National Public Radio on Monday ran a so-called “sponsor message” promoting pharma giant Procter & Gamble’s nerve-relief drug Nervive, “designed to reduce occasional nerve aches, weakness and discomfort.” The message, effectively a commercial, is tied to one of hundreds of advertiser deals that are far more important to NPR than government funding. NPR brought in
President Donald Trump outlined ambitious plans to resettle Gaza’s population, “take over” the war-torn strip, clear out “unexploded bombs and other weapons on the site,” and spearhead “economic development.” A rebuilt Gaza, Trump said, could be “the Riviera of the Middle East.” Trump’s remarks came during a Tuesday evening joint press conference with Israeli prime
‘They wanted it very controlled, and they were really concerned that it wasn’t going to be edited,’ Rogan says Podcast host Joe Rogan said Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign was “really concerned” that a potential interview with the then-vice president wouldn’t be edited or time-limited. “They wanted a stenographer in the room. They wanted staff in
Residents of deep-blue New York view President Donald Trump more favorably than Democratic governor Kathy Hochul, who struggles with low approval ratings and bleak reelection prospects, according to a poll released Monday. Trump’s favorability in the Empire State has risen to 41 percent, up from 37 percent in December, while just 39 percent of New
Lawmakers voted Tuesday to advance Tulsi Gabbard’s nomination as national security director to the Senate floor, a boost that greatly increases the embattled pick’s chances of confirmation. The Senate Intelligence Committee backed Gabbard in a 9-8 party-line vote. Republican senators Todd Young (Ind.) and Susan Collins (Maine), who had expressed misgivings about Gabbard before and
If it ain’t woke, don’t build it: Hideous monument to 44th president plagued by delays, cost overruns, and racial quotas (Getty Images) Barack Obama’s long-delayed and aesthetically monstrous presidential center in Chicago could face even further delays after a local subcontractor filed a racial discrimination lawsuit against one of the firms managing construction on the
Interior Secretary Burgum orders review of Biden’s oil lease cancellations Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum speaks during a Senate (Alex Wong/Getty Images) The Trump administration is reopening oil and gas leasing across hundreds of millions of acres of federal lands and waters that were locked up by the Biden administration. In a series of