Because healthcare fraud is not new, the Justice Department has had a dedicated healthcare fraud unit for nearly two decades. But the COVID-19 pandemic and the healthcare lies that enveloped it have created new vulnerabilities in Medicare and Medicaid. Vice President JD Vance has made healthcare a central focus of the Trump administration’s anti-fraud agenda. […]
Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) became the latest casualty of President Trump’s revenge tour on Tuesday after Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) easily trounced the incumbent in the Senate GOP runoff. Paxton is projected to garner about 64 percent support with over 95 percent of the vote reported early Wednesday, according to Decision Desk HQ The state's attorney...
President Trump has threatened to send National Guard troops into more American cities after deploying soldiers in Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles this year. He’s highlighted Baltimore and Chicago as cities in particular need of help fighting crime, though Monday he appeared to back off his threat to unilaterally deploy the National Guard into cities...
ling that kept fraud case intact, wiped pen President Trump has appealed a New York court’s ruling that kept the sprawling civil fraud case against him intact, despite tossing out the roughly $500 million penalty imposed upon him and his business empire. His lawyers on Tuesday filed a notice of appeal with New York’s...
Former national security adviser John Bolton said Tuesday he will not be intimidated by the withdrawal of his security detail, which was revoked by President Trump in January. The measure followed an Iranian plot on his life uncovered by federal officials. "I feel ... concerned about that, more than anything else,” Bolton said of losing...
The Federal Reserve said Tuesday it will abide by the court's decision in the upcoming lawsuit from Fed board of governors member Lisa Cook challenging her firing by President Trump. “Lisa Cook has indicated through her personal attorney that she will promptly challenge this action in court and seek a judicial decision that would confirm...
A majority of Americans said in a new survey that tariffs and inflation are erasing their hard work. WalletHub’s poll, released Tuesday, found that 55 percent of U.S. adult respondents said they think inflation and tariffs are negating their work. President Trump’s “reciprocal” tariffs on dozens of U.S. trading partners went into effect earlier this...
A former Department of Homeland Security (DHS) official who served in the first Trump administration recalled private conversations in which President Trump admired the ability of foreign dictators to “exert total control” over their constituents. Miles Taylor, the former DHS deputy chief of staff who criticized Trump in his first term, said in a Tuesday...
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Tuesday he's on track to identify "interventions" that are "certainly causing autism" and possible ways of addressing them by September. In April, Kennedy vowed to find the cause of growing rates of autism, calling it an "epidemic" that "dwarfs the COVID epidemic." President Trump asked...
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) on Monday called President Trump a “fraudulent would-be king,” as the Trump administration is looking to expand its federal takeover of local police departments outside of the nation's capital. “I think that everybody is standing up for their state, like Governor Moore is standing up for the free state of Maryland,”...
Attorneys for former special counsel Jack Smith, who brought criminal charges against President Trump, denounced a watchdog investigation into Smith’s work as “imaginary and unfounded” in a letter to the Office of Special Counsel. The letter, obtained by The Associated Press on Tuesday, marked Smith’s first response to news that the government watchdog was investigating...
Weekend Edition of “NewsNation Prime,” Anchored by Natasha Zouves, Extended to 11 p.m. ET CHICAGO, IL (August 26, 2025) – NewsNation, America’s fastest-growing cable news network in total day viewership, today announced that it will launch a new weekend show hosted by author and journalist Batya Ungar-Sargon on Saturday, September 20. The one-hour program, “Batya,” will air Saturdays at 4 p.m. ET and...
The dismantling of USAID offers an opportunity to create a new framework for international assistance and humanitarian relief, focusing on private enterprise, strategic goals and resilience to future shocks.
