A former top official at the National Institutes of Health sued the Trump administration Tuesday, alleging she was illegally fired by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. after she blew the whistle on internal clashes over vaccine research at the agency. Dr. Jeanne Marrazzo ran the NIH division responsible for vaccine research until late March,
Washington — U.S. District Judge Richard J. Leon denied a motion by the National Trust for Historic Preservation that would have temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s construction of a new ballroom at the White House, but he set out some requirements for the Trump administration moving forward. Leon said in a hearing Tuesday in Washington,
Washington — President Trump filed a defamation lawsuit against the BBC on Monday over a documentary that spliced parts of his Jan. 6, 2021, speech on the Ellipse. The suit, filed in the Southern District of Florida, includes one count of defamation and one count of violating a Florida trade practices law. Mr. Trump’s legal
Former President Barack Obama urged Democrats to “meet the moment” at a Los Angeles fundraiser with House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries on Sunday. “The short-term strategy is, win the House of Representatives,” stated the former president, garnering applause. “Because that’s going to be the circuit breaker that will give us control of one major component
Hours after Jimmy Lai, a businessman and pro-democracy newspaper owner in Hong Kong, was found guilty on national security and sedition charges, his daughter Claire Lai told reporters in Washington, D.C., she hopes international pressure can spare her father from spending the rest of his life in prison. “We expected the verdict,” she told CBS
Washington — President Trump took to social media on Monday to disparage the political views of actor and director Rob Reiner a day after Reiner and his wife Michele were found dead in their Los Angeles home in what police are calling an apparent homicide. Nick Reiner, the couple’s 32-year-old son, has been arrested for murder
The Army on Monday identified the two American soldiers who were killed in Palmyra, Syria, over the weekend as Sgt. Edgar Brian Torres Tovar, 25, of Des Moines, Iowa and Sgt. William Nathaniel Howard, 29, of Marshalltown, Iowa. Both were members of the Iowa National Guard. A civilian interpreter was also killed in the attack.