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Hegseth and Collins’ push for cutting veterans’ health benefits alarms service members and veterans groups
By Natasha Bertrand and Haley Britzky, CNN Updated 2:48 PM EST, Sat December 7, 2024 “Get Pete Hegseth on the phone!” It was March 2018, and then-President Donald Trump was meeting with his Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary, Dr. David Shulkin, about how to reform veteran health care. But it was Hegseth, then a Fox News personality, whose…
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Rural providers, advocates push Texas Legislature to “rescue” maternal health care system
By ELEANOR KLIBANOFF/The Texas Tribune Updated 2:29 PM CST, December 3, 2024 Twenty five years ago, the Texas Legislature passed a sweeping set of reforms to resuscitate the state’s collapsing rural health care system. Now, health care providers, advocates and local leaders are proposing similarly aggressive action to pull the rural maternity care system back from…
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A new Mass. high school is catering specifically to LGBTQ+ students. Here’s what to know.
“There are many schools across the country that are welcoming to the LGBTQIA community, but they don’t solely focus on the needs and the wants of the community,” said J.S. Bryant School co-founder Allison Druin. By Abby Patkin December 3, 2024 When the J.S. Bryant School opens its doors next fall, dozens of LGBTQ+ teens will find a…
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Supreme Court turns away challenge to admissions criteria at Boston high schools
By Melissa Quinn December 9, 2024 / 9:55 AM EST Washington — The Supreme Court on Monday turned away a challenge to race-neutral admissions criteria at three prestigious Boston high schools that aimed to increase the racial and economic diversity of their student bodies. Justice Neil Gorsuch noted that the schools have since changed the admissions policy, which “greatly…
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Why these doctors started writing medical ‘prescriptions’ for solar power
December 9, 20245:00 AM ET By Martha Bebinger Anna Goldman, a primary care physician at Boston Medical Center, got tired of hearing that her patients couldn’t afford the electricity needed to run breathing assistance machines, recharge wheelchairs, turn on air conditioning or keep their refrigerators plugged in. So she worked with her hospital on a solution.…
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Border crossings in November fell to lowest level of Biden’s term
The sharp drop in illegal crossings is due to stronger enforcement by both the United States and Mexico, U.S. officials and analysts say. December 19, 2024 at 6:00 p.m. EST By Nick Miroff Illegal crossings along the U.S.-Mexico border have continued to drop through the last several months of President Joe Biden’s term, with the number…
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Man arrested for child sex trafficking with criminal record of no-shows at court
By Lindsey Ragas and FOX 10 Staff Updated December 13, 2024 5:20pm MST Court documents reveal a checkered past for a 31-year-old man who was arrested in Scottsdale for sex trafficking. FOX 10’s Lindsey Ragas has more. The Brief SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. – A months-long fraud investigation led to the arrest of a man on federal child sex trafficking charges. This…
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California’s jail population will rise due to Prop. 36. So will inmate deaths, advocates say
by Nigel Duara December 17, 2024 In summary California recorded historically high numbers of deaths in county jails for the past six years. Now, counties expect to house more prisoners as Prop. 36 takes effect. According to Orange County Sheriff Don Barnes, California doesn’t have a crisis in its jails, where record numbers of people have…
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Hospitals gave patients meds during childbirth, then reported them for positive drug tests
By Shoshana Walter Published December 11, 2024 at 2:33 PM CST Amairani Salinas was 32 weeks pregnant with her fourth child in 2023 when doctors at a Texas hospital discovered that her baby no longer had a heartbeat. As they prepped her for an emergency cesarean section, they gave her midazolam, a benzodiazepine commonly prescribed to keep…
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