Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer is willing to risk a government shutdown at the end of the month if Republicans don’t accept Democratic demands on health care.

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The senators are calling for a federal watchdog to investigate the Trump administration’s killing of hundreds of VA contracts. Among their concerns: ProPublica revealed DOGE used artificial…

The US health secretary’s latest report is more interested in vaccine scepticism than the brutal toll inflicted by guns and road traffic accidents, says Prof Devi Sridhar, chair of global public health at the University of Edinburgh

Ukraine president urges leaders to increase defence spending more rapidly as Nato summit braces for Donald Trump to attend * Analysis: Summit set to be triumphant for Trump but deflating for Ukraine Zelenskyy also warned that even the proposed, radically increased, Nato spending target of 5% of GDP might be too low. He told Sky News: “In my view, this is slow because we believe that starting from 2030 Putin can have significantly greater capabilities. Today, Ukraine is holding him up. He has no time to drill the army, and they are all getting annihilated and wiped out at the battlefield.” Components for their missiles – and missiles are the most painful strikes – are coming in from other countries, including the UK, not too much, but including the UK. Continue reading...