LOADING ERROR LOADINGWASHINGTON — Republicans have a strategy for moving Medicaid cuts through Congress when many of their own members say they can’t support cuts: Don’t call them cuts. Even among the Republicans who’ve said they won’t vote for Medicaid cuts, a “work requirement” policy banning certain unemployed adults does not count as a cut. AdvertisementRepublicans included a work requirement for childless Medicaid recipients aged 19 to 55 in a piece of legislation that failed to pass in 2023. Rep. Brett Guthrie (R-Ky.), chair of the House committee overseeing Medicaid, said he believed work requirements had widespread support among Republicans. He said program spending will go up over the next 10 years even if Republicans make cuts, meaning their cuts don’t count as cuts in absolute terms.

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Beyoncé on her Cowboy Carter tour XThe Cowboy Carter tour looks, if nothing else, like proof that you should never underestimate the Queen Bey. The Cowboy Carter tour is heading to the UK in June, with six dates at London’s Tottenham Hotspur Stadium (as you may well have read, tickets are still available, too!). If you can’t hang on until then, though, here are XX moments from the Cowboy Carter tour that have already got people talking on social media. pic.twitter.com/e6O3EskEyL — Pop Base (@PopBase) April 29, 2025Beyoncé also gave the Renaissance tour’s ending a Cowboy Carter update for her rendition of 16 CarriagesBeyoncé flies on a car through the stadium while performing ‘16 CARRIAGES’ at the COWBOY CARTER Tour. 🐎#COWBOYCARTERTOUR #LA pic.twitter.com/xieE3PeEag — BEYONCÉ LEGION 𐚁 (@BeyLegion) April 29, 2025What a mission statement for the whole Cowboy Carter eraNEVER ASK PERMISSION FOR SOMETHING THAT ALREADY BELONGS TO YOU #COWBOYCARTERtour pic.twitter.com/M855eTAYZq — ً (@americanreqiuem) April 29, 2025

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I’m constantly reminded of reasons I’m grateful to be sober — and they always seem to show up in the least expected places. There was a stretch of time, before I got sober, when I desperately wanted to get pregnant — but we weren’t. “We’ve been trying,” I’d say, glass in hand, like I was toasting to my own disappointment. And the next day, I’d scroll through texts, check social media, and try to piece together what I’d said — and to whom. I am sober and responsible for my actions because I finally care about my own name enough to protect it.

I Just Got Into Harvard. My MAGA Grandparents’ 6-Word Reaction To My Acceptance Devastated Me. · huffpost.com“This was the first time in my life that I had ever truly gotten mad at my grandparents.”

And I think it would be a very hard thing to do.”The president’s comments come just days after “Trump 2028” hats and T-shirts appeared for sale on the Trump Organization’s website. Since being sworn into office for a second term in January, Trump has repeatedly declined to rule out the prospect of running again. For the first time, we're offering an ad-free experience to qualifying contributors who support our fearless journalism. Support HuffPost Already contributed? Protect Free Journalism Support HuffPost Already contributed?

Website For MAGA-Friendly Businesses Backfires As People Use It For Boycotts · huffpost.comSocial media posts about PublicSquare have gone viral as Trump critics use it to find companies not to support – the opposite of what the site was set up for.

LOADING ERROR LOADINGCNN data chief Harry Enten said on Sunday that President Donald Trump is already making history as he approaches 100 days in office. At the 100-day mark of Trump’s first term in office, his approval rating was 44%. But now, nearly 100 days into Trump’s second presidency, a new CNN poll finds his approval rating is even lower at 41%. On the economy, for example, his approval rating is 39%. “I mean, the bottom line here, it’s just very simply, the numbers for Donald Trump are awful, awful, awful,” Enten said.

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If we had done that, I think there would be more of a public outcry at these actions taken by the current administration to destroy public health research in this country. Advertisement AdvertisementAdvertisement AdvertisementPublic health research should benefit all Americans, and this requires that some research focus specifically on minority populations. Being inclusive is a good thing — it means everyone in the U.S. is regarded as important in public health research. Advertisement AdvertisementAdvertisement AdvertisementEven if you do not know it, you likely have been touched in a positive way by public health research, or someone you know likely has been. I also hope each person reading this will do something to help get public health research back on track in this country.

Bill Maher took jabs at Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s latest controversies on Friday’s episode of HBO’s “Real Time,” calling him the “worst thing to hit the Pentagon” since the Sept. 11 attack. “I’m not saying Pete makes a terrible defense secretary, but he’s the worst thing to hit the Pentagon since Flight 77,” the comedian said to a room full of laughs and “oohs.”Bill Maher took a brutal jab at Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on "Real Time." The secretary of defense reportedly shared military secrets in a personal Signal chat scandal and used an unsecured internet line to connect to the messaging app. ADVERTISEMENT“New Rule: Pete Hegseth’s parents have to take away his phone,” Maher said. Hegseth’s actions, along with his attempts at damage control, have reportedly made White House officials unhappy.

LOADING ERROR LOADINGWASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump can’t stop contradicting himself on his own tariff plans. “The deal is a deal that I choose,” Trump said in the interview. Advertisement“I’m getting along very well with Japan,” Trump told reporters on Friday. Support HuffPost Already contributed? Protect Free Journalism Support HuffPost Already contributed?

LOADING ERROR LOADINGWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trump administration appeared to have deported a 2-year-old U.S. citizen “with no meaningful process,” a federal judge said on Friday, as the child’s father sought to have her returned to the United States. He scheduled a hearing for May 19 “in the interest of dispelling our strong suspicion that the Government just deported a U.S. citizen with no meaningful process.”V.M.L. AdvertisementAccording to Mack, when V.M.L.’s father briefly spoke to Villela, he could hear her and the children crying. They said the man claiming to be V.M.L.’s father had not presented himself to ICE despite requests to do so. Protect Free Journalism Support HuffPost Already contributed?

I am old, sole caregiver to my husband of 48 years, and don’t have a lot of money to send to even the best of progressive causes. I would hit the streets, bunions be damned, but he cannot safely be left alone for hours at a time. And while I support the protestors, I don’t think that is hitting them where it hurts — yet. I try to support local business owners and to avoid big companies that have forced them out of business (looking at you, WalMart). Hitting them in their wallets should work as well on the little guys as it seems to be working on Musk.