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#10 RFK Jr and Dr Oz Announce Insurers’ ‘Pledge’ to Reform Prior Authorization - Jessica Glenza for The Guardian, The Vigilant Fox, dr. Felix, John Solomon, HHS.gov
The US health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, and Dr Mehmet Oz announced a voluntary agreement with insurance companies to change prior authorization practices, where private health insurers require patients to ask for permission before they can receive medical treatment. The majority of Americans receive health insurance through a private company, whether through an employer, or a privatization of public health insurance programs, such as Medicare Advantage. Prior authorization is an insurance company practice that is both common and abhorred. There are whole social media accounts devoted to egregious examples of it, campaigns for change built around it, and, in Oz’s words, there is “violence in the streets” over prior authorization – an allusion to the broad daylight killing of an insurance company CEO...
#9 Trump Announces Israel-Iran Ceasefire - Politico, Gunther Eagleman, The White House, Batya Ungar-Sargon, Jason Whitlock/Jillian Anderson, and David J Harris Jr on X
President Donald Trump on Monday announced a ceasefire between Israel and Iran after a nearly two-week war between the two countries. Trump, in a post on Truth Social, said that the ceasefire will take effect just after midnight on the East Coast of the United States, with the war slated to end 12 hours later officially. “This is a War that could have gone on for years, and destroyed the entire Middle East, but it didn’t, and never will!” Trump wrote in the post. Neither Israel nor Iran immediately confirmed Trump’s announcement that they had agreed to a ceasefire....
#8 Israel Accuses Tehran of Violating Trump’s Ceasefire - NBC Live Blog, Israel Defense Forces, Iran Observer, Luke Rudkowski,Nick Sortor and General Mike Flynn/Disclose.tv on X
U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday said that a ceasefire was in effect, soon after Iranian state-linked media announced Tehran had fired its “last round” of missiles at Israel. “THE CEASEFIRE IS NOW IN EFFECT. PLEASE DO NOT VIOLATE IT!” Trump said in a post on Truth Social around 1:00 a.m. stateside. A spate of questions linger over the viability of a ceasefire, Iran and Israel’s participation, the potential resumption of nuclear talks between the West and Tehran, and the ultimate fate of Iran’s supplies of enriched uranium. The ceasefire announcement came after an apparent intensification of hostilities, with Iran on Monday carrying out retaliatory missile strikes at the U.S. Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar. Within hours of the declaration, Israel accused Iran of violating the ceasefire with further missile strikes, which Tehran has refuted, according to Iranian media...
#7 Trump’s Strike Against Iran Divides Congress on War Powers - Caitlin Yilek for CBS, Thomas Massie, Paul A. Szypula, Jonathan Turley, Bluesky Libs, The Older Millennial/Alexandria Ocasio/Cortez, Rand Paul, Jenna Ellis, and Glenn Greenwald/Ken Klippenstein on X
President Trump's strikes on Iranian nuclear sites over the weekend sparked bipartisan efforts to force a vote to reassert Congress's power to declare war, though House Speaker Mike Johnson says the push is now irrelevant because Mr. Trump announced Israel and Iran have agreed to a ceasefire. "It's kind of a moot point now, isn't it?" the Louisiana Republican said Monday evening. "It seems rather silly at this point, and I hope they'll acknowledge it as such and put it to bed because it has zero chance of passing anyway." Israel and Iran have not commented on Mr. Trump's ceasefire announcement...
#6 Chicago Tribune Gives NYC Stark Warning on Electing a Socialist Mayor Like Zohran Mamdani: ‘The Ending Isn’t Pretty’ - Hannah Fierick for New York Post, Austin Berg, Libs of Chicago, Lauren G/Angela Bruzzese, and Dapper Detective on X
The Chicago Tribune issued a grim warning to New Yorkers about electing a socialist mayoral candidate like Zohran Mamdani in a bombshell op-ed Monday, the day before the Empire State’s primary elections. The paper’s editorial board paints a bleak image of Mamdani, the 33-year-old Democratic socialist Queens assemblyman who leapfrogged longtime frontrunner, former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, in a stunning new poll released earlier in the day. “A familiar dilemma: a moderate, business-friendly Democrat versus a democratic socialist. New Yorkers, take it from Chicago — we’ve seen this movie before, and the ending isn’t pretty,” the board of one of the last remaining big-city daily newspapers cautioned...
#5 Supreme Court Lifts Limits on Trump Deporting Migrants to Countries Not Their Own - Andrew Chung for Reuters, Aleph, Mαχιмυs Knιgнт, Myrna X/SCOTUSblog, TuckFrump, and Pirate Queen on X
The U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way on Monday for President Donald Trump's administration to resume deporting migrants to countries other than their own without offering them a chance to show the harms they could face, handing him another victory in his aggressive pursuit of mass deportations. In an action that prompted a sharp dissent from its three liberal justices, the court granted the administration's request to lift a judicial order requiring that migrants set for deportation to so-called "third countries" get a "meaningful opportunity" to tell U.S. officials they are at risk of torture at their new destination, while a legal challenge plays out...#4 Donald Trump Gets Good News From Federal Reserve - Sonam Sheth for Newsweek, Ethan Miller, David Iacovozzi, Top Stock Alerts, Holly Galloway, Liberty Nation, and Annie van Leur on X
Global markets went into a tailspin after Trump in April rolled out sweeping global tariffs targeting almost every major U.S. trading partner. Markets recovered after the president backtracked on his initial threats, but there's lingering uncertainty over whether Trump will again shift his stance and if the U.S. will reach a lasting trade agreement with China, which was hit hardest by the tariffs. Amid the tariff turmoil, Trump publicly castigated Powell for not cutting interest rates and repeatedly suggested that he should be fired. When the central bank kept interest rates steady earlier this month, the president again lashed out at Powell, calling the Fed chairman "the worst" and "a real dummy."#3 Supreme Court Resumes Student Loan Forgiveness Case - Alison Durkee for Forbes, ourmoneynow, Kimberly Robinson, and Katie Beuhler on X
The Supreme Court said Monday that a case over a Biden-era student loan forgiveness rule will resume—after the Trump administration briefly put the litigation on hold—which could affect thousands of borrowers who want to have their loans discharged after their schools closed or defrauded them. The Supreme Court agreed Monday to resume Department of Education v. Career Colleges and Schools of Texas, a dispute over a 2022 rule that streamlines the process for borrowers to have their federal loans discharged if their schools closed or engaged in misconduct...#2 Thomas Massie Jokes He’d Like Ceasefire With Trump After Iran Rift - Sonam Sheth for Newsweek, The Babylon Bee, Philip Anderson, Austin Horn, Jeff Allen, Owen Gregorian, and Thomas Massie on X
After President Donald Trump announced on Monday that Iran and Israel had agreed to a "complete and total ceasefire," a Republican congressman who was at odds with Trump over U.S. involvement in the conflict joked that he would also like a ceasefire with the president. Republican Representative Thomas Massie of Kentucky skewered Trump after the president authorized U.S. strikes against Iranian nuclear sites without congressional approval.Trump's decision to launch the strikes came after Israel sparked a war with Iran on June 13 with a series of missile strikes that decimated Iran's military chain-of-command and nuclear infrastructure. Israel's strikes threw a wrench into Iran-U.S. diplomatic efforts toward reaching a new nuclear deal...
#1 Early-Season Heat Dome Brings Highest Temperatures in Years to Parts of Eastern U.S. - NPR/Associated Press, Greg, The Weather Channel, Rich Thomas, Bloomberg Opinion, and wbal.com on X
An intense and nearly historic weather pattern is cooking much of America under a dangerous heat dome this week, with triple-digit temperatures in places that haven't been so hot in more than a decade. The heat wave is especially threatening because it's hitting cities like Boston, New York, and Philadelphia early in the summer when people haven't gotten their bodies adapted to the broiling conditions, several meteorologists said. The dome of high pressure that's parking over the eastern United States is trapping hot air from the Southwest that already made an uncomfortable stop in the Midwest...
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