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THENATIONALPULSE (Pulse Wires) - Massive Fraud Crackdown Freezes $1.4 Billion in Healthcare Funds.

The Trump administration has announced a six-month freeze on new Medicare hospice and home health providers to combat fraud.

The Trump administration has announced a six-month freeze on new Medicare hospice and home health providers to combat fraud . PULSE POINTS WHAT HAPPENED: The Trump administration announced a six-month nationwide freeze on new Medicare enrollments for hospice and home health providers as part of a broader crackdown on healthcare fraud, with officials saying scammers have exploited vulnerable patients and billed the government for unnecessary services. WHO WAS INVOLVED: The initiative is being coordinated with Vice President J.D. Vance and his anti-fraud task force, which is spearheading efforts to root out fraudulent activity in high-risk sectors. DETAIL: The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services said existing providers will not be…Open

ABCNEWS - Lawsuit accuses secretary of agriculture of proselytizing employees in emails

A new federal lawsuit accuses Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins of proselytizing federal employees by frequently invoking Jesus Christ in work emails.

ABCNEWS - Man sentenced to 2 years over Matthew Perry's ketamine overdose death

Erik Fleming is one of five people charged and convicted in what prosecutors called a conspiracy to illegally distribute ketamine to Matthew Perry.

SUBSTACK (The Grayzone) - The Grayzone visits Tehran hospital bombed by Israel

The Grayzone’s Wyatt Reed goes to the scene of the Israeli bombing of one of Iran’s most advanced hospitals, Tehran’s Gandhi Hospital, which was bombed and mostly destroyed on March 1, 2026.

Wyatt learns that Israel caused $10 million in damage, destroying 20,000 embryos being stored in the hospital’s IVF clinic, while injuring patients as it simultaneously attacked a civilian TV broadcaster across the street. Support The Grayzone’s reporting here: https://thegrayzone.com/support/ Find more reporting at https://thegrayzone.comOpen

NYTIMES (Katrina Miller) - A Physicist Who Thinks in Poetry from the Cosmic Edge

In her second pop-science book, theoretical cosmologist Chanda Prescod-Weinstein returns to her celestial and cultural roots.

NYTIMES (Alan Rappeport, Ana Swanson and Edward Wong) - What to Watch at Trump and Xi’s U.S.-China Summit

Here’s what to know about the biggest sources of tension in U.S.-China relations before the first summit in Beijing in nine years between the nations’ leaders.

NEWSNATIONNOW (CHRISTOPHER RUGABER and JOEY CAPPELLETTI, Associated Press) - Senate confirms Trump pick Warsh as chairman of the Federal Reserve, following Powell

Kevin Warsh was confirmed Wednesday in a largely party-line vote.