Affordable Care Act Enrollees Say Expiring Subsidies Will Hit Them Hard
LOADING ERROR LOADINGNEW YORK (AP) — For one Wisconsin couple, the loss of government-sponsored health subsidies next year means choosing a lower-quality insurance plan with a higher deductible. The Senate on Thursday rejected two proposals to address the problem and an emerging health care package from House Republicans does not include an extension, all but guaranteeing that many Americans will see much higher insurance costs in 2026. Affordable Care Act health insurance website healthcare.gov are seen on a computer screen in New York, Aug. 19, 2025. AdvertisementThis year, the Brunses were paying $2 per month for a top-tier gold-level plan with less than a $4,000 deductible. So, they are planning to go without health insurance next year, paying cash for prescriptions, checkups and anything else that arises.
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December 13, 2025 15:03 UTC
My Little Pony Helped Me Cope With My Dad Dying Of Cancer
Beneath the tree, instead of presents, the 20 My Little Ponies I’d played with as a child paraded across the handmade skirt. For the uninitiated, My Little Pony is toy line and franchise created by Bonnie Zacherle for Hasbro. When Hasbro released Generation 4 along with the television show “My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic,” something intriguing happened. AdvertisementI wasn’t thinking about the My Little Pony franchise evolution or whether I was destined to become an adult superfan the day I found my decades-old collection. When my friends’ children have birthdays, they can count on me to send them My Little Ponies and cards with envelopes covered in pony stickers.
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December 13, 2025 14:11 UTC
Belarus Frees Nobel Prize Laureate, Other Prominent Political Prisoners As U.S. Lifts Sanctions
LOADING ERROR LOADINGVILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — Belarusian authorities on Saturday freed Nobel Peace Prize laureate Ales Bialiatski, key opposition figure Maria Kolesnikova and other prominent political prisoners, a human rights group confirmed. Belarus has released hundreds of prisoners since July 2024. John Coale, the U.S. special envoy for Belarus, announced the lifting of sanctions on potash after meeting Lukashenko in Minsk on Friday and Saturday. He said that normalizing relations between Washington and Minsk was “our goal.”Advertisement“We’re lifting sanctions, releasing prisoners. Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, and Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko meet in St. Petersburg, Russia, Jan. 29, 2024.
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December 13, 2025 13:53 UTC
Sen. Ruben Gallego Joins Starbucks Picket Line In Arizona
Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) joined Starbucks baristas at a picket line in Arizona in solidarity with their ongoing strike against the multibillion-dollar coffee company after going years without a union contract. Progressive Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) marched with striking baristas alongside New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani in Brooklyn, New York. That's why I'm fighting with them for what they deserve: living wages and fair labor practices. Despite winning their first-ever union election in 2021, Starbucks workers are still waiting on their first union contract. Federal labor prosecutors have accused Starbucks of illegally firing union supporters, making unlawful threats and refusing to bargain with workers throughout the campaign.
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December 13, 2025 10:43 UTC
Trump May Finally Reschedule Pot, And Cannabis Insiders Have Concerns
LOADING ERROR LOADINGThe federal government currently classifies pot as a Schedule I drug, which means it’s considered highly addictive and has no FDA-approved medical use. AdvertisementIf the rumblings near the White House are true, Trump could issue an executive order that changes the wacky weed’s classification to Schedule III, a distinction given to drugs like steroids that can be accessed with a prescription. It’s been a long time coming for the bud biz, according to Jason DeLand, co-founder and chair of Dosist, a California-based cannabis wellness brand. “Look, this is overdue,” DeLand told HuffPost.“Schedule I is supposed to be for substances with high abuse potential and no accepted medical use. “If cannabis is classified as Schedule III, smoke shops still cannot sell it,” she told HuffPost by email.
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December 13, 2025 07:02 UTC
James Carville Says Jasmine Crockett Is Violating The 'First Rule Of Politics'
LOADING ERROR LOADINGLongtime Democratic strategist James Carville took on Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) for making her campaign for U.S. Senate “a lot more about herself” than about voters. But she, to me, she violates the first rule of politics and that is in politics, you always make it about the voters and never about yourself,” said Carville, in remarks on his “Politics War Room” podcast with Al Hunt. Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) speaks during a rally featuring California Governor Gavin Newsom in Houston on Saturday, Nov. 8, 2025. He stressed that the Democratic Party knows “what wins elections.”“What wins elections is not sitting there talking incessantly about yourself,” Carville said. Winning elections is being part of framing issues and understanding where people come from and I don’t think Congresswoman Crockett is very good at that, I’ll be very frank.”
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December 13, 2025 07:00 UTC
Indiana Lt. Gov: Trump Threatened To Withhold Funding If We Didn’t Redistrict
The Indiana Senate made it clear to the Trump Admin today that they do not want to be partners with the WH. Indiana told the WH today they don’t want to be a good partner to the Trump Admin and I suspect the WH will look to partner with other states before us.”AdvertisementThe Lt. “President Trump has made it clear to Indiana leaders: if the Indiana Senate fails to pass the map, all federal funding will be stripped from the state,” Heritage Action threatened. Indiana’s state senate voted down the unprecedented effort 19-31, with a majority of Republicans giving it a thumbs down. Kaiti Sullivan/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesAdvertisement“It’s time to say no to pressure from Washington DC,” Indiana state Sen. Spencer Deery, a Republican, told NOTUS after the vote.
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December 13, 2025 00:24 UTC
Republicans Holding On To Jan. 6 Pipe Bomb Conspiracy Theory
AdvertisementCiting bank records, cell phone data, license plate scanners and surveillance video, the government has said Cole assembled the two pipe bombs from materials he purchased over the course of two years. “So they figured if they planted a bomb there that they could rush into the Capitol and go, ‘Stop the objections! AdvertisementIn their January 2025 report on the unsolved pipe bomb case, Loudermilk and Massie said the bombs served as a diversion that helped rioters breach the Capitol. “According to public reports, you were working as a government employee of the Department of Commerce on January 6, 2021, when you discovered a pipe bomb near the RNC,” Loudermilk’s letter said. Loudermilk became Republicans’ point man on their Jan. 6 counter-investigation after the original Jan. 6 committee, the one led by Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.)
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December 12, 2025 23:24 UTC
19 More Photos From Epstein’s Estate Released, With Many More To Come
LOADING ERROR LOADINGDemocrats on the House Oversight Committee released 19 new photos from the estate of late sex predator Jeffrey Epstein on Friday, some of which feature President Donald Trump. The images also include Epstein hanging out with filmmaker Woody Allen, and another of Epstein sitting across a desk from former Trump adviser Steve Bannon. A photo released by House Democrats on the Oversight Committee shows a bowl of Trump-branded condoms in an undated photo. House Oversight CommitteeEarlier this month, Democrats on the committee released 10 photos and four videos that showed parts of Epstein’s infamous ― and creepy ― island property. House Oversight Committee chair James Comer (R-Ky.) said the committee plans to post the bank records online.
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December 12, 2025 23:02 UTC
20 Of The Funniest Posts About Cats And Dogs This Week (Dec. 6-12)
If you feel like you’ve been working like a dog, let us offer you the internet equivalent of a big pile of catnip: hilarious posts about pets. Each week at HuffPost, we scour Bluesky, Instagram and X, formerly Twitter, to find the funniest posts about our furballs being complete goofballs. He knows the sound of a crunching apple now so he’ll wake up from his nap to get some apple. pic.twitter.com/hvO0wBHEhG — jake rhodes (@jakebrodes) December 11, 2025Advertisement AdvertisementAdvertisement Advertisement@jeffhamilton.bsky.social/Blueskythis is what being alive in December feels like pic.twitter.com/TAWudrrULJ — yuuii (@yuuiichive) December 11, 2025@amutepiggy.bsky.social/BlueskyLars the reindeer was raised in the house alongside dogs, and he clearly thinks he is one. pic.twitter.com/WzwvJfnwtB — The Associated Press (@AP) December 11, 2025Advertisement AdvertisementAdvertisement AdvertisementRelated...Read the original on HuffPost
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December 12, 2025 22:15 UTC
I Wrote A Letter To My Future Self. Life Didn’t Turn Out That Way.
Right now, I’m living on Parkman Avenue in Silver Lake with Greg (still my boyfriend – is he my husband yet?) The important thing to know about me right now is: I’M HAPPY. I’ve been forced to look at the person I was before 20 years of life happened to me. AdvertisementGreg has been my partner, best friend, and the love of my life for nearly 24 years. Whatever happens, please know I’m rooting for you.”I won’t try to guess what happens next.
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December 12, 2025 21:33 UTC
Ethan Hawke Talks About 'Regret' Over His Daughter Maya's Childhood
Ethan Hawke opened up about his relationship with his eldest daughter, actor Maya Hawke, in a wide-ranging interview with Sydney Sweeney published on Thursday. Ethan Hawke and Sweeney spoke to each other for Variety’s annual series, “Actors on Actors,” where Hawke opened up about his children, and Maya in particular. “There were a lot of things about her childhood that were really, really hard and complicated, and things I regret for her,” the “Blue Moon” actor said. Buzz: Ethan Hawke Compares Uma Thurman Marriage To A Game Of Spin The BottleThe two actors were also the subject of great tabloid speculation, with rumors that Hawke left Thurman for their children’s nanny, Ryan Shawhughes. Hawke recently opened up about his divorce from Thurman in an interview with the Los Angeles Times.
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December 12, 2025 21:12 UTC
Experts Warn You Should Never Share These 5 Things With ChatGPT — And What You Can Do If You Already Did
LOADING ERROR LOADINGIt’s becoming increasingly common for people to use ChatGPT and other AI chatbots like Gemini, Copilot and Claude in their everyday lives. If you’re thinking about using an AI chatbot to get a leg up at work, tread lightly. “Many AI chat platforms operate on shared infrastructure, and despite strong security postures, your input may still be logged for ‘model improvement,’” he said. AdvertisementMalorny via Getty Images AI chatbots like ChatGPT have streamlined people's lives in many ways, but there are risks when it comes to sharing information. What if you already shared this info with an AI chatbot?
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December 12, 2025 20:31 UTC
My Soulmate Fell In Love With My Roommate. It Took Me Years To Figure Out What Happened.
I’d never been in a serious relationship, and it chilled me to think that he wanted something I didn’t know how to give. Advertisement AdvertisementAdvertisement AdvertisementLater that night, my roommate Sarah wanted to know if anything had “happened” with Jason. “I was wrong when I said I wasn’t looking to date someone,” I told Jason. Advertisement AdvertisementAdvertisement AdvertisementA decade later, at our 10-year law school reunion, Jason gave me his familiar bear hug. It was that same cold bucket of ice water I’d felt dumped over my head on the racquetball court years ago.
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December 12, 2025 19:48 UTC
Jimmy Kimmel Has A Rich Response After Getting A Check With Trump's Name On It
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December 12, 2025 19:42 UTC