Pessimism about the U.S. economy and its direction continues this month — negative ratings have persisted for years — along with net-negative ratings for the U.S. job market, specifically. And in a year that has seen plenty of announcements about AI innovations and implications, there is also plenty of public suspicion that the job market may
President Trump’s suggestion last week that combination childhood vaccines, including the measles, mumps and rubella, or MMR, shot, should be separated marks a sharp break from decades of immunization practice in the United States. “I was shocked,” said Dr. William Moss, executive director of the International Vaccine Access Center at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School
Browning soybean pods at Harborview Farm as harvest for the crop nears, in Rock Hall, Maryland, on Sept. 23, 2025. Jim Watson /AFP via Getty Images U.S. President Donald Trump said on Oct. 1 that China’s soybean purchases would be front and center in his upcoming meeting with Xi Jinping, the leader of the Chinese
The Justice Department has fired two of the highest-level prosecutors in the Eastern District of Virginia, two sources familiar with the matter told CBS News, just days after President Trump ousted the U.S. Attorney there — and picked a replacement who charged former FBI Director James Comey. The sources said Maya Song, a longtime high-ranking
President Donald Trump in Washington on Sept. 30, 2025. Win McNamee/Getty Images President Donald Trump has declared drug cartels to be “unlawful combatants” and says the United States is now in a “non-international armed conflict,” according to a newly obtained memorandum. The Trump administration has carried out three strikes in recent weeks on boats it
People cast their ballots at a mobile outdoor vote center at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles on Election Day on Nov. 5, 2024. Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images California election officials plan to send out postcards fixing a labeling mistake in voter information booklets distributed for the upcoming Nov. 4 special election, in which residents
The Main Green at Brown University in Providence, R.I., on March 17, 2025. Scott Eisen/Getty Images President Donald Trump offered on Oct. 1 some of the most prestigious public and private U.S. universities preferred consideration for federal funding, a White House official confirmed to The Epoch Times. To qualify, the institutions needed to agree to