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Big Tech divided and conquered to block key bipartisan bills

A passionate and bipartisan legislative effort to rein in the country’s largest technology companies collapsed this week, the victim of an epic lobbying campaign by Amazon, Apple, Google and Meta.

Tribune News Service

Congress Yet Again Fails To Pass Crack Cocaine Sentencing Reforms

A compromise to cram crack sentencing reform into the year-end omnibus spending bill fell apart at the last minute.

Reason

Did Medicare Advantage plans overcharge?

Some Medicare Advantage plans failed to produce any records to justify their payments, government records show

Salon

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How Medicare Advantage plans dodged auditors and overcharged taxpayers by millions

In April 2016, government auditors asked a Blue Cross Medicare Advantage health plan in Minnesota to turn over medical records of patients treated by a podiatry practice whose owner had been indicted for fraud.

Tribune News Service

Trudy Rubin: Will Congress really send 80,000 Afghans back to the Taliban?

Before the United States made its chaotic exit from Afghanistan in August 2021, Congress had promised special immigrant visas to Afghans who worked with our military or civilians. Once our allies were without the protection of American forces, they would surely face Taliban revenge.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Medicare Advantage health plans dodged auditors, overcharged taxpayers millions

A review of 90 government audits reveals the plans have repeatedly tried to get around mandates to document medical conditions the government paid them to treat.

Chicago Sun-Times

The Medicare Advantage plan scandal

Health insurers that issue Medicare Advantage plans have repeatedly tried to sidestep regulations, audits find

Salon

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Senators want answers in wake of AP’s prison investigations

The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee says he plans to question the director of the federal Bureau of Prisons this week about why the agency continues to stand by a high-ranking official who beat Black inmates in the 1990s

The Independent UK

How Medicare Advantage plans dodged auditors and overcharged taxpayers by millions

A KHN investigation found when some Medicare Advantage plans got a rare federal audit, they couldn't produce billing records for care they said they'd provided. Some blamed fire, flood — or doctors.

WEKU

Warnock delivers 51-seat Senate for Democrats, and much more

Raphael Warnock’s victory in swing-state Georgia gives Senate Democrats a 51-49 majority

The Independent UK

Devin Nunes' Libel Claim Over Rachel Maddow Show Broadcast Can Proceed for Now, as to One Assertion

From today's decision in Nunes v. NBCUniversal Media, LLC by Judge P. Kevin Castel (S.D.N.Y.): Plaintiff Devin Nunes, a former Member of the House of Representatives, alleges that he was defamed by defendant NBCUniversal Media, LLC. According to Nunes, statements made on the March 18, 2021 broadcast of The Rachel…

Reason

His term expiring, Garcetti pushes hard for job as ambassador to India

LOS ANGELES — With less than a month to go before he leaves office, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti is pressing his effort to get the U.S. Senate to confirm his appointment as ambassador to India, a fraught campaign complicated by a Republican senator whose office is trying to renew…

Los Angeles Times

Nancy Pelosi Embodied America's Gerontocracy Problem

She was the beneficiary of a political system that limits opportunities for new ideas and new faces to rise.

Reason

3 Republicans decline to endorse Trump

After Trump's big announcement, GOP mostly responds with "silence"

Salon

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Tribune News Service

Carl P. Leubsdorf: Rocky road ahead for McCarthy

For the past two years, Democratic Speaker Nancy Pelosi has conducted a political science class in how to manage the House of Representatives with a bare four-seat majority.

ABC News

The most historic results from the US midterm elections so far

As the results of the US midterm elections stream in, let's break down some of the noteworthy victories and defeats.

Bangkok Post

Trump close to declaring third White House bid

SIOUX CITY, Iowa: Donald Trump is expected to announce a third White House campaign soon after Tuesday’s US midterm elections, possibly as soon as the week of Nov 14, according to people familiar with the former president’s planning.

The Independent UK

Trump kicks off midterm rally blitz in Iowa with familiar string of grievances

Twice-impeached ex-president delivers rambling, grievance-laded, hour-long monologue as he calls for a red wave to sweep Republicans back to power in Congress

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Roll Call

At the Races: Are we there yet? - Roll Call

The CQ Roll Call newsroom tracks campaigns nationwide, sharing the best stories, with some extras, in the At the Races newsletter.

WEKU

Iowa voters will decide Sen. Chuck Grassley's fate in his closest race in 42 years

Many Iowans cannot remember a time when Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley did not represent them in Washington. But as he seeks an eighth term, he faces his toughest race yet.

The Independent UK

Trump to rally in Iowa ahead of midterms as he teases 2024 run

Former President Donald Trump is scheduled to return to Iowa ahead of the Nov. 8 midterms, to headline a rally for Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds and Sen. Chuck Grassley

The Independent UK

Trump to rally in Iowa ahead of Nov. 8 as he teases 2024

Former President Donald Trump is scheduled to return to Iowa ahead of the Nov. 8 midterms, to headline a rally for Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds and Sen. Chuck Grassley

The Independent UK

Once hopeful Iowa Democrats running uphill vs. Sen. Grassley

Iowa Democrats had high hopes earlier in the campaign season of unseating seven-term Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley, but they seem to be fading

Benzinga

Putin Helped By Saudi Arabia In His 'Despicable' Ukraine War, Says Schumer As Anti-Oil Cartel Bill Gains Bipartisan Momentum

As the ‘No Oil Producing and Exporting Cartels’ (NOPEC) bill gained momentum among both parties, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said in his tweet that Saudi Arabia’s actions will long be remembered by Americans.

The Independent UK

Whistleblower: Hundreds left FBI over misconduct in 20 years

A U.S. senator says a whistleblower has alleged that an internal review found 665 FBI personnel have resigned or retired to avoid accountability in misconduct probes over the past two decades

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