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Republicans Sneak Massive Medicare Cuts Into Their Horrid Tax Bill
House Democrats immediately pounced. At a House Rules Committee meeting early Wednesday morning, ranking member Jim McGovern asked…
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Republican Torched for Falling Asleep Amid Debate on Medicaid Cuts
Republicans want to add work requirements to Medicaid, but having to work themselves is apparently a problem. Representative Ralph Norman…
Politics
How Republicans Plan to Steal From the Poor to Give to the Rich
The Congressional Budget Office has reported that Trump’s “big, beautiful” spending bill will continue the longtime Republican tradition…
Politics
DOGE Is Targeting Even More Agencies Than We Knew
Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency has attempted to expand its influence beyond agencies within the executive branch to…
Business
CapitaLand Ascott Trust prices S$260 million of perpetuals at 4.2%
The issuance, with OCBC as lead manager and bookrunner, is expected to be on or around May 28 HOSPITALITY player CapitaLand Ascott Trust…
Politics
Top Democrat Reveals the Sick Math of Republicans’ Budget Bill
Republicans are forcing through the president’s “big, beautiful” reconciliation bill despite opposition from within their party, and…
Politics
Eric Trump Breaks Ground on $1.5 Billion Resort in Tariffed Country
“Democrats pretended to care about campaign finance violations when they persecuted President Trump with their lawfare,” Mike Davis, a…
Politics
Trump’s Deportations to South Sudan Are More Twisted Than They Seem
“Democrats pretended to care about campaign finance violations when they persecuted President Trump with their lawfare,” Mike Davis, a…
Politics
Leaked Emails Show Top Gabbard Aide Ordering Secret Intel Rewrite
Earlier this month, the Trump administration’s own intelligence agencies found that Venezuela does not control the Tren de Aragua gang,…
Business
DBS’ Tan Su Shan ranked sixth in Fortune’s list of the most powerful women in business
Tan Su Shan, chief executive officer of DBS, has been named the sixth most powerful woman in business in Fortune magazine’s 2025 100 Most…
Politics
Pulses MAY offer solutions to broken, outdated global food system: Temasek
Pulses, or edible plant seeds such as chickpeas and lentils, could be the transformative answer to a global food system that is under…
Politics
Transcript: Trump’s Fury at Bruce Springsteen Takes a “Chilling” Turn
Now, that theory, if you can even call it that, is stupid. We don’t have time on this episode to describe exactly how stupid it is, but I…
Business
STI closes flat amid a mixed regional showing, overnight Wall Street declines
Gainers beat decliners 273 to 205 across the broader market, with 982.2 million of securities valued at S$1.2 billion changing hands The…
Politics
The Republicans’ Medicaid Cuts Could Cause a Rural Unemployment Crisis
Those problems led 136 rural hospitals, or about 3 percent, to close between 2010 and 2021. Almost three-fourths of those were in states…
Politics
The Surprising Reason Nevada Hasn’t Repealed a 1911 Abortion Ban
This posture did not change, even after Donald Trump won the election. “They had ample opportunity to decide to create protections for…
Politics
Was It Really a “Cover-Up” If We All Knew the Truth About Biden?
Tapper and Thompson make it clear that several key people in Biden’s orbit understood that his health was declining and chose to do…
Politics
Missouri’s Struggle to Restore Abortion Access
Advocates in Michigan offered one path forward for the Missouri groups that wanted to seize the moment. Before Dobbs, they had launched a…
Business
Bloomberg terminal back up after outage affects European bond sales
— News and data company Bloomberg said its systems were returning to normal on Wednesday (May 21) after a brief disruption earlier in the…
Business
TikTok Shop US Employees told to work from home as layoffs loom
TikTok told US e-commerce staff to work from home on Wednesday (May 21) while awaiting emails regarding “difficult decisions,” suggesting…
Politics
“Chilling”: Trump’s Fury at Bruce Springsteen Just Got Much Darker
President Trump has raged at Bruce Springsteen for days, demanding investigations as retaliation against him for criticizing the…
Business
Yoma Strategic’s H2 profit falls 12.4% to US$18.3 million
Yoma Strategic Holdings posted a 12.4 per cent decline in net profit for the second half-year ended Mar 31 to US$18.3 million, from…
Business
Britain's M&S says cyberattack to cost US$400 million
British retailer Marks & Spencer said on Wednesday (May 21) a “highly sophisticated cyber” attack would cost it about US$403 million in…
Politics
Accenture to promote 50,000 staff after six-month delay
The move comes as the New York-listed company grapples with a pullback in client spending and greater scrutiny of US government contracts…
Politics
China threatens enforcers of US’s Huawei curbs with legal action
A said it could take legal action against anyone enforcing US restrictions on using Huawei Technologies’ artificial intelligence (AI)…