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Vance announces suspension of $1.3 billion in Medicaid payments to California

By Rebecca Shabad Vice President JD Vance announced Wednesday that the Trump administration is withholding $1.3 billion in Medicaid payments to California and is threatening to suspend federal funding to all states if they don’t aggressively prosecute fraud in their Medicaid programs. As part of his role as the fraud czar, Vance said that the administration is targeting California because the state isn’t taking fraud seriously. “There are California taxpayers and American taxpayers who are being defrauded because California isn’t taking its program seriously, but also you have people who have been prescribed medications that they don’t even need. They’ve had drugs put into their

Inflation expected to jump to a 3-year high as Iran war continues to fuel rising prices

By Steve Kopack The Consumer Price Index is widely expected to show inflation has risen to a nearly three-year high when April’s data is released Tuesday morning. The Iran war’s wide-ranging economic fallout has caused prices to spike, and economists and analysts project that inflation will hit 3.8%, up 0.6% from March to April, according to a survey from Dow Jones. April’s inflation reading follows an even sharper 0.9% jump from February to March. Last month’s increase was the largest month-to-month jump since 2022. As inflation continues to accelerate, it’s eating into Americans’ wages at a rapid clip. The pace of wage

Supreme Court lets Alabama speed adoption of congressional map eliminating a majority-Black district

By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday removed an obstacle to Alabama’s using a new congressional map in this year’s election that would eliminate one of the state’s two majority-Black districts. The court, over the objection of its liberal members, sent litigation over the Republican-drawn map back to the lower court, which could speed up the state’s effort to use its map. The state has been battling civil rights plaintiffs over its congressional map for years, with a focus on whether a second majority-Black district was required to comply with the 1965 Voting Rights Act. The latest flurry of court filings came in

Energy secretary says Trump administration is open to suspending gas tax amid soaring prices

By Megan Lebowitz Energy Secretary Chris Wright told NBC News’ “Meet the Press” on Sunday that the Trump administration is “open to all ideas” to lower the cost of gas, including suspending the federal gas tax. Gas prices have been soaring, hitting a national average of $4.52 per gallon on Sunday, according to data from motor club AAA — an increase of more than 50% since the start of the Iran war. Asked by moderator Kristen Welker whether he would support suspending the federal gas tax, Wright said that “all measures that can be taken to lower the price at the pump and

Trump calls Iran’s response to U.S. peace proposal ‘totally unacceptable’

By Freddie Clayton, Dan De Luce, Peter Nicholas and Alexandra Marquez President Donald Trump rejected Iran’s response to a U.S. proposal to bring an end to the war in the Middle East, calling the message “totally unacceptable” on Truth Social. “I have just read the response from Iran’s so-called ‘Representatives,’” Trump posted Sunday afternoon. “I don’t like it.” Trump did not offer details about Iran’s response, which Iranian state media reported was sent through Pakistani mediators. Talks between Tehran and Washington have stalled in recent weeks. The two sides continued to trade fire in the Persian Gulf on Saturday, more than a month after a temporary ceasefire deal that was initially intended

Gold And Silver Circle Inductees And Scholarship Recipients Announced For the 47th Annual Sports and News & Documentary EMMY® Awards 

New York (May 5, 2026) – The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) has announced the Gold & Silver Circle Honor Society inductees and NATAS Foundation scholarship recipients who will be celebrated at the  47th Annual Sports Emmy® Awards and the 47th Annual News & Documentary Emmy® Awards taking place May 26-28 in New York City. NATAS has again partnered with Coca-Cola to reward three winning student entries with the Coca-Cola HBCU Sports Production Grant at the 47th Annual Sports Emmy® Awards.  The NATAS Foundation, in partnership with Coca-Cola, is proud to announce the three winning entries for

Supreme Court sharply limits use of race in redistricting in a win for Republicans

By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court further weakened the Voting Rights Act on Wednesday, ruling that a congressional map in Louisiana was a racial gerrymander even though it was drawn to comply with the landmark law aimed at protecting minority voters. The justices, split 6-3 with the court’s conservatives in the majority, told states they can almost never consider race when they draw maps to comply with Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, which was enacted to protect minority voters who long faced discrimination in elections. Conservative Justice Samuel Alito, writing for the majority, said that while there may be extreme

Republicans propose $1 billion in taxpayer dollars to secure Trump ballroom

By Peter Nicholas, Frank Thorp V and Gary Grumbach WASHINGTON — For months, President Donald Trump portrayed the big new ballroom that he’s building on White House grounds as a gift to the nation, courtesy of patriotic private donors. “And by the way, no government funds,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office last November. “These are all private individuals that put up a lot of money to build the ballroom,” he added. “Not one penny is being used from the federal government.” But the gleaming 90,000-square-foot space that he repeatedly said would cost the public nothing may ultimately leave taxpayers on the hook

Trump pauses ‘Project Freedom’ in Strait of Hormuz, citing progress on an Iran deal

By Yuliya Talmazan and Rebecca Shabad The ceasefire in the Middle East was in peril Tuesday after the U.S. and Iran traded fire and threats over President Donald Trump’s new mission to force open the Strait of Hormuz. But Trump announced Tuesday evening that the effort to force the strait open, called “Project Freedom,” was being put on hold. “Based on the request of Pakistan and other Countries, the tremendous Military Success that we have had during the Campaign against the Country of Iran and, additionally, the fact that Great Progress has been made toward a Complete and Final Agreement with Representatives of Iran, we have

Justices Jackson and Alito spar over Supreme Court decision to expedite Louisiana redistricting ruling

By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday, in granting an unusual request made by Louisiana Republicans, allowed last week’s major voting rights ruling to go into effect immediately. The decision, which prompted an angry written exchange between liberal Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson and conservative Justice Samuel Alito, means the state doesn’t have to wait the usual 32 days before a Supreme Court ruling is certified and sent back to a lower court. Louisiana has sought to suspend its ongoing primary election so it can redraw congressional districts to take advantage of the ruling, which effectively greenlit states’ removing majority-Black districts that were drawn to

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