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The Trump administration says it's again withholding Medicaid funding in California and Minnesota over-suspected fraud.
“Medicaid is provided to low income households and individuals with disabilities.”
The affected states are led by Democratic governors. The federal government says the states need to prove the money is being used legitimately
until then it will hold back $867 million from California and nearly $200 million from
Minnesota. The health policy organization KFF says more than $14 million children and adults are enrolled in California Medicaid and additional 1 million plus are enrolled in Minnesota. This hour members of Congress are weighing nearly $90 billion budget requests the bulk of which would go to the U.S. war with Iran.
They're hearing from defense secretary Pete Hegsef. His testimony comes on the heels of new U.S. military fatality since Friday, at least 17 American service members have been killed since the U.S. and Israel went to war with Iran in late February. Faced with the prospects of new hefty terrorist from Washington, Canadian Prime Minister
“Mark Carney, had a phone conversation with President Trump this morning, Dan Carpinshack reports”
after the call, Carney said he and Trump agreed to intensify trade talks.
Trump says the latest 50 percent tariffs against Canada are in response to unfair Canadian
trade practices, which include most provinces, Banning American liquor. But Carney says those tariffs violate the U.S. Mexico Canada Trade Agreement, as far as the bands on American booze, Carney says that's up to individual provincial premieres. As for the latest tariffs that are supposed to take effect in 30 days, I spoke with President Trump earlier this morning, we agreed to intensify negotiations in the coming weeks.
Carney also said the main goal of his government is to control what can be controlled, Canadian supporting each other, buying Canadian, and diversifying trade partnerships abroad. Carney is to speak to a gathering of premieres on Wednesday for NPR News. I'm Dan Carpinshack in Toronto. On his first full day in office, the United Kingdom's new Prime Minister Andy Burnham
convened a new cabinet, more from NPR's loan frayer John Haley was defense minister under Prime Minister Burnham's predecessor, Kier Starmer, but he quit over what he saw as insufficient military spending. Now he'll be chancellor, the equivalent of Treasury Secretary in charge of finding that funding.
Starmer's energy secretary Ed Miliband is now foreign secretary. In their first meeting, Burnham told them they need to be a "cost of living government" and give the British people the "little" "expressants" that help his coming so that they can have that. It's a bit of hope.
When a Burnham's first act in office was to scrap tax on household electricity bills. Some opposition parties say the tax cut doesn't go far enough, others question how it'll be funded. That's Lauren Freyer reporting, it's NPR. The Trump administration wants to make it easier for men to get testosterone replacement therapy.
Last week, the military announced it would screen service members for low testosterone. NPR's will stone reports the food and drug administration is considering other changes that could expand access to the drugs. The FDA criteria for who should get testosterone replacement therapy are fairly narrow. The drug instructions or label stated only from men with clear cut medical conditions and
not for age-related declines in testosterone. Actors are free to prescribe approved medicine as they see fit, though, and as a result, many prescriptions in the US are technically considered off-label. But the administration is making changes to encourage prescribing and asking drug makers to seek approval for new conditions.
Shalin Shah is CEO of Marius Pharmaceuticals, which makes testosterone products.
“This is basically catching up, honestly, to a lot of what's already done in the clinical”
world. But some experts argue there is not yet enough long-term data on safety and benefits to justify loosening restrictions. We'll stone NPR news.
A federal judge is greenlining a $1.5 billion settlement in which the artificial intelligence
company Anthropoc agrees to pay thousands of authors for using their work to train its clawed chatbot. Anthropoc's paying about $3,000 for each book used in the training. Fast majority of the more than 480,000 covered works have been claimed. Antifaturity just in Nelson called it quote, the largest known copyright recovery in history.
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