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May 7, 2025 - World

Fears raised of escalating conflict after Pakistan accused India of ‘igniting an inferno’ in Kashmir and PunjabKashmir crisis live – latest updatesPakistan has warned that it will “avenge” the death of 31 people killed in overnight missile attacks by the Indian air force, raising fears of an escalating conflict between the two nuclear-armed countries.In a late night address to the nation late on Wednesday, Pakistan’s prime minister, Shehbaz Sharif, said: “We make this pledge, that we will avenge each drop of the blood of these martyrs.” Continue reading...

May 7, 2025 - World

Billionaire Mark Cuban offered up his unsolicited advice to the Trump administration on how to reform Medicaid without making any cuts to the entitlement. Congress has been trying to figure out how to give President Donald Trump his "big, beautiful" spending bill without making cuts to Social Security, Medicare, or Medicaid. Trump himself has said the entitlements would not be touched. However, DOGE's Elon Musk indicated in a March Fox News interview that entitlements would be on the table, saying, "The waste and fraud in entitlement spending — which is most of the federal spending is entitlements — so, that’s, like, the big one to eliminate. That’s the, sort of half-trillion, maybe $6-700 billion a year." ALSO READ: ‘Pain. Grief. Anger’: Families heartbroken as Trump backlash smashes adoption dreams Cuban, who owns the Dallas Mavericks and appears on "Shark Tank" alongside Trump pal Kevin O'Leary, posted on X Wednesday, "I'm against a reduction in benefits for Medicaid recipients. In fact I would like to see them get more benefits. BUT The way the system is currently constructed to move dollars from the fed gov to states and then to beneficiaries, like much of our health care system, is backa-- halfwards." Cuban continued, "States have learned how to arbitrage current laws to increase their receipts (see provider taxes ), insurance companies and their [pharmacy benefit managers] are still in the middle. Both create a lot of room for cost cuts, not only for taxpayers, but for the entire system. However. Talking about cuts and Medicaid is political suicide. What this really needs to be about is Medicaid Process Simplification. We need to make changes. Let's do what needs to be done across all of healthcare. Simplify it. Remove the arbitrage. Start with the patient, rather from the budget and work down. There is no silver bullet, but there are ways to make improvements and save money @HHSGov." According to Investopedia, "Arbitrage is the simultaneous purchase and sale of an asset in different markets to exploit tiny differences in their prices."

May 7, 2025 - World

Move sparks outrage in Iran as diplomats try to broker deal between Tehran and Washington over nuclear programmeUS politics live – latest updatesDonald Trump plans to announce while on his trip to Saudi Arabia next week that the US will now refer to the Arabian Gulf or the Gulf of Arabia rather than the Persian Gulf.The move has prompted outrage from Iranian leaders, and last-minute efforts are being made to persuade Trump to pull back from offending Iran in the midst of vital talks on the future of the Iranian nuclear programme. “If Trump went ahead with the proposal he would manage to unite every Iranian, pro- or anti-regime, against him, and that is a near impossible achievement,” one diplomat said. Continue reading...

May 7, 2025 - World

Lawyers say the Turkish national, who has been held in a Louisiana Ice center for six weeks, was illegally detainedA federal appeals court on Wednesday granted a judge’s order to bring a Turkish Tufts University student from a Louisiana immigration detention center back to New England for hearings to determine whether her rights were violated.A judicial panel of the New York-based US second circuit court of appeals ruled in the case of Rümeysa Öztürk after lawyers representing her and the US justice department presented arguments at a hearing on Tuesday.The Associated Press contributed reporting Continue reading...

May 7, 2025 - World

Chinese leader is scheduled to attend Victory Day parade and hold talks with Vladimir PutinXi Jinping arrived in Moscow on Wednesday for the start of a four-day visit during which he will attend Russia’s military parade commemorating the anniversary of the end of the second world war, known in Russia as Victory Day.The Chinese leader’s trip has coincided with mass Ukrainian drone attacks on the Russian capital. Moscow’s mayor, Sergei Sobyanin, said Russia’s air defence units destroyed at least 19 Ukrainian drones overnight. Continue reading...