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Judge orders RFK Jr.’s health department to stop sharing Medicaid data with deportation officials

By AMANDA SEITZ and KIMBERLY KINDY
Aug 14, 2025 3:34 pm - A federal judge ordered the nation's health department to stop giving deportation officials access to the personal information — including home addresses — of all 79 million Medicaid enrollees. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services first handed over the personal data on millions of Medicaid enrollees in a handful of states in June. After an Associated Press report identified the new policy, 20 states, including Illinois, filed a lawsuit to stop its implementation.
Downstate judge rejects request to round up Texas Democrats in Illinois

By Mitchell Armentrout
Aug 14, 2025 3:00 pm - A downstate judge has rejected Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s lawsuit seeking an order for Illinois law enforcement to arrest and return to the Lone Star State Democratic legislators who are staying in Illinois in order to prevent a controversial vote to remap congressional districts as requested by President Donald Trump.
As Canada wildfires choke US with smoke, Republicans demand action. But not on climate change

By TAMMY WEBBER
Aug 14, 2025 10:46 am - The sternly worded statements and letters are filled with indignation and outrage: Republican U.S. lawmakers say Canada has done too little to contain wildfires and smoke that have fouled the air in several states this summer.
A car accident in small-town Tennessee leads to US charges against a major Mexican drug operation

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER
Aug 14, 2025 10:40 am - Justice Department indictments have been unsealed against three leaders and two high-ranking enforcers of Mexico's United Cartels. It's the latest U.S. move against major Mexican drug operations.
U.S. producer prices surge in July as Trump tariffs push costs higher

By PAUL WISEMAN
Aug 14, 2025 10:37 am - U.S. wholesale inflation surged unexpectedly last month, signaling that President Donald Trump’s sweeping taxes on imports are pushing costs up and that higher prices for consumers may be on the way.
Malnourished kids arrive daily at a Gaza hospital as Netanyahu denies hunger

By MARIAM DAGGA and LEE KEATH
Aug 14, 2025 10:26 am - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claims there is no hunger in Gaza, but malnourished children are regularly arriving at Nasser Hospital. The U.N. says starvation and malnutrition in Gaza are at the highest levels since the war began.
The President’s Cabinet: Treasury

By Bruce Simmons, Special to the Daily Herald
Aug 14, 2025 10:22 am - Author and retired educator Bruce Simmons’s column details the history of the President’s cabinet and the duties of each position. In his fourth column, he shares the history of the Treasury.
DeSantis announces plans for second immigration detention facility dubbed ‘Deportation Depot’

By KATE PAYNE
Aug 14, 2025 9:55 am - Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis' administration is preparing to open a second immigration detention facility dubbed “Deportation Depot” at a state prison in north Florida, as a federal judge decides the fate of the state's holding center for immigrants at an isolated airstrip in the Florida Everglades known as“Alligator Alcatraz.”
What to know about the Putin-Trump summit in Alaska

By DASHA LITVINOVA
Aug 14, 2025 9:41 am - The U.S.-Russia summit in Alaska is happening where East meets West — quite literally — in a place familiar to both countries as a Cold War front line of missile defense, radar outposts and intelligence gathering.
Zelenskyy meets with UK leader Starmer as Europe braces for the Trump-Putin summit

By PAN PYLAS
Aug 14, 2025 9:31 am - U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer welcomed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to London on Thursday in a show of British support for Ukraine a day before a critical U.S.-Russia summit is set to take place in Alaska.

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