Gavin Newsom has sought to transform California's massive prison system into a Nordic-style rehabilitation program. Newsom has placed a moratorium on all executions, transferred condemned prisoners to facilities across...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced the six-month temporary suspension of enrollment of providers of hospice and home health agency services on Wednesday, in another administrative move to clamp down on fraud, waste and abuse.
Acting Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Director Jay Bhattacharya said Sunday that hantavirus “is not COVID,” comments that come after an outbreak of the virus on a Dutch cruise ship. “We've been communicating the last week as the — as the sort of the, the press attention has picked up more with the public, as...
The Iranian government has submitted its response to the peace proposal from the U.S., according to the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA). The state-owned outlet reported, citing a source familiar with the matter, that negotiations between the Trump administration and Tehran are solely focused on halting hostilities in the region. The administration proposed a one-page...
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Saturday that the over four year-long war between Russia and Ukraine is “coming to an end,” according to Reuters. The outlet reported that the Russian president told reporters that he believed “that the matter is coming to an end,” and stated that he was open to discussion about fresh European...
Passengers on a cruise ship that had an outbreak of the hantavirus have begun disembarking the vessel, The Associated Press reported. The outlet reported that the first plane with passengers evacuated off the ship left the Spanish Canary Islands on Sunday. Spanish health authorities said that Spaniards were the first group of people to depart...
Former Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) said the upcoming meeting between President Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping could yield a "remarkable breakthrough" Gingrich appeared on the “Cats Roundtable” radio show hosted by John Catsimatidis on WABC 770 AM, where he said Trump's visit to Beijing is "the biggest thing in the near future." Trump requested to move...
State ObamaCare marketplaces are starting to feel tremors from the GOP-controlled Congress's ending of enhanced subsidies, as millions of Americans are dropping coverage. Experts and state officials say the impact varies from state to state, but enrollment decline is expected to grow this year and beyond, as policies from the One Big Beautiful Bill Act...
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave a rare boost last week to a bipartisan bill that key Republicans, including the chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC), have opposed over cost concerns. The legislation, named after a U.S. Army combat engineer, diagnosed with cancer due to toxic burn pit exposure, would provide about 54,000 combat-injured...
The shuttered U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has told Congress it has $19 billion in funds to cover costs associated with closing out the programs it terminated last year, according to a notification sent late last month and obtained by The Hill. The notification acknowledges that the price of closing out the agency is...
A new poll shows that a large majority of Americans say they think there is too much money in U.S. politics. Politico released a poll on Saturday showing that 72 percent of Americans say there's too much money in politics, whereas 5 percent say they disagree. A larger number of voters who backed former Vice...
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on Friday warned Democrats against forming alliances with former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), accusing the former lawmaker of being a "proven bigot." A student at an event hosted by the University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics asked Ocasio-Cortez about working across the aisle with Republican lawmakers, including Rep. Tim Burchett...
