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Medicare and Social Security go-broke dates pushed up due to rising health care costs, new SSA law

By FATIMA HUSSEIN
Jun 18, 2025 4:04 pm - WASHINGTON — The go-broke dates for Medicare and Social Security's trust funds have moved up as rising health care costs and new legislation affecting Social Security ben...
Senate Republicans propose deeper Medicaid cuts. Here’s what that means.

By Paige Winfield Cunningham
Jun 18, 2025 4:00 pm - Senate Republicans are preparing to slice deeper into Medicaid to finance President Donald Trump’s agenda, proposing legislation that analysts say could deal a greater fi...
Supreme Court OKs Tennessee ban on gender-affirming care for minors, big loss for transgender rights

By MARK SHERMAN
Jun 18, 2025 9:29 am - The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld Tennessee's ban on gender-affirming care for transgender minors, a stunning setback to transgender rights.
Fear stalks Tehran as Israel bombards, shelters fill up and communicating grows harder

By FARNOUSH AMIRI
Jun 18, 2025 6:34 am - The streets of Tehran are empty, businesses closed, communications patchy at best. With no bona fide bomb shelters open to the public, panicked masses spend restless nights on the floors of metro stations as strikes boom overhead.
Iran’s leader rejects call to surrender, saying US intervention would cause ‘irreparable damage’

By JOSEPH KRAUSS, JON GAMBRELL and JULIA FRANKEL
Jun 18, 2025 6:32 am - Iran's supreme leader on Wednesday rejected U.S. calls for surrender in the face of blistering Israeli strikes and warned that any military involvement by the Americans would cause “irreparable damage” to them, in an official statement read by a state TV anchor.
Illinois lawmakers identified in notes kept by Minnesota assassination suspect

By Marni Pyke
Jun 17, 2025 7:00 pm - The copious records of the suspect in the killing of Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman include the names of U.S. Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi of Schaumburg and U.S. Rep. Nikki Budzinski of Peoria.
Arlington Heights shuts off access to license-plate camera data

By Christopher Placek
Jun 17, 2025 5:14 pm - Arlington Heights has temporarily blocked outside law enforcement agencies from accessing its automated license-plate reader data amid controversy that erupted last week in neighboring Mount Prospect.
Suburban toy company challenges Trump’s tariffs before Supreme Court in long shot bid for quick decision

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST
Jun 17, 2025 3:02 pm - A suburban toy company challenged President Donald Trump’s tariffs in front of the Supreme Court on Tuesday in a long shot bid to press the justices to quickly decide whether they are legal. Vernon Hills-based Learning Resources Inc. filed an appeal asking the Supreme Court to take up the case soon rather than let it continue to play out in lower courts.
G7 leaders try to salvage their summit after Trump's early exit effectively makes it the 'G6'

By ROB GILLIES, JILL LAWLESS and WILL WEISSERT
Jun 17, 2025 11:49 am - KANANASKIS, Alberta (AP) — Six of the Group of Seven leaders were trying. as their summit wraps up Tuesday, to show the wealthy nations’ club still has the clout to shape...
Trump is at a moment of choosing as Israel looks for more US help crushing Iran’s nuclear program

By AAMER MADHANI and CHRIS MEGERIAN
Jun 17, 2025 7:12 am - President Donald Trump in about eight hours Monday went from suggesting a nuclear deal with Iran remained “achievable” to urging Tehran’s 9.5 million residents to flee for their lives as he cut short his visit to an international summit to return to Washington for urgent talks with his national security team.

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