"President Trump has granted pardons that have wiped out over $1 billion in debts owed by wealthy Americans who have committed fraud and broken the law," said Oyer, who said she was fired because she ...

President Donald Trump and adviser Elon Musk celebrated their efforts to slash federal spending before Musk stepped away from his White House work. Musk wore a black DOGE hat over ...

Millions would lose Medicaid coverage. Millions would be left without health insurance. Signing up for health plans on the Affordable Care Act marketplaces would be harder and more expensive.

As the public sought answers in the June 1 Molotov cocktail attack against people gathering in support of hostages from Israel and other countries held by Hamas, viral claims on social media spread ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services reported in 2024 that Medicaid’s improper payment rate over the previous three years was less than 5.1%. A health policy analyst who worked for the White ...

Viral images of tubs with flavor names of "Free Palestine" and "From the River to Sea" were made using ChatGPT, a generative artificial intelligence chatbot. Ben & Jerry’s co-founders Ben Cohen and ...

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But the income tax decrease in the 2025-26 budget, adopted on April 29, isn’t the largest in 70 years. The income tax rate applied to the excess of a certain threshold, known as a marginal rate, has ...

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Two autopsies ruled Floyd’s death a homicide, but a false narrative quickly emerged: that Floyd died of a drug overdose. Five years later, despite ample evidence demonstrating police misconduct killed ...

Soon after the U.S. Justice Department charged Rep. LaMonica McIver, D-N.J., with assaulting federal agents, the congresswoman went on CNN to talk about the case. But she did not sing during her ...

"We are not cutting SNAP," Johnson said in a May 25 episode of CBS News’ "Face the Nation." "We're working in the elements of fraud, waste and abuse. SNAP for example, listen to the statistics, in ...