US vaccine advisers say not all babies need a hepatitis B shot at birth  —  A federal vaccine advisory committee voted on Friday to end the longstanding recommendation that all U.S. babies get the hepatitis B vaccine on the day they're born.  A loud chorus of medical and public health leaders decried …

Exclusive: Survivors clinging to capsized boat didn't radio for backup, admiral overseeing double-tap strike tells lawmakers  —  Pete Hegseth Congressional news  —  The two men killed as they floated holding onto their capsized boat in a secondary strike against a suspected drug vessel …

Pipe bomb suspect told FBI he believed 2020 election conspiracy theories  —  The suspect has been cooperating with the FBI, according to sources, and is expected to make his first court appearance on Friday.  —  WASHINGTON — The man charged with planting two pipe bombs near the Democratic …

Kash Patel ordered FBI detail to give girlfriend's pal a lift home: sources  —  The FBI director's use of resources is under intense scrutiny as he insists he's “a steward of the taxpayer dollars.”  —  FBI Director Kash Patel has — on more than one occasion — ordered that the security detail protecting …

Netflix to buy Warner Bros. film and streaming assets in $72 billion deal … Netflix announced Friday it's reached a deal to buy pieces of Warner Bros. Discovery, bringing a swift end to a dramatic bidding process that saw Paramount Skydance and Comcast also vying for the legacy assets.

Grand jury declines to indict N.Y. Attorney General Letitia James, less than two weeks after the first case was dismissed  —  Federal officials failed to secure the new indictment against James, whom Trump has targeted, after a judge said the previous one was secured by an unlawfully appointed prosecutor.

Commission fines X €120 million under the Digital Services Act  —  Today, the Commission has issued a fine of €120 million to X for breaching its transparency obligations under the Digital Services Act (DSA).  The breaches include the deceptive design of its ‘blue checkmark’ …

MAGA's Affordability Crisis Will Soon Get Worse  —  And Trump's numbers will continue to slide  —  Long ago, probably in a long-forgotten hotel room, I watched a 1974 movie called The Internecine Project — now available, as you'll see if you follow the hyperlink, on YouTube.  In truth, it's a pretty bad movie.

Trump warns Europe faces ‘civilizational erasure’ in explosive new document  —  U.S. President Donald Trump and his administration blame the EU and migration for what they say is imminent, total cultural unraveling in Europe.  —  The explosive claim is made in the U.S. National Security Strategy …

National parks change prioritizes Trump birthday over days honoring Black people  —  Free entrance days at national parks no longer include MLK Day and Juneteenth  —  The Donald Trump administration has changed which holidays qualify for free entrance to national parks …

Trump's Approval Rating Dips as Views of His Handling of the Economy Sour  —  The shift, while small, is notable after months of stability in President Trump's approval rating.  —  After months of holding steady, President Trump's approval rating has taken a dip over the past several weeks …

Trump, 79, Is Fuming Over Coverage of His Deteriorating Health  —  DROWSY DON  —  Insiders say the president spends days obsessing over reports comparing him to “Sleepy Joe.”  —  President Donald Trump is raging over snowballing reports on his apparent cognitive and physical decline.

Ex-D.E.A. Agent Charged With Agreeing to Launder Millions for Cartel  —  The former agent, Paul Campo, laundered money for the Jalisco New Generation Cartel in Mexico, according to an indictment unsealed on Friday.  —  A former longtime Drug Enforcement Administration agent who rose …

Exclusive: Meta strikes multiple AI deals with news publishers  —  Meta on Friday said it has struck several commercial AI data agreements with news publishers ranging from USA Today, People Inc., CNN, Fox News, The Daily Caller, Washington Examiner and Le Monde.

Hassett Backs Call for Fed Presidents to Come From Districts  —  National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett backed Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's call for a new residency requirement in the appointment of presidents of Federal Reserve banks.  —  “The reason we have all these regional Feds …

‘Why are we letting this guy go?’  Donald Trump's pardons upend US justice system  —  Releases of drug traffickers and fraudsters puzzle allies and send shockwaves through legal circles  —  It took dozens of special agents the best part of a decade to bring Juan Orlando Hernández to justice for flooding US cities with cocaine.

JD Vance says his marriage with Usha is 'as strong as it's ever been'  —  Yes, the very online vice president has seen the online speculation about his marriage.  He said he and the second lady found the recent episode around her wedding ring funny.  —  WASHINGTON — Vice President JD Vance …

Supreme Court Clears the Way for Republican-Friendly Texas Voting Maps  —  Texas officials had asked the court to allow the state to use the new maps in the midterm elections, part of a push by President Trump to gain a partisan advantage.  —  The Supreme Court cleared the way on Thursday …

Exclusive: US sets 2027 deadline for Europe-led NATO defense, officials say  —  The United States wants Europe to take over the majority of NATO's conventional defense capabilities, from intelligence to missiles, by 2027, Pentagon officials told diplomats in Washington this week …

Around the world, refugees are shut out of the US by Trump's new policies  —  When President Donald Trump suspended the refugee program on day one of his current administration, thousands of people around the world who had been so close to a new life in America found themselves abandoned.

Actually, the Supreme Court Has a Plan  —  Critics of the Supreme Court have argued that it has too often deferred to the Trump administration and that the conservative justices are under the sway of suspicious propositions like the unitary executive theory and the major questions doctrine.