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La Guaira, Venezuela — A month has passed since an earthquake struck Venezuela, killing thousands, but conditions in La Guaira still feel like a distant memory.Subscribe to read this story without adsGet unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content.Walking down a residential street is like walking through a graveyard of buildings you no longer recognize, even if you’ve lived there for years. And there is another reality affecting the state. It’s a refugee. Hundreds of people are now homeless and living in donated tents.Some still hope the government will help them regain what they lost. Some people just want…

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks at Wheeler High School in Marietta, Georgia, on July 22, 2026. Saul Loeb | AFP | Getty ImagesU.S. trading partners from Canberra to Brasilia reject the forced labor rationale behind President Donald Trump’s new global tariffs, but most have signaled they will continue to negotiate rather than retaliate. The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative on Thursday took action under Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974, imposing tariffs on 60 countries for the U.S. government’s failure to impose and enforce prohibitions on products made with forced labor. The tariffs are 10% for countries…

The Food and Drug Administration’s advisory committee narrowly voted to ease restrictions on the peptide, over strong opposition from career agency scientists.Subscribe to read this story without adsGet unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content.Throughout the day-long meeting, FDA scientists detailed the lack of evidence supporting the use of peptides, as well as safety concerns. The FDA returned to the big sticking point again and again. That said, it’s not even known what these peptides are chemically. In other words, each peptide did not have a universally accepted chemical formula, making it extremely difficult for the FDA to evaluate…

Chadwick Boseman’s brother filed a petition last week seeking control of the late actor’s estate, accusing his brother’s widow of mismanagement and failure to distribute his assets. Subscribe to read this story without adsGet unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content.Court filings by Derrick and Kevin Bozeman allege that the brothers’ widow, Taylor Simone Ledward, inherited half of the estate, while their parents were given equal shares in the other half. However, it was Ledward who was appointed administrator of the estate. The late actor’s parents, Leroy and Carolyn Bozeman, assigned the brothers to handle their real estate interests…

The top Republican on the House Judiciary Committee sent a letter to the Justice Department on Wednesday requesting a criminal investigation into former special counsel Jack Smith, accusing him of lying in a congressional deposition last year.Subscribe to read this story without adsGet unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content.Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) said in a letter to Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche that Smith “appears to have knowingly and knowingly made false statements of material fact that are inconsistent with new documents” obtained by the Senate Judiciary Committee this month.Jordan asked the Justice Department to investigate Mr.…

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Although he’s not as unknown as former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan, new Fed chief Kevin Warsh has settled on a few phrases that are notable for their repetition and lack of clarity.In five public appearances, starting with his nomination hearing in April and ending with his first press conference, a roundtable in Portugal, and two congressional testimony, Mr. Warsh has used the phrase “family battles” 13 times, gone back to “first principles” 11 times, and for the Fed, “inflation is a choice” six times.But determining what these phrases mean for monetary policy is harder than counting their usage. But for…

Republican state Rep. Alexander Kolodin will face Arizona’s Democratic Secretary of State Adrian Fontes in the November general election after winning the Republican primary, NBC News reported.Subscribe to read this story without adsGet unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content.Kolodin defeated former state Republican Party chairwoman Gina Swoboda to win the Republican nomination. Kolodin has frequently questioned past election results in interviews and led multiple lawsuits to overturn Arizona election results in 2020 and 2022, earning him reprimands from judges and the state bar association. Kolodin is backed by the conservative nonprofit Turning Point USA and several Arizona Republican…

U.S. President Donald Trump signs an executive order on research into the effects of psychedelics in veteran treatment on Saturday, April 18, 2026, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC. Washington Post | Washington Post | Getty ImagesPresident Donald Trump said generic drugs imported into the United States would be subject to zero tariffs for two years starting August 1, after which a 100% tax would take effect in August 2028, rising to 200% a year later.In a social media post on Tuesday, President Trump said the phased schedule is aimed at encouraging generic drug makers…

Taylor Farms remains the subject of a Food and Drug Administration investigation into a growing cyclosporiasis outbreak despite false-positive test results, the agency announced Monday.Subscribe to read this story without adsGet unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content.Late Sunday, the FDA announced that lettuce samples from the company falsely tested positive for Cyclospora, the parasite that causes the disease. However, the samples were not taken from lettuce, which has already been implicated in the outbreak and recall. Instead, it came from another shipment that authorities collected during a routine import inspection. “To be clear, this false-positive test sample does…