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Tennessee whiskey isn't so popular in Toronto right now. The company that makes Jack Daniels says that sales are down 62 percent in Canada, the result of President Trump's threats, trade war and and tariffs. Brown-Forman, which also makes Woodford ...

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is attacking doctors at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), falsely claiming the agency lists abortion as one of the greatest advances in medicine. This dangerous lie comes as the CDC grapples ...

President Trump's political rivals are facing a new threat: a powerful ally within the Department of Justice who reports directly to Trump. Edward Martin, a GOP activist turned "special attorney," is preparing felony indictments against prominent ...

Kash Patel, the wild-eyed MAGA personality given the job of FBI director, has a girlfriend "half his age" who has attracted the displeasure of conservative ex-FBI podcaster Kyle Seraphin. Alexis Wilkins, 26, is now suing Seraphin for defamation over ...

When the inflation bomb Trump planted with his tariffs finally explodes later this year, expect him to unleash the full authoritarian playbook -- straight from his BFF Viktor Orbán's greatest hits. As reported in The Wall Street Journal, Walmart,

Trump's tariffs have forced LEGO to pause its popular "Pick a Brick" program, as sending packages from Denmark is currently too difficult. LEGO's "Pick a Brick" program is well-loved by individuals who build or create their own LEGO constructions,

Masked and unidentifiable jackbooted thugs, without legal authority, are terrorizing the United States. People have died fleeing ICE. Children are being torn from their parents' arms. Families are split and left unable to find their loved ones.

Two months ago, the CDC's FoodNet, a partnership between the CDC, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the FDA, and several states that has monitored foodborne infections since 1995, quietly stopped tracking six of eight pathogens that cause foodborne ...

When Patrick Braxton became mayor of Newbern, Alabama, population 138, the clique of white residents in charge locked him out of town hall. Braxton was the only candidate to file paperwork for a position passed around the clique for generations; they ...

Those tracking how many countries have suspended shipments to the U.S. count 25 now. The list includes key services including DHL, Britain's Royal Mail and its counterparts in France, Germany and Japan. All blame the Trump administration's tariffs.