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President Donald Trump hosted the 12th Cabinet meeting of his second term on Wednesday, where he claimed that the White House’s anti-fraud task force may balance the federal budget and save Social Security. Trump opened by praising Vice President JD Vance, who leads the task force, and said he was “very proud” of the initiative. The president […]

Alabama filed a pair of emergency petitions to the Supreme Court on Wednesday, urging it to lift a lower court’s block of a new congressional map that could help the GOP flip a Democratic seat in the 2026 elections. Earlier this month, the Supreme Court tossed a three-judge panel’s previous finding that the map was […]

Canada announced on Wednesday that it would pick Swedish surveillance planes over U.S.-made options as Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government looks to downsize dependence on U.S. defense firms.  Canada has entered into talks to buy Saab’s GlobalEye early warning jets, which are based on Canadian-made Bombardier Global 6500 aircraft. The deal is projected to support...

On the basis that there’s no such thing as bad publicity, Christopher Nolan’s movie, The Odyssey, is having a second helping of great notoriety this week. It comes courtesy of an admission from actress Lupita Nyong’o, who conceded that until she was cast to play Helen of Troy, she had never heard of Homer’s great […]