New Coast Guard chief confirmed following flap over swastikas, nooses

Washington — The Senate confirmed Admiral Kevin Lunday as Coast Guard commandant Thursday night after agency guidance on the display of hate symbols such as swastikas and nooses was clarified. Democrats objecting to the guidance had been holding up the confirmation. Senate Majority Leader John Thune, of South Dakota, called for and got senators to

Inside the FDA’s vaccine uproar

Six days after a senior FDA official sent a sweeping internal email claiming that COVID vaccines had caused the deaths of “at least 10 children,” 12 former FDA commissioners released an extraordinary warning in the Dec. 3 New England Journal of Medicine. They wrote that the claims and policy changes in the memo from Dr.

Erika Kirk endorses JD Vance for president

During her opening remarks at Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest conference, Erika Kirk,  CEO of the influential conservative organization, endorsed Vice President JD Vance for president in 2028. “We are going to get my husband’s friend, JD Vance, elected 48 in the most resounding way possible,” the widow of Charlie Kirk, the slain co-founder of Turning

Noem says Brown suspect got U.S. visa through diversity lottery, pauses program

Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem announced late Thursday that the Trump administration will pause the diversity visa lottery program, which she said was used eight years ago by the now-deceased man accused of killing two Brown University students and an MIT professor. “This heinous individual should never have been allowed in our country,” Noem

12/18: CBS Evening News

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U.S. strikes 2 more alleged drug boats, bringing total death count to over 100

The U.S. military says it struck two more alleged drug-carrying boats on Thursday, bringing the total death toll from the Trump administration’s monthslong campaign to upwards of 100. The latest two boats were traveling in the Eastern Pacific along “known narco-trafficking routes,” U.S. Southern Command announced in a post on X. The military said the