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1 week ago | 
readlion.com | Elizabeth Mitchell |Adam Pack |Moira Gleason |Casey Harper
(The Daily Signal) – The mainstream media has ignored the autism “epidemic,” Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Tuesday at his first press conference. “This epidemic denial has become a feature in the mainstream media,” Kennedy said.
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1 week ago | 
readlion.com | Casey Harper |J.D. Davidson |Benjamin Yount |Kevin Bessler
(The Center Square) – As Americans file their taxes at the last minute this April 15, the federal debt – and Americans’ federal debt burden – continues to grow. While the federal government reports a national debt nearing $37 trillion, one budget watchdog says the figure is actually much higher: $158.6 trillion, amounting to $974,000 for each federal taxpayer.
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3 weeks ago | 
readlion.com | John Ransom |Casey Harper |Emily Kopp
Elon Musk plans to leave government service shortly when the end date on his temporary status as a government employee is reached, the White House confirmed Wednesday. Politico reported Wednesday that President Donald Trump told members of the cabinet that Musk will depart “in the coming weeks.”White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt disputed Politico’s characterization of the news as a “scoop” on X, asserting Musk and Trump have both spoken publicly about it. This “scoop” is garbage.
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4 weeks ago | 
readlion.com | Emily Kopp |Adam Pack |Casey Harper |John Ransom
(Daily Caller News Foundation) – The Department of Health and Human Services plans to slash 10,000 employees in a major restructuring of the whole department, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced Thursday. When combined with other efforts by the Department of Government Efficiency to downsize, the workforce will be reduced from 82,000 to 62,000 full-time employees. “We aren’t just reducing bureaucratic sprawl.
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4 weeks ago | 
readlion.com | Harold Hutchison |Adam Pack |Casey Harper |Shanxi Omoniyi
(Daily Caller News Foundation) – Fox Business host Charles Payne told “America Reports” co-host Sandra Smith Tuesday the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP), commonly known as “food stamps,” has been an abuser of taxpayer funds.
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1 month ago | 
readlion.com | Sarah Holliday |John Ransom |Casey Harper |Benjamin Yount
(The Washington Stand) – It’s one thing for irritated Americans to pressure companies into abandoning progressive LGBT agendas; it’s another for long-time Pride sponsors in San Francisco to bail on their own. This year, several of San Francisco Pride’s major donors—Comcast, Anheuser-Busch, La Crema, Diageo, and Smirnoff—have pulled back from the 2025 Pride Parade and Civic Center Celebrations, leaving organizers scrambling to fill the roughly $300,000 hole in their budget.
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1 month ago | 
readlion.com | Bradley Devlin |Casey Harper |Dan McCaleb
(The Daily Signal) – “Cheap labor,” according to Vice President JD Vance, “inhibits innovation” and is “a drug that too many American firms got addicted to” over previous decades of globalization.
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1 month ago | 
readlion.com | Catrina Barker |Casey Harper |Reagan Reese |Tyler O’Neil
(The Center Square) – According to Bloomington Public Schools District 87 documents, staff were directed to participate in “Privilege Walks,” where teachers start on a line and take a step forward for each “privilege” they identify with, like being white, a male, having married parents, etc. Illinois state Rep.
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1 month ago | 
readlion.com | Nicole Silverio |Ben Johnson |Casey Harper |Brandon Poulter
(Daily Caller News Foundation) – A crowd of anti-Israel protesters forced their way into Trump Tower in New York City Thursday to demand that President Donald Trump’s administration release Mahmoud Khalil, a noncitizen who participated in the encampments at Columbia University. The protesters, who are a part of the organization “Jewish Voice for Peace,” repeatedly chanted “Free Mahmoud, free them all” while wearing red shirts that read, “Jesus Says Stop Arming Israel” on the back.
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1 month ago | 
readlion.com | Adam Wittenberg |John Ransom |Casey Harper |Emily Kopp
Federal judges are striking back against Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s attempts to shrink the federal workforce. A San Francisco judge Thursday ordered six federal agencies to restore thousands of recently hired employees, The Daily Signal reported. William Alsup, a U.S. District judge, ordered immediate reinstatement of probationary employees at the Veterans Affairs, Agriculture, Defense, Energy, Interior and Treasury departments. Most were let go in mid February, the Associated Press reported.
