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  • Maxim Health Care Services has agreed to pay $150 million to resolve fraud allegations by the Justice Department and the attorneys general of 42 states. The home health care company admitted to overcharging Medicaid for six years. Eight former employees at the company have pleaded guilty in connection with the scheme, and some of them face prison time.
  • Golden Globe nominations are announced Monday. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association plans to hand out its trophies next month during a lavish Hollywood party broadcast on NBC.
  • The Kremlin says the Russian leader met Wagner head Yevgeny Prigozhin and nearly three dozen of his mercenary commanders for talks in Moscow late last month.
  • The prosecution has rested at the perjury trial of Lewis "Scooter" Libby, former top aide to Vice President Dick Cheney. The defense begins presenting its side of the story on Monday.
  • The reinstatement comes ahead of a no-confidence vote against Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The Supreme Court has stayed the defamation conviction that led to Gandhi's ouster from Parliament.
  • Who gets into the G-20? We'll, it's not just the 20 biggest economies in the world, though being wealthy helps.
  • Admiral William Crowe, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has died. He was 82. No cause of death was released. He served as the nation's top-ranking military officer under President Reagan during the waning days of the Cold War.
  • A top leader of the Sunni Arab movement that has been aligned with U.S. forces in Iraq's Anbar province was killed Thursday in a roadside bombing. Sheikh Abdul Sattar Abu Risha was founder of the Anbar Salvation Council, which joined U.S. troops fighting al-Qaida in Iraq last year.
  • Executives from Detroit's Big Three car companies met with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday to ask for billions of dollars to help rescue the ailing industry. The request comes amid the worst auto sales in a quarter-century. It's unclear whether Ford, GM and Chrysler will get the answers they want.
  • The latest TV ratings are out and CBS captured the top spot with help from its Super Bowl broadcast. Last fall, NBC was No. 1 but now it's fourth. What's surprising is that Spanish-language network Univision has surpassed NBC's ratings.
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