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Trump official orders consumer protection agency to stop work
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration has ordered the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to stop nearly all its work, effectively shutting down an agency that was created to protect consumers after the 2008 financial crisis and subprime mortgage-lending scandal. Russell Vought, the newly installed director of the Office of Management and Budget, directed the CFPB in a Saturday night…
Read MoreTrump is not the radical — he’s simply undoing radical things Dems did
The greatest trick the Democrats ever pulled was convincing the world that conservatives were American politics’ aggressors. But now they’ve run out of rope. After President Donald Trump signed an executive order compelling America’s schools to allow only women to compete in women’s sports, the usual suspects gnashed their teeth. “Donald Trump signs a transgender…
Read MoreBill Belichick and Girlfriend Jordon Hudson Fuel Engagement Rumors Over Super Bowl 2025 Weekend – E! Online
Bill Belichick‘s girlfriend Jordon Hudson is sporting some curious bling this Super Bowl 2025 weekend. The 24-year-old stepped out at Fanatics founder Michael Rubin‘s party in New Orleans with the former New England Patriots head coach Feb. 8 wearing a ring on her ring finger that contained a diamond and a pink stone, fueling rumors…
Read MoreSecond type of bird flu found in US dairy cows
Dairy cattle in Nevada have been infected with a new type of bird flu that’s different from the version that has spread in U.S. herds since last year, Agriculture Department officials said Wednesday. The detection indicates that distinct forms of the virus known as Type A H5N1 have spilled over from wild birds into cattle at least…
Read MoreTrump insists he trusts Musk — while reaffirming what US depts. he will target next
President Trump insists he trusts Elon Musk to overhaul the federal government and expressed awe at the tech titan’s work ethic while reaffirming his next targets — the Education Department and Pentagon. “I ran on this,” Trump, 78, told Fox News’ Bret Baier in a preview clip of his Super Bowl interview, referring to his…
Read MoreRandy Moss cries during emotional ESPN return at Super Bowl 2025 two months after cancer reveal
It’s an emotional Super Sunday for Randy Moss. The NFL legend and ESPN analyst, who stepped away from the network two months ago after undergoing cancer surgery, returned to “Postseason NFL Countdown” hours before Super Bowl 2025 between the Chiefs and Eagles and was in tears after ESPN played a welcome-back video featuring well wishes…
Read MoreHow greed and profit fueled one failed Alzheimer drug
On May 3, 2021, Matt Price drove his 73-year-old father Stephen from their New Jersey home to a medical strip mall on the Jersey Shore, for his first injection of an experimental drug called simufilam. Cassava Sciences, a Texas biopharma company, had developed simufilam to treat (and possibly cure) Alzheimer’s disease, the most common form…
Read MoreThe Truth About Why Taylor Swift Has Never Headlined the Super Bowl Halftime Show – E! Online
Pepsi remained in the game through 2022, after which Apple Music took over as the halftime show sponsor—and reportedly asked Swift if she’d do the honors at Super Bowl LVII in Feb. 2023. Her fans were convinced it was finally going to happen, connecting every imagined dot. Swift declined, however, purportedly because she was in…
Read MoreMigration in and out of Texas was balanced in 2024, moving company says
AUSTIN (KXAN) — The number of people moving into Texas from other states is now on par with the number of people moving out, according to moving company Atlas Van Lines, bucking a trend seen over the past five years. In its annual Migration Patterns Study, Atlas shows both inbound and outbound migration in Texas…
Read MoreGiants fans, rooting for Chiefs is only correct option this Super Bowl
A marvelous reader named Scott Wolinetz restored my belief in New York sports fans the other day. Scott checks in now and then, and his is a most reasonable voice regarding all of the teams he cares about. This is what Scott wrote me on Monday: “Hate the Eagles, but love Saquon, and sick of…
Read MoreHas a Super Bowl 3-Peat Ever Happened? Here’s Why the Chiefs Can Make History – E! Online
Similar to the Chiefs, this year will mark the sixth time the Eagles have made it to the Super Bowl. Their face off against the Chiefs in 2023 was historic itself, as Travis and his now-retired brother Jason Kelce—who served as the Eagles’ center—became the first siblings to play against one another. The tight end…
Read MoreCan I watch Super Bowl 2025 on Netflix or Hulu?
The journey to Super Bowl LIX has been quite the ride. The Philadelphia Eagles defeated the Green Bay Packers and Los Angeles Rams before beating rookie phenom Jayden Daniels and the Washington Commanders to advance to their second Super Bowl in three years. Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs never fails to entertain. Kansas City once…
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