By Tami Luhby, CNN

(CNN) — House Republicans are set to vote this week on their version of a health care bill as the expiration of enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies looms ever closer.

The legislation does not address that key premium assistance, though lawmakers may consider an amendment to the bill that would extend the enhanced subsidies.

The details of such an amendment are still being discussed. But over the weekend, party leaders and GOP centrists failed to agree on the exact contours of the centrists’ amendment, according to a person involved in the discussions. Two centrists plan on Tuesday to force a key House committee to agree to hold a vote on their amendment.

Obamacare enrollees who want their coverage to begin on January 1 don’t have the luxury of time. The deadline to sign up for full-year 2026 coverage is Monday, and the premiums shoppers will see will not include the enhanced assistance. (Open enrollment generally runs until January 15.)

Whatever happens in the House, the beefed-up subsidies are likely to lapse at year’s end since the Senate is not expected to vote on any health care proposals this week. A Democratic effort to extend the subsidies was voted down in the Senate on Thursday, as was a Republican bill that would have funneled federal funds into health savings accounts, known as HSAs, to help certain Obamacare enrollees afford health care.

The House package would not beef up HSAs, but it does contain other measures that have long been popular with Republicans.

“This is kind of a greatest hits of Republican health care ideas of the last decade,” said Larry Levitt, executive vice president for health policy at KFF, a nonpartisan research group.

The House GOP bill would not do much to broadly lower health care costs, especially for those who buy coverage on the Affordable Care Act exchanges, experts say.

If the enhanced subsidies lapse, enrollees wi

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Nick Reiner, a son of legendary Hollywood director Rob Reiner and his wife, producer Michele Singer Reiner, is being held on suspicion of murder following their deaths, according to Los Angeles Police Department Chief Jim McDonnell.

“We have our robbery/homicide division handling the investigation. They worked throughout the night on this case and were able to take into custody Nick Reiner, a suspect in this case,” said LAPD Chief Jim McDonnell.

“He was subsequently booked for murder and is being held on $4 million bail,” McDonnell added.

McDonnell declined to give more details about the investigation.

The Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office has not yet determined any criminal charges in the deaths of the Reiners.

“A case has not been presented to our office for filing consideration. Once a case has been presented, we will carefully review the evidence to determine what charges are appropriate,” the office said in a statement.”

The district attorney’s office also said, “We owe it to their memory to pursue justice and accountability for the lives that were tragically taken.”

Rob Reiner was born in 1947 in The Bronx, New York, to Estelle and Carl Reiner, the writer, actor, director and producer whose many decades’ worth of credits included “The Dick Van Dyke Show” and “The 2000 Year Old Man.”

Rob came to stardom playing the son-in-law of Archie and Edith Bunker on the 1970s hit show “All in the Family” before going on to create a truly diverse body of incredibly successful work, including classics like “This is Spinal Tap,” “Stand By Me,” and “The Princess Bride.”

He cemented his status as a leading director with “When Harry Met Sally…”, “Misery,” and “A Few Good Men,” which earned four Oscar nominations.

Nick Reiner, 32, co-wrote the 2015 film “Being Charlie,” a movie inspired by his own experiences with drug addiction, including homelessness and stays in rehab. It was directed by his father.

“That made me who I am now, having to deal with that stuff,” Nick Reiner told People magazine in 2016. “I met crazy great people (while homeless), so out of my element. Now, I’ve been home for a really long time, and I’ve sort of gotten acclimated back to being in LA and being around my family. But there was a lot of dark years there.”

Rob Reiner appeared with Nick on the AOL program “Build” in 2015 to discuss “Being Charlie.”

“You don’t set out to have a cathartic experience or be therapeutic in some way,” the elder Reiner said. “The fact that we were dealing with things that Nick had gone through and how I had related to it and how his mother had related to it … it forced me to have to see more clearly and understand more deeply what Nick had gone through, and I think it forced him to see things that I had experienced during this process.”

“I mean, we did get into fights over things, but ultimately it forced us to make the film better,” Rob Reiner said. “The whole process for me – I can just speak for myself – it did make me understand him a lot more, and it did make me a better father. Hopefully it did.”

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By Karina Tsui, Cheri Mossburg, Holly Yan, Sandra Gonzalez, TuAnh Dam, and Danya Gainor

Nick Reiner, a son of legendary Hollywood director Rob Reiner and his wife, producer Michele Singer Reiner, is being held on suspicion of murder following their deaths, according to Los Angeles Police Department Chief Jim McDonnell.

“We have our robbery/homicide division handling the investigation. They worked throughout the night on this case and were able to take into custody Nick Reiner, a suspect in this case,” said LAPD Chief Jim McDonnell.

“He was subsequently booked for murder and is being held on $4 million bail,” McDonnell added.

McDonnell declined to give more details about the investigation.

The Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office has not yet determined any criminal charges in the deaths of the Reiners.

“A case has not been presented to our office for filing consideration. Once a case has been presented, we will carefully review the evidence to determine what charges are appropriate,” the office said in a statement.”

The district attorney’s office also said, “We owe it to their memory to pursue justice and accountability for the lives that were tragically taken.”

Rob Reiner was born in 1947 in The Bronx, New York, to Estelle and Carl Reiner, the writer, actor, director and producer whose many decades’ worth of credits included “The Dick Van Dyke Show” and “The 2000 Year Old Man.”

Rob came to stardom playing the son-in-law of Archie and Edith Bunker on the 1970s hit show “All in the Family” before going on to create a truly diverse body of incredibly successful work, including classics like “This is Spinal Tap,” “Stand By Me,” and “The Princess Bride.”

He cemented his status as a leading director with “When Harry Met Sally…”, “Misery,” and “A Few Good Men,” which earned four Oscar nominations.

Nick Reiner, 32, co-wrote the 2015 film “Being Charlie,” a movie inspired by his own experiences with drug addiction, including homelessness and stays in rehab. It was directed by his father.

“That made me who I am now, having to deal with that stuff,” Nick Reiner told People magazine in 2016. “I met crazy great people (while homeless), so out of my element. Now, I’ve been home for a really long time, and I’ve sort of gotten acclimated back to being in LA and being around my family. But there was a lot of dark years there.”

Rob Reiner appeared with Nick on the AOL program “Build” in 2015 to discuss “Being Charlie.”

“You don’t set out to have a cathartic experience or be therapeutic in some way,” the elder Reiner said. “The fact that we were dealing with things that Nick had gone through and how I had related to it and how his mother had related to it … it forced me to have to see more clearly and understand more deeply what Nick had gone through, and I think it forced him to see things that I had experienced during this process.”

“I mean, we did get into fights over things, but ultimately it forced us to make the film better,” Rob Reiner said. “The whole process for me – I can just speak for myself – it did make me understand him a lot more, and it did make me a better father. Hopefully it did.”

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By Piper Hudspeth Blackburn, Natasha Bertrand, Haley Britzky, CNN

(CNN) — The two US Army soldiers killed in Syria on Saturday were Sgt. Edgar Brian Torres Tovar, 25, of Des Moines, Iowa, and Sgt. William Nathaniel Howard, 29, of Marshalltown, Iowa, according to the Army. They were both members of the Iowa National Guard.

The Army said in a statement on Monday that the soldiers “died December 13, 2025, in Palmyra, Syria, of injuries sustained while engaged with hostile forces.”

An American civilian interpreter was also killed in the attack, which was carried out by a single ISIS gunman, the Department of Defense said Saturday. Three other Iowa National Guard members were wounded.

President Donald Trump vowed to retaliate, declaring “there will be a lot of damage done to the people that did it” in front of a crowd at a White House Christmas reception Sunday.

“We had three great patriots terminated by bad people, and not the Syrian government, it was ISIS,” he said, adding that the new president of Syria has “fought by our side.”

The deadly attack comes as Damascus has sought to strengthen ties with the US after the Assad dictatorship was overthrown last year.

US troops have operated for years across multiple locations in Syria as they’ve trained Syrian partner forces as part of the wider fight against ISIS. American personnel have previously come under attack, and Saturday’s incident is the deadliest since a 2019 blast that struck a patrol, killing two US service members and two US civilians.

Pentagon chief spokesperson Sean Parnell said Saturday on X that the soldiers’ “mission was in support of on-going counter-ISIS / counter-terrorism operations in the region.”

Roughly 1,800 Iowa Army National Guard soldiers began deploying to the Middle East in late May to support Operation Inherent Resolve, the US mission to defeat ISIS, according to a Saturday statement from Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds’ office.

Nathaniel Howard’s father, Meskwaki Nation Police Chief Jeffrey Bunn, had shared in a statement posted to Facebook on Saturday that his son was one of the individuals that had been killed.

“Our son Nate was one of the Soldiers that paid the ultimate sacrifice for all of us, to keep us all safer,” Bunn said. “He loved what he was doing and would be the first in and last out, no one left behind. Please pray for our Soldiers all around this cruel world.”

Syrian forces arrested five suspects in connection with the ambush on Sunday, according to Syria’s Interior Ministry. The suspects were “immediately placed under investigation,” the ministry said in a statement.

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