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A new set of rules from the Biden administration seeks to rein in private health insurance companies’ use of prior authorization – a byzantine practice that requires people to seek insurance company permission before obtaining medication or having a procedure. The cost-containment strategy often delays care and forces patients, or their doctors, to navigate opaque and labyrinthine appeals. The administration’s newly finalized rules will require insurance companies who work in federal programs to speed up the approval process and make decisions within 72 hours for urgent requests. The regulations will also require companies to give a specific reason as to...

Following a bombshell $83.3 million award against Donald Trump, his rape accuser E. Jean Carroll, whose case was bankrolled by his enemies, couldn’t remember basic facts of her own claim, once described rape as “sexy,” and whose “off the rails” tweets weren’t allowed to be shown to the jury – just put on an absurd display. When asked by MSNBC‘s Rachael Maddow on Monday night how she’ll spend “Trump’s money” to help “women’s rights,” Carroll did her best impression of a “Price is Right” winner – like rape victims do, telling Maddow: “First thing Rachel, you and I are gonna...

First up: aid workers as terrorists? As you just heard, members of the U.N. agency putatively responsible for Palestinian refugees have been linked to the October 7th Hamas attacks on Israel. That agency is UNRWA, the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees... EICHER: Joining us now to talk about it is Richard Goldberg. He’s a Senior Advisor for the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. He was previously a National Security Council official and has submitted testimony to the House as part of today’s hearing... Richard, good morning. RICHARD GOLDBERG: Good morning. EICHER: Let’s start with the basics. What...

The $130 billion sent to Ukraine so far for its war against Russia is apparently not actually going to Ukraine, but is really “benefiting American interests,” a spokesperson for Ukraine told Breitbart News. The shock claim was in response to a request for information by Breitbart News on whether or not any American tax dollars had gone specifically to Uman, a city in the war-torn Eastern European nation that is currently seeing a condo built on a Jewish mass grave, as previously reported, in violation of a bilateral agreement with the U.S., and in violation of international law. Breitbart reported...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States is out of money for Ukraine, unable to send the ammunition and missiles that the government in Kyiv needs to fend off Russia's invasion.With the aid caught up in domestic politics, the Biden administration on Tuesday came empty-handed for the first time as host of the monthly meeting of about 50 nations that coordinate support for Ukraine. The group was established by Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin in April 2022.

Arizona GOP Chairman Jeff DeWit allegedly attempted to offer money to Kari Lake to keep her out of the 2024 U.S. Senate race, in a recording posted on Tuesday.In an audio recording obtained by the Daily Mail, the authenticity of which was confirmed by Lake to Just the News, DeWit allegedly made the offer to Lake in March 2023. The Daily Mail confirmed with two sources that the identity of the other speaker on the recording was DeWit. A transcript by the Daily Mail of the exchange is below:Article Dig Deeper Arizona GOP Chairman Jeff DeWit allegedly attempted to offer...

@TheInsiderPaper WATCH: Trump says he will never allow creation of Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC).

America's tax debts are spiraling after the IRS put a halt to chasing payments during the pandemic. Some 18.6 million taxpayers owed the IRS $316 billion in overdue taxes at the end of 2022, up from 16.8 million owing $308 billion in September 2019. And the figures are only set to grow this year. Experts are warning that workers who have been used to getting refunds in the last few years can swing into money owed for 2024. The trend has been fueled by the end of pandemic tax relief and also a booming stock market which puts more investors...

Former President Donald Trump turned up in Manhattan federal court Wednesday for a second day in a row, as a jury is set to decide how much he must pay in damages to E. Jean Carroll, after he was found liable last year of both defaming the magazine writer in 2022, and sexually abusing her in the ’90s. *** The “Ask E. Jean” columnist is asking for more than $10 million in damages. That’s on top of $5 million that jurors last spring ordered Trump to cough up. *** Donald Trump threw his hands in the air and said he'd...

An Ohio mother was arrested Monday for running a Dee Dee Blanchard-esque grift in which she pocketed thousands of dollars after pretending her young daughter was suffering from cancer. Pamela Reed, 41, allegedly lied to her friends and family for years about the health of her 7-year-old daughter, whom she publicly masqueraded on the internet as a blind and sickly child suffering from a trove of medical anomalies, including acute myeloid leukemia and regular seizures. Reed admitted to even shaving her young child’s head in order to sell the plot, cops said. Community members generously “participated in fundraising efforts and...

Around the mid-Eighties there was an animated series based on the beloved Berenstain Bears children's books. The show ran on Saturday mornings on CBS. It was pretty good as I seem to recall. And often quite humorous.Well, the other day one of the episodes sprang to mind as I was reading the news about the latest attempt to avoid a government shutdown. It involved the Bear kiddies learning all about money. How those little green pieces of paper don't have value on their own. Instead they must be backed up by something with real tangible worth. In the bears' world...

The more people Ortega can drive out of his country, the richer and more oppressive he gets. With Joe Biden's migrant surge, migrant remittances follow, and some very baleful developments are happening abroad. The one that stands out is that of Marxist socialist Daniel Ortega, Nicaragua's little dictator, who along with a string of failed leaders before him, impoverished his country in relative obscurity, leaving it the hemisphere's second-poorest after Haiti. The country boasts a per capita income of about $2,200 per year which is lower than even Cubans are paid, and hard as heck to live on even in...

SAN JOSE (Reuters) - Nicaraguan migrants sent relatives back home record remittances this year through November, data from the country's central bank showed on Wednesday, fueled by massive waves of migration leaving the Central American nation in recent years. In a statement, the bank noted a record haul of about $4.24 billion in remittances for the 11-month period, 47% more than the amount sent home during the same period last year. The 2023 remittances tallied by Nicaragua's central bank showed that nearly 60% came from the senders in the United States and almost 20% from neighboring Costa Rica.

Suitcases with funds amounting to over NIS 5 million (about $1.3 million) were found in the home of a senior Hamas member in the Jabalya area, the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit said on Monday. Additionally, many weapons were found by soldiers from the 551st Brigade in the Hamas member’s home.

The Dow Jones industrial Average jumped to a record Wednesday as the Federal Reserve signaled it would cut rates several times next year, satisfying investors who hoped the central bank would finally start to acknowledge the slowing trend of inflation with a less-aggressive monetary stance. The 30-stock Dow added 374 points, or 1%. At its high of the day, the Dow touched 37,057.81 to surpass 37,000 for the first time and exceed its previous all-time high in January of 2022. The S&P 500 jumped 1% with bank and real estate shares leading the way, while the Nasdaq Composite climbed 1%....

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky met with defense contractors during his visit to Washington, DC, this week, amid a bid for $61 billion in U.S. taxpayer support for Ukraine, according to a video he posted on social media. Zelensky said Ukraine was prepared to produce more ammunition and military vehicles, but it required support. He posted on X: I met with leaders of US defense companies and expressed my gratitude to every American worker who manufactures weapons that help us safeguard our people and defend our land.

Want a piece of a former president? Be ready to open up your wallet. Donald Trump is once again cashing in on his legal headaches, rolling out the “MugShot Edition” of his digital trading cards — featuring a sample of the suit he wore for his booking photo in Georgia earlier this year. The latest card release includes a mishmash of flashy fictional images of Trump smashing through chains, donning what appears to be an Iron Man mask, and wearing a cowboy outfit. Each digital trading card or non-fungible token (NFT) goes for around $99. If patrons purchase 47 or...

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President Zelensky dispatched his chief of staff to Washington this week to beg for continued military aid, warning that if the United States Congress does not approve President Biden’s request for tens of billions more in taxpayer money, Ukraine is at “big risk” of losing the war. There is growing panic in Kyiv about the future of the war against Russia as continued funding from both the United States and the European Union is increasingly in doubt as war fatigue sets in as Moscow’s invasion nears its second anniversary. In a full court press, President Zelensky sent his chief of...

On Tuesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Chris Jansing Reports,” Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-MD) stated that while we should pass legislation on the border, no one has been able to do anything about it since 2013, but “Ukraine needs resources now, not tomorrow, not the next day, but right now.”