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Trump halts $250M in Medicaid payments to Minnesota over alleged fraud
- Feb. 25 (UPI) -- The Trump administration announced Wednesday it is pausing more than a quarter-billion dollars in Medicaid payments to Minnesota over alleged fraud, a move state officials called the latest act of political retribution against a Democratic-led state. "We are going to start very aggressively in the administration cracking down on people and the organizations that are defrauding Americans," Vice ...

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U.S. and Iran hold new talks as Trump raises pressure for nuclear deal
- The United States and Iran were meeting in Geneva on Thursday for high-stakes nuclear talks as President Donald Trump pressures Tehran with the threat of military action . The talks — a third round of indirect negotiations — come after Trump made his clearest case yet for a possible attack as he oversees a sweeping military buildup in the region. Trump declared in his State of the Union address that ...

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Hong Kong court overturns fraud conviction for pro-democracy activist Jimmy Lai
- HONG KONG — A Hong Kong appeals court overturned Jimmy Lai's 2022 fraud conviction and sentencing Thursday in a rare legal victory for the pro-democracy activist. Lai, 78, a media tycoon and longtime critic of China's ruling Communist Party, remains in prison under a 20-year sentence he received this month in a separate national security case. Though the national security case was the biggest one against Lai, ...

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Trump's Favorite Voter-ID Bill Would Probably Backfire
- Politics Trump's Favorite Voter-ID Bill Would Probably Backfire Congressional Republicans are trying to pass a strict "election integrity" law that seems almost custom-designed to disenfranchise their own supporters. Save On the surface, the debate over the SAVE America Act is familiar, even predictable. At Donald Trump's urging, Republicans are pushing yet another voter-ID bill, ostensibly to prevent fraud and ...

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Nearly blind refugee abandoned by border patrol agents found dead in Buffalo
- Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article Nurul Amin Shah Alam had been in custody for a year following an incident in which he had become disorientated and allegedly failed to comply with police commands An almost blind refugee who vanished after being left miles from home by U.S. Border Patrol has been found dead in ...

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Ukraine says Russia launched a major aerial attack before Kyiv's talks with US
- KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia launched a barrage of 420 drones and 39 missiles at Ukraine overnight, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Thursday, hours before U.S. and Ukrainian envoys held more talks in Geneva on ending the war that is now in its fifth year . The bombardment, which included 11 ballistic missiles, targeted critical infrastructure and residential areas across eight regions of Ukraine, Zelenskyy ...

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U.S. to offer passport services in illegally occupied West Bank
- Feb. 26 (UPI) -- The United States will offer passport services for the first time in Israeli settlements in the illegally occupied West Bank. The U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem announced in a statement Wednesday that in an effort to reach all Americans, consular officers "will be providing routine passport services in Efrat on Friday." The move is expected to draw criticism from foreign governments and human rights ...

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Casey Means, a MAHA leader, makes bid to be nation's top doctor
- Elizabeth Cooney is a cardiovascular disease reporter at STAT, covering heart, stroke, and metabolic conditions. You can reach Liz on Signal at LizC.22. The Make America Healthy Again movement, which has turned dissatisfaction with mainstream medicine into a disruptive political movement, was poised on Wednesday to put one of its leading figures, Casey Means, at the top of the U.S. medical system. Means, an ...

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DOJ now 'reviewing' tranche of Epstein records that mysteriously vanished
- A banner of Jeffrey Epstein and President Donald Trump hangs in Grand Park during a protest against federal migration enforcement in downtown Los Angeles, California, U.S. August 2, 2025. REUTERS/David Swanson The Department of Justice on Wednesday responded to the missing FBI reports related to a woman who claimed she was sexually assaulted when she was a minor by both late financier and child sex offender Jeffrey ...

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As electric bills rise, Trump says tech companies should pay more
- WASHINGTON — In a nod to voter frustration over rising electricity prices, President Trump on Tuesday said he was negotiating pledges from major tech companies to pay a greater share of the energy costs associated with new data centers. Silicon Valley is spending hundreds of billions of dollars to build power-hungry data centers for artificial intelligence as demand for electricity is increasing across the ...

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Bill Gates admits affairs, says Epstein association was 'huge mistake' at Gates Foundation town hall
- Bill Gates admitted to Gates Foundation staff members that he had two affairs and said it was a "huge mistake" to have spent time with late financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein . At a town hall Tuesday, Gates apologized for his connection to Epstein following the release of emails from 2013 that Epstein sent to himself, claiming that he was Gates' "right hand" and had participated in things for him that were ...

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David Ellison Sweetens Paramount's WBD Offer With a Washington Playbook
- David Ellison is taking his bid for Warner Bros. Discovery into Washington, pairing a higher cash offer with a political strategy aimed at outflanking Netflix in what could become the defining media acquisition of the decade. Paramount Skydance , the company Ellison leads after his Skydance Media acquired Paramount last year, raised its offer yesterday (Feb. 24) to $31 per share, up from $30, to buy all of WBD. ...

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Federal Judge Rejects Trump Administration Policy Deporting Immigrants To 'Third Countries'
- With the administration challenging the Court and Congress, independent reporting is the only thing standing between you and the noise. Your membership funds the courage to ask the hard questions. Don't let the truth be sidelined, join Huff Already a member? In a court decision on Wednesday , a federal judge issued a resounding rebuke of a Trump administration policy that's expanded the deportation of immigrants to ...

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Judge bars government from 'wholesale' search of Washington Post reporter's seized devices
- WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal authorities are barred from conducting an "unsupervised, wholesale search" of electronic devices that they seized from a Washington Post reporter's Virginia home while investigating allegations that a Pentagon contractor illegally leaked classified information to the journalist, a magistrate judge ruled Tuesday . U.S. Magistrate Judge William Porter said he will independently review ...

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Tony Gonzales says he won't resign over an alleged affair with staffer
- Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article Tony Gonzales allegedly asked his staffer what her 'favorite position' and asked her to send him a 'sexy pic' Texas Congressman Tony Gonzales has hit back at calls for him to resign, as more details continue to emerge about an alleged affair with a staffer who later died by ...

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