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Senate Majority Leader John Thune is scrambling to quell the Medicaid-fueled mutiny that’s threatening to derail the megabill on both sides of the Capitol. In the Senate, “Medicaid moderates” are rejecting Finance’s opening offer of $15 billion for a stabilization fund for rural hospitals to help offset paring back the provider tax in expansion states from 6 percent to 3.5 percent. Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) called it “inadequate” and warned that even if leadership goes up to the $100 billion she’s seeking, “that doesn’t solve” her issues with the bill. Thune closed the door to $100 billion soon after. Multiple…

CHICAGO — Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker is running for a third term in 2026 — even as questions swirl about whether he will make a bid for president two years later. “Illinois is standing at the center of the fight — the fight to make life more affordable, the fight to protect our freedoms, the fight for common sense,” Pritzker said in a video announcing his reelection bid. The two-term Democratic governor is scheduled to address supporters at a rally on Chicago’s South Side on Thursday morning before visiting Rockford, Peoria and Springfield. Illinois does not have term limits for…

Garry Kasparov introduced a local activist to an American financier to source weapons for arming rebels, the outlet reports Garry Kasparov, a former world chess champion and Russian opposition figure, has been implicated in an alleged coup plot in South Sudan, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday. The grandmaster is said to have introduced a local activist to a US financier who unknowingly funded a plan to procure weapons.The alleged plot emerged from the US prosecution of Peter Ajak, a Harvard fellow and exiled South Sudanese activist, as well as his associate, Abraham Keech. The two are facing federal charges of conspiring…

By Wayne Allyn Root I was born and raised a Jewish New Yorker. I graduated from New York’s Columbia University. I spent my 20’s in Manhattan. I loved New York. But now the unthinkable has happened. A politician with a combination that I’d never thought possible is in position to run America’s biggest city. Here’s the unthinkable combination… A radical communist AND radical Muslim, pro Hamas, Jew-hater has won the Democrat primary for Mayor of New York. Zohan Mamdani. There is still hope. He hasn’t won yet. He still needs to win the general election. There are two decent candidates…

Coldplay’s “Sparks” debuts at No. 40 on the Official Singles chart, becoming a top 40 hit in the … More U.K. thanks to viral success on TikTok and streaming growth. MILAN, ITALY – JUNE 25: (EDITORIAL USE ONLY) Chris Martin of Coldplay performs at Stadio San Siro, on June 25, 2023 in Milan, Italy. (Photo by Sergione Infuso/Corbis via Getty Images for ABA)Corbis via Getty Images For several weeks now, Coldplay’s song “Sparks” has enjoyed incredible virality. The years-old tune began picking up steam on TikTok not long ago, and in just a few tracking periods, the song has not…

The office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a much-awaited report Wednesday on the results of the U.S. airstrike on Iran’s Fordow nuclear facility on Sunday, saying it made the site “inoperable.” President Donald Trump had said earlier Wednesday at the NATO summit in Brussels that Israeli intelligence would shortly produce a report on the results of the U.S. airstrikes. The Prime Minister’s Office then issued a brief statement summarizing Israel’s findings on behalf of the Israel Atomic Energy Commission (IAEC): The devastating US strike on Fordow destroyed the site’s critical infrastructure and rendered the enrichment facility inoperable. We…

New orders for durable goods rose sharply in May, propelled by a surge in aircraft contracts and a broader rebound in business investment. Orders for long-lasting manufactured goods increased 16.4 percent from the prior month to a seasonally adjusted $343.6 billion, the Commerce Department said Wednesday. Economists surveyed by The Wall Street Journal had expected a 7 percent increase. Much of the gain came from a 230.8 percent jump in orders for nondefense aircraft, a volatile category that often drives large monthly swings. Still, orders excluding the transportation sector rose 0.5 percent, exceeding expectations for a 0.1 percent decline, a…

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem observed a deportation flight of illegal aliens in Panama who sought to make it to the United States-Mexico border to cross illegally. Noem traveled to Panama City, Panama, on Tuesday to tout the Trump administration’s extension of an agreement between the U.S. and the Central American country that seeks to deport illegal aliens from Panama before they are ever able to make it to the U.S. Some of the illegal aliens deported on the flight had been convicted of sex crimes, robbery, and drug trafficking. “Under this understanding, 2,044 migrants without legal…

Senate Republicans are facing major new issues with their domestic policy megabill after the chamber’s parliamentarian advised senators that several provisions they are counting on to reap hundreds of billions of dollars in budget savings won’t be able to pass along party lines. Those include major pieces of Medicaid policy, including a politically explosive plan to hold down Medicaid costs by cracking down on a state provider tax — a provision that is expected to have a nine-figure impact on the bill. Republicans now will have to try to rewrite major sections of their Finance bill or potentially leave out…

The billionaire reportedly met the president at least twice in June with the aim of securing more government contracts for his space company, Blue Origin US billionaire Jeff Bezos is seeking to secure more government contracts for his space company, Blue Origin, in an effort to capitalize on the feud between US President Donald Trump and Elon Musk, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the matter.Bezos reportedly met the US president at least twice in June, while the space technology company’s CEO, Dave Limp, visited the White House to hold talks with Trump’s chief of…