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After stalled health deal, voters want Congress to deliver | News
WASHINGTON — As Congress spent months arguing over COVID-19-era enhanced premium tax credits that many people on the Affordable Care Act used to subsidize their health insurance, a relatively narrow debate over a single policy grew into a much broader and more complicated discussion about how to lower health care costs. Concerns about those costs are a top issue for…
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Bumrah-led bowlers give India thumping win over Pakistan
Colombo: Ishan Kishan merged power with finesse for a fifty before Jasprit Bumrah destroyed Pakistan’s top-order with his malevolently talented right-arm, powering India to a T20 World Cup Super Eight berth, clinching a one-sided 61-run win here on Sunday. Kishan’s supersonic 77 (40b) on a tacky Premadasa pitch was worth its weight in gold, carrying India to a competitive 175…
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Trump Is Using Mexico’s Oil to Put the Squeeze on Cuba
In the days following the US abduction of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro on January 3, Donald Trump wasted little time in extending the threat to both Colombia and Mexico. Labeling President Gustavo Petro a “sick man,” Trump followed up by opining that an invasion of the country sounded “good to me.” As for Mexico, after trotting out his oft-repeated chestnut…
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Sony’s New Spider-Man Movie Rewrites Tom Holland’s Peter Parker
The Marvel Cinematic Universe has no shortage of releases lined up, but few generate hype like Spider-Man: Brand New Day. Slated for release in July, Brand New Day marks Tom Holland’s return after the jaw-dropping ending of 2021’s Spider-Man: No Way Home. While MCU fans are beyond eager for Holland back on screens, equally exciting is how the next chapter…
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How the case against a Venezuelan man who was shot by an ICE agent fell apart
Alfredo Alejandro Aljorna was on shift in Minneapolis on a Wednesday evening last month, making deliveries as a DoorDash driver, when he realized he was being followed by ICE agents, his attorney said. He drove home and was tackled by an agent but broke free and ran into the house where his cousin Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis was standing, the attorney…
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5 Cult Horror Movies That Critics Hated At Release
20th Century Fox Horror has never received much respect from critics, but fans don’t tend to care. On the contrary, horror buffs could recite a list of the incredible actors in the past decade who should’ve been nominated for Oscars for their horror performances, from Lupita Nyong’o in “Us” to Toni Collette in “Hereditary” to…
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BJP protests in Pune, Congress calls out ‘hypocrisy’
Mumbai/Pune: BJP workers confronted Congress activists in Pune while protesting against Congress leader Harshwardhan Sapkal’s remarks ‘equating’ Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj with Tipu Sultan, with the Opposition party alleging stone pelting during the agitation on Sunday, February 15. There was a heavy police deployment in the area as BJP workers protested outside the Congress Bhavan, condemning Sapkal’s comments that have triggered…
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Big win, but small change likely in Bangladesh
The victory of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) should be seen in the light of the recent political developments in most of the seven member countries of the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC). India, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Myanmar and Thailand form this grouping, ostensibly created to reduce the influence of Pakistan (and…
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Alaska to begin soliciting funding ideas as state races to spend $272 million on rural health care
Yukon Kuskokwim Regional Hospital in Bethel on Nov. 1, 2023. (Marc Lester / ADN) The Alaska Department of Health is racing to award $272 million by October through a newly created federal program meant to transform health care delivery in rural parts of the U.S. Alaska received the largest-per-capita award late last year in the first phase of a five-year…
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How a Solitary Bullet Hole Blew Apart ICE’s Web of Lies
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem quickly offered a variation of her standard falsehood. She had said the same after the fatal shooting of Renee Good, an unarmed mother of three, a week earlier on Jan. 7. And she would repeat it regarding the killing of VA ICU nurse Alex Pretti on Jan. 24. “Fearing for his life, he fired a…
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