OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) – In late January, Governor Stitt signed an Executive Order to examine potential cuts to essential programs such as Medicaid or SNAP. The leaders of the faith have now spoken. “The Gospel of Jesus does not look like your state of the state,” said the Reverend of the East Sixth Street Christian … Read more
Feb 2 (Reuters) – Palantir Technologies CEO Alex Karp defended the firm’s surveillance technology as it reported a big jump in sales on Monday, saying it has safeguards to prevent government overreach, without mentioning U.S. immigration enforcement efforts in Minnesota that have drawn widespread protests. The data analysis company said revenue derived from the US … Read more
A quiet regulatory update from the Social Security Administration (SSA) may raise new concerns about the government’s increasing use of surveillance tools to monitor ordinary Americans. In early January, SSA updated the Foreign Travel Evidence – Foreign Travel Data Application to increase scrutiny of foreign travel by Americans receiving benefits. This change allows the agency … Read more
JUBA, South Sudan (AP) – After agreeing to accept deportees from the United States last year, South Sudan sent a list of demands to Washington that included American support for the prosecution of an opposition leader and relief from sanctions for a top official accused of embezzling more than a billion dollars in public funds. … Read more
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Nicaragua’s Interior Ministry said Saturday the country will release dozens of prisoners, as the United States increased pressure on leftist President Daniel Ortega a week after ousting former Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro. On Friday, the US Embassy in Nicaragua said that Venezuela had taken an important step towards peace by releasing … Read more
The city of Budapest has been cut to junk status by Moody’s, a leading global credit rating agency, in a rating action that explicitly links the Hungarian capital’s short-term credit risk to liquidity pressure and an ongoing institutional dispute with the national government. “Moody’s Ratings today downgraded the Base Credit Assessment of the City of … Read more
WASHINGTON (AP) — Julia Dvorak is concerned that her 83-year-old mother’s emergency room trips for seizures are draining her retirement savings and will soon put her on Medicaid. At the same time, Dvorak, who is 56 and suffers from a chronic knee condition that keeps her on state and federal assistance, expects her own health … Read more