States pay contractors millions to comply with Trump law to cut Medicaid rolls

States are paying contractors such as Deloitte, Accenture, and Optum millions of dollars to help them comply with the One Big Beautiful Bill Act — a law that will strip safety-net health and food benefits from millions. State governments rely on such companies to design and operate computer systems that assess whether low-income people qualify

California sheriff says election fraud probe delayed by suits and court filings

Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco said Sunday that his election fraud investigation into the Proposition 50 Special Election last fall has come to a halt due to legal challenges from the California attorney general.  Earlier in March, Bianco, who is running for governor, seized more than 611,000 ballots from the special election in which voters

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Ex-Surgeon General says social media needs to be regulated “similar to cigarettes”

Former Surgeon General Jerome Adams said Sunday that social media platforms are “specifically designed to addict” adolescents and teenagers “similar to cigarettes” were marketed to young users by manufacturers earlier, and there needs to be regulation to reflect that. “We know, based on Surgeon General [Vivek] Murthy’s report, that there is increasing and very valid