Delaware lawmakers OK bill enabling board of political appointees to oversee hospital budgets The Delaware House has given final approval to a bill aimed at curtailing the increase in health care costs by establishing a board with authority to impose budgets on the state’s largest hospitals ... 05/21/2024 - 11:54 am | View Link
House gives in to Senate on disabilities funding bill, which wouldn’t mandate how $180M is spent (Perry Bennett | West Virginia Legislative Photography) A sharp disagreement between the West Virginia House and Senate nearly tabled a bill that would give $180 ... in March slashed funds for the ... 05/21/2024 - 11:54 am | View Link
California Senate passes drug pricing transparency, could slash health costs The California Senate passed a bill that could significantly reduce drug prices and potentially even health insurance for insured Californians by requiring greater drug pricing transparency from ... 05/21/2024 - 6:59 am | View Link
Whitmer signs bill requiring equal insurance coverage for mental health treatment The legislation signed Tuesday bars insurance providers from placing greater restrictions on mental health coverage than they do on medical coverage. 05/21/2024 - 5:20 am | View Link
Governor, SC Senate, and House battle over health care bill One South Carolina bill has the governor, senators, and representatives battling it out over health care. Monday, Gov. Henry McMaster spoke on bills that passed and didn't pass the regular legislative ... 05/13/2024 - 12:01 pm | View Link
Federal prosecutors on Tuesday revealed evidence they said shows fugitive Chinese mogul Guo Wengui—as well as an unnamed person who was living with him—had the “opportunity and motive to start” a fire that severely damaged Guo’s lavish penthouse apartment hours after his March 2023 arrest.
Prosecutors shared the incendiary new information about the mysterious blaze, which erupted in the iconic Sherry Netherland building just off Central Park, the day before jury selection is set to start in Guo’s trial for allegedly executing a massive fraud scheme.
The fire reportedly broke out hours after Guo’s arrest at 6 am on March 15, 2023, while FBI agents were still searching the penthouse, causing severe damage to the property.
Donald Trump’s Truth Social stock might be doing better these days, but the company is still struggling to make money. In the first three months of 2024, it pulled in just $770,000 in advertising revenue. To put that in some context, Meta, the parent company of Instagram and Facebook, earned more revenue in just three minutes, on its way to making $36.4 billion in revenue over three months.
Truth Social posted those dismal revenue numbers in a public stock filing on Monday, but as anemic as the revenue numbers are, they aren’t even an improvement from last year.
Politico: “Hogan’s first general election ad is set to air Wednesday, and it’s entirely about abortion. In it, the former governor goes direct-to-camera as he endorses codifying the abortion protections the nation had under Roe v. Wade.”
Said Hogan, in the ad: “With Roe overturned, many have asked what I’ll do in the United States Senate.
And unsealed filing in Donald Trump’s classified documents case says there were two rounds of documents discovered at Mar-a-Lago after the FBI conducted its search.
Jacob Heilbrunn: “Mr. Trump’s economic and foreign policy nationalism would subvert the preponderance of power that America has enjoyed since 1945 and that he has promised to bolster. It has been threatened from without but never from within.”
“As he vows to upend America’s relations with the rest of the globe, the danger is not that Mr.