NEW: Programs for #Students With Hearing and Vision Loss Harmed by Trump’s Anti-Diversity Push == Federal funding for organizations that help students with hearing and vision loss across eight states will stop at the end of the month, according to letters sent by a top #Education Dept. official and obtained by ProPublica. #news #kids #trump #government #DEI

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Programs for Students With Hearing and Vision Loss Harmed by Trump’s Anti-Diversity Push

Citing concerns about DEI, the U.S. Department of Education has halted funding for programs that support students with combined hearing and vision ...

“Just Let Me Die”: After Insurance Repeatedly Denied a Couple’s Claims, One Psychiatrist Was Their Last Hope --- After a North Carolina man attempted suicide twice, his wife tried to get him help at an inpatient clinic. But their insurance provider refused to cover the treatment, deeming it “not medically necessary.”

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“Just Let Me Die”: After Insurance Repeatedly Denied a Couple’s Claims, One Psychiatrist Was Their Last Hope

After a North Carolina man attempted suicide twice, his wife tried to get him help at an inpatient clinic. But their insurance provider refused to ...

#News #Health #MentalHealth #Psychiatry #Insurance

Middle School Cheerleaders Made a TikTok Video Portraying a School Shooting. They Were Charged With a Crime. — Social videos, memes and retweets are becoming fodder for criminal charges in an era of heightened responses to student threats. Authorities argue harsh punishment is necessary, but experts say the crackdown won’t make schools safer.

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Middle School Cheerleaders Made a TikTok Video Portraying a School Shooting. They Were Charged With a Crime.

Social videos, memes and retweets are becoming fodder for criminal charges in an era of heightened responses to student threats. Authorities say ha...

#News #SocialMedia #Children #Education #School #Crime #Police #Tennessee

Politically Connected Firms Benefit From Trump Tariff Exemptions Amid Secrecy, Confusion — The administration’s lack of transparency about tariff exemptions has experts concerned that some firms might be winning narrow carve-outs behind closed doors. “It could be corruption, but it could just as easily be incompetence,” one lobbyist said.

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Politically Connected Firms Benefit From Trump Tariff Exemptions Amid Secrecy, Confusion

The administration’s lack of transparency about tariff exemptions has experts concerned that some firms might be winning narrow carve-outs behind...

#News #Trump #Tariffs #Economy #USPolitics #Business #Industry

One million children will go untreated for severe malnutrition, up to 166,000 people will die from malaria and 200,000 more children will be paralyzed by polio over the next decade, internal memos estimated. The USAID programs were cut anyway.

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Internal Memos: Senior USAID Leaders Warned Trump Appointees of Hundreds of Thousands of Deaths From Closing Agency

One million children will go untreated for severe malnutrition, up to 166,000 people will die from malaria and 200,000 more children will be paraly...

#News #USAID #PublicHealth #Trump #DOGE #Aid #Disease #Health #USPolitics

What a $2 Million Per Dose Gene Therapy Reveals About Drug Pricing — Taxpayers and charities helped develop Zolgensma. Then it debuted at a record price, ushering in a new class of wildly expensive drugs. Its story upends the widely held conception that high prices reflect huge industry investments in innovation.

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What a $2 Million Per Dose Gene Therapy Reveals About Drug Pricing

Taxpayers and charities helped develop Zolgensma. Then it debuted at a record price, ushering in a new class of wildly expensive drugs. Its story u...

#News #Health #Healthcare #Medicine #Genetics #Biotech #Science

The bill’s introduction follows WPLN and ProPublica reporting that found the state’s lax gun laws and enforcement allow firearms to remain in the hands of abusers, some of whom have gone on to shoot and harm or kill their victims.

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Tennessee Lawmakers Push to Change How the State Disarms Dangerous People to Better Protect Domestic Violence Victims

The GOP-sponsored bill would provide more transparency when a court orders someone to give up their firearms. The move follows WPLN and ProPublica ...

#News #Tennessee #Guns #DomesticViolence #Abuse

“Not Medically Necessary”: Inside the Company Helping America’s Biggest #Health Insurers Deny Coverage for Care — When companies like Aetna or UnitedHealthcare want to rein in costs, they turn to #EviCore, whose business model depends on turning down payments for #care recommended by #doctors for their #patients.

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Inside the Company Helping America’s Biggest Health Insurers Deny Coverage for Treatments

When companies like Aetna or UnitedHealthcare want to rein in costs, they turn to EviCore, whose business model depends on turning down payments fo...

#News #Insurance #Algorithm #AI #Healthcare

9 things you need to know about the inside story of how 3M allowed PFOS to seep into all of us while sitting on research that showed the chemical is toxic. #News #ForeverChemicals #Safety #3M #EPA #PFAS #PFOS

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Nine Takeaways From Our Investigation Into 3M’s Forever Chemicals

What you need to know about the inside story of how the company allowed PFOS to seep into all of us while sitting on research that showed the chemi...

Biden Administration Commits $200 Million to Help Reintroduce #Salmon in Columbia River == Dams had blocked salmon’s passage, driving them toward extinction and violating tribal fishing rights. The money will fully fund #Native tribes’ plans to bring fish back to the region. #Oregon #Fishing #Fish #NativeAmerican

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Biden Administration Commits $200 Million to Help Reintroduce Salmon in Columbia River

Dams had blocked salmon’s passage, driving them toward extinction and violating tribal fishing rights. The money will fully fund Native tribes’...

Concerned About Your OB-GYN Visit? A Guide to What Should Happen — and What Shouldn’t. == As we’ve reported on sexual misconduct by OB-GYNs, many women told us they didn’t know what was normal. With the help of providers, patients and experts, we created this guide.

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Concerned About Your OB-GYN Visit? A Guide to What Should Happen — and What Shouldn’t.

As we’ve reported on sexual misconduct by OB-GYNs, many women told us they didn’t know what was normal. With the help of providers, patients an...

“Where Is There to Go?” He Needs Gender-Affirming Surgery, but His State Is Fighting to Deny Coverage. == A #NorthCarolina policy that denies state employees coverage for gender-affirming care has been on hold pending appeal. For one #transgender worker still awaiting surgery, the anxiety is “like somebody has got their hands around my neck.” #Insurance #Lawsuits #Courts #CivilRights #HumanRights #HealthCare #Hospitals #Patients #Doctors #LGBTQ #News

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“Where Is There to Go?” He Needs Gender-Affirming Surgery, but His State Is Fighting to Deny Coverage.

A North Carolina policy that denies state employees coverage for gender-affirming care has been on hold pending appeal. For one transgender worker ...

Both Parents Agree: The Child Is Being Harmed. Which One Will the Court Believe? == A child said he was being sexually and physically abused by his father. The father alleged the mother was brainwashing the child against him. One reporter dug into years of case files to understand how courts decided to interpret the facts. (CW: Contains detailed allegations of physical & sexual abuse of a child and descriptions of injuries that may have been caused by child abuse.)

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Both Parents Agree: The Child Is Being Harmed. Which One Will the Court Believe?

As a contentious custody dispute drags on for years, both sides agree on one thing: The child at the center of it is being abused. Is his mother or...

Clarence Thomas’ 38 Vacations: The Other Billionaires Who Have Treated the #SupremeCourt Justice to Luxury Travel == The fullest accounting yet shows how Thomas has secretly reaped the benefits from a network of wealthy and well-connected patrons that is far more extensive than previously understood. #SCOTUS #ClarenceThomas #News

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Clarence Thomas’ 38 Vacations: The Other Billionaires Who Have Treated the Supreme Court Justice to Luxury Travel

The fullest accounting yet shows how Thomas has secretly reaped the benefits from a network of wealthy and well-connected patrons that is far more ...

Unstoppable: This Doctor Has Been Investigated at Every Level of Government. How Is He Still Practicing? == Medical boards, a health department and even federal investigators have scrutinized Dr. James McGuckin’s vascular clinics. Today he still practices, despite a decade-long string of sanctions, fines and lawsuits. #Health #HealthCare #Doctors #Hospitals #Patients #Insurance #Medicare #DOJ #Pennsylvania #News #McGuckin

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Unstoppable: This Doctor Has Been Investigated at Every Level of Government. How Is He Still Practicing?

Medical boards, a health department and even federal investigators have scrutinized Dr. James McGuckin’s vascular clinics. Today he still practic...

A New #Illinois Law Shifts #Repatriation and Reburial Power to #Tribal Nations == For the first time, tribal nations forcibly removed from Illinois will have final say in how and when the remains of their ancestors will be returned to them.

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A New Illinois Law Shifts Repatriation and Reburial Power to Tribal Nations

For the first time, tribal nations forcibly removed from Illinois will have final say in how and when the remains of their ancestors will be return...