In early 2025, as Multnomah County, Ore., prepared to finalize its budget for the next financial year, the county’s homeless services department received some troubling data. The department had distributed $17.6 million to “culturally specific service providers”—that is, organizations that cater to specific racial groups—in 2024, a 91 percent increase over the previous year. But
‘Indigenous Knowledge’ pseudoscience continues to thrive in Gov. Gavin Newsom’s California Indigenous group dances in L.A. (Apu Gomes/Getty Images) The federal government’s Medicaid program is paying Native American shamans in California $826 a day to perform ancient rituals such as drum circles and spiritual dances to treat drug and alcohol addicts. The alternative treatments are
Medical bills in Temple Hills, Md., on June 26, 2023. Jacquelyn Martin/File/AP Photo More than one in five adults of working age with commercial health insurance reported coverage denials for doctor-recommended services, either for themselves or a family member, in the past year, according to a major healthcare affordability survey released June 4. The survey,
CBP seized over $300,000 in fentanyl, cocaine and meth in two separate vehicle stops at southern border ports of entry on a single Sunday in May.
The president is personally working the phones to lobby lawmakers on ending the twice-yearly clock-changing ritual across the United States.
Voters have not been especially excited to promote members of an unpopular and dysfunctional institution.
House passage is the last step before President Donald Trump can sign the measure into law.