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The federal government is currently kicking around giving Spirit Airlines a massive $500 million loan of your taxpayer dollars in order to keep it afloat.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt was asked who, exactly, the Trump administration is negotiating with in Iran.

In a statement posted to social media, Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said Phelan was “departing the administration, effective immediately.”

Rep. Nancy Mace has launched a new crusade. After the Republican firebrand cruelly tried to ban a transgender lawmaker from bathrooms on Capitol Hill and feuded with airport leadership in her home state of South Carolina—two battles where she was objectively in the wrong—she has now taken on a new foe. And this time, her target is valid.

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. testified before the Senate Finance Committee Wednesday after an embarrassing appearance before the House Tuesday—and he performed no better this time around. Committee Chair Mike Crapo shamelessly served up a toothless plug for Kennedy’s equally toothless nutrition initiatives, during which Kennedy once again forgot to turn […]

The Trump administration is considering forcing Afghans to choose between being sent to the war-torn Congo or back home to be murdered by the Taliban.