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| 30.10.2024 | National Politics | Election deniers use Telegram to rally poll watchers in swing states | Telegram’s press office didn’t respond to a request for comment. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency declined to comment. The Trump campaign referred queries to the Republican National Committee, which said that the RN... |
| 29.10.2024 | Comcast, Charter Sue FTC Over Efforts To Make Canceling Services Easier | Earlier this month the FTC announced it was modifying some existing rules to crack down on companies that make it extremely difficult to cancel services. The agency’s revamp of its 1973 “Negative Option Rule” requires companies be completel... |
| 23.10.2024 | National Politics | School choice goes before voters in 3 states, faces pushback in others | The choice programs have had difficulty gaining traction in rural areas, where there are fewer private schools than in cities and suburbs.
To overcome that resistance in Texas, Republican Gov. Greg Abbott has worked hard to elect like-minde... |
| 18.10.2024 | The Battle for Consumer Rights: A New Era of Transparency and Accountability | In a world where consumer rights often feel like a distant dream, recent developments signal a shift. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is stepping up to the plate, swinging hard against companies that make it frustratingly difficult to ca... |
| 17.10.2024 | New FTC Rules Make It Easier To Cancel Services, Punish Companies For Being Annoying Little Shits About It | While FTC boss Lina Khan certainly has had some growing pains, she’s fought for consumer protection and antitrust reform in a way that U.S. regulators haven’t seen for the better part of a generation.
Whether it’s taking on automaker privac... |
| 15.10.2024 | Fossil Fuel Companies Use Fake Consumer Groups And Fake Local News Orgs To Derail Solar Efforts In Ohio | A favorite tactic of U.S. corporations looking to dismantle consumer protection reforms (or anything they don’t like, really) is to create entirely fake consumer groups custom-built to confuse voters and journalists. Such groups are usually... |
| 13.10.2024 | Commentary | Opinion: Nicholas R. Micinski and Kelsey Norman: A year of escalating conflict in the Middle East has ushered in a new era of regional displacement
By Nicholas R. Micinski and Kelsey Norm... | By Nicholas R. Micinski and Kelsey Norman
A year of conflict has ushered in a new era of mass displacement in the Middle East.
Since Hamas’ attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, and the subsequent sustained Israeli bombardment of Gaza, Israel h... |
| 10.10.2024 | The Future of Healthcare: AI's Role in Insurance Verification | In the world of healthcare, time is a precious commodity. Patients arrive at clinics, hoping for swift care, only to be met with a daunting wall of bureaucracy. The insurance verification process can stretch into days or even weeks, leaving... |
| 10.10.2024 | Transforming Insurance Verification and Authorizations with AI | Sridhar Yerramreddy, Founder and CEO of Steer Health Inc.
Across many healthcare organizations, front-office staff face a significant dilemma: patients seeking help only to be told that their health insurance verification and authorization ... |
| 07.10.2024 | Editorials | Editorial: Federal judiciary moves towards less transparency | Their decision in Loper Bright Enterprises vs. Raimondo overturned a longtime precedent allowing federal administrative agencies to make determinations about the application of ambiguous laws, which is now wreaking havoc across our regulato... |
| 04.10.2024 | Exclusive: Conservative think tank targeting NASA employees' communications about Musk, Trump | United StatesPublic Policy
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| 03.10.2024 | FCC Tries To Pre-Empt Telecom Industry Claim That The Supreme Court Neutered Its Authority To Protect Consumers | As noted a few times, recent Supreme Court rulings have thrown most U.S. regulatory enforcement into operational and legal chaos. The dismantling of Chevron in particular now dictates that regulators can’t implement new rules or reforms wit... |
| 02.10.2024 | National Politics | Vance-Walz debate highlighted clear health policy differences | Related Articles
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| 01.10.2024 | National Politics | Vance and Walz keep it civil in a policy-heavy discussion: VP debate takeaways | The differing visions of what American leadership should look like overshadowed the sharp policy differences between the two tickets.Related Articles
National Politics | A look at false and misleading claims during the vice presidential deb... |
| 20.09.2024 | First early votes cast in knife-edge US presidential election | ARLINGTON, Texas: The first early voters cast their ballots on Friday (Sep 20) for November's knife-edge United States presidential election, as Democratic candidate Kamala Harris headed for a campaign event focused on the hot-button issue ... |
| 19.09.2024 | National Politics | Harris plans livestream with Oprah while Trump set to address Israeli-American group | Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute (CHCI) leadership conference, Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
Amber Thurman’s death, fi... |
| 18.09.2024 | Trump returns to campaign trail after assassination scare | FLINT, Michigan: Donald Trump returns to the campaign trail Tuesday (Sep 17) travelling to Michigan two days after another apparent assassination attempt against him was foiled.
His Democratic rival Kamala Harris will also be campaigning, a... |
| 17.09.2024 | NYPD Chief Caught Up In Corruption Probe Exits Office With Mandate Reducing Punishments For Officer Misconduct | It’s been a whirlwind few months for NYPD Commissioner Edward Caban, at least in terms of press coverage. None of it has been positive, though.
A few months ago, reporting from ProPublica exposed Commissioner Caban’s efforts to make the NYP... |
| 09.09.2024 | Investors Lost Record High $5.6B to Crypto Scams in 2023, FBI Says | Investors lost a record $5.6 billion to crypto-related financial crime in 2023, up 45% from 2022, according to a new report from the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) Internet Crime Complaint Center.
According to the report published ... |
| 28.08.2024 | The Rent Algorithm: A Legal Battle for Fair Housing | The landscape of American housing is shifting. The Department of Justice (DOJ) has taken a bold step against RealPage, a Texas-based software company, accusing it of manipulating rental prices through its AI-driven algorithms. This lawsuit,... |
| 23.08.2024 |
DOJ thumps RealPage with another antitrust lawsuit over AI-driven rent pricing | The Department of Justice (DOJ) continues to take aim at alleged antitrust violations in the real estate industry.
The DOJ filed a civil suit against RealPage on Friday, claiming that the company’s YieldStar and AI revenue management (AIRM)... |
| 20.08.2024 | Editorials | Editorial: Generative AI is an energy hog and that could hurt progress fighting climate change | Given the environmental impacts, there has been increasing resistance from communities over plans to expand data centers. Lawmakers in Washington, Virginia, Georgia and other states have pushed for studies of data centers’ energy use and th... |
| 19.08.2024 | Big Telecom Asks The Corrupt Supreme Court To Declare All State And Federal Broadband Consumer Protection Illegal. They Might Get Their Wish. | As we recently noted, telecom giants like AT&T and Comcast are having some very good luck using a corrupt, MAGA-heavy court to not only kill popular net neutrality rules — but to effectively lobotomize the FCC’s ability to protect broad... |
| 16.08.2024 | Rising from the Ashes: The Marshall Fire Recovery and Legislative Triumph | In the wake of disaster, communities often find themselves grappling with loss and uncertainty. The Marshall fire, which swept through Colorado in December 2021, was no exception. It left a trail of destruction, obliterating homes and displ... |
| 16.08.2024 | Project 2025 Policies Would Destroy US Climate Progress & Kill Thousands from Air Pollution | 5 Mins Read Project 2025, the far-right policy blueprint for a second Trump term, will reverse climate progress to cause billions of tonnes of extra emissions and pollution-related deaths.
If Donald Trump takes the White House again in this... |
| 14.08.2024 | Politics | How the Marshall fire sparked a rare disaster recovery success story | Many of the same issues crop up across the country after fires and floods, but survivors rarely succeed in getting lawmakers to pay attention to any of them, let alone all of them. Brown, however, was able to gain bipartisan support for bil... |
| 09.08.2024 | Building Bridges: The Power of Employee Engagement in Today's Workforce | In the bustling world of business, employee engagement is the lifeblood that keeps organizations thriving. It’s not just a buzzword; it’s a necessity. As companies navigate the shifting sands of the modern workplace, understanding and imple... |
| 08.08.2024 | Don't Fall for These 3 Marketing Myths — Here's What to Do Instead Here's how entrepreneurs can leverage marketing to boost sales, help maximize their companies' potential and enable internal alignmen... | Startups fail for a lot of reasons. Bad marketing is one of them — and it's something entrepreneurs don't pay nearly as much attention to as product development or raising capital.
I'm a professor at a leading business school, Babson Colleg... |
| 06.08.2024 | Georgia’s Voter Registration Cancellation Site Briefly Exposes Data, With Predictable Results | Election security is still an issue that demands close attention. Unfortunately, the political rhetoric in this country has been controlled by Republicans who continue to insist the last election was “stolen,” despite a complete lack of evi... |
| 11.07.2024 | NYPD Commissioner Thwarting Accountability By Burying Complaints, Overturning Oversight Board Decisions | It’s a problem that likely dates back to the department’s inception, but in 2015, the New York City Inspector General released a report that explained why residents were forced to shell out millions every year to foot the bill for police mi... |
| 08.07.2024 | The president ordered a board to probe a massive Russian cyberattack. It never did. | Enlarge
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Investigating how the world’s largest software provider handles the security of its own ubiquitous products.
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| 28.06.2024 | Civil Rights Complaint Filed Against Illinois Schools For Using Cops To Handle Normal Discipline Issues | For a long time we’ve been pointing out just how dangerous it is to turn over school discipline problems to cops. Sure, there are reasons schools might need a police response to an incident, but putting cops on staff has allowed administrat... |
| 25.06.2024 | Exclusive: AnchorZero raises $8M for founder Roth IRAs | figcaption>span]:font-sans" data-chromatic="ignore">
AnchorZero, a startup enabling founders and investors to invest startup equity through Roth IRAs, has raised $8 million in seed funding, it tells Axios exclusively.
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| 18.06.2024 | Softbank unveils plans to cancel out angry customer emotions using AI | Enlarge
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Japanese telecommunications giant SoftBank recently announced that it has been developing "emotion-canceling" technology powered by AI that will alter the voices of angry cust... |
| 14.06.2024 | Axios Explains: Supreme Court justices can be removed, but it's not easy | figcaption>span]:font-sans" data-chromatic="ignore">
Supreme Court justices have faced stark and growing concern over ethics violations, prompting a call for the impeachment of conservative justices Clarence Thomas and ... |
| 14.06.2024 | Microsoft takes its apology tour around Washington | figcaption>span]:font-sans" data-chromatic="ignore">
Microsoft brought more humility than ever to a highly anticipated congressional hearing Thursday about its recent security failures.
Why it matters: The shifting stra... |
| 14.06.2024 | Microsoft says new protocols address whistleblower concerns | figcaption>span]:font-sans" data-chromatic="ignore">
Microsoft president Brad Smith told lawmakers Thursday that the company's new internal security plans will address problems raised by a whistleblower in a new ProPubl... |
| 12.06.2024 | Commentary | Guest opinion: Tom Thomas: I’ve been wondering a lot lately. Do you wonder? | I was taught that the allocation of Senate seats by state was a compromise to protect smaller states. I wonder if it had as much to do with securing the ability of the southern states to block any attempts at abolition. I wonder if the Sena... |
| 12.06.2024 | Senate Democrats to bring up Supreme Court ethics bill amid new revelations | Washington — Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin will attempt to unanimously pass legislation on Wednesday that would require the Supreme Court to adopt binding ethics rules amid recent press reports scrutinizing Justice Samuel ... |
| 07.06.2024 | Clarence Thomas formally discloses trips with GOP donor as Supreme Court justices file new financial reports | Washington — Justice Clarence Thomas has formally disclosed two trips he took with Republican megadonor Harlan Crow in 2019, according to his financial disclosure report for 2023 that was publicly released Friday.
The report, which was file... |
| 07.06.2024 | Clarence Thomas officially discloses trips gifted by GOP megadonor | figcaption>span]:font-sans" data-chromatic="ignore">
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has officially disclosed two 2019 trips paid for by Republican megadonor Harlan Crow in new financial filings.
Why it matters: T... |
| 07.06.2024 | Richmond's early literacy rates rebound to surpass pre-pandemic levels | figcaption>span]:font-sans" data-chromatic="ignore">
The overall reading scores for Richmond Public Schools students in kindergarten through second grade surpassed pre-pandemic levels this year.
Why it matters: RPS beca... |
| 04.06.2024 | Trump Threatens To Sue ProPublica For Reporting On Payouts To Witnesses In His Various Cases | ProPublica has quite a scoop of a story, highlighting how various witnesses and potential witnesses in the long list of lawsuits Donald Trump is facing, suddenly, coincidentally, seem to be getting large payouts from Trump, his companies, a... |
| 22.05.2024 | City of Naperville Faces Federal Lawsuit Following Malicious Prosecution of Former Naperville North H.S. Student | Amara Harris following graduation from Spelman College
Citation issued to Amara Harris
Attorneys Raise Concerns that City Voted No. 1 Best Place to Live Is Not Living Up to Its Reputation
These actions reflect a broader pattern of unconstit... |
| 20.05.2024 | Ascension rolls out maternal health initiative | figcaption>span]:font-sans">
Some Austin patients who are at risk for pregnancy complications will be part of a new Ascension program that aims to improve maternal health.
Why it matters: Texas has long struggled with high matern... |
| 09.05.2024 | Judge denies bid to modify gag order so Trump can respond to Stormy Daniels’ tryst testimony | Trump’s lawyer also asked for a mistrial — the second in as many days of the trial — based on Daniels’ testimony on Thursday, which Merchan also denied.Daniels grilled over tryst account
Keying in on a central part of Daniels’ testimony abo... |
| 06.05.2024 | Full list: 2024 Pulitzer Prize winners for journalism | figcaption>span]:font-sans">
The 2024 Pulitzer Prize winners were announced Monday, with two awards and a special citation going to outlets and journalists for their coverage of the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas.
Why it ma... |
| 01.05.2024 |
Opinion: Will new changes make houses more affordable? | In 1904, the first world’s fair opened in St. Louis. It was there that the world learned how to host a fair and pack on pounds. An ice cream vendor who ran out of cups while working next to a waffle stand had a stroke of genius — he married... |
| 30.04.2024 | What we’re watching: Weekly disaster update, April 29 | We know all too well that disaster can strike anytime, anywhere in the world. Some disasters make headlines; others do not. Here at the Center for Disaster Philanthropy (CDP), we monitor the status of disasters worldwide and compile a list ... |
| 29.04.2024 | What we’re watching: Weekly disaster update, April 29 | We know all too well that disaster can strike anytime, anywhere in the world. Some disasters make headlines; others do not. Here at the Center for Disaster Philanthropy (CDP), we monitor the status of disasters worldwide and compile a list ... |
| 25.04.2024 | Rising infertility concerns fuel growth of male-focused innovative startups | Fertility treatments are more relevant than ever; here are a few startups pioneering new solutions
In today’s context of gender-affirming care, puberty blockers have escaped the confines of medical conditions and are now administered to chi... |
| 10.04.2024 | America the slot machine | The explosion of legalized gambling has set the stage for a provocative new frontier in the world of risk-taking — betting markets for everyday events, ranging from Taylor Swift streams to hurricanes hitting major U.S. cities.
Why it matter... |
| 10.04.2024 | Landlords have a secret weapon | Redeem now
Landlords have a lot of built-in leverage over renters. Moving is a pain, so tenants are more likely to accept rent hikes. Developing new apartments is expensive and time-consuming, which makes it tough for competitors to enter t... |
| 08.04.2024 | Election | Colorado officials warn of new frontier in election denial as more Republicans refuse to certify vote totals | Colorado election officials from both major parties say a typically innocuous step in the certification of vote totals has increasingly been seized upon by activists to cast doubt over state elections.
Since 2020, a small but growing number... |
| 06.04.2024 | Trump saved millions by keeping court in dark about billionaire's bond offer: report | Politics Trump saved millions by keeping court in dark about billionaire's bond offer: report
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| 29.03.2024 | The pot farm massacre | Redeem now
Fourteen months after the murders, the garage of the abandoned marijuana farm on prairie tableland northwest of Oklahoma City sits frozen and dark.
Clothes hangers meant for drying weed dangle from metal poles stretched across th... |
| 28.03.2024 | US Regulatory Authorities Express Concerns Over Algorithm-Driven Price Collusion | Inno Flores, Tech Times 28 March 2024, 10:03 pm
US regulatory bodies, including the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission, have raised concerns about the potential for algorithms to facilitate price collusion among business... |
| 26.03.2024 | How to turn off Instagram’s political content filter | It’s election season in the U.S., and Instagram has changed the way that it recommends political content. On both Instagram and the newer X competitor Threads, this change won’t impact what you see from accounts you already follow. But the ... |
| 19.03.2024 | Why Warren Buffett only gets paid $100,000 a year — a fraction of his deputy's $20 million salary | Finance Why Warren Buffett only gets paid $100,000 a year — a fraction of his deputy's $20 million salary
Theron Mohamed
2024-03-19T09:47:30Z
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| 11.03.2024 | How to Protect Consumer Privacy and Free Speech | Technology is a necessity of modern life. People of all ages rely on it for everything from accessing information and connecting with others, to paying for goods, using transportation, getting work done, and speaking out about issues of the... |
| 07.03.2024 | Health | Why even public health experts have limited insight into stopping gun violence in America | By Christine Spolar | KFF Health News (TNS)
Gun violence has exploded across the U.S. in recent years — from mass shootings at concerts and supermarkets to school fights settled with a bullet after the last bell.
Nearly every day of 2024 so... |
| 05.03.2024 | Editorials | Editorial: McConnell will leave legacy of brazen hypocrisy | What is Mitch McConnell’s legacy as leader of Senate Republicans? A lot of procedurally astute but brazenly hypocritical moves to strengthen the power of his party in the chamber.
He twisted the rules to set a pernicious, disrespectful, ant... |
| 28.02.2024 | The FTC is going to war with tax services that bill themselves as free | Finance The FTC is going to war with tax services that bill themselves as free
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2024-02-28T13:00:01Z
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| 27.02.2024 | The Vice Media Collapse Was Entirely The Fault Of Incompetent, Fail-Upward Brunchlords | As we survey the rubble that once was the U.S. journalism industry, a common refrain involves lamenting that “online journalism just isn’t profitable.” But as the recent collapse of outlets like Sports Illustrated and The Messenger illustra... |
| 27.02.2024 | Mexican president's dox of journalist shows perils of reporting in country | Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador's repeated claims that he has a "political right" to dox a journalist is indicative of the safety issues that reporters and activists face in the country as it heads into presidential ... |
| 23.02.2024 | H&R Block Faces FTC Scrutiny Over Deceptive Tax Service Practice | Inno Flores, Tech Times 23 February 2024, 07:02 pm
FTC is cracking down on H&R Block for allegedly deleting tax data when users try to downgrade their services. The agency claims that while the company made upgrades seamless, it created... |
| 19.02.2024 | Лосось и машина | Одно из самых увлекательных дел, которое счастливая случайность может подкинуть учёному‑информатику — это сложная социотехническая задача из области, переживающей процесс цифровой трансформации. В моём случае это была задача подсчёта рыб. Н... |
| 16.02.2024 | Yes, Threads is running a fact-checking program, but the system isn’t fully rolled out | Threads, Meta’s Twitter-like service and competitor to X, may be distancing itself from politics, but that doesn’t mean it won’t try to tackle the misinformation that spreads across social media — particularly in the lead-up to national ele... |
| 13.02.2024 | Jeff Bezos' move to Miami shows just how hard it is to tax the rich | Economy Jeff Bezos' move to Miami shows just how hard it is to tax the rich
Madeline Berg
2024-02-13T19:57:01Z
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| 09.02.2024 | Instagram and Threads will no longer ‘proactively’ recommend political content | Meta doesn’t want its new app Threads to become another Twitter, full of heated political debates and the resulting toxicity that entails. In an announcement today, the company detailed how it will approach the recommendation of political c... |
| 06.02.2024 | The Philips CPAP nightmare exposes shortcomings in medical device regulation | Millions of Americans’ bedtime routine includes wearing a mask attached to a respiratory machine that pushes air into their lungs, supporting their breathing during sleep. These airway pressure machines, known as CPAP or BiPAP depending on ... |
| 02.02.2024 | DeFi Savings: Pig-Butchering Scam Kits Are for Sale on the Dark Web | Joseph Henry, Tech Times 02 February 2024, 10:02 am |
| 29.01.2024 | The man who leaked Trump's taxes eluded investigators for years but was finally found after leaking info on Musk and Bezos, WSJ reports | Politics The man who leaked Trump's taxes eluded investigators for years but was finally found after leaking info on Musk and Bezos, WSJ reports
Hannah Getahun and Katherine Tangalakis Lippert
2024-01-28T23:09:38Z
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| 25.01.2024 | Other states should follow New Jersey’s lead on prior authorization reform | Imagine this scene: You are a cancer patient already navigating fear and uncertainty around your treatment, when you inexplicably cannot access the care recommended by your cancer doctor. This turns out to be because of a perverse hurdle im... |
| 22.01.2024 | Direct File is the most important tech product of 2024, helping you to finally file your taxes for free | Tech Direct File is the most important tech product of 2024, helping you to finally file your taxes for free
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| 21.01.2024 | Needle in a haystack: How enterprises can safely find practical generative AI use cases | AI, particularly generative AI and large language models (LLMs), has made tremendous technical strides and is reaching the inflection point of widespread industry adoption. With McKinsey reporting that AI high-performers are already going “... |
| 15.01.2024 | Ask a Data Ethicist: Why Does Data Ethics Matter? | Whenever I give a talk, I always share how much I love Q&A. It’s a real joy to hear what people are curious about and provide resources or share insightful lived experiences as a consultant in the data ethics space. In this line of work... |
| 09.01.2024 | Anthony Fauci talked Covid in Congress in a nine-hour, closed-door grilling — and that was just day one | You’re reading the web edition of D.C. Diagnosis, STAT’s twice-weekly newsletter about the politics and policy of health and medicine. Sign up here to receive it in your inbox on Tuesdays and Thursdays. What’s the legacy of Xavier Becerra?
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| 05.01.2024 | I went on a mind-boggling journey to get my son’s ADHD medication covered by insurance — twice | Last January, I went to fill my son’s ADHD prescription and was handed a bag with an unfamiliar drug name on it. No mistake, the pharmacist tech said, it was just the generic version.
I had a sinking feeling. As a former editor for diabetes... |
| 05.01.2024 | Health | Cancer patients face frightening delays in treatment approvals | Lauren Sausser | (TNS) KFF Health News
Marine Corps veteran Ron Winters clearly recalls his doctor’s sobering assessment of his bladder cancer diagnosis in August 2022.
“This is bad,” the 66-year-old Durant, Oklahoma, resident remembered hi... |
| 29.12.2023 | We wish we’d written that: STAT staffers share their favorite stories of 2023 | It’s time to take stock of the year that was in health and science: the meteoric rise of weight loss drugs, the approval of the first CRISPR-based therapy, the continuing effects of abortion access restrictions after the Dobbs decision, and... |
| 27.12.2023 | The life-changing power of the strike: How 500,000 workers refused to work in 2023 — and won big | Redeem now
In January 2023, Adam Conover was preparing to bargain with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers.
Conover, the creator of "Adam Ruins Everything" and "The G Word," had been appointed to serv... |
| 26.12.2023 | Meet the power broker behind the conservative reshaping of the Supreme Court and US legal system | Politics Meet the power broker behind the conservative reshaping of the Supreme Court and US legal system
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| 21.12.2023 | Editorials | Editorial: Clarence Thomas’ story is cautionary. Even a Supreme Court justice at day’s end is a public servant. | What do Clarence Thomas and a Chicago politician charged with corruption have in common?
The question may seem absurd at first glance, but stick with us. The latest on the U.S. Supreme Court justice from the investigative news group ProPubl... |
| 21.12.2023 | An epidemic of sexual abuse in schools | Redeem now
The documents began arriving last fall, first in a trickle, then a flood. Emoji-filled text messages from teachers, handwritten complaints from students in the rounded script of teenage girls, type-written transcripts from HR inv... |
| 18.12.2023 | Clarence Thomas was deep in debt when he hinted to a GOP lawmaker that he'd quit if he didn't get a pay raise: report | Politics Clarence Thomas was deep in debt when he hinted to a GOP lawmaker that he'd quit if he didn't get a pay raise: report
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2023-12-18T14:29:45Z
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| 18.12.2023 | 25 healthcare startups that are set to take off in 2024, according to top VCs | Healthcare 25 healthcare startups that are set to take off in 2024, according to top VCs
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2023-12-16T13:36:01Z
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| 13.12.2023 | Morning Rounds: For kids with high BMI, task force not ready to recommend weight loss drugs | Understand how science, health policy, and medicine shape the world everyday. Sign up for our Morning Rounds newsletter here.
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| 09.12.2023 | Meet the 27-year-old 'water buffalo' negotiating California's claim to the evaporating Colorado River | John Brooks Hamby is in charge of California's negotiations to the Colorado River. Jay Calderon/The Desert Sun
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| 01.12.2023 | Investigation Exposes Yet Another Small Town That Is Little More Than A Law Enforcement Honeypot | Law enforcement for profit is an ugly proposition. Most of us immediately think of civil asset forfeiture, which is generally just cops going shopping for stuff they want or cash to buy the stuff they want that isn’t subject to outside over... |
| 27.11.2023 | New research supports potential link between low-level lead exposure and liver injury | Nearly a decade on, the Flint water crisis still looms large in the minds of environmental toxin researchers. It was — and continues to be — evidence that not all communities in the United States are equally affected by environmental pollut... |
| 22.11.2023 | Journalist Wins Defamation Suit Brought By Someone Who Didn’t Like Actual Facts Being Reported | There are few moves that make reporting more credible than suing the reporter for defamation and losing. It not only revives the negative reporting that might have faded into the white noise of constant internet churn, but also exposes the ... |
| 18.11.2023 | Trump's fraud trial defense has featured 1 son, 2 pals, and an expert who noted 'glaring' math snafus | Politics Trump's fraud trial defense has featured 1 son, 2 pals, and an expert who noted 'glaring' math snafus
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2023-11-18T13:15:02Z
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| 15.11.2023 | Tenants and a top prosecutor have accused major landlords and a popular apartment-pricing site of colluding to inflate rents. A legal expert says it shows algorithmic collusion is no longer 'science f... | Economy Tenants and a top prosecutor have accused major landlords and a popular apartment-pricing site of colluding to inflate rents. A legal expert says it shows algorithmic collusion is no longer 'science fiction.'
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| 09.11.2023 | Medicare eligibility is tripping up the GOP presidential candidates | You’re reading the web edition of D.C. Diagnosis, STAT’s twice-weekly newsletter about the politics and policy of health and medicine. Sign up here to receive it in your inbox on Tuesdays and Thursdays. And then there were five (well, six)
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| 03.11.2023 | Lawsuit alleges D.C. landlords software coordinated rent raise | Washington D.C.’s Attorney General Brian Schwalb filed a lawsuit on Wednesday alleging that 14 of the city’s largest landlords colluded with a property management software company to inflate rental prices across the city artificially.
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| 01.11.2023 | 14 big landlords used software to collude on rent prices, DC lawsuit says | Enlarge
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DC's attorney general has sued 14 of the city's largest landlord firms, claiming they entered into agreements with a property management software firm to keep rent prices high in a city with a h... |
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Philips CEO Roy Jakobs reportedly approved continued sale of defective sleep respiratory devices | Philips CEO Roy Jakobs [Image courtesy of Royal Philips]A new report from ProPublica and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette claims to shed more light on the alleged role of Philips (NYSE: PHG) + CEO Roy Jakobs in the ongoing Respironics recall.
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