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The Trump administration is ending a key health insurance subsidy program that aimed to keep premiums for seniors' prescription drug plans in check, claiming that it benefits corporate insurance companies, according to Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Mehmet Oz. Medicare Part D -- the government health insurance program's prescription drug benefit -- is used by tens of millions of older or disabled beneficiaries. The program's subsidies are set to expire at the end of the year, the administration announced Tuesday.

SAN DIEGO (KSWB/KUSI) — A dramatic cliff-jumping rescue in the Sunset Cliffs area of San Diego is gaining attention across social media after a 17-year-old was seriously injured while attempting a jump into the ocean. But less than a day later, Nexstar’s KSWB/KUSI found more teenagers making similar dangerous jumps despite seeing the viral video. The video shows the teen jumping from the cliffs before appearing to strike the rock face on the way down and crashing into the water. Witnesses rushed into the ocean to help keep him afloat after he was unable to move on his own. San...

President Donald Trump’s most ardent supporters are outraged after Dr. Anthony Fauci invoked the Fifth Amendment before a Senate hearing on Wednesday. Fauci declined to answer questions from senators in a GOP-led committee hearing about his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. Fauci first led the pandemic response during Trump’s administration and later under former President Joe Biden. He has been the target of MAGA’s ire for months, with Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) leading the charge against him. Paul was prepared to grill Fauci over his response to the COVID-19 pandemic, including asking questions about the origin of the virus and...

Why are so many Democrat officials caught up in deliberate crimes? Dylan Adams was famously caught on camera keying Teslas across the Twin Cities in early 2025. He damaged six of them to the tune of over $21,000. He admitted to investigators that his crime spree was motivated by his hatred for Elon Musk. Yet “Scary” Mary Moriarty, Hennepin County Attorney, declined to file criminal charges against Adams, who is, wait for it, a fiscal policy analyst with the Minnesota Department of Human Services under Gov. “Tampon” Timmy Walz. Adams ended up serving a one-day suspension. Probably got some shopping...

President Donald Trump raged to Fox News’s Trey Yingst about Tuesday night’s surprise attack by Iran on U.S. troops in Jordan, telling him “we are going to beat the ------- ---- out of them.” Yingst, Fox’s chief foreign correspondent, reported on Trump’s comments while joining Fox & Friends on Wednesday morning and noted that Trump added, “We’ll be hitting them hard.” “Yeah, guys, good morning. President Trump reacting to that Iranian attack on U.S. forces overnight in Jordan. President Trump tells Fox News about Iran: ‘We are going to beat the ------- ---- out of them.’ He went on to...

A new analysis reveals that the artificial intelligence company’s most powerful models spent days probing the open internet before breaching AI developer platform Hugging Face. ====================================================================== The powerful artificial intelligence models from OpenAI that went rogue and mounted an unprecedented, autonomous cyberattack earlier this month spent more than four days loose on the internet orchestrating the hack, according to a new analysis from the platform that was breached. Separately, a second AI company confirmed that one of its customers was also targeted by OpenAI’s models during the same event, raising questions about how OpenAI failed to detect the alarming activity...

Shahnawaz Ranch follows halal, a type of ritual slaughter observed by Muslims. PERRIS, CA — A halal ranch in Perris is facing a federal investigation into allegations of inhumane animal slaughter and selling uninspected meat, following a complaint filed by an animal advocacy group, The Press-Enterprise reported this week. The probe into Shahnawaz Ranch stems from a June 26 complaint filed with the U.S. Department of Agriculture by Animal Outlook. The nonprofit animal advocacy group alleges the ranch violated the Federal Meat Inspection Act and the Humane Methods of Slaughter Act. Undercover video recorded by Animal Outlook reportedly shows men...

WASHINGTON — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited the White House Tuesday for his first in-person talks with US President Donald Trump since the Iran war began in February, and later described their meeting as “excellent” and “one of the best we’ve ever had.” The White House succinctly called the talks productive and positive. The meeting took place behind closed doors in the Oval Office, with reporters not invited in and without a press conference afterwards. Netanyahu entered the White House through a side entrance that was only partially visible to reporters, and left without fanfare some 90 minutes later. Held...

Democrat James Talarico leads Republican Ken Paxton by five percentage points in a survey of likely Texas voters released Tuesday, marking a shift from earlier polling that showed the attorney general narrowly ahead or tied in the U.S. Senate contest. Discover more Legislative Branch Government Voter registration services Texas Public Opinion Research found Talarico leading Paxton, 45 percent to 40 percent, “marking the Austin state representative’s largest lead in any public poll taken during the general election period,” the Texas Tribune reported. The group surveyed 1,048 likely voters from July 15 through July 17. The poll has a margin of...

🚨 NOW: Sen. Randy Paul is immediately ripping into Dr. Fauci to his face for destroying America during COVID after PUSHING gain-of-function "Instead of an apology, you have for YEARS avoided responsibility." "The COVID lockdown could never have been inflicted without you aiding and abetting the CRIME. Children lost years of education. Small businesses built over a lifetime disappeared." "Patients delayed cancer screenings and other medical care. Families were separated from dying relatives." "Workers were ordered to accept a medical procedure or lose their jobs. Worship assembly, employment, education, and travel were restricted in the name of science. While you...

eBay has agreed to pay $55.7 million in a settlement with a Massachusetts couple that was the victim of a bizarre harassment and cyberstalking campaign orchestrated by former employees of the company. Ina and David Steiner, who run the trade publication ECommerceBytes from their home in Natick, started receiving online threats and upsetting deliveries to their home in 2019, including a bloody pig mask, live spiders and a book on surviving the death of a spouse. Pornographic magazines addressed to David Steiner were purposefully sent to their neighbors, and their home was listed on Craigslist as a nightly destination for...

A Wisconsin brewery known for anti-Trump social media posts, including one promising a free beer promotion upon the death of President Donald Trump, has had its permit to operate in the state revoked by state officials. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported Monday that liberal activist and brewery owner Kirk Bangstad is "vowing to fight ‘tooth and nail’ after receiving a letter from the state's Department of Revenue revoking Minocqua Brewing Co.'s permit to operate in Wisconsin, according to a July 26 newsletter sent to his supporters." "As you can imagine, I’m not taking this lying down," Bangstad wrote in a...

Making a travesty of voter integrity is all part of the plan. You may remember almost 20 years ago the lefty activist group ACORN was taken down in James O’Keefe’s first video sting operation. ACORN was infamous in those days for paying massive numbers of election workers to do voter drives; most of those registered being phony, nonexistent, or just ridiculous. I recall here in Kentucky they would even turn in names like Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse! ACORN was just the sloppiest of the many registration drive operations that persist to this day, funded by around $2 billion every...

A pack of coyotes have moved into an abandoned West Hollywood condo complex, forcing locals to live in fear while demanding the city steps in. The complex at Romaine Street and North Spaulding Avenue. which has been under construction and empty for years, was first taken over by homeless squatters that have now been replaced by the wild animals. “It’s kind of interesting to walk out of your apartment and look up and there’s a coyote looking at you,” Cindy Sorley told CBS LA. Shocking videos and pictures appear to show six coyotes roaming the empty building, with each one...

WASHINGTON — The Senate confirmed Jay Clayton as the new director of national intelligence Tuesday, replacing acting Director Bill Pulte following months of Democratic opposition to both men. The Senate voted 51 to 47 to confirm Clayton on Tuesday evening, just hours after Pulte announced the latest round of drastic cuts to the agency, his final act before he departed. “Having known and worked with Jay for years, I was encouraged when he was first nominated for the position of DNI,” Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) said on Tuesday. “Unfortunately, I came away from his confirmation process with serious reservations about...

Dr Anthony Fauci invokes Fifth Amendment not to testify at Senate hearing

Eye-popping diary entries written by Dr. Anthony Fauci reveal the former White House COVID advisor was fixated on his newfound celebrity at the height of the global pandemic, but anyone who relies on legacy media outlets for news and information may not be aware. ABC News, NBC News, CBS News, CNN and MS NOW's on-air broadcasts ignored Fauci’s diary entries from the time they were released on Saturday afternoon through Monday at 9 a.m. ET when flagship morning shows had concluded, according to a search of transcripts using Grabien Media. Released by Senate Homeland Security Committee Chairman Rand Paul, R-Ky.,...

Dr. Anthony Fauci declined to answer senators’ questions at a hearing Wednesday on the origins of Covid and the government’s handling of the pandemic, saying in prepared remarks that he would invoke his 5th Amendment right not to testify to avoid the possibility that Republicans could try to use his testimony to prosecute him for perjury. The surprise decision shook up the hearing, which was expected to be contentious given Fauci’s previous public clashes with Chairman Rand Paul, R-Ky.

Back on the Menu? Why a Horrible Little Insect Could Jeopardize RFK Jr’s Quest to Heal America With Red MeatTens of thousands, probably hundreds of thousands, of Americans may now have a meat allergy.Back in January, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. did something amazing, something I and many others had been hoping he would do. He turned the food pyramid on its head. Or, rather, he turned it the right way up—finally, at long last.“For decades Americans have grown sicker while healthcare costs have soared,” Kennedy told the assembled press at the White House.“The reason is clear: The hard truth is...

Flights to the United States have been cancelled from Montréal-Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport on Wednesday morning due to an “odour from construction material” in the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (USCBP) area. As a result, the USCBP has temporarily suspended its operations. “Every effort is being made to resume operations as quickly as possible,” the Aéroport de Montréal (ADM) said. “Passengers are encouraged to check the status of their flight with their airline before travelling to the airport.” A spokesperson with the ADM confirmed to CTV News that the source of the smell has been found, but did not...