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HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Newly minted U.S. Rep. Rob Bresnahan swore he wouldn’t support gutting government benefits such as Medicaid that residents of his northeastern Pennsylvania district rely on.Then the first-term Republican voted for a bill that could do just that.Bresnahan and two other Pennsylvania Republicans won in November by some of the smallest margins in all of Congress, prevailing in a critical battleground state that not only helped decide the presidency but also aided the GOP in taking control of the U.S. House.Trusted news and daily delights, right in your inboxSee for yourself — The Yodel is the go-to…

Family members and police are asking for the community’s help to find a teenage boy who has now been missing for four days.The Los Angeles Police Department issued a release on Friday, identifying the critically missing teen as 16-year-old Mohammod Tahir.Tahir was last seen walking in the 15800 block of South Vermont Avenue around 7 p.m. on Feb. 24, according to LAPD.Mohammod Tahir, 16, seen in this undated photo, was reported missing on Feb. 24, 2025. (LAPD)The department described Tahir as a boy of Middle Eastern descent who stands about 5 feet and 8 inches tall, weighs about 130 pounds…

Eight months of house arrest is too lenient for an attempted terror attack, according to the Russian embassy A French court has sentenced two pro-Ukraine activists who threw makeshift bombs at the Russian consulate in Marseilles on Monday to eight months of house arrest, multiple media outlets have reported. The Russian embassy in France has slammed the punishment as far too lenient for an attempted terrorist attack.The two French nationals, referred to as Vasile H., 48, and Georges S., 59, were charged with “unauthorized manufacture of an explosive or incendiary device,” as well as “attempted property damage by means dangerous…

Photo: Ståle Grut NRKbeta Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC), the firebrand socialist darling of the radical left, is sweating bullets. And who’s got her running scared? None other than America’s no-nonsense “Border Czar,” Tom Homan, who’s vowed to hold her accountable. In a frantic letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi, the New York congresswoman is scrambling to find out if the Department of Justice (DOJ) is investigating her for coaching illegal aliens on how to evade ICE. The controversy erupted when Tom Homan openly criticized Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, accusing her of leveraging her platform to obstruct immigration enforcement efforts. This accusation follows…

SM’s Mall of Asia along Manila Bay is the largest shop[ping complex in the Philippines.Courtesy of SM Prime SM Investments—the holding company of the family of the late retail billionaire Henry Sy Sr—will spend 60 billion pesos ($1 billion) to buy back its shares, which are trading at a two-year low. The open-ended buyback is the biggest ever for a Philippine company and the first for the Manila-based conglomerate, which posted a 7% increase in net profit last year to 82.6 billion pesos. “We believe in the upside of the market and our economy,” Teresita Sy-Coson, vice chairman of SM…

A police mug shot of Italian-born American swindler Charles Ponzi (1882 – 1949) after his arrest for … [+]Getty Images Natalie Cochran was recently convicted of first-degree murder for killing her husband in 2019 and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Natalie was already serving a 135 month sentence for money laundering and wire fraud connected with a Ponzi scheme she perpetrated between 2017 and 2019. In 2017, Natalie Cochran, with no experience in weapons or government contracts quit her job as a pharmacist and, along with her husband Michael Cochran, formed Tactical Solutions Group (TSG)…

During President Donald Trump’s heated press conference with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday, Trump took exception to a reporter echoing Zelensky’s point that Russian President Vladimir Putin could not be trusted to honor any ceasefire deal. He said this was because Putin did not respect his predecessors Joe Biden and Barack Obama. “What if? What if anything?” an exasperated Trump told the reporter. “What if a bomb drops on your head right now, okay?” “They broke it with Biden because Biden, they didn’t respect him. They didn’t respect Obama. They respect me,” Trump said of the Russians. WATCH — Get Out!…

Former White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre spoke about how “shocking” it was to see Democrat leaders turn on then-President Joe Biden ahead of the 2024 election, comparing their public rejection to a “firing squad.” Biden’s disastrous debate performance last June revealed his mental decline in a way Democrats could no longer ignore or deny, and party leadership responded by calling on him to relinquish the party’s nomination. Biden ended up stepping down, and Democrats replaced him with then-Vice President Kamala Harris with no input from voters. At an event at the Institute of Politics at Harvard University on Wednesday,…

Namibia’s founding father Sam Nujoma was “a giant among leaders” and left behind “the most precious gift of… freedom”, the country’s President, Nangolo Mbumba, has said.He was speaking in front of the large crowd at Heroes’ Acre, where the country’s most revered citizens are buried, before Nujoma was laid to rest in a mausoleum.The leader of Namibia’s independence struggle against apartheid South Africa died last month at the age of 95.Nujoma was seen as the last of a generation of African figures who headed anti-colonial movements and fought for freedom.”Therefore his departure signals an end of an era, a founding…

Washington Attorney General Nick Brown speaks to reporters and others outside the federal courthouse in Seattle on Feb. 28, 2025. Washington is leading a case challenging President Donald Trump’s executive order seeking to block federal funding for hospitals that provide gender-affirming care to transgender youth. (Photo by Jake Goldstein-Street/Washington State Standard)President Donald Trump’s order threatening to block federal funding for hospitals providing gender-affirming care for transgender youth is now indefinitely on hold under a Seattle judge’s order late Friday.U.S. District Court Judge Lauren King’s preliminary injunction is the first in the country applying to the executive order. It comes two…