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The former SNP leader’s solicitor says her response was “standard” and she later provided written answers to detectives’ questions.

Charles Cioffi, the actor best known for his work in the classics “Shaft” and “Kulte,” has died. His wife, Anne, tells TMZ … the iconic actor, who got his start on the New York stage, died May 22 at his Marina del Rey home surrounded by family.…

A university in Indiana will pay a former employee $225,000 to settle a lawsuit after she was fired over a social media post criticizing conservative commentator Charlie Kirk after he was killed last year. Ball State University agreed to pay Suzanne Swierc, the university’s former director of health promotion and advocacy, after she filed a…

Germany’s Tamara Korpatsch says it would be “embarrassing” if she cheated against China’s Wang Xinyu following their heated exchange at the French Open.

CBS has reportedly declined to renew a contract with Sharyn Alfonsi, a “60 Minutes” journalist whose segment about an El Salvadoran prison was abruptly nixed.

President Trump referred to Tuesday’s Senate primary runoff in Texas, which saw the Trump-backed state Attorney General Ken Paxton sail to victory over his opponent, as a “prelude to the midterms.” The president made the comment during a Cabinet meeting at the White House while referencing Iran’s efforts to “outwait him” on peace negotiations, as…

Mike Vrabel and Dianna Russini seem to be moving forward with their respective partners … ’cause the New England Patriots coach raved about his wife, Jen Vrabel, in a press conference with reporters on Wednesday. The Super Bowl winner was asked…

Live births in England and Wales are at their lowest since 1977, while the age of first-time mothers has also risen.

JD Vance’s vaunted task force, focused on uncovering fraudulent federal spending, is off to a rough start, and this week’s meeting added to the project’s troubles. Nearly two dozen state attorneys general skipped the latest gathering because they were invited on Friday — and given a deadline to RSVP by Saturday.

It probably wasn’t a coincidence that all of these state attorneys general are Democrats. Indeed, the result was an all-Republican meeting, which likely suited the White House just fine, given that Vance’s endeavor has been brazen in its partisan intentions.

Nevertheless, the meeting on Tuesday proceeded as planned, and White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller took the opportunity to share a claim that warranted a closer look.

Stephen Miller: “Based on what I’ve heard, we could balance the federal budget if the only dollars that went out of the treasury went to individuals who were properly, lawfully, correctly eligible to receive them”

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2026-05-26T18:32:08.726Z

“Based on what I’ve heard, we could balance the federal budget if the only dollars that went out of the treasury went to individuals who were properly, lawfully, correctly eligible to receive them,” Miller said.

Roughly a day later, at a White House Cabinet meeting, his boss made the same point.

Trump claims preposterously that if Vance does a good enough job rooting out fraud, “we’ll have a balanced budget without having to do anything. This is the kind of money they stole. I hope Todd is gonna do a real job.”

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2026-05-27T16:08:37.519Z

If Vance’s task force roots out enough fraud, Donald Trump declared, “we’ll have a balanced budget without having to do anything.”

Notwithstanding what Miller has “heard” from unnamed sources, this entire argument is ludicrous. The budget deficit in 2025 was $1.8 trillion, and every independent estimate suggests that fraud, while a problem worth taking seriously, is nowhere near that total.

When the White House doesn’t even understand the nature of the problem it’s trying to address, success is unlikely.

But there’s another element to this that bears repeating. The New York Times’ David French wrote online, in response to Miller’s claim, “This is wildly false, and it breeds a dangerous level of ignorance and wishful thinking in the American public. We’d have to make some hard choices (including making some very tough trade-offs) to come close to balancing the budget. Saying anything else is irresponsible.”

Nearly a month ago, the U.S. national debt exceeded 100% of the nation’s gross domestic product, crossing what The Wall Street Journal described as “a once-unthinkable threshold.” The news, dealing with an issue Republicans used to pretend to care about, went largely ignored in GOP circles.

Now, however, the Trump White House, which is responsible for adding more than $9 trillion (and counting) to the debt, expects the public to believe it can balance the budget by doing nothing more than addressing fraudulent payments that don’t appear to exist.

If the president and his team want to present a credible plan to address the nation’s fiscal challenges, complete with inevitable hard choices, that’d be great. But pretending that a single hapless task force can magically make the problem go away is emblematic of the White House’s inability to think seriously about governing.

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Canada announced Wednesday that it would pick Swedish surveillance planes over U.S.-made options as Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government looks to downsize dependence on U.S. defense firms.  Canada has entered into talks to buy Saab’s GlobalEye early warning jets, which are based on Canadian-made Bombardier Global 6500 aircraft. The deal is projected to support 3,000…