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President Donald Trump's administration is expanding its crackdown on state Medicaid programs to New York, launching a fraud probe in the state a week after it said it was freezing nearly $260 million in Medicaid funding in Minnesota over similar accusations. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz announced Tuesday that the Trump administration identified concerning trends in New York’s Medicaid program and demanded that state officials provide details about their handling of fraud, waste and abuse within 30 days or risk deferred payments.

Trump administration widens its anti-fraud efforts with a Medicaid probe in New York

WNBA executive committee meets, Stewart says players still unified amid CBA talks

Navigating conversations with children about war, conflict and other traumatic events

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US submarine sank an Iranian warship in international waters marking a first since WWII

US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said Wednesday that a US submarine sank an Iranian warship in international waters after Sri Lanka’s Navy said it rescued more than two dozen people from an Iranian vessel that was sunk off its shoreline.“An American submarine sunk an Iranian warship that thought it was safe in international waters,” Hegseth said during a press conference at the Pentagon. “Instead, it was sunk by a torpedo.”The Pentagon released video of the attack showing a ship that experiences a massive explosion by its stern as well as what appeared to be still frames showing

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Hegseth confirms sinking of Iranian warship

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Putin hosts Hungary's foreign minister for energy supply talks as war in Mideast causes disruptions

�ter Szijjártó for talks in Moscow, with oil and gas supplies high on the agenda, as Hungary has maintained its reliance on Russian fossil fuels, despite the war in Ukraine. Szijjártó said earlier on Wednesday that he was in Moscow seeking guarantees from Russian authorities that Hungary would continue to have access to Russian oil and gas amid disruptions caused by the war in the Middle East and interruptions to Russian oil flows through the Druzhba pipeline. The Hungarian government has recently accused Kyiv of deliberately holding back Russian oil deliveries

Gov. Pritzker tries to downplay concerns about locking in Bears stadium in Illinois over Indiana

Trump advisers work to mitigate a political nightmare on Iran as president fuels messaging chaos

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Aaron Spencer wins primary race for sheriff as he awaits his murder trial in Arkansas

Aaron Spencer won the Republican primary for county sheriff in central Arkansas as he awaits his murder trial in a case that’s drawn national attention and shaped much of his campaign message.Spencer got 53.5% of the vote, while longtime incumbent John Staley received 26.5% in the Lonoke County race, according to the Arkansas Secretary of State. Staley conceded in a Facebook message posted early Wednesday morning. A third Republican candidate, David Bufford, received almost 20% of the vote.In this politically conservative county where Donald Trump won almost 76% of the vote in 2024, Spencer�

Gayle King renews deal with CBS News, ending speculation about her exit

As CBS News plots an overhaul of its morning show, Gayle King has renewed her contract to remain at the network, a spokesperson confirmed Wednesday.“I’m excited about continuing at ‘CBS Mornings.’ As always, I’m open to new adventures here and ready to go,” King said in a statement.The contract renewal keeps one of the network’s best-known stars in place at a time of tremendous upheaval at CBS and in the television industry writ large.CBS News, a unit of Paramount, has new leadership; editor-in-chief Bari Weiss has been brainstorming how to reinvigorate the third-place morning sh

Reps. Al Green and Christian Menefee to advance to runoff for Texas 18th, CNN projects

Hegseth says US 'can't stop everything' that Iran fires even as he asserts air dominance

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US Rep. Tony Gonzales and activist Brandon Herrera will head to a runoff for Texas’ 23rd District

US Rep. Tony Gonzales and conservative activist Brandon Herrera will advance to a runoff in the Republican primary for Texas’ 23rd District, prolonging a contentious campaign in which Gonzales denied allegations that he had an affair with a former staffer who died by suicide.It’s a rematch from two years ago, when Gonzales beat Herrera in a runoff by just 354 votes out of nearly 30,000. But this time, the campaign was upended by the allegations Gonzales had an affair with Regina Ann Santos-Aviles, the former staffer, who died in September. A county medical examiner ruled that she d

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Texan James Talarico becomes a fresh face of Democrats' midterm hopes after Senate primary win

James Talarico did not mention Donald Trump when he greeted exuberant supporters at his primary night celebration. But the newly minted Democratic U.S. Senate nominee in Texas is now a front man for the political opposition to the Republican president, not just in his own state but around the country. With his victory over U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett, the state lawmaker from Austin will test whether a smiling message of unity and change is enough to answer voters’ frustrations amid discord at home and now a war abroad. “We are not just trying to win an election,

Why Zohran Mamdani denounced the US-Israeli strikes on Iran

John Cornyn and Ken Paxton will advance to a runoff in Texas’ US Senate Republican primary

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Apple announces its cheapest-ever new MacBook

Apple on Wednesday launched the MacBook Neo, the company’s cheapest-ever new model.The MacBook Neo is the first Apple laptop to run on a chip typically used in the iPhone and starts at $599. It signals a fresh attempt to court Windows and Chromebook customers and ramp up growth as an ongoing component shortages rattles the broader market.John Ternus, Apple’s senior vice president of hardware engineering, described the MacBook Neo as being “totally new” and built “from the ground up” during an event in New York on Wednesday.The iPhone is Apple’s biggest moneymaker, followed by its

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What Colin Gray’s murder conviction means for gun-owning parents

The conviction of Colin Gray on murder and manslaughter charges is not the first time a parent has been found responsible for a mass shooting committed by their child.Nor is it likely to be the last.Legal experts told CNN that Gray’s conviction on Tuesday in Georgia sharpens a message made clear two years ago in the trials of Jennifer and James Crumbley in Michigan: Parents can be convicted of serious crimes if they allow their mentally unstable child access to a firearm that is then used to kill. And that serious crime can now include murder.“The Crumbley case was the first case where par

US stocks rise, Asian markets get rocked as Middle East conflict intensifies

‘No Winston Churchill’: Trump opens new rift with Europe as leaders try to avoid being sucked into Iran war

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Congress once fought to limit a president’s war powers − more than 50 years later, its successors are less willing to assert their authority

Article 1 of the U.S. Constitution gives Congress the power to declare war, not the president. But most modern presidents and their legal counsel have asserted that Article 2 of the Constitution allows the president to use the military in certain situations without prior congressional approval – and have acted on that, sending troops into conflicts from Panama to Libya, with no regard for Congress’ will. Congress has for the most part registered only feeble and ineffective opposition to such executive action. The current move in Congress to deny President Donald Trump the ability to conti

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Newsom ramps up his criticism of Israel, accuses Netanyahu of leading Trump into war with Iran

In the latest mark of how much the conversation among Democratic leaders around Israel is shifting, California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Tuesday night blamed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for pushing the US into war with Iran and said the United States must reconsider future military aid to its longtime ally.The governor cited those whom he has said are “talking about it appropriately as sort of an apartheid state.”Newsom, in a live appearance on “Pod Save America” to promote his new memoir, said of Netanyahu and Iran, “In so many ways, that influence in the context of the conversatio