Mehmet Oz, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services administrator, is ordering all states to step up their efforts to crack down on Medicaid fraud.

His April 21, 2026, announcement expanded on the Trump administration’s related enforcement actions, such as withholding Medicaid funds from Minnesota and threatening to do that ...Read more

When the U.S. Department of Justice moved to reclassify medical marijuana to a Schedule III drug on April 23, 2026, it set the stage for a vast amount of medical research that has been hobbled for decades by its more restrictive Schedule I classification.

The Justice Department also called for an expedited federal rescheduling process...Read more

The fragile U.S.-Iran ceasefire announced on April 7, 2026, after 40 days of war came at an opportune time for the United States. Several reports indicate it is running out of weapons amid the conflict.

As a scholar focused on U.S. military deployments, these reports are concerning and somewhat surprising.

After all, the ...Read more

From ancient epics to contemporary headlines, humans have spent centuries canonizing courage as a rare and admirable virtue. Aristotle writes, “You will never do anything in this world without courage.” But what does it really mean to be courageous, and what does it look like in a classroom or a checkout line?

On April 1, 2026, ...Read more

In a major ruling that would permit weakening the voting power of minorities in the United States, the Supreme Court on April 29, 2026, struck down a Black-majority district in Louisiana’s congressional map as “an unconstitutional gerrymander” and altered the court’s interpretation of the Voting Rights Act.

In a 6-3 decision, ...Read more

CHICAGO — Federal prosecutors made a surprise announcement in court Wednesday that they are dismissing the main conspiracy charges in the politically charged “Broadview Six” case against immigration protesters and will proceed instead with misdemeanor counts.

Assistant U.S. Attorney William Hogan revealed the move at a status hearing ...Read more

Schmeeka Simpson of Omaha works as a patient navigator for the American Civil Liberties Union and an administrative assistant at Nebraskans for Peace, plus picks up shifts at a Dunkin' shop.

Still, even with three jobs, she worries about losing her health coverage when Nebraska, on May 1, becomes the first state to require certain Medicaid ...Read more

Four days after Torrance, California, teacher Cole Tomas Allen allegedly attacked the White House correspondents' dinner in Washington, some facts are clear.

Video shows him running through a security perimeter at the hotel where the event took place. Authorities allege he wrote a "manifesto" explaining his plans to shoot members of the Trump ...Read more

Central Florida got served up a pair of sonic booms as SpaceX launched its Falcon Heavy rocket for the first time since 2024.

After scrubbing an attempt Monday because of weather, the heavy-lift rocket that is essentially three Falcon 9 boosters strapped together, shot off Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Pad 39-A at 10:13 a.m. on the ViaSat-3 ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court's conservatives on Wednesday announced a major retreat from part of the Voting Rights Act that has forced states to elect at least some Black or Latino representatives to Congress as well as state and local boards.

In a 6-3 decision, the court ruled that creating these majority-minority districts amounts to ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court invalidated Louisiana’s congressional map Wednesday ahead of the midterm elections, in a decision that reshaped legal protections for minority voters and could lead to further redistricting nationwide.

The 6-3 decision found that Louisiana should not have been forced to draw a second congressional map with a ...Read more

What was supposed to be a solidarity visit to Caribbean nations by Venezuela’s acting president, Delcy Rodriguez, has instead ignited a diplomatic row that risks widening divisions within the 15-member Caribbean Community bloc known as CARICOM.

Guyana’s president, Irfaan Ali, and the CARICOM secretariat on Tuesday issued separate statements...Read more

Four days after Torrance teacher Cole Tomas Allen allegedly attacked the White House correspondents' dinner in Washington, some facts are clear.

Video shows him running through a security perimeter at the hotel where the event took place. Authorities allege he wrote a "manifesto" explaining his plans to shoot members of the Trump Cabinet. He ...Read more

CHICAGO — While leading immigration raids in Chicago last fall and other big cities after, former Border Patrol chief Gregory Bovino picked regular fights on social media with protesters, Democratic public officials and the media.

Since retiring last month, however, Bovino has found a new target for posts on X: his former employers in the ...Read more

Oil rose on signals that a U.S. blockade on Iranian ports could go on for an extended period, prolonging an unprecedented supply shock that has roiled energy markets.

Brent rose near $117 a barrel, while West Texas Intermediate traded around $105 a barrel. U.S. President Donald Trump has told his aides to prepare for an extended blockade and ...Read more

Oil rose on signals that a U.S. blockade on Iranian ports could go on for an extended period, prolonging an unprecedented supply shock that has roiled energy markets.

Brent rose above $117 a barrel, while West Texas Intermediate traded around $105 a barrel. U.S. President Donald Trump has told his aides to prepare for an extended blockade and ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — One of the world's most popular video games, Fortnite, is offering a refund to players who bought in-game items connected to musician D4vd, who is accused of killing a 14-year-old girl.

Players of the game have called on Epic Games to remove emotes and cosmetics associated with D4vd, whose real name is David Anthony Burke. Some ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — One judge claims his colleagues have adopted a "gangster mentality" in order to shut him up.

Another compared the state board accusing him of serious misconduct to "the Russian mafia."

Judicial elections are usually sleepy affairs, subject to little political fanfare or interest. But two battles on the June ballot in Los ...Read more