled a long-held goal of the anti-vaccine movement. The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) voted 8-3 to only recommend birth doses of the hepatitis B vaccine for infants born to mothers who test positive for the virus. |
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President Trump praised a Centers for Disease Control (CDC) panel's vote to change guidance for hepatitis B vaccinations as a "very good decision" in a Friday night post on his social platform Truth Social.
"Today, the CDC Vaccine Committee made a very good decision to END their Hepatitis B Vaccine Recommendation for babies, the vast majority of whom are at NO RISK of Hepatitis B, a disease that is mostly transmitted sexually, or through dirty needles," Trump wrote. "The American Childhood Vaccine Schedule long required 72 'jabs,' for perfectly healthy babies, far more than any other Country in the World, and far more than is necessary," Trump said. "In fact, it is ridiculous!" |
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Rep. Adelita Grijalva (D-Ariz.) said Friday a "very aggressive" Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer used pepper spray against her during a raid in Tucson, Ariz.
According to Grijalva, community members in Tucson had stopped approximately 40 ICE officers, most of whom were masked, in the middle of a street near Taco Giro, which Grijalva described as a small mom-and-pop restaurant. She said the community members stopped the officers "because they were afraid they [the agents] were taking people without due process." |
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Texas Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D) has announced that he will not seek reelection in wake of the Supreme Court's decision upholding the state's new district map.
"I will continue working with the same urgency and determination as if next year were my last, which in public office it will be," Doggett said in a Friday press release announcing his retirement. "After that, I will seek new ways to join my neighbors in making a difference in the only town I have ever called home." Texas GOP lawmakers began pushing for a new Congressional map earlier this year that would change district boundaries within the state to favor Republican candidates and reduce the number of Democrat-held House seats. |
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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) said President Trump was furious with her after she signed a House petition compelling the release of all government files related to disgraced financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
"We did talk about the Epstein files and he was extremely angry at me that I signed the discharge petition to release the files," Greene told CBS News in a "60 Minutes" interview that is set to air on Sunday. "I fully believe those women deserve everything they're asking. They're asking for it to come out. They deserve it."
"He was furious with me. He said it was going to hurt people," she added, referencing the president's comments about the release of the files. |
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West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey (R) said Friday that a National Guardsman injured in last week's shooting in Washington is "slowly healing" and that his parents reported he has begun to "look more like himself."
In a message posted on the social platform X, Morrisey announced that a vigil would be held for U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Andrew Wolfe, 24, at Musselman High School in West Virginia's Berkeley County.
"His parents report that his head wound is slowly healing and that's he beginning to 'look more like himself,'" Morrisey wrote. "Overall, the family expects that Andy will be in acute care for another 2-3 weeks but have been optimistic about his progress." |
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New York City Council member Chi Ossé has dropped a bid to challenge House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) in a primary after New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani expressed his opposition.
"Exploring the possibility of this run was important," Ossé said in a statement to Politico. "As committed, I will not be launching this campaign without the support of DSA, and so the exploration process is concluded." |
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OPINION | The U.S. Supreme Court didn't just reject Mexico's $10 billion lawsuit against American gun makers — it obliterated it.
A unanimous 9–0 decision in Smith & Wesson v. Mexico confirmed what Congress made clear two decades ago: The Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act of 2005 bars attempts to blame gun manufacturers for gun crimes committed by third parties. |
OPINION | Next week's Federal Open Market Committee meeting promises to be one of the most interesting in recent memory. Based on comments of Fed officials, the vote about whether to lower the fed funds rate by a quarter point for the third time in the last three meetings could be very close.
This is reflected in the heightened U.S. stock market volatility since the Federal Open Market Committee's last meeting in late October. |
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BY CASSANDRA VINOGRAD, OLEKSANDR CHUBKO AND MARIA VARENIKOVA |
It was a clear attempt to project Russian power.
Hours before meeting U.S. officials in Moscow this past week about their plan to end the war, President Vladimir Putin claimed that Russia's forces had seized the strategic Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk after a monthslong fight.
The reality was murkier. Slivers of the city were still contested, according to battlefield maps and the Ukrainian military. But Putin's claim, even if premature, reflected a trend shaping his unbending approach to negotiations: Russian forces are on the march. |
A $40 late fee on a Blockbuster Video rental led to the creation of the company that has swallowed Hollywood.
Software entrepreneur and movie buff Reed Hastings was hit with sticker shock one day in the 1990s, when he returned an overdue film. Seeing the success Amazon was having selling books, Hastings figured a similar approach could work with movies—without penalizing customers. He and partner Marc Randolph launched Netflix NFLX -2.89%decrease; red down pointing triangle with 925 movie titles and 30 employees to stick them in envelopes and drop them in the mail. Nearly three decades later, that scrappy DVD rental company not only dominates the global subscription streaming landscape, but is now eating Hollywood itself. |
BY STEPHEN GROVES AND LISA MASCARO |
The U.S. military opened fire on two people clinging to the wreckage of a boat allegedly carrying drugs, congressional lawmakers learned this week as they seek more answers about the attack and the legal underpinnings of President Donald Trump's military campaign in international waters near Venezuela.
The Sept. 2 strikes on an alleged drug boat were the first foray by the U.S. military into blowing up vessels allegedly carrying drugs. But this particular attack and the broader military campaign, which so far has destroyed more than 20 boats and killed more than 80 people, is now under intense scrutiny. Lawmakers who oversee national security committees heard this past week from the Navy admiral who ordered the initial strikes, including the follow-up that killed the two survivors. |
President Trump's escalating military threats against Venezuela have split some of his biggest boosters in South Florida — who are eager for regime change — from a wider group of "America First" Republicans who loathe foreign intervention.
The growing rift has significant short- and long-term political stakes for Trump as his administration weighs how far it will go to push Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro from power. It could also impact whether the GOP's dramatic gains with Hispanic voters in South Florida in recent election cycles endure. |
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