Obamacare recipients include more than 1M without Social Security numbers, Dr. Oz, RFK Jr. reveal: ‘Plagued by fraud’

WASHINGTON — More than 1 million people enrolled in Obamacare plans lack Social Security Numbers, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced with Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz. Kennedy called that “a glaring warning sign for fraud” across the Obamacare program and faulted President Trump’s predecessors for not maintaining proper guardrails in social safety net programs. “The Obamacare marketplace is plagued by fraud in large part because the Biden administration dismantled basic program integrity guardrails, while partisan lawfare blocked common sense efforts to protect taxpayers,” Kennedy grumbled in a video announcement with Oz…

Liberty keep creeping into pretender territory with brutal loss to Valkyries

SAN FRANCISCO — The Liberty were “out” of their league. They got outclassed, outplayed and outcoached by the undersized Valkyries, who won 76-67. Jonquel Jones called out the team’s lack of heart following the Storm loss — another example of New York getting outworked by a lesser opponent. Breanna Stewart…

Nearly 1 million bottles of heart and kidney medication recalled over foreign substance found on tablets

Nearly one million bottles of heart and kidney medication have been recalled nationwide over the possibility of a “foreign substance,” according to the US Food and Drug Administration. California-based Amgen, Inc. voluntarily recalled at least 944,142 bottles of Corlanor and Sensipar tablets after “unexpected foreign matter” was found “in the reserve sample of…

Willy Adames leaves Giants’ game vs Braves with back spasms

SAN FRANCISCO — It takes a lot for Willy Adames, who played 160 games last year and 161 the year before, to come out of a baseball game. So with that context, be the judge of just how much discomfort the Giants shortstop was in after going down swinging for…

USMNT faces cruel reality of World Cup expectations in the knockout stage

IRVINE, Calif. — Outside of injury, it’s the cruelest part of sports. But it’s the unforgiving reality facing the U.S. national team as the World Cup knockout stage begins. What happens next matters much more than what was just accomplished. What happens next will either enhance all the good that…

68-year-old woman’s arms and legs turn blue after taking very common drug

Willy Wonka’s Violet Beauregarde could start a support group. According to a case report in the New England Journal of Medicine, a 68-year-old woman developed “blue-gray hyperpigmentation” on her limbs just a couple of weeks after she started taking a common medication. The woman sought treatment after dark patches on her…

Early offensive explosion propels USC baseball to rout of Nevada

Three pitches into its first at-bat, USC had the lead. Several batters – and two more homers – later, the Trojans were up by four runs. Before some fans could settle into their seats Thursday night at Dedeaux Field, USC’s surging offense had put on another dazzling display. The early…

Mangroves clean up .7 billion of nitrogen pollution every year, study finds

Mangrove forests around the world provide a largely overlooked nitrogen-pollution cleanup service — one that, if humans had to pay for it, would cost $8.7 billion per year, a new study estimates.Mangroves are salt-tolerant plants that grow between the high-tide and low-tide marks in tropical and subtropical coastal regions. Their…

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