Lebanon Seeks Temporary Ceasefire to Allow Broader Talks With Israel, Official Says

BEIRUT, April 9 (Reuters) – ⁠Lebanon ⁠has spent ⁠the last 24 ​hours advocating for a temporary ‌ceasefire to allow ‌for broader ⁠talks ⁠with Israel, a senior Lebanese official ​told Reuters, saying it would be a “separate ​track but the same model” ⁠as a ⁠fragile truce ⁠brokered by ​Pakistan between the U.S. and ​Iran. The ⁠official …

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Arrests made in California fraud crackdown targeting LA hospice ring allegedly behind $267 million in bogus charges

The California Department of Justice and several state agencies arrested five people Wednesday in a crackdown on an alleged hospice fraud ring, and officials said more arrests will come. Several suspects received “notices to appear” in court and will face arrest warrants if they don’t show. In total, the state filed charges against 21 suspects. …

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Justice Department investigating NFL over games on paid platforms, sources say

The National Football League is being investigated by the federal government for practices that allegedly harm consumers for licensing games to multiple platforms — paid streaming platforms, paid cable networks, and others, sources told CBS News. A government official familiar with the matter said the probe is about affordability for consumers and creating an “even …

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For Second Time, Trump Seeks to Eliminate Federal Funding for Tribal Colleges and Universities

President Donald Trump’s fiscal year 2027 budget proposal calls for a $1.5 trillion increase to defense spending and would carve billions of dollars out of programs that fulfill trust and treaty responsibilities to tribal nations, including entirely eliminating funding for the Institute for American Indian Arts, the country’s only federally funded college for contemporary Native …

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