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California Attorney General Rob Bonta wants you to know that it's not his fault if Paramount leaves as he tries to block their merger with Warner Bros.

Yankees star Aaron Judge is battling a tight lower right leg, leaving his status uncertain for the upcoming series on turf.

Nicolás Fernández Mercau confirmed he rejected a reported $25 million transfer to Sporting Kansas City, choosing to stay with NYCFC.

It is highly unusual that an end-product threatens the economic foundations of its essential suppliers," said Brent Hecht, Microsoft’s director of applied science, according to the bombshell filing.

A visitor to a Southern California beach had a rare encounter with a highly venomous sea snake that washed up on a beach in Orange County, according to video.

It was an impressive opening act for Nagy.

The actress spent a few weeks at a luxury health resort in Austria.

The actress spent a few weeks at a luxury health resort in Austria.

First responders pulled the badly injured senior from the wreckage before he was airlifted by helicopter to Hartford Hospital.

The brewery's own website says it was the fifth brewpub to open in America.

Dolly Parton died Aug. 25 at the age of 80.

Parton died Aug. 25 at the age of 80.

The latest revelation adds to a growing pile of allegations.

Waste Of The Day: Medicare Paid For Wrong Organs

Authored by Jeremy Portnoy via RealClearInvestigations,

Medicare spent an estimated $380 million acquiring human organs that were either transplanted into patients without Medicare or never transplanted at all, according to a new Department of Health and Human Services inspector general audit.

Key facts: Medicare reimburses hospitals for removing kidneys, hearts, lungs and other organs from donors after they die. Federal law says Medicare should only bear those costs when the organ is used in a Medicare-covered transplant.

But decades-old Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services guidance tells hospitals to assume that any organ they send to a transplant center will eventually go to a Medicare patient - without checking whether that actually happens.

Auditors sampled 180 cases of organs that hospitals reported as Medicare-eligible from 2017 to 2022. Fifty-five were not used in Medicare-covered transplants, even though Medicare paid $2.8 million for them.

Of those, 43 went to patients whose transplants were not covered by Medicare. Another 11 were discarded or used for research. One supposed organ donor was still alive.

Based on the sample, the inspector general estimated Medicare spent $379.9 million on organs not used for Medicare patients during the six-year period.

CMS already identified the loophole in 2021 and proposed changing its rules. It abandoned the change after hospitals warned they could lose revenue.

Auditors are not recommending that Medicare recover the $380 million because hospitals generally followed CMS guidance. They did recommend recovering another $154,210 from two hospitals that could not document five organs they claimed were Medicare-eligible.

Background: Medicare's organ-acquisition costs increased 160% over 12 years, from $1.3 billion in 2011 to $3.3 billion in 2023. The number of organs rose only 77%.

Summary: Medicare knew its rules were making taxpayers subsidize transplants for other patients. Five years later, the costly loophole is still on life support.

The #WasteOfTheDay is brought to you by the forensic auditors at OpenTheBooks.com.

Tyler Durden Thu, 09/17/2026 - 20:55

A growing contingent of the new right, like the identitarians of the left, craves its own affirmative action.

"Billy Bob in f—king Red Cloud, Nebraska, who lives next to the f—king Trump store as you pull into town and is waving the flag, all he knows is that he's on the winning team," Osborn sneered in the recording. “It’s really that simple.” 

Pat McAfee might want to think twice about what he does on his show. During Thursday’s episode of “The Pat McAfee Show,” a short eight-second clip emerged on social media of McAfee attempting to put out a lit item. It’s unknown what McAfee was putting out, but the item was placed into an ashtray and...

Thursday's Mets-Phillies game took a scary pause when first baseman Jared Young was carted off the field after he collided with ace Nolan McLean.

"I didn't have any doubts," the holdout juror said.

“There’s been statements made that possibly somebody was chasing the girl, so we’re investigating that, looking into it,” Chief Millin said.