Tuesday, August 26, 2025

EMAIL3_PM

Experts Call for Investigation into $86 Billion in Medicare Advantage ‘Ghost Benefits’

(Tom Joyce, The Center Square) As Congress debates how to rein in federal spending, some experts say aspects of Medicare Advantage should be on the chopping block, starting with $86 billion a year in taxpayer-funded supplemental benefits that often go unused or unverified. The federal government pays Medicare Advantage plans...

HHS Opens $100M Hepatitis Pilot Program Applications

(Andrew Rice, The Center Square) The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced a $100 million pilot program on Monday to address Hepatitis C in homeless populations. The Hepatitis C elimination initiative, administered by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, will primarily be used to treat individuals...

Ghislaine Maxwell Willing to Testify to Congress—If She’s Given Immunity

(Headline USA) Ghislaine Maxwell, the accomplice of sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, is open to answering questions from Congress — but only if she is granted immunity from future prosecution for her testimony, her lawyers said Tuesday. A spokeswoman for the committee that wants to interview her responded with a terse statement...

Rep. MTG Becomes First Republican in Congress To Label Israel’s Actions in Gaza a Genocide

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) on Monday described the situation in Gaza as a “genocide,” making her the first Republican member of Congress to use the term to describe the Israeli assault on the Palestinian territory. Greene made the comments in response to the news that the pro-Israel...

Trump Says He Ended Friendship w/ Epstein bc He ‘Stole People that Worked For Me’

(Headline USA) President Donald Trump said Monday that he ended his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein and threw the now-disgraced financier out of his private club in Florida after Epstein betrayed him more than once by hiring people who had worked for him. Trump did not say what his employees did or...

Congress Eyes Short-Term Govt Funding Stopgap as Appropriations Bills Stall

(Thérèse Boudreaux, The Center Square) With U.S. House members out for their August recess, senators are scrambling to advance at least some of the 12 annual appropriations bills to fund federal agencies in fiscal year 2026. Although Republicans originally planned to craft and pass the government funding bills soon after...

DOJ Mulls Hate Crime Charges in Wake of Heinous Black-on-White Assault in Cincinnati

(José Niño, Headline USA) Police are racing to identify several Black individuals caught on video brutally attacking a White man and woman on the street during the Cincinnati Music Festival. This incident took place at the intersection of West Fourth Street and Elm Street around 3:00 AM on Sunday during...

Secret Service Agent Who Made Flawed Butler Security Plan Disciplined for Leaking to Media

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Secret Service agent Myosoty Perez, one of the planners of the July 13, 2024, Trump rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, received the harshest discipline out of everyone involved in that deadly event. She received a 42-day suspension for, among other reasons, failing to properly secure the...

Israeli Forces Kill 100 Palestinians in Gaza Over 24 Hours

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) Gaza’s Health Ministry said on Wednesday that Israeli forces killed 100 Palestinians and wounded 534 over the previous 24-hour period as US-backed Israeli strikes and the killing of aid seekers continue. The Health Ministry said that another 13 bodies were recovered from the rubble. “A number of victims are...

Judge Rejects Trump Administration Effort to Unseal Epstein Grand Jury Records in Florida

(Headline USA) A judge on Wednesday rejected a Trump administration request to unseal transcripts from grand jury investigations of Jeffrey Epstein years ago in Florida, though a similar records request is pending in New York. U.S. District Judge Robin Rosenberg in West Palm Beach said the request to release grand...

BP Agents Continue to Arrest Iranians, Weapons Traffickers at Northern Border

(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) At the northern border, Border Patrol agents continue to arrest Iranians and weapons traffickers and are helping seize record amounts of fentanyl. While illegal border crossings are down at the northern border under the Trump administration, Border Patrol agents in the busiest northern border Swanton...

Gabbard Releases New Intel Claiming FBI, CIA ‘Knowingly Created’ Russia Hoax

(Thérèse Boudreaux, The Center Square) Federal officials have released more documents indicating a Democratic-led intelligence community politically targeted President Donald Trump by claiming that Russian President Vladimir Putin influenced the 2016 presidential election to help Trump win. U.S. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard declassified a 2020 House Intelligence Committee report Wednesday...
- Advertisement -
- Advertisement -

Most Read

- Advertisement -
- Advertisement -