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Obamacare Premiums Are About to Jump 14%, and Everyone Blames Someone Else
Obamacare Premiums Are About to Jump 14%, and Everyone Blames Someone Else Affordable Care Act insurers are proposing a median premium increase of 14% for 2027 in preliminary rate filings released this week, which would be the second-highest jump since 2018 if approved. Insurers say roughly 4 percentage points of the proposed increase stems directly…
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McConnell Goes Missing, and the Senate’s Spending Talks Collapse With Him
McConnell Goes Missing, and the Senate’s Spending Talks Collapse With Him Senate Appropriations Committee Chair Susan Collins canceled a scheduled Thursday markup of four fiscal year 2027 spending bills after concluding Republicans lacked the votes to advance them out of committee. The GOP holds only a narrow majority on the panel, and Sen. Mitch McConnell’s…
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Planned Parenthood Drops $47 Million to Make Republicans Pay for Defunding It
Planned Parenthood Drops $47 Million to Make Republicans Pay for Defunding It Planned Parenthood Votes, the political arm of the nation’s largest abortion provider, announced Thursday it will spend $47 million in the 2026 midterms, the group’s second-largest election investment ever behind the $50 million it spent in 2022. The money will fund advertising, voter…
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ICE Kills a Man Who Wasn’t Even the Target, and No One Can Agree Who Investigates
ICE Kills a Man Who Wasn’t Even the Target, and No One Can Agree Who Investigates An ICE agent conducting a targeted enforcement operation in east Houston fatally shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, 52, on Tuesday morning near Canal Street and Wayside Drive. The Department of Homeland Security said Salgado Araujo rammed an ICE vehicle and…
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Trump Declares the Iran Ceasefire Dead, and Congress Has No Vote on What Comes Next
Trump Declares the Iran Ceasefire Dead, and Congress Has No Vote on What Comes Next President Trump declared the fragile ceasefire with Iran “over” on Wednesday, and U.S. Central Command carried out a second consecutive night of strikes, hitting roughly 90 Iranian military targets including air defenses, drone and missile storage sites, naval assets and…
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Andy Burnham Set to Become UK Prime Minister — Without a Single National Vote
Andy Burnham Set to Become UK Prime Minister — Without a Single National Vote Andy Burnham, the mayor of Greater Manchester, secured the backing of 322 of Labour’s 403 members of Parliament by the end of the first day of the party’s leadership contest, making it all but certain he will become Labour leader and…
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Congo’s Ebola Fighters Walk Off the Job as Unpaid Strike Halts a Deadly Outbreak Response
Congo’s Ebola Fighters Walk Off the Job as Unpaid Strike Halts a Deadly Outbreak Response Doctors, nurses and community health workers responding to the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Ebola outbreak went on strike this week in the northeastern towns of Bunia and Rwampara, citing months of unpaid wages and inadequate protective equipment. In a letter…
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Ceasefire Shattered: US and Iran Trade Fire for a Second Day as Congress Fumes
Ceasefire Shattered: US and Iran Trade Fire for a Second Day as Congress Fumes The U.S. military struck roughly 90 Iranian targets on Wednesday, July 8, marking a second consecutive day of attacks after hitting more than 80 sites the day before — bringing the two-day total to nearly 170 targets. U.S. Central Command said…
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Banijay and All3Media Just Merged Into an $8 Billion TV Giant — And the Whole Industry Now Answers to It
Banijay and All3Media Just Merged Into an $8 Billion TV Giant — And the Whole Industry Now Answers to It Banijay Entertainment and All3Media completed their previously announced merger on July 9, 2026, forming a combined production and distribution company valued at roughly $8 billion and headquartered in London. The new entity is jointly owned…
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Meta’s New AI Tool Lets Strangers Put Your Face in Their Prompts — Hollywood Says Opting Out Isn’t Enough
Meta’s New AI Tool Lets Strangers Put Your Face in Their Prompts — Hollywood Says Opting Out Isn’t Enough Meta this week rolled out Muse Image, an AI image-generation tool built into the Meta AI app, Instagram and WhatsApp that lets any user generate AI images using another person’s likeness simply by tagging that person’s…