Bomb or bust? That’s the question at the heart of a recent preliminary report by the Government Accountability Office on Affordable Care Act subsidy fraud. The nonpartisan watchdog’s report (1), which dropped in early December, is based in part on findings from 2024 and 2025, when the Government Accountability Office (GAO) employed “fictitious applicants” to … Read more
HE NEEDS TO KNOW More than a month after Capt. Dana Diamond died in a UPS cargo plane crash in Louisville, Ky., his widow is recalling their last moments together. Diamond worked at UPS for 37 years as a pilot and previously served as commissioner and fire chief of his local fire department in Texas. … Read more
Bill Clinton is facing renewed questions about the extent of his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein after it came to light in a tranche of unsealed documents. Dozens of photos of the former president with the late pedophile have been released by the Trump administration, including some showing him in a hot tub and swimming with … Read more
NEW YORK (AP) — Attorneys for Luigi Mangione say Attorney General Pam Bondi’s decision to seek the death penalty against him in the slaying of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was influenced by her previous work as a lobbyist at a firm that represented the insurer’s parent company. Bondi was a partner at Ballard Partners before … Read more
Weeks after a rare interstellar comet made its closest pass to the Sun, it will make its closest pass to Earth. Comet 3I/ATLAS was first discovered in July by a regular survey of the sky by the Asteroid Terrestrial Impact Alert System (ATLAS), after which the comet was named. The name “3I” means “third interstellar” … Read more
MOSCOW (AP) — President Vladimir Putin stressed Friday that Moscow’s troops are advancing on the battlefield in Ukraine and expressed confidence that the Kremlin will achieve its military goals if Kiev does not agree to Russia’s terms in peace talks. Speaking at the tightly orchestrated annual news conference, which lasted about 4 1/2 hours, Putin … Read more
TOPEKA (KSNT) – Wildlife workers in Kansas are keeping the pressure on an invasive species that has invaded one of the state’s most important rivers. Biologists with the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks continue to campaign against the presence of invasive Asian carp in the Kansas River. Over the past four years, KDWP has … Read more
The holiday season always brings out specialty coffee drinkers, whether they’re fans of Starbucks Peppermint Mocha or Caramel Brulée Latte, or perhaps Peet’s Dubai Style Chocolate Matcha or Pistachio CBOL. The wait for one of these holiday treats in coffee shops or in car lanes may take longer than normal due to higher demand this … Read more
Something happened in San Francisco on Tuesday that hasn’t happened in almost a month. It rained. On Wednesday morning, Bay Area weather stations recorded the first measurable precipitation in 27 days. It’s an impressive streak, especially considering it took place in what are typically two of the wettest months of the year It was the … Read more
As investigators work to find a motive behind the mass shooting at Brown University and the killing of a popular MIT professor, former classmates of the accused killer described him as a brilliant but exceptionally difficult student. Claudio Neves Valente, the 48-year-old suspect who police say was found dead Thursday of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, … Read more