Affordable Care Act (ACA) enhanced premium tax credits are set to expire at the end of this year. The enhanced tax credits both increased the amount of financial assistance already eligible ACA Marketplace enrollees received as well as made middle-income enrollees with income above 400% of federal poverty guidelines eligible for premium tax credits. Since the introduction of the enhanced premium tax credits, enrollment in the Marketplace has more than doubled from about 11m to over 24m people, the vast majority of whom receive an enhanced premium tax credit. If enhanced tax credits expire, many Marketplace enrollees will continue to qualify for a smaller tax credit, while others will lose eligibility altogether and be hit by a "double whammy" of losing their entire tax credit and being on the hook for rising premiums. For many Americans, their premiums will double. Read more
Trump put on a disturbing show for America's generals and admirals. Read more
The US government cannot constitutionally keep people from carrying guns in and around post offices, Texas USDJ Reed O'Connor ruled Tuesday, finding that such restrictions lack a historical basis. Cited the SCOTUS 2022 ruling in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, which set a new standard for Second Amendment cases whereby gun restrictions have to be "consistent with this nation's historical tradition" in order to be constitutional. Judge O'Connor found that although mail carriers and post offices have faced threats since its founding, the government only banned firearm possession on postal property a little over 50 years ago. Read more
he man known for the Peanut Punch has punched out for the last time at the FBI. Former Bears cornerback Charles "Peanut" Tillman recently told The Pivot Podcast that he has resigned from the Bureau. He had joined the FBI in 2018. What did he disagree with? "Immigration," Tillman said. "I didn't agree with how the administration came in and tried to make individuals do things against their " it just didn't sit right. An example being immigration, right? Everybody was told it's " you're gonna go after like the most dangerous criminals. But what you see on TV and what actually was happening is, like, people weren't going after that, you know, and personally, that didn't sit right with me. That didn't sit right with my conscience." "I want to be on the right side of history when it's all said and done," Tillman said.
Sen Ted Cruz (R-TX) almost certainly did not mean it when he said Democrats and Republicans should come together to "stop attacking pedophiles" " with the congressman making the unfortunate remark during a Senate hearing on Tuesday morning. "Sen. Booker also said we should have bipartisan agreement. I think that's a great idea " we should have bipartisan agreement," Cruz said. "How about we all come together and say Let's stop murders.' How about we all come together and say Let's stop rape.' How about we all come together and say Let's stop attacking pedophiles."
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission voted on Tuesday to consider whether to lift the long-standing prohibition on a merger between any of the largest four broadcast networks and to consider relaxing other media ownership rules.
The new H-1B visa fee to sponsor workers in the US will create a multi-billion-dollar annual burden for the tech industry and likely drive tech innovation shifts to India, Eastern Europe and Latin America as companies redirect investments, according to new research.
A new paper in the journal Nature reveals an astonishing -- and frankly unsettling -- feature of some cancer cells: the ability to physically inject mitochondria into their neighboring cells. These mitochondria are shown to reprogram the targeted cells by modulating the expression of certain genes, thus turning these victim cells into cancer-supporting cells that greatly increase the rate of tumor formation.
Sep 30, 2025 A quick look at the Gaza Peace Plan that Trump presented yesterday, and how he is giving Hamas only 3 or 4 days to accept it.
It turns out, however, that the U.S. and Arab nations had agreed to a different version of this peace plan, and then once Trump and Netanyahu met there were additional stipulations added that Israel wanted.
The White House has sent paperwork to the Senate to withdraw the nomination of E.J. Antoni as head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, three sources told CNN. The withdrawal comes after CNN's KFile reported earlier this month that Antoni operated a since-deleted Twitter account that featured sexually degrading attacks on Kamala Harris, derogatory remarks about gay people, conspiracy theories, and crude insults aimed at critics of Trump. Read more
President Donald Trump on Tuesday announced an agreement with Pfizer to voluntarily sell its medications for less, as his administration pushes to link U.S. drug prices to cheaper ones abroad. Pfizer has agreed to take measures to reduce U.S. drug prices, including selling its existing drugs to Medicaid patients at the lowest price offered in other developed nations, or what Trump calls the most-favored-nation price, according to the president. Pfizer will also guarantee the same "most-favored-nation" pricing on its new drugs for Medicare, Medicaid and commercial payers.
A Republican-appointed federal judge in Boston sharply ruled Tuesday that the Trump administration's policy targeting foreign students and faculty for pro-Palestinian activism violated the First Amendment's free speech protections.
As part of the deal, Trump said, Pfizer will sell some of its drugs on a new "direct to consumer" website called "TrumpRx." Trump said the website would be operated by the federal government, but offered few details about how the program would work.
The deal Pfizer cut with the White House will give the company a three-year grace period on Trump's planned tariffs on pharmaceuticals made abroad, which are expected to take effect Wednesday.
Military leaders have raised serious concerns about the Trump administration's forthcoming defense strategy, exposing a divide between the Pentagon's political and uniformed leadership as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth summons top brass to a highly unusual summit in Virginia on Tuesday, according to eight current and former officials.
Police in a Silicon Valley suburb were flummoxed last weekend after pulling over a self-driving Waymo robo-taxi for making an illegal turn, then finding no driver they could issue with a ticket.
President Donald Trump told top military brass that the US is fighting an "invasion from within," as he used a highly unusual gathering of officers stationed around the world to deliver a largely political speech that highlighted border security and rooting out "woke" culture. "After spending trillions of dollars defending the borders of foreign countries, with your help, we're defending the borders of our country," Trump said on Tuesday at Marine Corps Base Quantico in Virginia. "It's the enemy from within, and we have to handle it before it gets out of control," he added.
