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06/23/2026

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is in the United Arab Emirates on the first leg of a three-nation tour of Gulf countries aimed at easing their concerns about the result of an agreement intended to...

06/23/2026

06/23/2026

06/23/2026

President Trump celebrated Father’s Day with a social media post touting that the U.S. has the “BEST ECONOMY EVER.” https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5933394-trump-economy-fathers-day/

06/23/2026

The president has turned on one of his top allies over a meaningless and disputed boast.

06/23/2026

A new Washington Post report alleges that Tulsi Gabbard’s political decisions have been made under the sway of her lifelong guru, Chris Butler, the leader of an alt-right sect of Hinduism. “Butler’s agenda from way back in the ’70s has always been to have a political hold in some way. Now he has realized his dream through Tulsi Gabbard,” one member of the group told Kerry Howley, in 2019. Revisit her full profile of Gabbard: https://nymag.visitlink.me/lEEmDC

06/22/2026

The comments came as the vice president sought to downplay suggestions that he had been snubbed.

06/22/2026

BREAKING: A federal judge blocked the Trump administration from creating a centralized database containing Social Security numbers along with information about voters’ citizenship status and other sensitive data. https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5934681-trump-database-blocked-judge/

06/22/2026

A $350 cash MRI at a center down the street versus $2,500 through insurance for the exact same scan. Mark Cuban's question is simple: why isn't anyone at the insurance company pointing patients toward the cheaper option?

He dropped the question on X as a reply to a physician thread debating who's really driving healthcare costs up. The post racked up 1.1 million views and got a second life in late May after he kept pushing the same argument.

Cuban's case is that the largest pharmacy benefit managers are owned by the largest insurance companies, and that vertical integration wipes out any reason to bring prices down. "They are TOO BIG TO CARE," he wrote. "Employer, patient, state, hospital, physician, if they can charge you, they will."

The replies flooded in with patient receipts. A CT scan billed at $9,000 with no pricing disclosed upfront. An ER visit that came to $5,000 until the patient requested an itemized cash receipt and it fell to $430. A Kaiser scan at $1,800 when a clinic nearby offered the same thing for $350 cash.

When someone brought up a denied $5,000 CAT scan, Cuban's follow-up was blunt: "The insurance company always late pays underpays and denies claims. Jacking up the cost for the provider. Which is why cash is cheaper."