One In Four Americans Without Health Coverage: Study

Trump's pick for Immigration Czar, Tom Homan, has been prancing around every Fox News program and right-wing site, proclaiming his authority and power to destroy anyone who gets in his way of deporting migrants. Homan joined Laura Ingraham Tuesday, dressed up like a US military general inspecting the troops and threatened every governor and mayor in the country to do his bidding or else. HOMAN: So if they're not going to do it, we'll do it for them. You can not help, but don't impede us, and don't knowingly harbor and conceal an illegal alien from ICE because that is a felony. And we got one hell of an attorney general coming in, Pam Bondi, I think she'll read that statute the same way I do it. I'm not a lawyer, but I can read, and we're going to have consequences if people violate the law and try to prevent us from doing our job. Shut the fuck up, you wanker. The iIrc writes: The Tenth Amendment of the U.

Any legit pro-life medical review committee would be clamoring to review the skyrocketing rate of maternal and infant deaths in Texas since its abortion ban. That is, unless the forced-birth crowd doesn’t want Texans to know that the “pro-life” law is killing women and babies. The Washington Post: The Texas committee that examines all pregnancy-related deaths in the state will not review cases from 2022 and 2023, the first two years after Texas’s near-total abortion ban took effect, leaving any potential deaths related to abortion bans during those years uninvestigated by the 23 doctors, medical professionals and other specialists who make up the group. The decision by the Texas Maternal Mortality and Morbidity Review Committee was supposedly done to make their review “more contemporary,” and skip over a backlog that will allow “more relevant recommendations to policymakers,” as The Post put it.read more

By LARRY NEUMEISTER NEW YORK (AP) — Bob Menendez asked a judge Wednesday to set aside guilty verdicts that forced his resignation from the U. S. Senate and grant a new bribery trial. Lawyers for the New Jersey Democrat said in papers filed in Manhattan federal court that a recent revelation by prosecutors that improper evidence was put on a computer used by jurors during deliberations means that a new trial is “unavoidable.” The 70-year-old Menendez was convicted in July of 16 charges, including bribery, in part based on an allegation that he accepted bribes in exchange for approving military aid to Egypt. He awaits a Jan.

By COLLEEN SLEVIN DENVER (AP) — Amid renewed interest in the killing of JonBenet Ramsey triggered in part by a new Netflix documentary, police in Boulder, Colorado, refuted assertions this week that there is viable evidence and leads about the 1996 killing of the 6-year-old girl that they are not pursuing. JonBenet Ramsey, who competed in beauty pageants, was found dead in the basement of her family’s home in the college town of Boulder the day after Christmas in 1996.

President-elect Donald Trump has announced a plan to impose tariffs on all products imported from America’s three largest trading partners: Mexico, Canada, and China. The move could impact the prices of a range of imported goods, from cars to electronics, experts say. Trump said on Truth Social on Monday night that he intends to sign an executive order on Jan.