Contentious Trump-Zelensky meeting threatens U.S. support for Ukraine: The Ukrainian leader came to Washington to prevent Trump from abandoning Kyiv in favor of Moscow, but was met with vocal anger from the American president.
Tears and shock in Ukraine and Europe after heated Zelensky-Trump meeting: “I’m just crying because of what I hear,” one Ukrainian lawmaker said of the meeting, echoing the dismayed reactions of others in Europe.
Some Republicans fear Medicaid cuts could cost them their jobs: Possible changes have become a headache for the most vulnerable Republicans in Congress and have handed Democrats a potent issue.
Republicans could be touching the third rail on Medicaid: The House-passed budget proposal pretty clearly requires cutting Medicaid, and that’s a big political problem.
A runner was hit by a car. His ambulance bill was $13,000.: “It didn’t make a whole lot of sense to me because the doctor is the one who put him in the ambulance,” said Brian Whitten.
Here’s the real threat to ‘personal liberties and free markets’: The rapidly spreading authoritarianism coming from this administration threatens all of our freedoms. - "The twin pillars of personal liberties and free markets are the hallmarks of the libertarian worldview. So I called a leading voice of that ideology, Ilya Somin, the B. Kenneth Simon chair in constitutional studies at the libertarian Cato Institute and a professor at George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School. I asked him for his assessment of the current administration.
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"The professor was heavily critical of the Biden administration, too, most notably for unilaterally forgiving student loans. But 'Trump is worse,' Somin said, because 'under Biden there was just no equivalent to the massive assault on immigration and trade,' nor Trump’s attempt 'to usurp the entire spending power from Congress.' In sum, Trump’s approach is 'irreconcilable' with the principles of free markets and personal liberties."
D.C. shuts down 25 unlicensed cannabis shops, officials say: City authorities, led by Attorney General Brian Schwalb, took action against establishments they say were illegally selling unregulated and untested products.
D.C. showing signs of economic strain amid federal government cuts: Unemployment claims last week jumped by 25 percent over the previous week, while home listings have also spiked.
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