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The entire staff of the federal government's Office of Infectious Disease and HIV/AIDS Policy is expected to be laid off, multiple federal health officials told CBS News Friday. The moves are part of a broader restructuring plan ordered by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. that involves cutting 20,000 HHS positions. Much of the government's efforts to buoy lagging childhood vaccination rates nationwide have been run through OIDP, including a new campaign called "Let's Get Real" that had launched in the final months of the Biden administration to provide resources and information to health care providers talking...

"You need a sufficient amount of ruthlessness to run a country" — Will Chamberlain on "X" You understand, all these lawsuit shenanigans with select federal judges from Woke-crazed districts like Boston, San Francisco, Rhode Island, and the DC Beltway are aimed at provoking a second civil war. The objective is to burden Mr. Trump with so many restrictions on the executive that the country can’t be governed without declaring a national emergency. This is the Democratic Party’s desperate strategy to stay alive: to preserve the flow of taxpayer money to its minions stuffed into the organs of government like cancer...

It is incredibly hard to deport 14 million people — the estimated number of immigrants in the United States unlawfully. First, the government has to find them. For many, it has to pry them from their lives, their jobs, their communities. That’s why the Trump administration has deported only a few thousand migrants so far, focusing mostly on those it says are criminals. To make a real change, as Trump has promised to do, millions of people would need to leave voluntarily. So the administration is urging them — in some cases, trying to scare them enough — to “self-deport.”...

Prince Harry has resigned from the charity he set up in Princess Diana's honor after a "devastating" breakdown in relations with the chair, who has alleged abuse of power, bullying, harassment, misogyny and misgynoir — misogyny directed at Black women. Sentebale was founded by Harry and Prince Seeiso of Lesotho in Southern Africa in 2006 and has been one of the British royal's most important projects. When he quit the palace in January 2020 it was at a dinner for Sentebale that he used a speech to justify that dramatic departure saying: “When I lost my mum 23 years ago,...

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage was jokingly dubbed the "Prime Minister" by BBC Radio 4 host Nick Robinson following a surge in polling for the political party. In a new survey by Find Out Now, Reform came out on top at 26 per cent, down one point from the week before. Labour came in close second with 23 per cent, while the Conservatives took third place with 22 per cent in the poll of 2,745 people. Speaking to BBC Radio 4, Farage scoffed as Robinson greeted him as "Prime Minister". Robinson said: "The leader of Reform UK joins us on...

In an interview this morning with RS, Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) said there was clearly "no urgency" for U.S. military airstrikes against the Houthis in Yemen, now in their 13th day. Therefore, the administration should have gone to Congress for authorization and without it, those strikes are illegal. Massie pointed to Vice President J.D. Vance's contribution to the now infamous signal chat which described the strikes as they were happening. "JD" as identified in the chat, which has been authenticated by the administration, among other points, said that "there is a strong argument for delaying this a month, doing the...

Explanation: Why is the Moon so dusty? On Earth, rocks are weathered by wind and water, creating soil and sand. On the Moon, eons of constant micrometeorite bombardment have blasted away at the rocky surface creating a layer of powdery lunar soil or regolith. For the Apollo astronauts and their equipment, the pervasive, fine, gritty dust was definitely a problem. On the lunar surface in December 1972, Apollo 17 astronauts Harrison Schmitt and Eugene Cernan needed to repair one of their rover's fenders in an effort to keep the rooster tails of dust away from themselves and their gear. This...

Chelsea Handler is no rookie when it comes to taking or sharing drugs with her celebrity pals. The “Fun Size” comedian opened up about her use of “natural drugs” and “micro-dosing” during an interview on the Thursday, March 27, episode of “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” “I love drugs… micro-dosing especially, people have this stigmatization around drugs that I find very annoying,” Handler, 50, said. “Drugs can help so many people.” “I’m not talking about street drugs like cocaine and heroin, those are bad; while they can be fun… they’re bad,” the “I’ll Have What She’s Having” author clarified. “I’m talking about...

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky predicts the death of Russia’s leader Vladimir Putin “soon”, stating the invasion of his country would then have to end. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine could not survive the death of the country’s head of state, Ukraine’s President Zelensky has told French television. This will happen soon, he said, asserting he would outlive the Russian leader. Victory in the Ukraine war is simply a matter of out-waiting Russia, Zelensky told Eurovision News, and if America allows Russia to return to the global fold now it would hand Putin victory at “one of the most dangerous moments”.

The “worst of the worst’’ MS-13 leader busted a half-hour from the US Capitol on Thursday was recruited by the killer gang while still in middle school, officials said — as they released his stone-cold mugshot. Henrry Josue Villatoro Santos, a 24-year-old illegal migrant and accused gang kingpin from El Salvador, was nabbed hiding in his mother’s home in Woodbridge, Va. “We believe he was recruited in middle school — in middle school!” US Attorney General Pam Bondi told “The Ingraham Angle’’ on Thursday night. “He’s been living here illegally with friends and family, and the Biden administration did absolutely...

A second federal judge on Friday temporarily blocked President Trump’s ban on transgender troops. In January President Trump signed the “Restoring America’s Fighting Force” executive order and the “Prioritizing Military Excellence and Readiness” executive orders, which direct every element of the U.S. military to “operate free from any preference based on race or sex” and root out gender insanity and made up pronoun usage, respectively. US District Judge Benjamin Hale Settle in Washington State, issued a nationwide preliminary injunction on Thursday evening. Judge Settle, a George W. Bush appointee, said the Trump DOJ’s arguments have not been persuasive.

Stocks ended the with with steep losses after new federal data showed prices rising faster than expected, reigniting inflation fears on Wall Street. The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost more than 715 points on the day, falling 1.7 percent. The Nasdaq composite lost 2.7 percent and the S&P 500 index fell 2 percent. The stock slide began shortly after the Commerce Department released data showing an unexpectedly steep increase in consumer prices. The personal consumption expenditures (PCE) price index rose 2.5 percent over the past year, but 2.8 percent without food and energy prices included. On a monthly basis, the...

Nikola founder Trevor Milton announced Thursday on social media that he had been fully pardoned by President Donald Trump. "Today I was issued a full and unconditional pardon by @realdonaldtrump himself. He called me personally to tell me," Milton noted. The Associated Press reported that the White House confirmed on Friday that the president had pardoned Milton. Fox News Digital reached out to the White House on Friday but did not receive a response by publication time. "This pardon is not just about me—it’s about every American who has been railroaded by the government, and unfortunately, that’s a lot of...

There is an active OPP taking place, and it involves Chinese Alex Wong and Senator Tom Cotton, who has been plotting to take @PeteHegseth’s job. Tom Cotton has been gunning for a role in the Trump admin for a long time and if you recall, the mainstream media ran an entire shadow influence campaign to pitch Cotton as DOD Secretary before the 2024 election. Alex Wong is not only Mike Waltz’s Deputy National Security Advisor, but he also served as the Foreign policy advisor for Tom Cotton from 2015-2017. It was Tom Cotton who referred Wong to Waltz. Tom Cotton...

Speaking from the Arctic as Vice President JD Vance prepared for his trip to Greenland to assess U.S. security concerns, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Washington’s ambitions for the Arctic nation had "nothing to do" with Russia. "In short, America's plans in relation to Greenland are serious," Putin said Thursday during an address to Russia's Arctic Forum in Murmansk. "These plans have deep historical roots," he continued, according to a BBC report. "And it's clear that the US will continue to systematically pursue its geo-strategic, military-political and economic interests in the Arctic. "As for Greenland, this is a matter...

WHYY is the Philadelphia affiliate of both PBS and NPR.They just reported the following.The bolding is mine:https://whyy.org/articles/al-aqsa-islamic-center-philly-shapiro-grant-community/Shapiro announces $5M grant to Philly Muslim community centerA record $5 million redevelopment grant will help a private school that blends Islamic teachings with a standard curriculum.By Carmen Russell-SluchanskyMarch 26, 2025Gov. Josh Shapiro joined an iftar dinner at the Al-Aqsa Islamic Society in North Philly to announce a historic grant from the Redevelopment Assistance Capital Program, the largest ever awarded to a Muslim organization.According to Asif Hussain, chairman of the board of Al-Aqsa Islamic Society, one goal for the funds will be to expand...

Judge James Boasberg on Friday sided with criminal gang members and extended his temporary restraining order (TRO) in the Alien Enemies Act case until April 12. The TRO was set to expire on March 29. “On March 15, 2025, this Court issued two Temporary Restraining Orders that will expire on March 29, 2025, unless extended. Those TROs enjoin Defendants from removing from the United States the named Plaintiffs — and a provisionally certified class of all noncitizens in U.S. custody — solely on the basis of the Presidential Proclamation entitled, “Invocation of the Alien Enemies Act Regarding the Invasion of...

If you look at a map of Earth's gravity, you will see a huge blue spot south of India, indicating a region where gravity is weaker than average. This spot is called the Indian Ocean Geoid Low (IOGL), and it is the largest gravity anomaly on our planet.A gravity anomaly is a difference between the actual gravity measured at a location and the theoretical gravity expected for a perfectly smooth and spherical Earth. But Earth's gravity isn't perfectly uniform and variations in mass distribution beneath the surface cause fluctuations in gravitational pull.Gravity anomalies can be caused by variations in the...

In some regions of the world, wild-caught insects have been a valuable source of protein for centuries. However, the mass farming of insects for food and feed is a modern practice. Over the last decade, the insect farming industry has been hailed as a silver bullet for many of our food system’s problems. The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization has been a proponent since 2013, when it published a report advocating the potential of farmed insect protein to contribute to global food security. Things haven’t worked out quite as planned, however, a reality that was brought into stark relief recently...

[Catholic Caucus] Parolin Represents "Everything That Is Wrong""No, Parolin, you will not be Pope," writes Jaime Gurpegui on InfoVaticana.com (March 28).What Pietro Parolin signed with the socialist Sánchez regime in Spain regarding the Valle de los Caídos, together with the sell-out of the Catholic Church to the Chinese state, "disqualifies him for life from occupying the chair of Saint Peter".Therefore, Parolin will not be Pope: "Because Catholics with memories, those of us who do not swallow betrayal wrapped in diplomatic cellophane, will remind him relentlessly".A man who hands over living temples to the enemies of the faith, who collaborates with...