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Apparently, no one told Wizards guard Bub Carrington that the first rule of tanking is to never admit to tanking.

Donald Trump praised Israeli plumber Yaniv Hayoun, who saved 170 lives by subduing a co-pilot trying to crash a Flydubai flight to Tel Aviv.

Trump Announces One-Time $90 Payments To 20 Million Seniors In Medicare

Authored by Aldgra Fredly via The Epoch Times,

President Donald Trump announced on Oct. 2 that his administration would issue one-time $90 payments to more than 20 million seniors enrolled in Medicare.

A file photo shows a federal Medicare office. Spencer Platt/Getty Images

Trump said the payments were meant to help seniors cover Medicare premiums and would come from the Medicare Improvement Fund, which Congress has allocated $2 billion to improve Medicare's fee-for-service program but has never been used, according to a White House fact sheet.

"We are finally using this Fund, along with my Most Favored Nations Deals, to substantially lower costs for our Seniors," the president wrote in a Truth Social post.

Eligible Medicare recipients will receive the payment in early October by direct deposit or by check sent to the mailing address they registered with Medicare, the White House said.

Most Medicare Part B enrollees are eligible for the payments, except those whose premiums are already paid by Medicaid or who pay an income-related monthly adjustment amount, the White House said.

"With this action, President Trump is the first President to ever use the Medicare Improvement Fund to directly lower costs for senior citizens," it stated.

Medicare is federal health insurance for Americans 65 or older and some with disabilities. Medicare Part B covers doctors' services, outpatient care, and some preventive services such as flu vaccinations and diabetes screenings.

Trump said in his post that the $90 payments are separate from the $500 rebate checks his administration planned to send to nearly 1 million people who were overcharged for their coverage through the Affordable Care Act - President Barack Obama's healthcare law, known as Obamacare - under the previous administration.

The one-time payments for seniors, Trump said, also demonstrated his commitment to carry out a plan to give every American adult a $5,000 dividend check if Republicans retain control of Congress in the November election.

The president first announced the $5,000 payment during a Sept. 9 Republican event in Dallas, Texas, calling it the Trump dividend. He promised the payment if Americans return Republican majorities to both the House and Senate in the upcoming midterm elections on Nov. 3, which he said could be made possible by his tariff policies.

The Census Bureau's American Community Survey estimated that there were 245 million adult U.S. citizens in the country as of 2024, meaning the payouts would cost about $1.3 trillion.

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick told NBC News on Sept. 10 that, if implemented, the $5,000 dividend checks for citizens would not be paid for with taxpayer dollars. He said the administration could "earn the money that Donald Trump wants to pay out, not from the deficit and not from taxpayers."

Melanie Sun contributed to this report.

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"I've lived up here on Panoramic Hill for 20-something years, and I have never seen any violent crime up here."

The music legend performed "I Want to Hold Your Hand" at the star-studded wedding.

The music legend performed "I Want to Hold Your Hand" at the star-studded wedding.

Relatives believed she was suffering from postpartum depression, and wrote to her referencing Lindsay Clancy to express fears that she might do something similar and harm her children.

So much for the separation of church and home plate. 

On Jan. 20, 1996, three people reported seeing a strange bipedal creature in southeastern Brazil - in one of the country's most famous UFO cases.

Adams, 27, was the USMNT's captain at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, where he played ⁠every minute.

US Again Rebuffs Riyadh's Yemen Plea As 100,000-Man Force Readies For War

Several reports have indicated that Saudi Arabia and Yemeni government forces are preparing for a major offensive against Houthi rebels in the coming weeks, which will mobilize a huge force with an aim to take back Yemen's Red Sea coast and to ultimately secure the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, amid an ongoing threat to global shipping in the Red Sea area.

Over 100,000 Yemeni pro-government troops could mobilize for the offensive,  Reuters has reported. Last month, the ease and quickness of Houthi gains proved humiliating for the Saudi coalition in Yemen.

White House file image

The report described, "The Saudis are considering two possible options for the assault, the Gulf and Yemeni officials said: Either a narrowly focused attack on ​the area around Bab el-Mandeb or a broader offensive that also includes other synchronized attacks on multiple fronts around Yemen, in the governorates of Al-Bayda, Marib, Taiz and Al-Jawf."

Parallel to the Reuters reporting, Axios said Friday that the United States will definitely not join the offensive in any direct way, short of possible intelligence or even targeting help.

The report cited US officials who say Riyadh again directly requested military help from Washington, but the kingdom has been rebuffed for the second time in a few weeks.

The Saudis are expected to focus on air cover for ground forces loyal to Sanaa, and reports suggest the Saudis wanted US warplanes in the air as well. 

Saudi Defense Minister Prince Khalid Bin Salman called Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth to brief him ahead of the operation and specifically requested US airstrikes as coverage for the ground operations. The request was rejected, US officials say.

An admin official was cited in Axios as saying the US "is not going to take kinetic action for now."It was just a week ago that President Trump was said to have been close to ordering US military support in the Yemen theatre, but that he decided against it at the last minute.

Sunni clerics denigrate Shi'ites of the region:

Speaking at a conference in Saudi Arabia, Pakistan’s top Muslim cleric said: "Houthis have no connection whatsoever to Islam.” pic.twitter.com/PY47Bmi99d

— HatsOff (@HatsOffff) September 30, 2026

US officials have said getting bogged down in the Yemen conflict would be a "distraction" at a moment US forces engaged against Iran and in escorting oil transit through the contested Strait of Hormuz.

There's also the fact that in prior years when the US was more directly supporting of the Saudis and UAE in coalition operations in Yemen, it did little to change realities on the ground, other than imposing misery and death on the broader Yemeni population.

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A dog owner located her stolen pooch after hearing its "unique bark" in the background of a Facebook video exposing an accused pet thief's squalid property.

It was previously reported that Ken was found dead by a family member after he failed to respond to Blanchard's text wishing him a happy birthday.

It was previously reported that Ken was found dead by a family member after he failed to respond to Blanchard's text wishing him a happy birthday.

College officials launched a probe, but ultimately backed the teacher -- blaming the student and claiming his "political expression was disfavored," court papers said.

Atlanta finished the regular season with the fourth-best record and fifth-best run differential, but the oddsmakers remain unmoved.

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Storms break. Kings don't.

The Dodgers' bid to three-peat continues today.

Since Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas sympathizers have insisted that we must understand the massacre in its historical context — that it did not happen in a vacuum. This much is true.   To understand this context, we need to look back at a chapter of history that predates the state of Israel by two decades. That...