Minnesota remains front line in Vance’s ‘war on fraud’; Walz given 60 days ‘to clean up the systems’

Vice President JD Vance announced Wednesday that the Trump administration is temporarily halting Medicaid funding to the state of Minnesota, giving Democratic Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz 60 days to clean up how the state doles out funding.  “We have decided to temporarily halt certain amounts of Medicaid funding that are going to the state of … Read more

Lawyers for US cancer sufferers challenge Bayer’s $7.25bn Roundup settlement deal

Proposed settlement would pay users of glyphosate-based weedkiller who have non-Hodgkin lymphoma $10,000 to $165,000 A group of 14 law firms representing nearly 20,000 plaintiffs is seeking to intervene in Bayer’s proposed class action settlement of Roundup litigation, citing concerns that the deal will not be fair to cancer sufferers. The group filed both a … Read more

Former top Harris adviser ignites backlash over ‘political props’ comment targeting USA men’s hockey team

Symone Sanders, who formerly served as a top adviser to then-Vice President Kamala Harris and the 2020 Biden campaign, complained during President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address Tuesday night that the Olympic Gold-winning U.S. men’s hockey team “allowed themselves to be used as political props.” “They should not be used as political props … Read more