US: Stocks end higher as traders shake off trade tensions

US: Stocks end higher as traders shake off trade tensions

Published Tue, Jun 3, 2025 · 06:13 AM [WASHINGTON] US stocks shook off a gloomy start to the week to close higher on Monday, with traders looking through the new trade uncertainty fueled by President Donald Trump’s recent tariff threats. On Friday, Trump unleashed a new fear into the financial markets, threatening to double steel tariffs from…

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Why Prior Authorization Is Causing Headaches and How to Solve It

Why Prior Authorization Is Causing Headaches and How to Solve It

In healthcare, insurance companies use prior authorization (PA) to determine whether a prescribed treatment, medication, or procedure is medically necessary before they approve coverage. Although intended to control costs and ensure that patients receive appropriate care, the prior authorization process has become a major source of frustration for both healthcare providers and patients. Despite its…

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Pete Hegseth’s Garbage New Press Secretary Is as Extreme as They Come

Pete Hegseth’s Garbage New Press Secretary Is as Extreme as They Come

The Pentagon’s new press secretary is a chronically online 26-year-old white nationalist who believes in the “great replacement” theory, thinks Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelenskiy is an “entitled midget,” and pushed an antisemitic conspiracy theory about Leo Frank, a Jewish man who was lynched after being falsely accused of murder in 1915.  Kingsley Wilson, who has…

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Trump Officials Leave Out One Key Detail on Colorado Attack Suspect

Trump Officials Leave Out One Key Detail on Colorado Attack Suspect

Of the 1,461 arrests made as part of Operation Patriot, only 790 individuals—or roughly 54 percent—had criminal convictions or charges. Meanwhile, 277 detainees, or about 19 percent, had received final orders of removal or deportation, though it’s unclear whether there was overlap between those two groups. This disastrous sweep comes as the Trump administration sets…

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ICE Officials Don’t Know Who to Arrest, Thanks to Stephen Miller

ICE Officials Don’t Know Who to Arrest, Thanks to Stephen Miller

Of the 1,461 arrests made as part of Operation Patriot, only 790 individuals—or roughly 54 percent—had criminal convictions or charges. Meanwhile, 277 detainees, or about 19 percent, had received final orders of removal or deportation, though it’s unclear whether there was overlap between those two groups. This disastrous sweep comes as the Trump administration sets…

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Big Companies Ditch Law Firms That Bent the Knee to Trump

Big Companies Ditch Law Firms That Bent the Knee to Trump

“#Biden clones doubles & robotic engineered soulless mindless entities are what you see. >#Democrats dont know the difference,” the post read, adding dozens of unrelated hashtags such as “#Blackwomen” and “#Jews” and tagging several accounts, including CPAC, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and multiple right-wing media sources. The anonymous account has little more than…

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Hakeem Jeffries Serves up Word Salad Over Federal Aide’s Arrest

Hakeem Jeffries Serves up Word Salad Over Federal Aide’s Arrest

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries more or less admitted he has no plan to actually hold the Trump administration accountable for targeting sitting members of Congress and their aides. Department of Homeland Security police briefly detained an aide to Jeffries’s fellow New York Democrat Representative Jerry Nadler on Wednesday. DHS officers entered Nadler’s Manhattan district…

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ICE Just Arrested 1,400 People. Here’s How Many Had Criminal Charges.

ICE Just Arrested 1,400 People. Here’s How Many Had Criminal Charges.

“#Biden clones doubles & robotic engineered soulless mindless entities are what you see. >#Democrats dont know the difference,” the post read, adding dozens of unrelated hashtags such as “#Blackwomen” and “#Jews” and tagging several accounts, including CPAC, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and multiple right-wing media sources. The anonymous account has little more than…

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Trump Finally Addresses Boulder, Colorado, Attack—Nearly 24 Hours Late

Trump Finally Addresses Boulder, Colorado, Attack—Nearly 24 Hours Late

“#Biden clones doubles & robotic engineered soulless mindless entities are what you see. >#Democrats dont know the difference,” the post read, adding dozens of unrelated hashtags such as “#Blackwomen” and “#Jews” and tagging several accounts, including CPAC, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and multiple right-wing media sources. The anonymous account has little more than…

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Supreme Court Finally Does Something Good on Guns—for Now

Supreme Court Finally Does Something Good on Guns—for Now

On Monday, the Supreme refused to hear two significant cases challenging Maryland’s state-wide ban on semiautomatic rifles and other assault-style weapons like AR-15s. The court’s rejection of the cases, a somewhat surprising move for the conservative majority, means that the gun control law will stay in place—for now. The court also refused to hear a…

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China Exposes Trump’s Lies About Floundering Tariff Talks

China Exposes Trump’s Lies About Floundering Tariff Talks

But as Trump continued to praise Musk and his time atop the Department of Government Efficiency, the president’s verbal gaffes became more apparent. He claimed that DOGE had uncovered $42 million in wasteful spending, referring to expenditures related to Uganda, which Trump pronounced as “oo-ganda.” The 78-year-old also mentioned he would have Musk’s DOGE cuts…

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