President Donald Trump stood by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. after he faced an intense grilling from senators on Capitol Hill Thursday, telling reporters, “I like the fact that he’s different.” While speaking with the press during his dinner with technology industry leaders at the White House, Trump was asked about the hearing. “Mr. President, Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., said, effectively, ‘We’re denying people vaccines.’...

The U.S. accepted a luxury Boeing Jet as a gift from Qatar in May, with plans to retrofit it to become the next Air Force One. The Air Force says the effort will cost less than $400 million for the updates. Other estimates show it could cost more than $1 billion.  Meanwhile, a separate deal with Boeing to produce two new 747-8s has faced significant delays and cost...

Andrew Cuomo challenged his NYC mayoral opponent, Zohran Mamdani, to five different debates across all five New York City boroughs during a press conference Thursday. The challenge came as the former governor slammed Mamdani at his press conference in Manhattan’s Upper West Side for failing “to give a straight answer” to reporters’ questions and changing his mind “on everything” he has said on the campaign trail. “When you...