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Senate Majority Leader John Thune, a Republican from South Dakota, during a press conference after the weekly Senate Republican Policy Luncheon at the Capitol in Washington, Nov. 19, 2025.Eric Lee | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesAs lawmakers continue to debate the Affordable Care Act’s enhanced premium subsidies, Republicans are citing reports of fraud in the health insurance market as a reason why the tax cuts should not be extended.Republican lawmakers cited a Dec. 3 report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office, a bipartisan congressional watchdog, on fraud related to ACA subsidies. Democrats’ proposal to extend the ACA enhanced credit facility is…

Google today aims to steal OpenAI’s thunder with the release of its faster and cheaper Gemini 3 Flash model, which is based on Gemini 3 released last month. The company has also made this the default model for the Gemini app and AI mode in search. The new Flash model comes six months after Google announced the Gemini 2.5 Flash model, and it comes with significant improvements. In benchmarks, the Gemini 3 Flash model significantly outperforms its predecessor and in some respects matches the performance of other Frontier models such as the Gemini 3 Pro and GPT 5.2. For example,…

Jim Cramer is pleading with Amazon not to engage in “sham” circular AI trading reminiscent of the kind of speculation that fueled the 1990s dot-com bubble, which burst more than two decades ago. Multiple reports on Wednesday said Amazon is in talks for a potential $10 billion investment in OpenAI in exchange for ChatGPT creators agreeing to use the cloud giant’s custom AI chips. “They really need a Trainium chip that’s selling well enough to give someone $10 billion to buy it,” Jim said at the club’s morning meeting Wednesday. “I hope they don’t play this game.” “I have a…

khloe kardashian It’s hot for the teacher—and jacob myers I still can’t believe it. rear kardashian family The star admitted on Dec. 5 that she left a flirtatious comment under a high school teacher’s viral Instagram video and found the response incredible. “I didn’t expect the attention it would get,” Jacob said. today “I was so overwhelmed and excited because I only post videos for fun. My first priority is my students. I’m a teacher first and foremost.” But after the Good American founder reacted to Jacob’s video (he wanted a woman to cheekily list his attributes and ask how…

The British government has warned Roman Abramovich that this is his last chance to donate the proceeds from Chelsea’s sale to victims of Russia’s war in Ukraine.Published December 17, 2025December 17, 2025Click here to share on social mediaShare 2shareBritain said Wednesday it would give Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich one last chance to hand over 2.5 billion pounds ($3.33 billion) to Ukraine for the sale of Chelsea Football Club or face legal action.After Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Britain imposed sanctions on Abramovich for cracking down on the Russian oligarchy, triggering a hasty sale of Premier League soccer clubs and…

Jared Kushner, Founder and CEO of Affinity Partners, speaks during Day 2 of the FII PRIORITY Summit held at the Faena Hotel in Miami Beach, Florida on February 20, 2025.Joe Radle | Getty ImagesJared Kushner’s company Affinity Partners leaves paramount skydancehostile takeover bid warner bros discovery.”With two strong competitors vying to secure the future of this unique American asset, Affinity has decided not to pursue any further opportunities,” an Affinity spokesperson said in a statement.“The dynamics of investing have changed significantly since we first began our involvement in October,” the spokesperson said. “We continue to believe there is a strong…

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy announced in a message to staff Wednesday that longtime AWS executive Peter DeSantis will lead a new organization within the company focused on AI. The organization will be responsible for Amazon’s AI models such as Nova, as well as the silicon development and quantum computing that helps make AI tools faster and more efficient. DeSantis spent 27 years at Amazon, including eight years as SVP of AWS, the cloud provider that powers about a third of the internet. At AWS’s recent re:Invent event, Amazon highlighted its commitment to enterprise AI, so it’s no surprise that the…

Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Colina Machado has left Oslo, her international relations coordinator Pedro Urturtu Noceri wrote in a post on X. “As confirmed by the Prime Minister of Norway, she is no longer in Oslo,” Noseri’s post read. “She is feeling well and has been under the care of specialists over the past few days in hopes of making a speedy and complete recovery.” CNN is trying to find out where Machado traveled. Machado is recovering from a spinal fracture sustained last week while leaving Venezuela on a secret trip to Norway to accept…

Emilia Clarke’s brain aneurysmEmilia Clarke, who filmed battle scenes for Game of Thrones, published an essay in The New Yorker in 2019 titled “A Battle for My Life.”After suffering a severe headache at the gym, the actress writes, “I made it to the bathroom and fell to my knees feeling very, very sick.” “During that time, the pain was getting worse with shooting, stabbing, squeezing pain. On some level, I knew what was happening: my brain was damaged.”She was taken to the hospital for a brain scan.”The diagnosis was swift and ominous: a subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) is a life-threatening type…

The winner of the 2026 FIFA World Cup will win a record $50 million jackpot, but the Club World Cup still offers less than half of that amount.Published December 17, 2025December 17, 2025Click here to share on social mediaShare 2shareThe winner of the 2026 FIFA World Cup will receive a record $50 million jackpot, soccer’s world governing body has announced.This figure is up from $42 million in 2022 and $38 million in 2018. But that’s still less than half of what was on offer at the much-hyped FIFA Club World Cup earlier this year.Recommended stories list of 4 itemsend of…