Author: Reuters
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U.S. freezes Medicare enrollments for new home health care and hospice providers
The Trump administration will block new home health care and hospice providers from enrolling in Medicare for at least the next six months, according to a government statement posted on Wednesday, citing concerns about widespread fraud. The moratorium will temporarily bar new providers in those categories from signing up for reimbursement from Medicare, the government…
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Musk wanted $80 billion to colonize Mars, OpenAI president testifies at trial
OAKLAND, Calif. – The president of OpenAI testified on Tuesday that Elon Musk supported transforming the artificial intelligence startup into a for-profit company, but wanted full control in part to help him raise $80 billion to colonize Mars. Under questioning from an OpenAI lawyer, Greg Brockman said that in 2017 Musk wanted OpenAI to change…
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Justice Department can use military lawyer to prosecute civilian, judge rules
Reuters The Trump administration’s assignment of military lawyers to help the Department of Justice prosecute civilians for offenses unrelated to the military cannot be prevented by a court as it does not violate federal law, a Minnesota judge ruled on Friday. U.S. Magistrate Judge Shannon Elkins in Minneapolis reached that conclusion in a closely watched…
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Suspect in White House press dinner shooting wrote anti-Christian manifesto
Reuters WASHINGTON • President Donald Trump said on Sunday that the suspect accused of trying to attack administration officials at Saturday night’s White House Correspondents’ Association dinner had an anti-Christian manifesto and “a lot of hatred in his heart” but was stopped well short of the hotel ballroom hosting the event. Trump told Fox News…
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U.S. consumer sentiment slumps to record low in April; inflation expectations rise
WASHINGTON – U.S. consumer sentiment fell to a record low in April as households shrugged off a ceasefire in the war with Iran, remaining focused on the inflation fallout from the conflict. The University of Michigan’s Surveys of Consumers said its Consumer Sentiment Index dropped to a final reading of 49.8 this month, an all-time…
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Starlink outage hits drone tests, exposing Pentagon’s growing reliance on SpaceX
Last August, U.S. Navy officials carrying out a test of unmanned vessels realized they had hit a single point of failure: Starlink. A global outage across Elon Musk’s satellite network affecting millions of Starlink users had left two dozen unmanned surface vessels bobbing off the California coast, disrupting communications and halting operations for almost an…
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Trump says he’s optimistic war in Iran will end soon
WASHINGTON – The Trump administration expressed optimism on Wednesday about reaching a deal to end the war with Iran, while also warning of increasing economic pressure against Tehran if it remains defiant. President Donald Trump has said he believes the war he launched with Israel in late February is nearly over, even as a shipping blockade…
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Trump threatens to fire Powell if he doesn’t quit Fed board; ongoing probe clouds Warsh confirmation
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump on Wednesday threatened to fire Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell from his separate seat on the U.S. central bank’s Board of Governors if Powell does not vacate that post as well when his term as Fed chief ends on May 15, intensifying a complicated standoff that has upended the Fed’s…
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Israeli fire kills 11 in Gaza, including two children, medics say
Reuters Israeli fire killed at least 11 Palestinians, including two children, in separate incidents across the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, local health officials said, in the latest violence to undermine a U.S.-brokered ceasefire agreement. Four people, including a three-year-old boy, Yahya Al-Malahi, were killed in a strike that had targeted a police vehicle in Gaza City, the Hamas-run Interior Ministry said. A police officer was among the…
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U.S. set to launch tariff refund system next week
President Donald Trump’s administration plans to launch next Monday the system it will use for issuing refunds to American importers for $166 billion the companies paid in tariffs that the U.S. Supreme Court struck down in February as unlawful. U.S. Customs and Border Protection said in a court filing on Tuesday that it has completed…