Israel says it will block United Nations visa requests (www.axios.com)
Inflation has created a dark cloud over how everyday Americans view the economy (www.cnbc.com)
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Quality of care declines after private equity takes over hospitals, finds nationwide analysis (medicalxpress.com)
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Lose a limb or risk death? Many in Gaza face an agonizing choice, more than 54,500 war-wounded (www.nbcnews.com)
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New breed of climate protesters vows to take fight to ‘cowards’ of US politics (www.theguardian.com)
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Hospital Price Gaps Show Just How Broken the US Health-Care Market Is (www.bloomberg.com)
When a baby is about to arrive, every minute counts. Yet when Jen Villa of Salinas, California, was in labor, she and her partner drove 45 minutes in the middle of the night, bypassing nearby hospitals to reach one they could afford....
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Biden wants to give more student debt relief in bankruptcy court. Not everyone's on board. (www.usatoday.com)
Life led Elizabeth Hadzic and Kim Coles to bankruptcy court....
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Baltimore's new approach to police training looks at the effects of trauma, importance of empathy (apnews.com)
A three-minute viral video shows an irate Baltimore police officer berating a teenager because he ignored orders to stop skateboarding and called the officer “dude.”...
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Battle for the past: the Ukrainians trying to save their archaeological treasure amid war (www.theguardian.com)
Ukraine is a country spectacularly rich in ancient archaeology, whether of the Scythians, with their horses and finely worked gold, who ranged across the steppes from the ninth to second centuries BC, or of the intriguing stone age Cucuteni-Trypillia culture, which produced remarkable, elaborately decorated ceramics and huge,...
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For many migrant families at the southern US border, going back is not an option (www.cnn.com)
A mother who fled her native country with two children after one was kidnapped; a woman who was forced to strip down by thieves looking for money; an activist made unemployable by speaking out against her country’s government: These are some of the stories CNN heard outside a shelter for migrants in Eagle Pass, Texas....
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Daihatsu pauses production over safety scandal (www.bbc.com)
Toyota-owned carmaker Daihatsu has closed all four of its plants until the end of January, after admitting it had falsified safety tests....
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Kanye West apologises to Jewish community for 2022 antisemitic remarks (www.theguardian.com)
Rapper posts message in Hebrew to social media, saying he is ‘committed to making amends and promoting unity’...
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‘Incompetent dumpster fire’: Michigan GOP rocked by financial turmoil and infighting (www.cnn.com)
The Mackinac Republican Leadership Conference often lures a who’s who of GOP power players to Michigan. Wealthy donors shake hands with presidential candidates, who give rousing speeches to packed audiences in hopes of winning the conference’s straw poll....
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Minimum-wage workers in 22 states will be getting raises on Jan. 1 (www.mprnews.org)
Minimum-wage workers in 22 states are going to see more money in their paychecks in the new year....
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‘A generational struggle’: abortion rights pioneer offers insights to the post-Roe US (www.theguardian.com)
The battle to bring back the federal right to abortion in the US hinges on much more than just the outcome of the 2024 presidential election, and winning will require proponents to be as organized and steadfast as their opponents, at least as one of the reproductive freedom movement’s most veteran voices sees it....
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1st Amendment claim struck down in Project Veritas case focused on diary of Biden's daughter (abcnews.go.com)
Criminal prosecutors may soon get to see over 900 documents pertaining to the alleged theft of a diary belonging to President Joe Biden’s daughter after a judge rejected the conservative group Project Veritas’ First Amendment claim....
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Medicaid fraud scandal sees Delaware’s largest hospital system pay $47 million settlement (fortune.com)
Delaware’s largest hospital system will pay more than $47 million to settle whistleblower allegations by its former compliance officer that it provided kickbacks to outside doctors in return for patient referrals, resulting in fraudulent Medicaid billing....
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Texas’ statewide poverty rate declines, but several rural counties see increase in poor residents (www.texastribune.org)
An influx of highly educated people from other states helped shift the state’s economic fortune. But in many parts of Texas, residents are struggling as jobs dry up....
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Pakistan deported Afghans waiting for US resettlement (www.reuters.com)
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The New Family Vacation. More and more Americans are traveling with multiple generations—and, perhaps, learning who their relatives really are. (www.theatlantic.com)
The next time you’re at the airport or checking into a hotel, you might notice a traveling group that looks, at least at first glance, a little unwieldy: young kids, their parents, and their grandparents, all vacationing together regardless of age or mobility limits....
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Ethiopia becomes Africa's latest sovereign default (www.reuters.com)
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Drone attack on Iraq military base wounds 3 U.S. service members, Pentagon says (www.cbsnews.com)
A drone attack by an Iran-affiliated terrorist group on a military base in Iraq early Monday morning left three U.S. service members wounded, the Pentagon said, and prompted President Biden to order retaliatory strikes....
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Hunger and poverty in the world (Sustainable Developement goals) (www.kaggle.com)
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Stretched social safety net could see more strain in 2024 (www.nbcnews.com)
Funding for a variety of pandemic-era assistance programs ran out this year, leaving Americans with fewer resources to help cope with rising prices....
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