Trump announces ‘historic’ tariffs as he says America’s been ‘looted, pillaged’

by admin | Apr 2, 2025 | Politics

Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump on Wednesday unveiled a long-promised, sweeping set of baseline tariffs on all countries and what he described as “kind reciprocal” tariffs on nations he claimed were the worst...

Democrats vow to fight Trump’s tariffs ‘tooth and nail’ as they slam ‘chaotic trade war’

by admin | Apr 2, 2025 | Politics

Roberto Schmidt/AFP via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — Democrats on Wednesday vowed to fight President Donald Trump’s tariffs “tooth and nail” and criticized his policies as having started an “absurd, crazy, chaotic trade war.”Senate...

Massachusetts county debuts jail program with focus on older adults

by admin | Apr 2, 2025 | Politics

Nancy Lane/MediaNews Group/Boston Herald via Getty Images(MIDDLESEX, Mass.) — To step inside the Older Adult Re-Entry unit, or OAR, at the Middlesex County, Massachusetts, jail is unlike entering any jail in the United States.The walls are adorned in a soothing...

McMahon hijacks House Democrats’ presser after closed-door meeting outside Department of Education

by admin | Apr 2, 2025 | Politics

Pool via ABC News(WASHINGTON) — Education Secretary Linda McMahon interrupted a press conference by House Democrats outside the Department of Education to give an impromptu statement after they met in a closed-door meeting earlier Wednesday.With about a...

Rep. Pettersen says it was ‘difficult’ decision to bring infant son to House floor to fight for proxy voting

by admin | Apr 2, 2025 | Politics

ABC News(WASHINGTON) — Democratic Rep. Brittany Pettersen, who on Tuesday held her newborn son during a speech on the House floor in support of a bipartisan effort to allow proxy voting for new lawmaker parents, said the decision to bring her 9-week-old was...

Unanimous Supreme Court upholds FDA block of flavored vapes

by admin | Apr 2, 2025 | Politics

STOCK PHOTO/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — A unanimous Supreme Court on Wednesday backed the Food and Drug Administration’s refusal to authorize the sale of kid-friendly flavored e-cigarettes and vapes, including the flavors “Killer Kustard...