The Home and Community-Based Services Access Act and the Long-Term Care Workforce Support Act have been introduced to provide much-needed support for caregivers and direct care workers, and to ensure that home and community-based services are a guaranteed Medicaid benefit. Source link
A former Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) official who quit her job with the agency to run for Congress came up short Tuesday in her bid to secure the GOP nomination for a northwest Ohio-based seat in the U.S. House. Madison Sheahan, 29, finished third among a crowded Republican field in Tuesday’s primary, earning roughly……
Former Michigan Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D) on Wednesday endorsed Rep. Haley Stevens (D-Mich.) in a hotly contested Democratic Senate primary in the state. In a video that Stevens’s campaign posted online, Stabenow said it was “the honor of my lifetime to suit up every day and fight for Michigan” during her time in the Senate…….
Dave Chappelle says the headlines get “more appalling” each day, telling Michelle Obama that the current political climate “doesn’t seem like it’s ever going to end.” The comedian appeared on “IMO,” Obama’s podcast with her brother, Craig Robinson, in an episode released Wednesday. Asked by Obama about how he felt about “where we are now…
A Russian drone hit a kindergarten in northern Ukraine, and Moscow launched scores of drones and missiles across the country, as President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accused Russia of ignoring a Kyiv-proposed cease-fire. The new attacks on May 6 came a day after a wider barrage on several Ukrainian cities – Dnipro, Zaporizhzhya, Kramatorsk – that killed…
A final push for votes is under way on the last day of campaigning ahead of elections across England, Scotland and Wales. Source link
Benfica winger Gianluca Prestianni will miss Argentina’s first two matches of this summer’s World Cup if selected, as his ban for abusing Vinicius Jr has been extended worldwide. Prestianni, 20, was given a six-match ban by Uefa last month after he admitted using homophobic language towards Real Madrid’s Vinicius during their Champions League match in…
CNN journalist Christiane Amanpour voiced discomfort with the possibility of Paramount taking over her outlet if the cable channel’s parent company is allowed to merge with the David Ellison-led media conglomerate. “Clearly I’m concerned, and I’m not sure how much I’m allowed to say about a corporate thing that’s underway, but I am obviously as……
Why did Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito step in to maintain abortion pill access? And why are he and Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson sparring over Louisiana’s congressional map? The high court’s emergency docket is roaring back. What does that mean? Plus, what’s next for former FBI Director James Comey as he braces to fight new……
The Trump administration’s long-awaited counterterrorism strategy will put the focus on left-wing “violent secular” groups that officials argue are responsible for most of the politically motivated assassinations and other violence in recent years. The administration’s National Counterterrorism Strategy, released on Wednesday, will prioritize the “rapid” identification and neutralization of “violent secular” political groups, whose ideology……