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Meghan Markle’s estranged father has plenty of blistering words to say about her Netflix series.Thomas Markle has accused the Duchess of Sussex of being inauthentic in "With Love, Meghan." He even went as far as to say that the 43-year-old used "pre-planned" facial expressions to appear relatable."Unfortunately, Meghan has never been authentic," the former Hollywood lighting director told the U.K.’s Daily Mail. "She has to think about everything. She’s not spontaneous. Everything she says is pre-planned and rehearsed. It makes me laugh because I know all her looks and expressions."MEGHAN MARKLE’S HALF-BROTHER SLAMS DUCHESS AFTER ‘POOR’ CHILDHOOD CLAIMS ON NETFLIX

Democrats are accusing Republicans of trying to gut federal health care programs with their plan to avert a partial government shutdown.The bill, a rough extension of current federal funding levels called a continuing resolution (CR), is expected to get a House-wide vote on Tuesday. It will need to pass the Senate and be signed by President Donald Trump by the end of Friday, March 14 to avoid federal programs getting shuttered and tens of thousands of employees furloughed.Trump has called on all Republican lawmakers to support the bill.Democrats, however, have unleashed a staunch opposition campaign against the legislation. It is

Two suspects are facing trial Monday after being charged in a thwarted plot to kill a U.S.-based critic of the Iranian government on behalf of the Islamic Republic. Rafat Amirov of Iran and Polad Omarov of the Czech Republic and Slovenia are set to appear in federal court in New York City after pleading not guilty in the alleged murder-for-hire plot targeting journalist Masih Alinejad, according to Reuters. Prosecutors said both suspects were members of the Russian mob and were hired by Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps,"Finally, I will face the men hired by the Islamic Republic to kill me, right here

EXCLUSIVE: The Trump administration is rolling out a new app to replace the controversial CBP One app with the new replacement designed to facilitate the self-deportation of illegal immigrants.The Department of Homeland Security is announcing the CBP Home app -- which will launch with a self-deportation reporting feature for those in the country illegally. It replaces the CBP One app, which was expanded by the Biden administration to allow migrants to schedule appointments at ports of entry to be paroled into the U.S. Hundreds of thousands were paroled into the U.S. as a result. The Trump administration has ended the ability

President Donald Trump is expected to have another busy week back in the Oval Office, including rallying Republican Congressional support to pass a continuing resolution ahead of Friday's government shutdown deadline.Lawmakers on Capitol Hill are in the midst of hammering out a stopgap spending bill that would fund the federal government through Sept. 30 or face a shutdown at the end of the week. "I am working with the GREAT House Republicans on a Continuing Resolution to fund the Government until September to give us some needed time to work on our Agenda," Trump said in a post on Truth Social

Congress will vote this week on a continuing resolution to fund the government. The government runs out of money on Friday. Continuing resolutions are not the ideal way to fund the government. This continuing resolution, however, will allow President Donald Trump to continue carrying out his popular agenda. Ending wasteful Washington spending is a key part of the Trump agenda. Three in four Americans support a "full-scale effort to find and eliminate fraud and waste in government."To Americans, auditing federal spending and eliminating waste is common sense. To Democrats, it is a crisis. As the deadline for government funding nears, Democrats in

In 10 years, the United States is on course to add $20 trillion to the national debt, setting the total sum owed by American taxpayers at over $56 trillion. Every year we spend in the red, interest on the debt continues to accumulate, until by 2051, when interest alone will be the largest line item in the federal budget. Put simply, we are on a collision course with a total financial crisis, and Congress may only have a handful of chances left to turn back. To prevent a total collapse of the U.S. dollar and give the American people the

Health and Human Services Department (HHS) employees have been offered up to $25,000 to part ways with the agency in order to help it downsize under President Donald Trump's plans to shrink the federal workforce.In the email sent on Friday, the HHS, which is led by Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., said it has received authorization from the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to offer Voluntary Separation Incentive Payments.The OPM "allows agencies that are downsizing or restructuring to offer employees lump-sum payments up to $25,000 as an incentive to voluntarily separate," according to the email. This incentive is aimed at