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California will lose millions of dollars in federal matching funds for the state’s Medicaid program, Medi-Cal, after Governor Gavin Newsom’s administration failed to fill out the necessary paperwork by a March 31 deadline. CalMatters.org reported: California voters told lawmakers last fall that they wanted doctors to get paid more to see low-income patients. But officials for the Newsom administration blew past a federal deadline to make that happen through Medi-Cal Monday, effectively leaving millions of dollars unclaimed. The unclaimed money is tied to Proposition 35, a ballot measure passed by 68% of voters in November. The measure committed money from...

An already hectic holiday travel day was made more chaotic with two separate plane collisions on the tarmac at Boston Logan International Airport just hours apart on Monday. In the first crash, an American Airlines jet that was taxiing to its gate clipped the wing of a parked Frontier Airlines plane, local ABC affiliate station WCVB reported. “That was terrible. It was very scary. All of a sudden, ‘thump.’ It sounded like something fell from below,” Evelyn Pipione, a Frontier passenger ... Video obtained by Storyful shows the battered wing of the smaller Frontier plane underneath the wing of the...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — The shooting at former President Donald Trump’s rally Saturday left Americans around the nation shocked. But he’s not the only president to face this kind of violence. Throughout U.S. history, there have been countless plots and attempts to assassinate U.S. presidents, including President Gerald R. Ford, who grew up in Grand Rapids. Ford survived not one, but two assassination attempts. “Ford mentioned that he didn’t want to be captive in the White House, he wanted to continue to move about the country, connect with the American people,” said Dr. Mirelle Luecke, supervisory curator. And that’s...

Regardless of whether or not the U.S Senate votes to acquit President Donald Trump on two articles of impeachment, as they are expected to do, former prosecutor Andrew McCarthy said that the "jury" will still be out. .

The vehicles were introduced as part of the Baltic state's presidency of the EU Two shuttles costing around £90,000 (€100,000) each are being testedThey are capable of maximum speeds of around 30 to 40 mph (50 to 60 kmph)They will not exceed 12 mph (20 kmph) during the current testing phase They have had a number of close calls, including ignoring a speeding police car's emergency lights Driverless buses in Estonia have had a number of close calls, including ignoring a speeding police car's emergency lights. The vehicles were introduced in the capital Tallinn in recent weeks as part of the Baltic state's...

Tech giant Apple has not paid the $13.9 billion owed to Ireland, according to the European Union. Speaking to CNBC, EU Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager said, “Well the recovery is not done yet but we have been working with the Irish authorizes and we can see that they are moving forward to do the recovery of the unpaid taxes.” Vestager explained some of the issues faced when trying to recoup the taxes, saying, “It’s a tricky thing to do because it’s a large sum so of course you have to figure out how to do that. It’s not as an...

Fifty years of DARPA: Hits, misses and ones to watch 18:00 15 May 2008 NewScientist.com news service Duncan Graham-Rowe The internet: Precisely who 'invented' the mass of linked computer networks that is today's internet is a moot point. But it wouldn't have happened without the ARPANET network built by DARPA in the 1960s. The idea was to make a "self-healing" communications network that still worked when parts of it were destroyed. It was the first network to transmit data in discrete chunks, not constant streams, and led to the development of the TCP/IP specification still in use today. GPS: We...

WASHINGTON - Republican presidential candidate John McCain skipped a difficult Senate vote Wednesday on whether to make 20 million seniors and 250,000 disabled veterans eligible for rebate checks as part of a proposed economic stimulus package. The Arizona senator's decision to miss the vote appeared to come at the last minute, after his plane had landed at Dulles International Airport outside Washington just before the proceedings opened on the Senate floor. Asked Wednesday morning to comment on the pending vote, McCain talked about the need to pass a stimulus measure quickly. Later, on his plane, he said he was not...

That's the overall assessment of Legislative Analyst Elizabeth Hill, who certainly doesn't sugar coat her office's assessment of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's 2006-07 state budget in a report out this morning. You can read the entire report here. Hill is releasing her broad overview of the budget today at the monthly luncheon of the Sacramento Press Club. The report is pretty lengthy... so for now, the bottom line: * Hill projects that state revenues will be even better this year and next than the governor's estimates. In fact, the report states that if Schwarzenegger's budget were adopted as proposed, the state...

LOS ANGELES - Actor Tom Sizemore missed a probation violation hearing Tuesday after checking into a live-in drug rehabilitation program. If the court finds Sizemore violated probation, he could be sent to prison for up to three years. The actor was ordered into drug treatment after pleading guilty in October to possession of methamphetamine. Sizemore, who played baseball player Pete Rose in last year's ESPN movie "Hustle" and had roles in films including "Natural Born Killers" and "Saving Private Ryan," has denied violating the terms of his probation. Prosecutors allege Sizemore tried to falsify a urine test for drugs and...

Senator misses votes in Capitol Dole's office serves more constituents By LYNN BONNER, Staff Writer Published: Oct 2, 2004 Modified: Oct 2, 2004 7:45 AM Since he became John Kerry's running mate July 6, Sen. John Edwards hasn't been to the Senate much -- and he hasn't voted at all. Edwards, North Carolina's senior senator and the Democratic nominee for vice president, cast his last vote June 24, against the confirmation of a federal appeals court judge from Wisconsin. He has missed more than three dozen votes since then while campaigning. He was not in Washington last month to vote...

The legal dogs of war were loosed this week on San Jose's new City Hall, the Taj Gonzales, snarling over how and when city officials lied on costs or got too chummy with Cisco. It began Monday when the McManis, Faulkner & Morgan law firm revived a lawsuit brought by the late Al Ruffo to control the Taj's costs. It continued Tuesday when the city council, led by the mayor himself, requested a criminal probe by District Attorney George Kennedy. We should rejoice, right? The lawyers will bring us closer to knowing the building's real costs and the city's questionable...

SACRAMENTO (AP) - California ended the fiscal year without a budget approved by the Legislature for the ninth time in 11 years and didn't even have a handshake budget deal between legislative leaders and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. Schwarzenegger's staff closed the office about 9 p.m. Wednesday night - three hours before the new fiscal year began - even though the governor had been optimistic of a breakthrough on the few issues that still separate the parties, including local government financing, health and welfare spending and money for state universities. "He said a lot of obstacles were cleared away today," said...

SACRAMENTO - Although he has criticized past budgets that did little to cut the state's spending imbalance, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's own proposal for next year relies too much on loans, accounting gimmicks and one-time solutions, according to a nonpartisan analysis released Monday. By withdrawing a number of big spending cuts he proposed in January, the governor has missed an opportunity to attack the state's spending problem and instead would once again push the tough choices into the future, said Legislative Analyst Elizabeth Hill. "The bottom line is that we've lost a number of ongoing solutions from the January plan, plus...

France misses deficit deadline Raffarin is struggling to come to grips with the deficit France is on a collision course with the European Union over its refusal to comply with budget rules governing the 12 nation eurozone. The country had until midnight on Friday to tell its EU partners how it intended to curb its ballooning deficit if it wants to avoid the threat of hefty fines. But as the deadline passed, France showed little sign of complying with the EU's demands. The European Commission (EC) is not likely to take action immediately - but it will be under pressure...

<p>After trouble with his plane, he misses out on winning the endorsement of the Mexican American Political Association.</p> <p>Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante had a choice Sunday: Arrive late at a Mexican-American political convention or attend a fund-raiser. He went for the money.</p>

The Philippine Star 07/12/2003 ZAMBOANGA CITY — A soldier was reportedly killed and a still undetermined number was wounded when a bomb fired by OV-10 bomber planes on Abu Sayyaf positions on an islet off this city last Thursday afternoon, missed its target and struck a military blocking force. An officer of the Armed Forces’ Southern Command, however, said a number of Abu Sayyaf members were hit in the initial airstrike on Kabugan Island at about 2:50 p.m. Kabugan is one of the islets of Eleven Islands, some 60 kilometers off this city’s Curuan district, where Abu Sayyaf members have...

Score one for the Krugman Truth Squad! After we nailed him for the multiple egregious economic errors (i.e., lies) in his New York Times column last Tuesday, Paul Krugman has been forced to respond. He's squirming — but good! Don't worry — I didn't lose my 100-to-1 bet that the Times would never correct Krugman's errors (i.e., lies). Krugman did it himself on his personal website — the site Truth Squad senior member Andrew Sullivan calls the place "where he admits to errors in order to avoid fessing up to them in the Times itself." Check it out. You'll see...