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Health insurance companies report profits of billions annually while raising premiums on beneficiaries and routinely rejecting patient and medical provider claims. By ignoring the public perception, these companies are inviting increased scrutiny by Congress. Becker’s Payer Issues reported on February 12, 2025, that the big seven health care companies made a combined $34.1 billion in 2024. These companies include UnitedHealth Group, which led the way with $14.4 billion in profits. These companies were the beneficiaries of additional government support for premiums because of the Obama Administration and COVID pandemic policies which kept premiums artificially low. These policies are expiring, yet...

DramaAlert @DramaAlert IDIOT Antifa activist mistake ICE CUBE's tour bus with an ICE deportation bus, vandalizing it. (video at link)

New rule closes dangerous loopholes, holds states accountable, and launches immediate enforcement action against California for gross negligence

GORDO, Ala. — A photo in a Facebook post deemed racially insensitive that sparked an outrage in the community and resulted in the cancelation of the 101st edition of one of Alabama high school football's greatest rivalries originated not from a Gordo High School dress-up day, as the principal indicated in a statement, but rather came from the website of a faith-based camp more than 1,000 miles away, The Tuscaloosa News has learned. Gordo was scheduled to host Pickens County, its rival located 8 miles down the same country highway in rural West Alabama, on Friday, Sept. 26. The game...

Hundreds of Starbucks baristas across the country have been left without jobs, following the coffeehouse’s recently announced decision to close 1% of its stores — roughly 400, in total — in North America this month. The move to shutter these locations, according to Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol, is part of a larger $1 billion restructuring plan. The coffee chain will also be laying off 900 corporate employees as a result. “Each year, we open and close coffeehouses for a variety of reasons, from financial performance to lease expirations. This is a more significant action that we understand will impact partners...

Three women opposed to President Trump's intense immigration raids in Los Angeles were indicted Friday on charges of illegally "doxing" a U.S. Customs and Immigration agent, authorities said. Ashleigh Brown, Cynthia Raygoza and Sandra Carmona Samane face charges of disclosing the personal information of a federal agent and conspiracy... According to the indictment, the three women followed an ICE agent from the federal building on 300 North Los Angeles Street in downtown L.A. to the agent's residence in Baldwin Park. They live-streamed the entire event, according to the indictment. Once they arrived at the agent's home, prosecutors allege the women...

Slovakia passed an amendment to its constitution that recognizes only two genders, along with other measures, through its parliament on Friday.Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center in Oxon Hill, Md., on Feb. 21, 2025. Jose Luis Magana/AP PhotoThe amendment, drafted by Prime Minister Robert Fico’s government, required a three-fifths majority to pass, and moved through the National Council with 90 of the 150 members backing it.It states that Slovakia only recognizes two genders, male and female, and that Bratislava retains its sovereignty in matters of “national identity,” especially in “fundamental cultural-ethical questions.”It also...

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Assata Shakur, a fugitive Black militant who was given political asylum in Cuba after her 1979 escape from a U.S. prison where she had been serving a life sentence for killing a police officer, has died, her daughter and the Cuban government said.

As Democrats threaten government shut-down over Medicaid cuts; as Americans are bracing for another increase in their healthcare costs; and as patients wait an average maximum of 132 days to see a primary care doctor, Americans can’t seem to wake up from the nightmare called U.S. healthcare. The rise in insurance premium costs is estimated at 7–10 percent next year. This is on top of already unaffordable family spending with the average American family expending $32,066 on healthcare in 2024 according to Milliman Medical Index. Faced with increasing pressure on their bottom lines, employers are passing these additional expenses on...

It is sadly humorous to me, but not surprising, that Elizabeth Guevara, writing for Investopedia, can only seem to offer one solution for young people considering college, now that there is a cap on available federal student loans. From a new article via Yahoo Finance: New Student Loan Limits May Force More Borrowers to Take Out Private LoansThe ‘One Big, Beautiful Bill’ will restrict the amount of federal student loans available to college students next year. Students may have to take out riskier private loans to cover the rest of their schooling. The average medical graduate student will not be...

September 1, 2025, was the day that forever changed the lives of 16-year-old Jennifer Petersen and her family. Petersen was driving her truck into town in Bonners Ferry, ID, when Jose Gonzalez Luna hit her broadside. Jennifer's injuries were so severe that she was flown to Seattle, WA. She's undergone multiple surgeries, including one on September 22, according to a GoFundMe set up by a family friend. ... his was not the first time Gonzalez Luna was arrested for DUI. He pled guilty to felony DUI in 2009 and 2011 and pled guilty to misdemeanor DUI in 2004 and 2006....

Gary Cohen sparks backlash after questioning Cubs rookie Matt Shaw for missing a game to attend Charlie Kirk’s funeral.Gary Cohen stepped into controversy Tuesday night, taking aim at Cubs rookie Matt Shaw’s decision to miss Sunday’s matchup against the Reds in order to attend the funeral of his close friend, Charlie Kirk. The Mets broadcaster raised eyebrows by suggesting Shaw’s absence was ill-timed and hard to justify in the middle of a playoff race, per Heavy. Cohen’s comments came during the fourth inning of the Mets-Cubs broadcast, right as Shaw was at the plate. “Shaw had Cubs World in a...

Oracle founder Larry Ellison keeps piling up wins. After briefly overtaking Tesla's Elon Musk as the world's richest person this month, the 81-year-old tech billionaire secured a spot among the U.S.-backed buyer group poised to take over TikTok. This announcement comes on the heels of the Ellison's son, David, overseeing a successful August merger between his Skydance Media production company and Paramount Global, which also owns CBS, and which the elder Ellison has a financial stake. The younger Ellison is also said to be working on a bid for Warner Bros. Discovery, the parent company of CNN and HBO. Antitrust...

Hey DeSantis, I hope you're watching this. I sure am glad the state attorney general is, because State Attorney Monique Worrell appears to be out of control. Yes, this lady's office dropped charges against a man who possessed infant and child pornography ... And then refused to prosecute a man who was pleasuring himself in the park in front of kids because she claims that act isn't illegal. [Warning: Language] All things that are wrong are not illegal. And I'm not standing here telling you today that what happened in that park was wrong. He was touching himself by the...

Tensions are boiling inside the Department of Justice regarding President Donald Trump's appointment of an inexperienced prosecutor to handle explosive cases against his political enemies – including James Comey and Letitia James. Interim U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan for the Eastern District of Virginia forged ahead with convening a grand jury against former FBI Director James Comey, despite having little to no support from Attorney General Pam Bondi's team. Other reports suggest that the DOJ didn't want to go after Comey yet because they were more focused on landing charges for disgraced former Trump National Security Advisor John Bolton, whose home...

In 1899, Winston Churchill wrote the following:Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities. Thousands become the brave and loyal soldiers of the Queen: all know how to die: but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilisation of modern...

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Post See new posts Conversation Nick Sortor @nicksortor 🚨 BREAKING: Masked rioters are blocking and ATTACKING ICE agents’ vehicles at the Broadview ICE facility outside outside Chicago It’s time to send in the National Guard ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! VIDEO AT LINK......................

- I visited a public high school in Upton, Wyoming, that's changing the conversation around college. - The school has a personalized learning structure, preparing students for one of three futures. - I was surprised at the level of individualization for every student's career and education path.