The White House on Wednesday fired Susan Monarez as director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention after she refused to resign amid pressure to change vaccine policy, which sparked the resignation of other senior CDC officials and a showdown over whether she could be removed. Hours after the Department of Health and Human Services announced early Wednesday evening that Monarez was no longer the director, her lawyers responded with a fiery statement saying she had not resigned or...

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Susan Monarez was fired on Wednesday after refusing to resign from her post, a White House official told The Post.  Monarez’s removal comes after she was reportedly issued an ultimatum by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert. F. Kennedy Jr: quit or be fired.  “As her attorney’s statement makes abundantly clear, Susan Monarez is not aligned with the President’s agenda of Making America Healthy Again,” White House...

Supposedly, the tiresome comedy stylings of Gavin Newsom – he’s the equivalent of a Wednesday night prop comic opener down at the Gooberville Giggle Works – have thrust him into the forefront of the Democrat race for the 2028 nomination. What a sad and pathetic state of affairs that is. He’s trying to claim the Fighter Lane. You see, he fights by hiring a couple of they/them mediocrities to run his social media account, pumping out an endless series of tweets that are nearly as funny as leprosy...

While signing executive orders at the White House on Aug. 25, President Donald Trump wrongly said that an 11-day span of no homicides in Washington, D.C., was the “first time that’s taken place in years,” a claim reiterated by other members of the administration who credited Trump’s federal takeover of the district’s law enforcement. An 11-day stretch with zero murders is rare in the city, but there was a 16-day period with no murders earlier this year, from Feb. 25 to March 12, according to...

The FBI’s search of John Bolton’s home and office last week shook much of official Washington. It was the most intrusive and aggressive law enforcement action taken by the Trump administration against the president’s critics and political opponents to date. Many in the political press corps certainly treated it as a milestone: Donald Trump’s much-anticipated prosecutorial revenge tour was upon us. In fact, the news concerning Bolton was just the latest...

Illinois' Democratic Gov. JB Pritzker said the state "will not stand idly by" if President Donald Trump makes good on his threat to deploy the National Guard to Chicago to respond to crime in the Windy City. "Unlike Donald Trump, we keep our promises," the governor wrote Wednesday on X. "We will not stand idly by if he decides to send the National Guard to intimidate Chicagoans." "Action will be met with a response," he continued. Pritzker's comments are just the latest in his...

Louisiana is asking the Supreme Court to bar any consideration of race in redistricting, abandoning its defense of its own current congressional map in a move that could reshape the Voting Rights Act. In a new brief Wednesday, the state called race-based redistricting “fundamentally contrary to our Constitution” and urged the justices to deem its intentional creation of a second majority-Black congressional district unconstitutional. “Louisiana wants out of this...

Not so long ago, the scourge of opioids seemed unstoppable. More than 400,000 Americans died from drug overdoses between 2020 and 2023. The toll was more than twice as large as that from either guns or vehicle accidents. But 2023 now appears to have been a turning point. Since then, annual overdose deaths have declined more than 25 percent, thanks partly to a creative public health campaign to expand access to treatments like Narcan and Suboxone. The crisis is finally easing. President Trump...

After Ice’s infiltration of LA, the community is rallying to provide essentials for survival for those forced to stay home Source: The LA chefs and shops delivering food to immigrants scared to go out: ‘I know how to feed people’ The worst in us brings out the best in us.

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