Insurers complained that doctors file claims related to nonemergency services at in-network facilities and failed to provide good-faith estimates for the cost of services.
Doctors charged that insurers failed to comply with pricing requirements and don’t pay on time…
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/09/17/health-insurance-premiums-doctors-surprises-01081155
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/09/14/donald-trump-ai-regulation-pushback-01074230
“I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic,” said Coxon, who specialized in training models. “Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives.”
He added: “The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade. This is not a marketing stunt.”…
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/09/09/congress/congress-reacts-to-ai-warning-01068556
Not an Anomaly: In the cases we reviewed, Colorado marijuana regulators took over seven months, on average, to warn the public after receiving a complaint or starting an investigation.
Open Loopholes: Colorado lacks measures adopted in many other marijuana markets to improve testing procedures that prevent contaminated marijuana from going to stores.
Multiple Chances: Even when the state discovers problems with a product that’s in dispensaries, manufacturers say they often continue selling the product while challenging the findings...
She pointed to a simple measure of banks’ capital levels — one that considers how much debt they’re taking on without factoring in what kind of risks they’re taking — that suggests megabanks’ capital buffers are now roughly where they were in 2009. It’s unclear where the next threats to the financial system might come from. Bair is less worried about crypto, for instance, than she is about turmoil in private credit markets, where lenders that aren’t banks make riskier loans to businesses. But the whole point of capital is that it’s intended to guard against the unexpected.
And right now, she’s worried that regulators are letting their guard down...
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jun/09/warning-europe-worries-trump-fear-jd-vance
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/04/oil-price-spike-white-house-hormuz-00949435
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/01/china-taiwan-warns-us-donald-trump-visit
https://www.propublica.org/article/federal-government-ai-cautionary-tales
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nSkr_gDVBU
Israeli settlements and aspects of Israel's control of the occupied West Bank are illegal under international law, a point reiterated by several European governments last week...
https://www.politico.eu/article/friedrich-merz-warns-israel-against-west-bank-annexation/
JP Morgan's report said it had flagged about 4,700 transactions, totalling more than $1bn, that were potentially related to reports of human trafficking involving Epstein, the New York Times reported. The report, filed during the last Trump administration, also flagged sensitivities around Epstein's "relationships with two U.S. presidents"…
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/oct/31/jp-morgan-jeffrey-epstein-transactions
US secretary of state says preliminary move to apply Israeli law in occupied land is 'counterproductive' and a threat to peace…
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/23/marco-rubio-warning-israel-west-bank-donald-trump
Hamas has killed at least 33 people since the ceasefire went into effect last week, according to reporting from Reuters. In one video, more than half a dozen men were dragged into a Gaza City square and executed…
Earlier in the week, Trump downplayed reports of violence following the ceasefire and hostage release deal between Hamas and Israel, saying the Palestinian militant group had taken out "a couple of gangs that were very bad" and had killed gang members…
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5558970-trump-warns-hamas-violence/
The row about Netanyahu's presence shows how hard it will be for some Muslim countries to normalise relations with Israel in the way Trump wants...
