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(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...

(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...

(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...

(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...

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is set to propose to his political-security cabinet a US-supported plan to begin annexing the Gaza Strip, Haaretz reported on Monday. The report said that the plan is being proposed to appease Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and prevent him from quitting the...

(Headline USA) New York City Mayor Eric Adams said Tuesday that a gunman who killed four people at a Manhattan office building was trying to target the headquarters of the National Football League but took the wrong elevator. Investigators believe Shane Tamura was trying to get to the NFL offices after...

(Headline USA) A shooting at a midtown Manhattan office building on Monday left at least five people dead, including an off-duty New York City police officer. The suspect was identified as Shane Tamura, of Nevada. Sources said he fatally shot himself. Law enforcement officials located identification on Tamura’s body, including a concealed...

(Headline USA) President Donald Trump is asking a federal court in Florida to force Rupert Murdoch to give a deposition for the president's lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal within 15 days, citing the media mogul's age and physical condition. Trump sued the Journal, owned by Murdoch, in the U.S. District...

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) President Trump said on Monday that he was giving Russia a new deadline of “10 or 12 days” to end the war in Ukraine and said he was no longer interested in speaking with Russian President Vladimir Putin. “I’m going to make a new deadline of about 10...

(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...

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) President Trump acknowledged on Monday that there was “real starvation” in the Gaza Strip, comments that came after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed there was “no starvation” despite the daily malnutrition deaths that have been caused by the US-backed Israeli siege. “That’s real starvation stuff, I see...

(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...