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The lights never seem to be on and the shutters stay shut.As the weeks pass by at the White House, the corner of the residence long used by first ladies remains dark, because this first lady does not really live in Washington. Melania Trump vanishes from view for weeks at a time, holing up in Trump Tower in Manhattan or in Florida, where she can lie low at Mar-a-Lago. Administration officials say she is at the White House more often than the public knows, but when exactly, and for how long, these officials will not (or perhaps cannot) say for…

The federal government published more than 60,000 pages of records on Sen. Robert F. Kennedy’s assassination late Wednesday — the second tranche of documents to be released on the 1968 slaying.The releases were ordered by President Trump in January, with backing from the senator’s son, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has claimed for years that his father’s convicted killer Sirhan Sirhan might be innocent.The Office of the Director of National Intelligence said the documents “have been sitting in various storage facilities across the federal government for decades and had never been digitized or accessible to…

The promoters of scam currency spent more money than any other group in 2024. They’re now realizing a massive return on investment in Donald Trump’s White House. King of the shill: A mural of President Donald Trump outside a cryptocurrency office in Hong Kong.(Mladen Antonov / AFP via Getty Images) This article appears in the June 2025 issue, with the headline “Coin Operated” On February 11, 2025, Representative Sean Casten, an Illinois Democrat who sits on the House Financial Services Committee, questioned crypto industry executives at a public hearing about the dangers of the president of the United States launching…

U.S. stocks ended a choppy day higher after the Federal Reserve left its main interest rate alone, as was widely expected, but also warned about rising risks for the U.S. economy. The S&P 500 rose 0.4% Wednesday. The index is coming off a two-day losing streak that had snapped its nine-day winning run. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.7%, and the Nasdaq composite added 0.3%. Fed Chair Jerome Powell said the central bank has time to wait before making any potential moves on rates, but he warned that sustained tariffs could both weaken the economy and trigger higher inflation.…

UnitedHealth Group is being sued by investors who claim the company misled them by allegedly withholding information on how the company was being affected by a backlash prompted by its response to the December killing of top executive Brian Thompson.In the proposed class action lawsuit filed Wednesday in the Southern District of New York, investor Roberto Faller alleges UnitedHealth “artificially inflated prices” when the company initially forecast earnings per share of $29.50 to $30 in December. UnitedHealth then reaffirmed that outlook in January, despite mounting a backlash following an October Senate report on its high rate of claim denials and, later, the December killing…

On a recent afternoon in Philadelphia, an air traffic controller began shouting that he had lost his radar feed for planes flying in and out of Newark Liberty International Airport.Some of his colleagues still had radar but their radios went dead, prompting frantic calls to their counterparts in New York urging them to keep their planes away from Newark’s airspace.Then, for 30 harrowing seconds until the radios came back, there was nothing more to do but hope — as they had no means of telling pilots how to avoid crashing their planes into one another.Shortly after that, one controller discovered…

President Trump announced Wednesday he planned to nominate Dr. Casey Means to serve as his surgeon general after he withdrew the nomination of his previous choice, Dr. Janette Nesheiwat.“Casey has impeccable ‘MAHA’ credentials, and will work closely with our wonderful Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., to ensure a successful implementation of our Agenda in order to reverse the Chronic Disease Epidemic, and ensure Great Health, in the future, for ALL Americans,” Mr. Trump wrote on Truth Social, referring to the Make America Healthy Again movement.Dr. Means, a wellness influencer who frequently casts doubt on the…

President Trump will nominate Dr. Casey Means to serve as U.S. surgeon general, he announced Wednesday — shortly after the White House withdrew the president’s earlier pick of Dr. Janette Nesheiwat for the key public health post.Mr. Trump said in a Truth Social post that Means “has impeccable ‘MAHA’ credentials” — referring to the acronym for “Make America Healthy Again,” a slogan used by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. “Her academic achievements, together with her life’s work, are absolutely outstanding,” Mr. Trump wrote. “Dr. Casey Means has the potential to be one of the finest Surgeon Generals…

The Colorado River runs through federal BLM land outside Moab, Utah. Photo by Kirk Siegler/NPR hide caption toggle caption Photo by Kirk Siegler/NPR House Republicans have approved an amendment that authorizes the sale of thousands of acres of federal public land in Nevada and Utah; two states where the federal government owns most of the land that have long been at the forefront of a controversial movement to cede control of it to state or private entities. The House Natural Resources committee approved the amendment late Tuesday night after previously indicating federal land sales wouldn’t be included in a budget…

The capitals of Utah and Idaho adopted new official city flags on Tuesday in response to state laws barring the display of any nonofficial flags at schools and government buildings.The state measures were seen by civil rights groups as efforts to prevent the display of flags supporting L.G.B.T.Q. people. The City Council in Salt Lake City approved three new flags: one with the rainbow colors of the Pride flag, a second with the pink and blue of the transgender Pride flag and a third with a symbol and date referring to the Juneteenth holiday that commemorates the end of slavery.…