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The target is “certainly set” on the big reconciliation bill, Rep. Mark Harris (R-NC) said during a appearance Thursday on Breitbart News Daily. When asked if the reconciliation bill would be completed by Memorial Day, Harris said the “target is certainly set,” noting that he has been working for the past two days in the Agriculture Committee with their markup. “We started on Tuesday night, and we finished last night around 10:30, and so it’s been a long two days and been focused on that. But yes, as far as I understand, we were kind of the last one to…

Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) said Wednesday on CNN’s “Inside Politics” that he will not support the House spending bill because it has “real Medicaid benefit cuts.” Hawley said, “It ought to be just a basic foundational principle, it is wrong to cut health care for the working poor, and that’s what we’re talking about here with Medicaid. My state is a Medicaid expansion state, over 20% of Missourians, including hundreds of thousands of children, are on Medicaid.” He added, “I don’t like the idea of decreasing funding for rural hospitals. I’m worried that the House bill goes way too far in…

Support for refugees has dropped significantly, with many now reportedly being told to “go back to Ukraine” Public sentiment in Poland toward Ukrainian refugees has deteriorated over the past three years, with a growing number of Poles now calling for them to return to Ukraine, according to media reports.Support for Ukrainian refugees in Poland has declined sharply, a March 2025 poll by the CBOS Center showed, with only 50% of Poles in favor of accepting them – well below the 81% recorded two years earlier.Warsaw, which has been one of Ukraine’s main backers since the escalation of the conflict with…

Russian and Ukrainian delegations to meet tomorrow (16) in Istanbul. Many said it would be impossible, not to mention ill-advised. But thanks to the relentless pressure by US President Donald J. Trump and his administration, both Russian and Ukrainian official sources have confirmed that the peace talks between Moscow and Kiev delegations in Istanbul will happen tomorrow (16). Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky went to the Turkish capital, Ankara, met with Erdogan and did his usual media circus, called the Russian delegation ‘a sham’ with no negotiating power, said Putin was scared of him – the works. Russians reacted with an…

The money for female sports stars is increasing on and off the field, but even for Coco Gauff, Simone Biles and Caitlin Clark, it’s not enough to rank among the elite earners. It might have been hard to imagine Coco Gauff one-upping her successes of 2023, a year in which she earned $6.7 million in prize money and an estimated $15 million from endorsements and claimed her first Grand Slam title in an emotional victory over Aryna Sabalenka at the U.S. Open. Yet that’s exactly what the 21-year-old American tennis phenom did in 2024, besting her previous prize money high…

MINNEAPOLIS, MN – SEPTEMBER 8: Dalvin Cook #33 of the Minnesota Vikings points to the crowd after … MoreGetty Images Dalvin Cook was an NFL player for the Minnesota Vikings. An altercation that took place in 2020 resulted in a personal injury lawsuit against Cook by Daniel Cragg and Anne St. Amant on behalf of Gracelyn Trimble (who was apparently injured in the altercation) in the Dakota County District Court in Minnesota. Cook and Trimble settled that action in 2024. Meanwhile, back in 2021, Cook sued Cragg, St. Amant and their law firm, Eckland & Blando, LLP, in Hennepin County,…

(UPI) — HBO has announced that the name of its streaming service is changing back from Max to HBO Max this summer. HBO Max is what the platform was known as when it launched in 2020, but the HBO portion of the name was dropped in 2023 as its parent company sought to give it its own identity. The company announced it is going back to its original moniker at the Warner Bros. Discovery upfront presentation in New York on Wednesday. “No consumer today is saying they want more content, but most consumers are saying they want better content,” said…

In his first address to the Bundestag parliament on Wednesday, Chancellor Friedrich Merz vowed to rearm Germany so that the country would have the “strongest” military force in Europe. Following years of chronic underinvestment in defence and relying on the United States for protection, Chancellor Merz told lawmakers that “strengthening the Bundeswehr is our top priority” and will make “every effort to continue to achieve the greatest possible agreement between the European and American partners.” In this context, Merz promised to expand Germany’s military forces “into the strongest conventional army in Europe,” Die Welt reports. Prior to coming into power…

T-Mobile has built a dominant position in the U.S. prepaid wireless market by strategically targeting immigrant communities, especially Hispanic consumers, through its Metro by T-Mobile brand, Spanish-language marketing, immigrant-focused initiatives, and strategic placement of retail locations at major border crossings. During the Biden administration, U.S. wireless prepaid industry growth was significantly influenced by net immigration, with analysts attributing a significant percentage of new subscriber additions to this demographic. Prepaid wireless service involves paying up front for a certain amount of data and phone usage, while postpaid wireless service are traditional contracts with providers like AT&T or Verizon where consumers receive…

The Trump administration announced on Tuesday that it is cutting an additional $450 million in grants to Harvard University after freezing $2.2 billion last week.  “Harvard University has repeatedly failed to confront the pervasive race discrimination and anti-Semitic harassment plaguing its campus,” the Joint Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism said in a statement. “This is just the latest chapter in Harvard’s long-standing policy and practice of discriminating on the basis of race as recognized by the Supreme Court in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, where the Court rebuked Harvard for its unlawful race discrimination in admissions,” the task force continued.…