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23.03.26 - 04:45
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Trump HHS Launches Probe Into 13 States Over Abortion Coverage Mandates (ZeroHedge)
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Trump HHS Launches Probe Into 13 States Over Abortion Coverage Mandates
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office for Civil Rights (OCR), is investigating 13 Democrat-run states for allegedly forcing employers' health insurance plans to cover abortions. Officials say these rules trample the Weldon Amendment's federal conscience protections.
The Weldon amendment blocks states from punishing health insurers, plans, or providers who refuse to pay for, provide, or refer for abortions on moral or religious grounds, and has appeared in every HHS spending bill alongside the Hyde Amendment since 2005.
“OCR launches these investigations to address certain states' alleged disregard of, or confusion about, compliance with the Weldon Amendment,” Paula M. Stannard, HHS Director of the Office for Civil Rights, said in a statement. “Under the Weldon Amendment, health care entities, such as health insurance issuers and health plans, are protected from state discrimination for n...
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23.03.26 - 01:18
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Tanker Carrying Fuel Bound For Cuba Diverts, While Another Russian Tanker Is Set To Challenge US Blockade (ZeroHedge)
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Tanker Carrying Fuel Bound For Cuba Diverts, While Another Russian Tanker Is Set To Challenge US Blockade
A tanker carrying fuel originally bound for Cuba on Friday changed its destination to Trinidad and Tobago, according to LSEG ship-tracking data, a blow for the island amid a severe fuel scarcity that has triggered power blackouts. The Hong Kong-flagged vessel Sea Horse loaded a Russian diesel cargo earlier this year through a ship-to-ship transfer in the Mediterranean before setting sail to the Caribbean.
But while the Russian-origined cargo was bound for Cuba, the ship had suspended course in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean since late February. And according to LSEG data, the tanker has now changed course and is heading south to Trinidad, with an estimated arrival on Monday, leaving Cuba with no immediate supplies in sight.
Cuba on Tuesday reconnected its power grid and brought online its largest thermal electricity plant, ending a nationwide blackout that lasted more th...
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23.03.26 - 00:12
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US Treasury To Partner With Education Department To Collect Student Loan Debt (ZeroHedge)
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US Treasury To Partner With Education Department To Collect Student Loan Debt
Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),
The U.S. Department of the Treasury and the Department of Education (ED) jointly announced a new partnership under which the Treasury will assume responsibility for collecting on defaulted federal student loan debt, according to a March 19 joint statement from the departments.
Secretary of Education Linda McMahon speaks outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington on Jan. 13, 2026. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times
The Federal Student Assistance Partnership will enhance the administration of student aid programs, mitigate any fallout and cost to taxpayers from mismanagement of the federal student loan portfolio, and facilitate the return of defaulted borrowers to repayment.
“As student loan debt nears $1.7 Trillion, it's clear that [the ED] was never intended to serve as our nation's fifth largest bank,” U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon ...
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