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New York City Mayor Eric Adams appeared before the House Oversight and Reform Committee on Wednesday, where he refused to answer questions by committee members.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) informed Adams that the only acceptable thing a witness can do to not answer a question is declare his Fifth Amendment rights against self incrimination.

President Donald Trump's latest move to dismantle critical government agencies is targeting the Department of Housing and Urban Development, which he plans to shrink by closing dozens of field offices and leaving most states without an office. But this could be illegal, wrote Kriston Capps for Bloomberg News.

"Federal law requires the agency to maintain at least one field office in every state in order to process applications for mortgage insurance," wrote Capps. "It’s one of HUD’s most important functions: Each year a division known as the Federal Housing Administration underwrites mortgage insurance for hundreds of thousands of buyers, generating billions of dollars annually for the Treasury."

Brown Forman, the maker of Jack Daniel's liquor, warned investors after some Canadian officials reacted to U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs by pulling American booze from the shelves.

CEO Lawson Whiting gave the warning in a post-earnings call Wednesday, according to The Globe And Mail.

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is advocating the use of cod liver oil as a measles remedy, but a physician revealed on Wednesday that a person infected with measles would have to take an extremely large dose for it to be effective.

Speaking to MSNBC on Wednesday, Dr. Akshay Syal, M.D. said that this goes back to Kennedy's recommendation of using cod liver oil to treat the highly infectious measles virus leaves out key context.

Tech billionaire Elon Musk is in an unprecedented position to divert funding to rebuild the nation's aging air traffic control systems into his own pocket, columnist Thomas Black warned in a Bloomberg Opinion analysis published on Wednesday.

Musk, who has been given massive authority over government contracts and personnel through President Donald Trump's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) task force, has already faced furious accusations of conflicts of interest, most recently in a mysterious $400 million State Department contract for "armored Teslas" that was swiftly paused after it gained public attention.

Rep. Melanie Stansbury (D-NM) used profanity to criticize her Republican colleagues because she said President Donald Trump's policies "are not making this country safer again."

During a Wednesday hearing on sanctuary cities before the House Oversight Committee, Stansbury argued that the proceeding was "about intimidating state and local officials, attacking law-abiding immigrant families, and spending millions of dollars of taxpayer dollars, both in the administration and in Congress, to make ads that are complete smoke and mirrors trying to say that Donald Trump has somehow secured America's safety."

Donald Trump's speech to both Houses of Congress on Tuesday night may have wowed his MAGA supporters and Republican attendees, but not all conservatives are quite on board.

According to longtime National Review columnist Jim Geraghty, the president may have got ahead of himself in boasting about the first few months with the economy not only struggling but facing a possible recession with a faltering stock market.

A former Republican strategist catalogued the "obscenity" he witnessed in Donald Trump's congressional address, but he saw at least one "glimmer of hope."

Steve Schmidt, who worked on GOP campaigns for George W. Bush, Arnold Schwarzenegger and John McCain, lamented on his Substack page the "decay" he saw in his former party as it fully surrendered to the president,

Fox News correspondent Peter Doocy asked White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt why Republicans were so upset by President Volodymyr Zelensky's choice of Oval Office attire when Elon Musk "never wears a suit" in the White House.

Doocy posed the question during Wednesday's White House press briefing.

Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) found herself in a shouting match with Rep. James Comer (R-KY) after the powerful House Oversight Committee chairman refused to let her enter documents into the official record.

During a House Oversight Committee hearing on Wednesday, Pressley asked for "unanimous consent" to enter a document about sexual violence into the record.

Donald Trump's decision to cut off funding to conservation work could put some endangered species at risk from poachers, according to environmentalists.

The president froze international conservation grants dispensed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), and the Center for Biological Diversity threatened to sue if the funding wasn't restored to protect at-risk species, including elephants, rhinos, freshwater turtles and monarch butterflies, reported The Guardian.