Also, Cuba kills four in a US-marked boat
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| | | WHAT WE'RE WATCHING | | 💸 Vance froze $260 million in Medicaid funding to Minnesota. In his first major action as fraud czar, Vice President JD Vance announced the Trump administration would withhold Medicaid reimbursements until the state addresses rampant fraud. Dr. Mehmet Oz warned that Minnesota could rack up $1 billion in deferred payments this year if Governor Tim Walz (D) fails to clean up fraud-linked programs. | 🇨🇺 Cuba's coast guard killed four aboard a US speedboat. Cuban forces shot four people dead and wounded six others on a Florida-registered vessel after an exchange of gunfire off the island's coast Wednesday. Havana claims the boat's crew fired first, wounding a Cuban patrol captain, though Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the US would "independently verify" the regime's account before responding. | 🚫 Pentagon moves toward blacklisting AI company Anthropic. War Secretary Pete Hegseth asked Boeing and Lockheed Martin to assess their reliance on Anthropic's Claude AI model, a first step toward declaring the company a "supply chain risk" — a penalty typically reserved for adversarial nations like China. Anthropic has refused to lift safeguards blocking Claude's use for mass surveillance or autonomous weapons, despite the model currently being the only AI running in classified military systems. | ⚖️ SCOTUS ruled 9-0 against a private prison contractor. The Supreme Court rejected The GEO Group's claim of sovereign immunity, allowing detained illegal migrants to continue suing over $1-per-day forced labor policies. The ruling, stemming from a 2014 class action, could expose other private prisons that contract with ICE to similar litigation. |
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